Creating Partnerships in Support of Health Workers in Uganda

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:41:21 +0000

In Uganda, CapacityPlus works in collaboration with the Uganda Capacity Program and key country-level colleagues to strengthen the health workforce. This is an excerpt from an original post on the IntraHealth International blog.

I could begin every blog talking about the many countries, like Uganda, that find it challenging to build and maintain the kind of health workforce needed to deliver high-quality health services, particularly when faced with inadequate funding for human resources for health. These challenges can lead to health worker dissatisfaction, attrition, and absenteeism and are exacerbated by not enough of the right skill sets among health workers or by poor geographic distribution of those skills. But what I want to focus on today is what countries are actually doing to respond to these challenges, employ more staff, improve the workplace, and create strong leadership and management in the health sector.

Author's name:

Charles Wycliffe Matsiko

Publication Date:

September 2011

Civil Society

Creating Partnerships in Support of Health Workers in Uganda