With funding from USAID and PEPFAR, HRH2030 has created the HRH Optimization Toolkit, a set of three tools to increase health workforce efficiencies by identifying and addressing HRH bottlenecks at frontline health facilities....
In May 2020, HRH2030 published a technical report, National Family Planning Guidelines in 10 Countries: How they align with current evidence and WHO recommendations on task sharing and self-care. The report, phase one of the task sharing research, explored the extent to which 10...
Providing client-centered family planning (FP) services requires a strong, well-managed health workforce. In order to deliver effective healthcare—especially to maintain essential primary care and FP services during public health emergencies—it is important for health facilities, national human resources for health (HRH) planners, and implementing...
In her presentation, Gender Competency for Family Planning Providers, gender lead Samantha Law-Wilde gave an overview of our global gender-competency framework family planning service providers....
In global health, gender competency enables health workers to identify how different norms, social constructs, roles, expectations, power differentials, opportunities, and constraints assigned to women, men, girls, and boys may influence behavior and choices. A gender-competent health worker strives to apply the needed knowledge,...
Based on feedback from service delivery providers indicating high priority needs, HRH2030 developed job aids covering antenatal care services, postnatal care and family planning. ...
Although more people than ever before are using family planning services to satisfy their reproductive health intentions, the ambitious global goal of 120 million additional contraceptive users will not be met by 2020. New and different partnerships and strategies are needed to improve...
[caption id="attachment_34087" align="alignright" width="586"] Click to enlarge the Philippines Activity Conceptual Framework[/caption] In recent years, the Government of the Philippines has made landmark decisions to strengthen its health system. In 2012, the nation issued the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law to guarantee universal access to...
As HRH2030 observed World Health Worker Week in April 2019, the USAID-funded HRH2030 activity in the Philippines joined partners around the world to commemorate health workers through the theme: “Health Workers at the Heart of Health for All.” This celebration came on the heels...
Kudos to our global health colleagues from USAID, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNFPA on the the RELAUNCH of the Training Resource Package for Family Planning (TRP)! All the modules have been updated per the WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptive Use (2015), the WHO...