Performance and productivity

23 May WHO Community Health Worker Guideline Recommendations Using HRH2030’s Life Cycle Approach

Posted at 13:16h in Community health workers, Global Resources, HRIS and health workforce data, Leadership and governance, Other, Performance and productivity, Skill mix and competency, Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

Community health workers play a big role many countries’ overall health status, which is one of the reasons why the WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes was heralded when it was released on October 2018. The...

15 Apr Event Series & Webinar: Optimizing health worker performance to improve health care quality in low- and middle-income countries

Posted at 12:14h in Enhancing Supervision to Optimize Health Outcomes (1.8), Global Resources, Performance and productivity, Presentations, Videos/Webinars

The provision of high-quality health care to individuals, families, and communities requires a skilled, motivated, adequately supported, and equipped health workforce. Many low- and middle-income countries, however, face significant deficiencies in both the quantity and quality of their health workforce. Sub-optimal health worker performance...

09 Apr Videos: Local Perspectives from 5 Health Workers on the Philippines Health System

Posted at 03:21h in Family planning, Global Resources, Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Leadership and governance, Performance and productivity, Philippines, Philippines Resources, Skill mix and competency, Videos/Webinars

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...

04 Feb Infographic: Back to Basics — The Botswana Experience with Community-Led Improvement to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control

Posted at 17:22h in Botswana Resources, HIV/AIDS, Other resource, Performance and productivity, Supporting HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Botswana

Botswana was one of the first countries in Africa to make HIV treatment available within its public health sector. According to UNAIDS, in 2017 84 percent of people living with HIV were accessing treatment. However, Botswana is still one of the countries most affected...

12 Dec HOT4ART: A Tool for Optimizing HRH to Deliver more HIV Services through Task-Sharing & Scaling Up of Differentiated Service Delivery

Posted at 16:07h in Côte d'Ivoire Resources, Eswatini Resources, Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, Lesotho Resources, Mali Resources, Method for Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data (1.6), Performance and productivity, Resources, South Africa Resources, Tools

Updated April 2020: New tool version for rapid use and decision-making! Providing client-centered HIV care requires a strong, well-managed health workforce. In order to deliver effective HIV services—as well as to maintain essential HIV services during public health emergencies—it is important for health facilities, above-site stakeholders,...

26 Sep Building the Future Health Workforce 2030: Opportunities for Youth Employment in Health

Posted at 17:20h in Analyzing Health Labor Markets, Employing Positive Youth Development Approaches (2.4), Other resource, Performance and productivity, Resources

There are 71 million unemployed youth in the world, while WHO’s Global Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategy: Workforce 2030 estimates that 40 million new health jobs will be created by 2030. How can health employers adapt positive youth development approaches to build and...

18 Sep Global Health eLearning Course “Human Resources for Health (HRH): Principles and Practices”

Posted at 18:52h in Global Resources, Other, Performance and productivity, Skill mix and competency

Global eLearning Course (September 6, 2018, 120 min, FREE): HRH2030 worked in partnership with USAID and K4Health to produce an updated online course on HRH principles and practices on the Global Health eLearning Center (GHeL). Structured around the WHO Global HRH Strategy: Workforce 2030,...

31 Jul Evidence-based Interventions to Promote Women in Health Management in Jordan (Video)

Posted at 23:34h in Jordan Resources, Leadership and governance, Performance and productivity, Skill mix and competency, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Videos/Webinars, Women and gender in health

Video (June 25, 2018, short/2:35, long/6:17): On June 25, HRH2030 facilitated a national event in Jordan to promote women’s leadership in the health sector. At the event, HRH2030 disseminated its recent research on “Barriers and Enablers of Women’s Career Progression to Management Positions in...

25 Jul Webinar: Optimizing Health Worker Performance and Productivity to Achieve the 95-95-95 Targets

Posted at 17:48h in Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, Nigeria Resources, Performance and productivity, Productivity and Performance (1.1), Tanzania Resources, Videos/Webinars

Webinar (August 2, 2018, 56 min): To achieve 95-95-95 targets for HIV epidemic control, facilities and other HIV service delivery points (e.g., communities) need to provide efficient and effective services to ensure that people living with HIV know their status, receive and sustain antiretroviral...

24 Jul Poster: Developing a Standardized Tool for Data Use and Decision-Making to Estimate the HRH Requirements for Implementing Differentiated Care for HIV in High-Burden Settings

Posted at 12:00h in Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Method for Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data (1.6), Other resource, Performance and productivity

In partnership with USAID through PEPFAR, HRH2030 has developed a simple, standardized, client-centered tool to help program managers maximize the use of their health workforce for the rollout of “Test and Start” utilizing differentiated service delivery (DSD) models. The tool allows for task shifting/sharing,...