| Description | Mobilization and strengthening of the health workforce is central to combatting health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems. Strengthened Human Resources for Health (HRH) capacity is essential to meeting almost every national and international health objective, as well as the objectives of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Global Health Bureau, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Millennium Development Goals. Improved and expanded HRH is vital to sustaining the gains made in past decades in areas such as family planning and child survival as well as more effectively addressing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In September 2004, the USAID Bureau for Global Health/Office of Population and Reproductive Health/Service Delivery Improvement Division awarded to IntraHealth International the Human Capacity Development Program to address the HRH challenge, later renamed the Capacity Project. The Capacity Project strengthened human resources to implement quality health programming in developing countries, focusing on: 1) Improving workforce planning and leadership to ensure that the right type and number of health workers are deployed to the right locations; 2) Developing better education and training programs so that health workers have the knowledge and skills to meet the needs of their communities; and 3) Strengthening systems to support workforce performance and encourage workers to remain on the job. |
| Tag | Health Care Workers (HCWs), Health System Strengthening, Sustainable Health Systems, Human Resources for Health (HRH), National Advocacy, International Advocacy, Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Delivery of Care, Workforce Planning, Workforce Leadership, Training Programs, Provider Education, Worker Performance, Task Shifting, Workforce Development, Knowledge Management, Gender Equity, Gender Equality, Global Partnerships, Reproductive Health Programming, Faith Based Organizations (FBOs), English, IntraHealth, report |
