Agenda

Purpose

Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices in planning, developing and supporting the health workforce.

Objectives

• Promote a shared HRH vision across countries in order to facilitate collaboration and provide an inspirational future toward which we are all working
• Expand the HRH knowledge base by creating the opportunity for participants to share knowledge about HRH issues and their potential solutions
• Help develop a critical mass of HRH advocates and problem solvers that will help accelerate the appropriate application of HRH practices and tools in their respective countries
• Generate action plans for the implementation of new HRH practices and tools after the workshop

Tuesday, January 17

Opening session and reception

• Welcome, introductory work and reception

Wednesday, January 18

Introductory session

• Methodology
• Discussion topic questionnaire
• Opening Remarks
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Regional HIV/AIDS Program (RHAP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Background, objectives and agenda for the meeting (Capacity Project)

Setting the context

• Participants describe the HRH crisis at the country level: progress, challenges, obstacles, future areas of interest
• Participants’ notes

Key developments to support global HRH work

• Presentations on the HRH crisis at the country level
  
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  • What can we learn from country studies?
  • Key developments in HR for health

Critical HRH topic working groups (session one)

• Topic-based working groups (e.g., human resources strategic planning, workforce assessment and planning, recruitment, hiring and deployment, performance improvement) discuss issues: what is being tried, what appears to be working, not working
• Definitions of topics and links to participants’ notes

Working group report highlights

• Key points from working groups shared in plenary
• Discussion

Closure for day

Thursday, January 19

Implications of Wednesday’s sessions

• Country groups meet, share information from the day, discuss any implications for HRH in their country
• Brief sharing in large group

SACI framework

• Sharing SACI framework and approach to utilizing existing national capacity
  
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  • SACI overview
• Questions and discussion

Critical HRH topic working groups (session two)

• Topic-based working groups (e.g., HRM, retention, productivity and performance management) discuss issues: what is being tried, what appears to be working, not working
• Definitions of topics and links to participants’ notes

Working group report highlights

• Key points from working groups shared in plenary
• Discussion

Key promising practice examples

• Namibia ­ Private sector recruitment of health care providers
• Notes
• Malawi ­ Recent findings from incentive and retention schemes
  
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  • Malawi’s innovative scheme for improving attraction and retention of workers

Implications of today’s sessions

• Country groups meet, share information from the day, discuss any implications for HRH in their country
• Brief sharing in large group

Friday, January 20

Feedback on HRH Framework from December consultation meeting

• Discussion and input into HRH Framework
• HRH Technical Framework
• Participant feedback on Framework

Discussion of remaining HRH issues

Supporting HRH work at the field level

• Presentation on ways in which WHO, WHO/AFRO, Capacity Project and others are supporting HRH work
• Discussion
  
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  • THE Connection and the Compendium
  • The Capacity Project
  • HRH Clearinghouse: Supporting knowledge partnerships
  • Products of THE Connection

Action planning: country teams work, consult, look for common action themes in the region, develop/refine actions

• Action planning
• Work as country groups to determine actions emerging from workshop deliberations; identify regional or shared actions across countries; and consider how to support each other
• Discussion
• Action plans

Reviewing progress/looking at next steps/workshop evaluation

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This CD was produced by IntraHealth International for the Capacity Project and was made possible through support provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The views expressed in this CD do not necessarily reflect the views of IntraHealth International/the Capacity Project, the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government.