Country responses
As identified by the 2006 World Health Report, 57 countries face critical health workforce shortages and are considered as priority countries by the Alliance. However, the Alliance works worldwide with partners at country level to advocate and catalyze actions to resolve the Human Resources for Health (HRH) crisis, and to support the achievement of the health related Millennium Development Goals and Health for All.
The Alliance has developed the Country Coordination and Facilitation (CCF) - Principles and Process on human resources for health (HRH) for an integrated health workforce response. The CCF was conceptualized in 2009. With a sensitization phase in early 2010, its roll-out commenced in the latter part of 2010 with a first wave of 18 countries across all regions.
Furthermore, the Alliance teams up with a wide group of partners including WHO to work on consolidating the HRH information into detailed and analytic profiles. These HRH profiles will provide a comprehensive picture of the HRH situation in the countries, presenting HRH policies and management situation, stock and trends, and thus contributing to strengthening the country HRH information systems. These consolidated HRH profiles will gradually be made available on the WHO and the Alliance web site.
Related links and documents:
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Download the full list of 57 HRH crisis countries
pdf, 21kb - Human Resources for Health country plans
- Alliance country case studies on Education and Training in: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Pakistan
- Country-related plans, case studies and good practice
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GHWA Collaboration with Eight Pathfinder Countries - Status Report November 2008
pdf, 537kb - Information and links to the Regional Observatories on Human Resources in Health Systems
