Financing

Products of the Alliance Task Force on Human Resources for Health Financing

The Alliance coordinated a Task Force on Financing to improve the effectiveness of financing policies for HRH in developing countries. The Task Force developed a set of tools and guidelines, including the Resource Requirements Tool (RRT), the Framework Paper, and the Action Paper: What Countries Can Do Now: Twenty-Nine Actions to Scale up and Improve the Health Workforce.

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New resource:

• "More money for HRH: more HRH for the money"
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, TOPIC BRIEF: Financing Human Resources for Health

Advocacy documents

• Donor Funding For Health In Low- & Middle-Income Countries 2002–2010
  2013, Health Financing report by Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Global Health Workforce Crisis and the 2009 G8 Summit (La Maddalena, Italy): Recommendations from the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative
  2009, Advocacy document
• Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative response to the G8 2008 Hokkaido Summit’s health workforce commitments
  2008, Advocacy document
• Ensuring accountability on health workforce targets
  2008, Advocacy document
• Call to Action: Health System Strengthening through the Global Fund Round 9 in 2008
  2008, Advocacy document
• Proposed G8 statement on health workforce
  2007, Advocacy document
• Letter to Global Fund Secretariat for separate HSS category
  2007, Advocacy document
• Letter to Global Fund Policy and Strategy Committee
  2007, Advocacy document
• Letter on the recently launched International Health Partnership
  2007, Advocacy document

Technical briefs

• "More money for HRH: more HRH for the money"
  2012, Topic brief presented at the Conference of Ministers of Health and Ministers of Finance, Tunis, 4-5 July 2012.
• Maximising positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives
  2009, Technical brief
• Financing and economic aspects of health workforce scale-up and improvement: framework paper
  2008, Technical brief

Articles

• G8 and strengthening of health systems: follow-up to the Toyako summit
  2009, Article
• Global Health Financing Initiatives
  2006, Article
• Making healthcare more accountable
  2004, Article
• The SAZA study: implementing health financing reform in South Africa and Zambia
  2003, Article

Books

• Working in health. Financing and managing the public sector health workforce
  2009, Book

Case studies

• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  2008, Case study

Guidelines

• What countries can do now: twenty-nine actions to scale-up and improve the health workforce
  2009, Guidelines
• Guiding principles for national health workforce strategies
  Guidelines
• Resource requirement tool
  2008, Guidelines
• Guidelines: incentives for health professionals
  2008, Guidelines

Presentations

• The Health Workforce: Scaling up through primary health care
  2008, Presentation

Reports

• Searching for common ground on incentive packages for community workers and volunteers in Zambia
  2009, Report
• Scaling Up, Saving Lives
  2008, Report
• Impact des mesures d’incitation financière accordées aux médecins, pharmaciens et chirurgiens dentistes
  2008, Report
• Global Health Partnerships - The UK Contribution to health in developing countries
  2007, Report
• The World Health Report 2006. Working together for health
  2006, Report

Resolution

• WHA 59.23 Rapid scaling up of health workforce production
  2006, Resolution

Web sites

• Human Resources for Health Action Framework
  Web site