Meeting on "Orientation and capacity tools and guidelines to scale up service delivery to strengthen health systems", Nairobi, Kenya, 20-24 April 2009
The World Health Organization and the Global Health Workforce Alliance, in collaboration with the Ministry of Medical Services and Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation of the Republic of Kenya, hosted a orientation and capacity building meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from 20-24 April 2009. Nursing and Midwifery leaders from 21 nations on the African continent, as well as several regional and international nursing and midwifery partners, came together to address nursing and midwifery's contribution to scaling up human resources for health (HRH) in the context of primary health care (PHC) renewal and the Ouagadougou declaration implementation framework.
The overall aim of the meetings was to contribute to the capacity building of nurses and midwives as frontline health decision–makers in accelerating action at country level in addressing HRH issues and challenges within existing national health policies, and HRH orientations using the available tools and guidelines.
The tools and guidelines targeted for this orientation meeting included:
- The Global Program of Work for Scaling Up Nursing and Midwifery
- The Ouagadougou Declaration on PHC and Health Systems in Africa: Achieving Better health in Africa in the New Millennium
- The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
- Scaling Up, Saving Lives Report by the GHWA Task Force on scaling up education and training
- HRH Regional Strategy 1998 and the Accelerated strategy 2000
- Developing Human Resource Health policy and plan: A Guideline for countries
- Guidelines for accelerating implementation of Strategic Directions for strengthening nursing & midwifery services in the African Region 2007 – 2017
- Guidelines for evaluating basic nursing and midwifery education and training programmes
- ILO Convention 149 & Recommendation 157 for Nursing Personnel
- Regional Competencies for a Skilled Birth Attendant
- Regional Action Framework for Scaling up nursing and midwifery development
Several decisions on follow-up points and actions were made at the meeting, such as the need to establish a network of nursing leaders in Anglophone Africa in order to promote continued dialogue on issues to strengthen nursing and midwifery in the region. Other critical outcomes included amongst others: the capacity development of nursing and midwifery workforce; the need to enhance workplace conditions to retain skilled healthcare providers; and the commitment to maintain leadership and governance issues on the priority agenda.
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The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action, English
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