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Meeting with countries and partners on country coordination and facilitation (CCF), Accra, Ghana, 26-29 October 2009

Inauguration of the first meeting on Good Practices for Country Coordination and Facilitation for HRH, organized by the Alliance.

The document "COUNTRY COORDINATION AND FACILITATION" developed by the Alliance Secretariat in collaboration with partners will be presented to key stakeholders at a series of consensus building meetings. The first meeting takes place in Accra, Ghana, from 26 - 29 October 2009.

This meeting brought together a wide variety of stakeholders working on HRH issues in countries. All partners have important roles to play within a coordination mechanism to develop and implement a well-coordinated national HRH plans and strategies.

The mechanism is based on the Kampala Declaration and the Agenda for Global Action. It aims at consolidating the coordination and facilitation of country action in areas such as leadership, education and training, retention, migration and funding.

This meeting was followed by other consensus building meetings scheduled to take place in Burkina Faso and Viet Nam in 2009 and 2010.

Related links

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• Read more about the opening session
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• Countries and partners call for a multisectoral response to human resources for health at the meeting in Ghana
  For the first time, over 170 delegates from fourteen African countries and development partners gathered in Accra, Ghana, for a meeting on "Good Practices for Country Coordination and Facilitation." Read the messages countries and partners shared at the meeting.
• Read more about the CCF
  Good Practices for Country Coordination and Facilitation (CCF)" has been drafted on the basis of the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action, describing the rationale for a coordination mechanism and proposing a set of good practices for effective coordination of the efforts of local alliances working to improve the HRH situation.
• Download the Ghana meeting information note
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