Consensus Building Meeting on the Country Coordination and Facilitation, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 22 November
The document "GOOD PRACTICES FOR COUNTRY COORDINATION AND FACILITATION" developed by the Alliance Secretariat in collaboration with partners has been presented to key stakeholders at a series of consensus building meetings. The third meeting took place in Hanoi, Viet Nam, on 22 November 2009.
The conference brought together multisectoral partners working on human resources for health issues, representing seven countries in South East Asia and Western Pacific Regions, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Health, Viet Nam, Asia-Pacific Action Alliance for Human Resources for Health, and the GHWA. Asian countries express their recommendations that more players need to be involved in the implementation of HRH activities, with stronger coordination and facilitation by the Ministry of Health. They, however, also voiced for the leadership of high level decionmakers such as Prime Ministers and Presidents to be a key to raising broader awareness and undertanding among the general publics.
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. It also propose a set of good practices for effective coordination of the efforts of local alliances working to improve the HRH situation.
The first meeting was held in Accra, Ghana, from 26-29 October. The second is taking place in Burkina Faso from 9-13 November.