Alliance Reference Group Meeting, December 2009
A two-day meeting was held on 16–17 December 2009 in Geneva at the invitation of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (The Alliance). The aim was to initiate the discussion on how the working results and policy recommendations of the Alliance-Task Forces (TF) and Technical Working Groups (TWG) can be transferred to or adapted to the needs of national health programmes in the HRH priority countries.
The meeting brought together some twenty representatives of partner organizations from Canada, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Kenya, Indonesia, Panama, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, and USA representing Professional Associations, Ministries of Health, NGOs, Universities, UN-Organizations and representatives of the Alliance Secretariat.
- DAY 1 of the meeting focused on scanning the landscape – in particular to acknowledge the work and results achieved by the Alliance in the first three years of its existence and to learn from the experiences of other alliances how to translate global policy challenges into national programmes.
- DAY 2 was dedicated to creating ownership of the members of the Reference Group related to the proposed ToRs and deliverables expected from the group.
As a result, the adapted ToR were agreed upon and a number of activities to comply with the terms and deliverables have been identified. The Reference Group agreed to facilitate coherence between the Kampala Declaration, Moving Forward document, Knowledge Brokering Strategy and the Country Collaboration and Facilitation (CCF) of the Alliance. Furthermore, the Reference Group will act as a "think tank“ to advise and promote innovative approaches on knowledge brokering to the Executive Director and the Alliance-Board for a coordinated, cost-effective and efficient, sustainable implementation of HRH policy recommendations and use of HRH-related products/tools and methodologies at country level. It will take into consideration what other alliances/partnerships are producing and the work methods that have been demonstrated to work well for these partnerships.