Accelerating investments in health and care worker education, skills, jobs, safeguarding and protection requires multisectoral partnership, coordination and financing. Working for Health is a platform and implementation mechanism to support countries in developing, monitoring and guiding investment strategies in workforce planning and financing, education and employment, protection and performance. The Action Plan emphasizes the importance of the health and care workforce to population health, health system sustainability, economic prosperity, and social protection.
At the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, over one hundred countries co-sponsoring the resolution on human resources for health to adopt the Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan and the related Global health and care worker compact. The resolution invites local, national, regional and international partners and stakeholders in both health and related sectors to use and implement Working for Health to activate employment initiatives that create decent work, including for women and young people; to invest in transformative education and learning opportunities; and to support the Working for Health Multi Partner Trust Fund.
Fifty six Member States, international organizations, non-governmental organization coalitions and WHO regional office delegations took the floor to support the resolution and highlight key health workforce issues.
During three concurrent sessions to consider the human resources for health agenda, a number of countries reflected on the positive economic, social and health impacts of Working for Health 2016-2021, including examples and testimony from national implementation and experience. Member States, international institutions and civil society organizations representatives urged both onward collaboration and increased investment in Working for Health as a proven strategy and platform to achieve health workforce ambitions. Recordings of the sessions are available online: Fourth Committee B Session, Fifth Committee B session, Sixth Committee B session.