Mapping and analysis of capacity building initiatives on human resources for health leadership

Overview

The performance of health-care systems depends ultimately on the knowledge, skills and motivation of persons responsible for delivering services. Hence, the WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 (GSHRH), adopted by the 69th World Health Assembly in May 2016, identifies as one of its four strategic objectives, “to build the capacity, stewardship, leadership and governance of actions on human resources for health (HRH)”. Among the responsibilities envisaged for WHO, the GSHRH includes the “development of an internationally recognized, postgraduate professional programme on HRH policy and planning, with international mentoring and a professional network to support the implementation of workforce science”.