Action Fields Leadership Policy Finance Partnership Education Human Resources Management Systems Monitoring and Evaluation Planning Implementation Situational Analysis

Finance

Areas of Intervention

  • Setting levels of salaries and allowances
  • Budgeting and projections for HRH intervention resource requirements including salaries, allowances, education, incentive packages, etc.
  • Increasing fiscal space and mobilizing financial resources (e.g., government, Global Fund, PEPFAR, donors)
  • Data on HRH expenditures (e.g., National Health Accounts, etc.)

Indicators

  • Salaries and allowances competitive in local labor market
  • Salaries and allowances equitable between cadres of health workers
  • National health accounts routinely collect data on HRH expenditure.

Tools and Guidelines

Assessing Your Organization’s Capacity to Manage Finances. Management Sciences for Health (MSH), 2003.

Framework for Purchasing Health Care Labor. World Bank, 2004.

Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals. Global Health Workforce Alliance; International Council of Nurses; International Hospital Federation; International Pharmaceutical Federation; World Confederation for Physical Therapy; World Dental Federation; World Medical Association, 2008.

How to Pay: Understanding and Using Incentives. World Bank, 2004.

Managing Your Organization’s Finances. Management Sciences for Health (MSH), 2006.

Paying for Performance in Health: Guide to Developing the Blueprint. USAID Health Systems 20/20 Project, 2008.

Resource Requirements Tool (RRT). Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2009.

Resources

Contemporary Specificities of Labour in the Health Care Sector: Introductory Notes for Discussion. Human Resources for Health, 2005.

Financing and Economic Aspects of Health Workforce Scale-up and Improvement: Framework Paper Global Health Workforce Alliance and World Health Organization, 2009.

Investment in Human Resources for Health: Problems, Approaches and Donor Experiences. Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), 2003.

Performance-Based Reimbursement Scheme: A Final Report of a Pilot Study. RTI International, NGO Service Delivery Program, 2006.

Using Collaborative Approaches to Reach Human Resources for Health (HRH) Goals. Capacity Project, 2006.

What Countries Can Do Now: Twenty-Nine Actions to Scale-Up and Improve the Health Workforce Global Health Workforce Alliance and World Health Organization, 2009.