Three new technical briefs from the Capacity Project expand the breadth and depth of information available to HR practitioners. “An Overview of Human Resources for Health (HRH) Projection Models” provides a rapid review of health workforce projection approaches and includes a list of references for further research. “Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions: Ten Pillars of Successful Data-Driven Decision-Making” provides guidance in the use of HR data for making policy and management decisions. “Data Quality Considerations in Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) Strengthening” discusses concepts of data quality and provides concrete examples of the importance of data management specific to the field of HRH. Technical briefs are available in print and on the Capacity Project website in English, French and Spanish.
The Capacity Project has published a new technical brief on data quality: Data Quality Considerations in Human Resource Information Systems Strengthening. The brief was written by Samwel Wakibi, our HRIS advisor for Kenya, Uganda and Southern Sudan and our expert on data quality.
Data quality issues have been central to the program experience of the Capacity Project. Experience with issues of data quality has particularly been gained within the Project’s focus on strengthening human resources information systems (HRIS) to support health workforce planning and management. This brief discusses concepts of data quality and provide examples of the importance of data management specific to the field of HRH, illustrated by the Capacity Project’s experience with HRIS strengthening in developing countries.
Read the full brief: http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/techbrief_10.pdf (PDF).
An essential part of our five-step HRIS Strengthening Process is to support managers and decision makers to effectively use and analyze data in order to make informed decisions about their health workforce. A new Capacity Project Voices article about Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM) was recently finalized last week and posted to the Project’s website here.
The article, “Drawing on Data: Effective Decision-Making for the Health Workforce,” is based on interviews with participants from the Capacity Project’s first two DDDM workshops. The pilot workshop was held in Uganda in June 2007 and another workshop was held in Swaziland in February 2008. HRIS team members helped plan and facilitate the workshops, and also conducted the interviews and helped draft the article. A third DDDM workshop is scheduled for September in Rwanda. HRIS team members are currently working with local Capacity Project Rwanda staff to secure a venue and plan the agenda.
You can read more about our HRIS Strengthening Process and DDDM here.
On a related note, the Capacity Project is in the process of finalizing a technical brief about data quality. We are very excited about this product and will post a blog announcing its release as soon as it’s finalized.
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