The Capacity Project is hosting an auxiliary event at the 2007 Global Health Council conference in Washington, DC: “From Grassroots to Global: Partnerships to Strengthen Human Resources for Health.” The event will take place on May 29, 2007, 5-7 p.m. Please join us to explore how global, regional and local collaboration can help address key human resources for health (HRH) issues such as strengthening HR information systems.
The session will begin with an overview of key partnership principles that form the basis of the Capacity Project’s work in addressing HRH issues. We will then focus on four key activities to look at the ways in which these principles helped to meet implementation challenges, including HRIS strengthening.
Registration at the conference is not required to attend this auxiliary event. For more information and to find out how to reserve a seat, see the Capacity Project Website.
Leaders of the HRIS Strengthening technical leadership area presented the Project’s work in this area to a USAID audience on May 3. The presentation illustrated the importance of improved HR data for service delivery by sharing experiences in improving the HRIS in Uganda to date. The Project’s approach includes fostering collaboration among stakeholders and leadership for the information system, ensuring the system responds to country priorities, starting simple and expanding the system over time as possible, and focusing on local ownership and capacity building (for sustainability). The Project provided a brief overview of this work and provided a status report on the nine countries that have expressed interest to date.
What is happening with HRIS Strengthening? Get news about our ongoing work in the field, find out when new features and releases of the software are available, learn more about human resource information systems, and join the conversation. Your comments and questions are welcome.