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Publications and Resources / Promising Practices
The following papers are part of the Health Workforce "Innovative Approaches and Promising Practices" Study, an effort to document and disseminate four promising human
resources for health practices from Africa.
Synthesis of the four promising practices
Health Workforce Innovations: A Synthesis of Four Promising Practices
April 2007. This synthesis paper briefly summarizes each of the practices, describes key findings and messages that cut across the practices and suggests a number of implications for action.
Task shifting in Ghana
Providing Doorstep Services to Underserved Rural Populations: Community Health Workers in Ghana
October 2006. This resource paper discusses a program that shifts staff from low-impact static health centers with limited outreach to high-impact mobile community-supported services.
Task Shifting: Community Health Officers in Ghana
April 2007. One-page summary of the resource paper. Also available in French.
Improving retention in Malawi
Attracting and Retaining Nurse Tutors in Malawi
March 2006. This resource paper focuses on a collaboration scheme to retain nurse tutors and includes the scheme’s successful elements, suggestions for addressing challenges and effective retention incentives.
Improving Retention: Nurse Tutors in Malawi
April 2007. One-page summary of the resource paper. Also available in French.
Rapid recruitment and deployment in Namibia
Strategy for the Rapid Start-up of the HIV/AIDS Program in Namibia: Outsourcing the Recruitment and Management of Human Resources for Health
July 2006. This resource paper focuses on the process of setting up a management contract with
a private sector human resources provider, resulting in the rapid hiring and deployment of more than 500 health and non-health workers over a two-year period.
Rapid Recruitment and Deployment: HIV/AIDS Workers in Namibia
April 2007. One-page summary of the resource paper. Also available in French.
Guideline for Outsourcing Human Resources Services to Make Antiretroviral Therapy Rapidly Available in Underserved Areas
July 2007. Based on the program in Namibia, this is a guideline to replicate and scale-up a promising practice for outsourcing human resources services to obtain a rapid increase and deployment of the health workforce.
Task shifting in Uganda
Incorporating Lay Human Resources to Increase Accessibility to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Home-Based Approach in Uganda
July 2006. This resource paper discusses the practices developed for attracting, selecting, recruiting, training, deploying, supporting and retaining a workforce of 89 field officers (lay workers).
Task Shifting: Field Officers in Uganda
April 2007. One-page summary of the resource paper. Also available in French.
Guideline for Incorporating New Cadres of Health Workers to Increase Accessibility and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy
July 2007. This guideline is based on the program in Uganda and sets out the steps required for incorporating lay workers (field officers) into the health workforce.
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