Advocacy Tools and Resources

Frontline Health Workers Coalition
This coalition urges greater and more strategic investment in frontline health workers. Members include IntraHealth International, AMREF, Family Care International, GAPPS, Public Health Institute, Partners in Health, Save the Children, White Ribbon Alliance, and World Vision.

Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative
Supported by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, this initiative “engages in evidence-based advocacy to advance local, regional, and global efforts to enable all people, at the soonest feasible time, to have equitable and sustained access to a skilled, motivated, and well-equipped, informed, and managed health workforce.”

Addressing the health workforce crisis: A toolkit for health professional advocates
Created by the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, this toolkit aims “to assist health professionals, health professional associations, and civil society organizations to develop advocacy strategies to address human resource and health financing issues in their countries.”

CapacityPlus
CapacityPlus, a USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, has a website containing numerous tools and resources for health workforce advocates and practitioners

Health Worker Global Index
This index, produced by Save the Children, measures how many health workers there are in each country as well as their reach and impact.

Hands Up for Health Workers
Operated by Merlin, this campaign calls for “urgent and long-term investment for health workers in crisis countries; countries like Afghanistan or Somalia experiencing conflict or countries like Liberia and the Central African Republic experiencing chronic poverty.”

Access for all to skilled, motivated, and supported health workers
This background paper for the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health was produced by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health.

African Platform on Human Resources for Health
This network of organizations, institutions, and agencies aims to “catalyze action on agreements and commitments by the leadership at country, sub regional and regional levels on identified and emerging HRH issues towards improved health systems.”

HRH Global Resource Center
The largest global library of health workforce resources focused on developing countries, this site contains nearly 3,000 reports, articles, presentations, tools, background papers, and other materials.

Imagine…
Produced by the Global Health Workforce Alliance and Blinktv, this animated film highlights key issues and messages of the health workforce crisis, told through the voices of men, women, and children in the community.

Valuing health workers: VSO’s research and advocacy initiative
This research and advocacy initiative from VSO International provides evidence for partners to advocate for improvements in access to and quality of health care.

Positive practice environments for health care professionals: Quality workplaces for quality care
This call to action from the Positive Practice Environments Campaign describes how to “join in commitment and action to create quality workplaces for quality care.”

Critical shortage of health care workers
Published by the Global Health Council, this policy brief “outlines the causes and impact of the health care workforce shortage. In addition, it summarizes the many recommendations being presented for addressing the human resource shortfall.”

A grave new world
Produced by Merlin, this campaign paper explores the impact of conflict on health workers, and their central role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Other advocacy toolkits

“A” frame for advocacy
Produced by the Center for Communication Programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, this toolkit describes a six-step process for public policy advocacy.

Repositioning family planning: Guidelines for advocacy action
Produced by the WHO Regional Office for Africa and USAID through the BRIDGE Project, this toolkit aims to help those working in family planning across Africa to advocate for enhancing the visibility, availability, and quality of family planning services.

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