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Botswana

As the leading cause of death in Botswana, HIV/AIDS has a tremendous impact on the population and health workforce. With the number of people in need of antiretroviral therapy increasing, it remains difficult for the country’s health workers to meet the current challenges.

Through CapacityPlus, IntraHealth’s focus in Botswana is on assisting the Ministry of Health to better manage its health workforce by using IntraHealth’s open source iHRIS Manage software to improve the tracking of health worker trainings, increase data quality, and support the annual budgeting process. Going forward, CapacityPlus will build local capacity to maintain and customize the system, while increasing buy-in to foster use of data for decision-making. CapacityPlus will also work with Botswana’s health professional councils to strengthen information systems that track health worker qualifications. In an effort to further improve data quality and use, the project will ensure that the Ministry’s iHRIS Manage system routinely shares data with the councils’ information system as well as the government’s payroll system.

Previously, IntraHealth assisted Botswana’s government and the University of Botswana’s Faculty of Health Sciences to develop strategies to strengthen health care leadership, attract and retain skilled health workers, and improve HIV/AIDS services. These strategies included strengthening and expanding preservice education for health workers, designing a human resources for health retention plan, encouraging the return of health workers who have left to train outside the country, and enhancing the management and quality of health services through team-based quality assurance and leadership development programs.

Current Projects:

• CapacityPlus (funded by USAID, led by IntraHealth)

Past Projects:

• Southern Africa Human Capacity Development Coalition (funded by USAID, led by IntraHealth)
• Capacity Project (funded by USAID, led by IntraHealth)