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Improving Health Worker Recruitment in Uganda

Recruiting and hiring health workers in Uganda can be a difficult and time-consuming task. It takes great effort to weed through the mass of applications for each vacant position, and to ensure that the most qualified applicants are considered and properly evaluated. In consultation with the...

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Work Climate Improvement: Addressing HIV in the Workplace

Although the HIV epidemic is widely recognized as one of the world’s largest public health crises, its effects on the health sector’s work environment and role in the global health worker shortage are often overlooked. HIV places great burdens on health systems to provide treatment...

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Announcing Kenya’s Health Professional of the Year Awards

The IntraHealth International-led Capacity Kenya project will honor local health workers next month with the Health Professional of the Year awards, which are designed to promote excellence, strengthen capacity, and recognize professionalism in health care provision....

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Kate Tulenko, MD, MPH, MPhil

Kate Tulenko is a physician and global health specialist with extensive health systems experience. She joined IntraHealth from the World Bank (where she managed the Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program) to become deputy director of Capacity Plus , USAID’s $300 million...

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Implementation of Performance Support Approaches in Central America and Uganda

Implementation of Performance Support Approaches in Central America and Uganda This paper describes the Capacity Project’s work with governments and partners in Central America and Uganda to test approaches for strengthening supervision systems in the health sector, and provides...

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Taking Forward Action on Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia: Synthesis and Measures of Success

This paper discusses the background of HRH shortages in the listed countries, as well as plans for steps to resolve the issue. [160kb pdf]

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Capacity Project Legacy Series

The Capacity Project Legacy Series is a collection of 11 documents sharing information from the IntraHealth-led Capacity Project's work. The 11 documents feature: The Kenya Emergency Hiring Plan: Results from a Rapid Workforce Expansion Strategy Legacy Series No. 1, September...

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For the Health of Women Health Workers

IntraHealth studied the implications of gender inequality, discrimination, and gender-based violence in the health workforce in several developing nations through the Capacity Project —a five-year initiative funded by USAID focusing on human resources for health in developing countries....

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Because Health Workers Save Lives: Introducing Our New Logo and Website

Strengthening health workers and the systems that support them has been IntraHealth International’s core focus for three decades. Our new logo symbolizes our ongoing commitment to mobilizing local talent for accessible, sustainable health care around the world. Representing a network of...

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Cadre d'action RHS, USAID et OMS

Cadre d’action RHS, USAID et OMS (administré par le Capacity Project), 2008 Le Cadre d’action RHS a été élaboré, afin d’aider les gouvernements et les responsables sanitaires à développer et à mettre en place des...

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