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"That's Improvement!": Uganda Focuses on Health Workers

Meet three Ugandan health workers who love their jobs. Agnes, Habiba, and Alex find joy in serving their clients, but they face many challenges—and there are simply not enough health workers to meet...

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Applying the HRH Action Framework to Develop Sustainable Excellence in the Health Supply Chain Workforce

Seifman R and Bailey R, IntraHealth International; and Hasselberg E, Supply Chain Management System (SCMS)

The objective of this technical brief is to create a bridge between the SCM and HRH...

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Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the stakeholders...

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Optimizing Performance and Quality

Author: IntraHealth Technical Leadership Department

Date: 2013

Description: This IntraHealth technical brief describes Optimizing Performance and Quality, an update of the performance improvement...

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Capsular Training on Skilled Birth Attendance: Lessons from an Operations Research Study in Bahraich District, Uttar Pradesh

The Manthan Project worked to improve the quality of the 21-day skilled birth attendant (SBA) training through the provision of a training coordinator for quality assurance and compared this to a four...
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Prasav Parivahan Seva: Lessons from an Integrated Transportation Service for Mothers and Newborns in Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh

Prasav Parivahan Seva

 

Project: The Manthan Project

Date: 2013

Description: The state of Uttar Pradesh contributes close to 30% of maternal and neonatal deaths in India. Women from rural, remote, and disadvantaged...

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Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships for Institutional Deliveries in Uttar Pradesh

The Manthan Project provided technical assistance (TA) to the Government of Uttar Pradesh to identify challenges affecting the public-private partnership schemes aimed at increasing poor women's...

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mSakhi: An Interactive Mobile Phone-Based Job Aid for Accredited Social Health Activists

Two studies demonstrate that, compared with existing paper-based job aids, mobile phone-based mSakhi is a more user-friendly and effective accredited social health activist (ASHA) job aid for a range of activities,including self-learning, counselling, and newborn assessment

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Exploring Contraceptive Use Differentials in Sub-Saharan Africa through a Health Workforce Lens

Author: Pacqué-Margolis S, Cox C, Puckett A, and Schaefer L (USAID)

Project: CapacityPlus

Series: Technical Brief #11

Date: 2013

Description: This technical brief presents findings from a study...

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Health Informatics Education and Training Programs: Important Factors to Consider

Author: Tulenko K, Settle D, and Bailey R

Project: CapacityPlus

Series: Technical Brief #10

Date: 2013

Description: Health informatics is of growing importance in efforts to improve health outcomes...

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