Pan American Health Organization

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DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF HUMAN
RESOURCES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
Mónica Padilla Human Resources Management
Regional Advisor SHD / HR

• Pan American Health Organization
• World Health Organization

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HRH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
HRH MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING
ADVOCACY TRAINING TOOLS DEVELOPMENT DIRECT
TECHNICAL COOPERATION
HRH POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT MANDATE (Res CD 43-R6)
BRASIL, BOLIVIA, CHILE, COSTA RICA, CUBA,
ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, JAMAICA, MÉXICO,
PARAGUAY, PERÚ, URUGUAY
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Decentralized management of HR TRAINING

• Develop a course to strengthen human resources
  management institutional capacity (1995)
• Distance Education Program (Spanish, Portuguese
  and English). (2000)
• Brazil, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador,
  Paraguay, and El Salvador. The impact of this
  strategy on the seven countries (2001 2003)
• PADRHUS Evaluation (2003)
• PADRHUS in the Virtual Campus (2004)
• Constitution of a Caribbean institutional nucleus
  for distance learning in HRH (2004)

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DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCE LEARNING PAHOS ROLE

• Catalytic action and networking
• Coordination and mobilization to facilitate
  inter-institutional synergy
• Technical support Specialized personnel,
  knowledge information for institutional
  development
• Intermediary to obtain resources and guarantee
  sustainability

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Results

• Brazil
• Educational regulation that recognizes the
  formation
• Useful line to use in the decentralization
• Chile
• methodological and cultural demands
• Decline general motivation if is not a use
  institutional priority
• Method of resolution of problems

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Results

• Peru
• Flexible
• Difficulties of access
• Technological requirements (informatics'
  security)
• Costa Rica
• Sustainability
• Experience in the use of the subjects technical
  Strength and technological support

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Results

• Ecuador
• Political Changes
• Lack of computer network in the institution
• Not law on distance education is not certified
  these courses
• El Salvador
• Little culture of use of Internet
• technical Weakness of the participants
• Method and positive pedagogical model
• Paraguay
• Political Changes

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Strengths Weaknesses

• Sharing of experiences
• Adaptation to the context
• Adaptation to the professional needs

• Use of virtual tools
• low access to the computer technology and of
  virtual communication
• culture of distance learning ?

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OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

• Pedagogical and technological strategies
• adapted Contents provided a context
• significant materials motivate the participation

• Lack institutional Support
• official availability of time
• Lack of technological Infrastructure of the
  institutions and the participants
• Pedagogical Culture of the participants
• sustainability
• Need for updating
• Saturation and projections

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PILOT PROJECT

• Capacity building training in distance education
  for leaders,instructional designers, center
  administrators, trainers and users.
• Two training program (regional) prototype
• - demonstration of our partnership
• Experience or output utilized as a mechanism of
  resource mobilization