Strengthening Human Resources for Health: Introduction and Overview

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Strengthening Human Resources for Health
Introduction and Overview

• Jointly organized
• By
• National Institute of health Family Welfare,
  New Delhi
• And
• World Bank Institute

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Health workers save lives!
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Estimated critical shortages of doctors, nurses
and midwives, by WHO region
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Forces driving HRH issues
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE CURRENT HEALTH WORKFORCE
ACROSS INDIAN STATES
DRAWN FROM RESEARCH BY THE WORLD BANK
AND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA

For correspondence sraha_at_worldbank.org
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Human Resources for Health

• HR often seen as backwater
• Old planning tools only for public sector
• Mainly personnel administration
• Little innovation in training content or
  techniques
• Major new interest
• Migration and HIV/AIDs makes business as usual
  impossible
• Joint Learning Initiative
• WHO Initiatives and World Health Report 2006

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Indian Context

• Economic Expansion
• National Rural Health Mission

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Harvard Experience

• Lincoln Chen and Harvards leadership in Joint
  Learning Initiative
• Strategic Guide developed for WHO by
  International Health Systems Program (IHSP) at
  Harvard School of Public Health
• IHSP Executive Programs

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Course Objectives

• Introduce new thinking, approaches and tools on
  human resources for health
• Develop recommendations to address human
  resource issues in your state
• Exchange ideas and experiences with colleagues
  from other states and,
• Develop network of colleagues and friends.

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Course Outline

• Introduction to course, faculty and participants
• Introduction to WHO Capacities Assessment Tool
• Cross cutting issues
• Poonam Khattar, NIHFW
• Financing
• K.S. Nair, NIHFW
• Education

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Course Outline (2)

• HRH in Rural Areas
• Management Reform
• Satisfaction, Motivation and Performance
• Dr. Rajni Bagga, NIHFW
• Supervision and Monitoring
• K.K. Das, SIHFW
• Institutional Changes and Leadership
• Mr. Peppin Soosai, CHM, Xavier Institute of Mgmt

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Course Outline (3)

• Strategic Planning for HR
• Politics of Strategic Planning
• Dr. Deoki Nandan, NIHFW
• Priority-Setting for HR Strategies
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Dr. Rajni Bagga, NIHFW
• Presentations and Discussion

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Some Advice for an Effective Workshop

• Prepare for the sessions, especially case studies
• Bring your own state experience to bear on each
  topic integrate seminar material into your own
  experience
• Be open to new ideas

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Nine Dot Exercise

• Connect all nine dots using 4 lines or less
  without lifting your pen or pencil from the paper

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Forces driving HRH issues
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Serenity Prayer

• "God grant us the serenity to accept the things
  we cannot change, courage to change the things we
  can, and wisdom to know the difference."

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Some Advice for an Effective Workshop (2)

• Listen to other participants as well as the
  faculty we all need to learn from each other

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Getting to Know Each Other

• Interviews
• Name, state, position (job)
• Expectations for course
• Concerns about course
• Something personal not job related (about
  family, hobbies, etc)

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THANK YOU.