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PEOPLE FOR HEALTH:
ADVANCING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH IN INDIA
WORKSHOP SERIES ON
PLANNING, CAPACITY BUILDING AND
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN
RESOURCES IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM
EAST ZONE WORKSHOP
3-4 FEB, 2012 BHUBANESWAR
2. The partnership
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A partnership between Swasti and PHFI
Funded by the European Commission under
the “Investing in People” thematic programme
Three year project for civil society
organisations to work towards solutions on the
critical issue of human resources in health
February 2011-Jan 2014
3. The proposed action
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Focuses on
Creating a
knowledge base on
HRH (research and
documentation)
Capacity building at
National and State
level (2 states)
Advocacy and
Learning platforms
4. Project Objectives
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Overall objective:
To contribute to improving human resource
policies, strategies and practices in the health
sector in India
Specific Objective:
i. Constructing a comprehensive knowledge base
on key Human Resource related issues, which
cuts across sectoral players
ii. Building capacities of key stakeholders to
advocate, absorb and learn from each other;
iii. Building and operating cross learning platforms
5. Result areas
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Result 1 - HRH knowledge base
A body of knowledge on key human resource
issues built and made available in consumable
form
Result 2 - Applied learning across actors
Cross pollinated ideas, approaches, strategies
and tools are applied across sectors and
stakeholders
Result 3 - State Govt. implementation
(Orissa, AP) At least
two State Governments put in place a HR cell and
a strategy to address key HR issues
Result 4 - National policy revision
Human resource policy updated for health sector
addressing all sectoral needs
6. Project Outputs
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3 research studies
5 fact sheets
Core research findings translated into formats
accessible to human resource officials, health
administrators and health practitioners at different
levels
Multi-sector, multi-stakeholder HRH experience
sharing platform
HR cell set up in two states
Policy and Strategy documents revised through
stakeholder participation
Updated HR policy for the Health Sector
accessible to key actors concerned
7. Priority issues
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1. HRH Planning
2. Performance Management (incl
Supervision)
3. Capacity Building, including methods
and tools
4. Recruitment process
5. Motivation, Compensation and
Retention (incl. incentivisation)
6. Equity issues in HR
7. Analysis of impact of HR Policies and
practices
8. Expected workshop outputs
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Issues/challenges and solutions that
work
Cross learning from experiences
Knowledge gaps that require further
research and documentation
