#Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter & Forum🇳🇦

5️⃣Principles:
-Government #Leadership
- #Evidence based priorities
-Alignment & #partnership
-More & better #investment
- #Sustainability

1️⃣ goal
#Invest in Africa’s #HealthWorkforce 🌍

#Together let’s do it!

Although country plans & regional commitments exist to adress Africa's Health Workforce challenges, implementation is been constrained by inadequate financing and inefficient investment approaches. Follow us this week 6-8 May, at #AfricaHWFForum to adress the financing challenges

Today World Health Organization (WHO) will launch the Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter at the Africa Health Workforce Investment Forum in #Namibia . Aims to cut Africa's 5.3 million Health worker shortage in half by 2030! #AfricaHWFForum #InvestInHealthWorkers afro.who.int/news/pioneerin…

Today, at the close of the #AfricaHWFForum , the #WindhoekStatement call upon development partners, Multilateral Development Banks, social partners and other stakeholders to invest in #HealthWorkforce in line with governments priorities and formalise their commitments.

Aweh🇳🇦

Day 2 Agenda:

“How To” deliver our #Africa #HealthWorkForce Investment Charter🌍

✅More & Better #Investment
✅ #Education to #Employment
✅ #CommunityHealth & #PHC
✅ #Retention & #Migration
✅Bringing it all together

Let’s do it!!

#Working4Health
⁦WHO African Region⁩

The culmination of extensive partnership & collaboration: groundbreaking first ever Forum on #HealthWorkforce investment in #Africa 🌍🇳🇦 #Windhoek 👏🏽

✅Align-Invest-Sustain in 6.1 million more #HealthWorkers to deliver #HealthForAll ⚕️

#Working4Health
#InvestInHealthworkers

A successful Special Side Event on Health Labour Market Analysis. 'A masterclass in workforce science, data, dialogue, decision, dollar, sustainability.!' Investing in health is investing in human capital. Need highest political leadership support & multisectoral collaboration.

At the Special Side Event on Cross Country Learning on #HealthLabourMarketAnalysis in Namibia, Ministry of Health share experiences in implementation, utilisation of evidence for #HealthworkforceInvestment , #HRHStratrgicPlan and implementation of bilateral agreements

To optimise collective investment partnership and #HealthWorkforce funding, Working4Health is key mechanism in ensuring donor investments are aligned coordinated and optimised through its joint work with governments and their priorities and impact.

The #HealthLabourMarketAnalysis Side Event hosted by World Health Organization (WHO) & @Globalfund supported by Working4Health is underway at the sidelines of the #AfricaHealthInvestmentForum taking place in #Namibia to inform sustainable investment in #Healthworkforce

Ministry of Health, Ghana #Ghana share value of #HLMA & need to #InvestInHealthWorkforce at the session titled 'Generating trustworthy evidence to shape workforce policies: The value of #HealthLabourMarketAnalysis ' in #Namibia at the sidelines of the #AfricaHealthworkforceInvestmentForum

Ministry of Health- Uganda share experiences implementing #HLMA , findings and planned next steps to shape the new #HRHStrategy , & investments at the sidelines of the #AfricaHealthWorkforceInvestmentForum at a special side event: Cross Country Learning on Health Labour Market Analyses

In Zambia, Ministry of Health Zambia noted that in 2023, about 47.8% of total health budget was spent on #Healthworkforce . #PHC & health services account for over 80% of the total health budget. The country is finalising a #HealthLabourMarketAnalysis to inform its HRH strategy & investments

Join us live from #Namibia 🇳🇦

Impossible is nothing

#Invest in #Africa ’s 🌍 #HealthWorker education, jobs & retention … it is the smart & the right thing to do #together

#Working4Health

WHO African Region share 10 year review of #HealthWorkforce in the region. Key, while two fold increase in density of key cadres, disparity not improved. Now tracking #CHW density. Progress is possible. Need $120.4 bn =2% of Afro GDP in 2030 to half the continents need of #HealthWorkforce

Ministry of Health #Madagascar share plans to implement a Health Labour Market Analysis in Namibia at a Special Event at the start of the Africa Health Workforce Investment Forum.

The Ministry of Health #Mozambique share preliminary results of their #HealthLabourMarketAnalysis at Special Side Event, ' Cross Country Learning on Health Labour Market Analysis.'

Ministry of Health | Rwanda share how the #HLMA has informed the dev of a National Strategy for Health Proffesional Development (NSHPD) and a 4x4 Reform 2024-2028 Accelator of the NSHPD. The plan needs $395 million funding over 4 years to implement. #InvestInWorkforce

Ministry of Health ETHIOPIA #Ethiopia share experiences on the role the #HLMA in development of the Health Sector Strategic Plan and the Human Resources for Health Strategy at a Special Side Event at the sidelines of the Africa Health Workforce Investment Forum taking place in Namibia

Ministry of HealthZW has used evidence from the #HLMA and the principles of the #HWFInvestCharter to develop a #HealthworkforceStrategy , amendment of the Health Service Act 2022 and an Investment Compact with a projected 3 year gap of $361 million to implement it.