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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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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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Human Resources for Health Professional Development at the District Level: Recommendations Based on the Ugandan Experience

Author: Gormley W and McCaffery J

Project: CapacityPlus

Date: 2013

Description: Many countries have committed to a process of decentralizing a range of human resources for health (HRH)...

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Human Resources Management Assessment Approach

Author: Marsden P, Caffrey M, and McCaffery J

Project: CapacityPlus

Date: 2013

Description: Strengthening the human resources management (HRM) of the health workforce is essential to improve the...

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Private-Sector Participation in Preservice Health Education

Author: Ross H, Seifman R, Bailey R, and Gilroy K

Project: CapacityPlus

Date: 2013

Description: Private health professional schools are expanding rapidly. With health training needs increasing and...

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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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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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Improving Health Through the Social Quality Approach in 800 Communes in Madagascar

To help empower the Malagasy people to address their own health needs, the USAID/Santenet2 program introduced the social quality approach in 800 communes in Madagascar. The social quality approach is...

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Scaling Up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach

Author: Tulenko K, Bailey R, and Seifman R

Project: CapacityPlus

Series: Technical Brief #9

Date: 2013

Description: This technical brief presents an overview of an approach to help identify...

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Report on the Society for Family Health Gender Assessment

The Society for Family Health conducted an exercise to assess gender mainstreaming in their internal organizational processes and programming so that its programming responds to President’s Emergency...

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