Strengthening Human Resources for Health Puri, India (26-31 May 2008)
Objectives:
Provide Indian health officials with a framework to critically assess and manage human resource challenges they at the state level;
Understand key concepts of human resource management and be able to apply them;
Develop state-specific strategic plans on improving HR with concrete recommendations on how to implement themBuilding the capacity of NIHFW faculty in delivering similar courses in future.
Partners:
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), State Institute of Health and Family Welfare (SIHFW), Orissa.
Description:
The course focused on estimating future HR needs, understanding HR challenges in rural areas, assessing educational capacity and HRH financing, change management, satisfaction, motivation and performance, supervision &monitoring and strategic planning for HR. The course gave participants an opportunity to interact and learn about models and experiences from other parts of India as well as other countries. The course included group work, case studies, experience-sharing and the development of an action plan for their state. Two faculty from the Harvard School of Public Health facilitated the course. The course is part of WBI's larger capacity development program in Health in India and was funded through a local DfID trust fund.
Participants:
49 participants from eleven Indian states, including government officials from the state health directorates, chief medical officers, professors from medical schools, and other officials dealing with the government's Flagship Program on Health (National Rural Health Mission) from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. DFID and GTZ were also represented.
Public Private Partnership in Health Agra, India (28 April- 3 May 2008)
Objectives:
Expose participants to the size, structure and characteristics of PPP in the health sector in India.
Understand why the private sector is important in public policy
Identify different options to engage the private sector
Gain first hand knowledge of PPP from practitioners
Understand and study in depth the concept of contracting as an important element of PPP.
Partners:
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW)
Description:
The course was designed and delivered in response to a needs assessment carried out in three states by NIHFW and WBI, where PPP emerged as one of the key issues that government officials expressed interest in learning more about. The course focused on giving participants an opportunity to interact and share their own experiences of PPP while exposing them to models and experiences from around the world. The pedagogy included group work, case studies, experience sharing by practitioners and a field visit to a functioning PPP model. The course is part of WBIs larger capacity development program in Health in India and was funded through a local DfID TF.
Participants:
47 participants from nine Indian states. They included government officials from the state health directorates, chief medical officers, professors from medical schools, and other officials dealing with the Government's Flagship Program on Health (National Rural Health Mission) from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Karnataka and Delhi. DFID and GTZ were also represented.
India Flagship Course on Health System Policy and Management Ahmedabad, India (28 January- 2 February 2008)
Objectives:
Build the capacity of senior health officials to:
Diagnose system related problems, their causes, and potential solutions based on a broad menu of national and international experience
Design and test innovative approaches to solving health system problems to improve performance
Monitor and evaluate health system innovations and their associated outcomes in the context of the National Rural Health Mission in India.
Partners:
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW)
Description:
The course focused on health system policies and management - critical issues in the Indian context and contributed to the creation of a critical mass of health professionals in India able to more effectively understand and assess problems in health sector related to efficiency, equity, and sustainability. Modules included performance goals of the Indian health sector, intermediate outcomes and the diagnostic tree, improving performance of government services, hospital quality, increasing human resources in rural areas, basic concepts of health insurance, decentralization in the health sector, PPP and contracting. The Flagship's framework was introduced and each of the modules included discussion, group work and case studies closely linked with India's reform issues. It was funded through a local DfID TF.
Participants:
The workshop brought together 25 senior health officials from eight Indian states and key development partners. The workshop was delivered by a mix of international and Indian faculty (some of whom had attended previous ToT courses).
Technical Workshop (ToT) on Health System Reform: Governance, Performance and Financing Bhubaneshwar, India, (January 23-25, 2008)
Objectives:
Building and strengthening an Indian network of trainers in Health Systems Management.
Share key elements of WBI's flagship course on health sector reform (5 control knobs)
Partners:
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (XIMB)
Description:
The course provided an introduction to the five control knobs of WBI's flagship course and discussed the design and delivery modality of the Flagship Learning Program on Health Sector Reform, thus, enabling participants to customize the program and teach it in future Indian courses. The course included a strong component on pedagogy and teaching methods. It was funded through a local DfID TF.
Participants:
25 faculty members from public and private health training institutions from Orissa and other Indian states.
Outcome:
XIMB will build a post graduate course on health system reforms using core elements of WBI's flagship course.
Technical Workshop with Core Faculty NIHFW, New Delhi, 30 November 2007
Partners:
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW)Description: the workshop was organized to share information from the findings of the three state-level training needs assessments and plan ahead for the FY 08 program. A plenary discussion followed the presentation of the visit findings- raising key issues to be included in the planned state-level courses, i.e. human resource management, quality management, public private partnership. Small working groups followed. Participants were divided into three groups for setting the framework for the state-level courses. The first group focused on Human Resource Management, the second on Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the third on Quality of Care. As a concrete outcome three working groups (one for each of the three content areas) were formed-to further develop course structure and content for state courses. One nodal person from NIHFW was allocated to each state group as the facilitator of the group.
Participants:
Twenty participants including faculty from various institutes, staff and faculty from the NIHFW, representative from various private and public training institutes, the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), development partners and staff from WB/WBI.
Needs Assessment Visits (October 11-12 to Orissa, October 22-23 to Rajasthan and October 30-31 2007 to Uttar Pradesh)
Partners:
NIHFW and local State Institutes of Health and Family Welfare (SIHFWs)
Description:
these visits were undertaken to determine areas for the FY08 health program. The assessments confirmed the strong need to train senior and mid-level health officials at the state and district level in public health policies and management issues. Most interlocutors expressed the need to focus on human resource management, quality issues, health financing (including financial management) and monitoring of public health programs. Several ideas for case studies/teaching cases to be developed for the health courses in India came up.
Participants:
Health officials at the Secretariat and Directorate of Health.