Health System Strengthening—Human Resources Proposal Guidebook
This guide provides step-by-step instructions to aid country coordinating mechanisms, Global Fund proposal-writing teams, and decision-makers at all levels to tackle the complex Global Fund Health System Strengthening (HSS) proposal process for human resources. It supports the Global Fund mission to promote improved country health systems, including investment in health workforces, to overcome constraints to achieving malaria control program scale-up and sustainability goals. The toolkit includes the essential tools needed for winning HSS proposals; the guide focuses on the WHO Building Block, "Health Workforce."
- Tool Designer Organization:
- RBM Partnership
- Download:
- Note: This tool is undergoing final revision and is expected to be available before the end of 2010. Check back then!
- Contact:
- Paul Libiszowski, Project Implementation Specialist, Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), a program at PATH
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- To help national malaria control programmes develop successful proposals for funding of health system strengthening—human resources components.
- Scope of interventions
- National malaria programmes wishing to submit an HSS-HR proposal will find this tool useful for analyzing and quantifying human resource needs and preparing the proposal
- Limitations
- Use of this tool presumes that an assessment of the human resource needs of the organization has already been completed. This information in the assessment is used to populate many of the assumptions in the tool.
- Output
- Calculations of costs for strategy implementation as well as basic elements and considerations for developing a successful health systems strengthening proposal for human resources needed in malaria control
- Time frame
- This tool is best implemented 2 to 6 months before submission of a proposal
- Potential users
- National malaria control programmes and partnerships
- Skills required
- Organizational analysis, basic spreadsheet knowledge
- Type of software
- Word processing, spreadsheets
- User manual available
- This tool includes a user manual
- Type and length of training required
- One week
- Available languages
- English; French to be developed
- Country applications
- Testing phase May 2009, country to be determined
- Last update and version
- Expected to be available before the end of 2010