Learning and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the LHSS Project. We invite you to search LHSS knowledge products and resources for the latest approaches, insights, and learning in the field of integrated health systems strengthening.
In Namibia, The Ministry of Health and Social Services conducted a comprehensive training session, with LHSS support, aimed at enhancing the capacity of its senior staff members. The focus of the training was social contracting, with particular emphasis on need identification and the intricate processes involved in contracting civil society organizations through social contracting mechanisms.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, with support from the LHSS Project, convened stakeholders in Windhoek to validate the costing of the Essential Health Services Package.
This brief in French identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.
This Portuguese brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing. It's also available in English and French.
LHSS supports the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia for the development of the country's groundbreaking UHC policy and Essential Health Services Package.
This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.
La boîte à outils vise à combler une lacune dans les conseils pratiques pour l’EPS dans les programmes de lutte contre le paludisme. Il contient des orientations, des ressources et des exemples étape par étape pour développer des activités d’ESP, dans le but global d’équiper les acteurs au niveau des pays pour stimuler une plus grande participation du secteur privé à la lutte et à l’élimination du paludisme et contribuer à des résultats durables au niveau local. La boîte à outils est disponible en anglais et en frech.
The toolkit aims to address a gap in practical guidance for PSE in malaria programming. It contains step-by-step guidance, resources, and examples for developing PSE activities, with the overall goal of equipping country-level actors to stimulate greater private sector participation in malaria control and elimination and contribute to locally sustained results. The toolkit is available in English and French.
This learning brief can be used as a resource for HRH managers, planners, program managers, and frontline practitioners to learn how other countries are approaching and successfully designing and implementing solutions to their HRH challenges. It can also be used as a reference for health policy makers, funders, and implementing partners to inform the design and implementation of HRH resource optimization initiatives covered in this brief.
This Catalog allows practitioners to consider which interventions have more robust evidence bases to support their practical application, such as: enhancing worker and supervisor competencies through training, offering nonfinancial incentives for high performers, practicing task sharing to promote cost savings, implementing digital solutions to expand access to services, and reducing costs of procuring and distributing pharmaceutical products.
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 5, “What are effective and sustainable mechanisms or processes that enable the participation of private sector, civil society, and public organizations in developing locally-led solutions to improve high-performing health care, especially for poor and vulnerable populations? What enables the effective participation or leadership of marginalized populations themselves in the development and implementation of these solutions? Under what conditions is this participation different?”
Join LHSS at the 3rd International Community Health Workforce Symposium, March 20-24, 2023, in Monrovia, Liberia.
This document describes the process to be followed for the regular revisions of the EHSP and presents important elements that support the updating, so that an EHSP that is a sustainable, equitable, and accessible—within financial and other constraints—is delivered to the population.
This PSCSE landscape report was compiled using evidence generated from a comprehensive documentary review and selected key informant interviews conducted to gain insight into the status of implementation of existing PPPs, and the challenges, lessons learned, and success stories.