Afghanistan Afghan Public Health Institute Strategic Plan - ianphi

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In spite of significant progress since 2003 in addressing human resource issues, a number of criticalchallenges still exist in Afghanistan in the areas of human resource (HR) development and management.“Building on Early Gains in Afghanistan’s Health, Nutrition and Population Sector” (2010, pp. 81‐82)summarized the HR challenges as “three major imbalances”:“Geographic imbalance. A disproportionately large number of health care workers are concentrated incities and periurban areas while rural areas still suffer from shortages.Gender imbalance. There is still a shortage of (qualified) female staff, especially in rural areas.Skills‐mix imbalance. There is a shortage of staff with public health, reproductive health, and child healthskills.” (pp. 81‐82)In addition, there is a high vacancy rate for health workers in the MoPH (ranging from 19‐34%)(“Building on Early Gains in Afghanistan’s Health, Nutrition and Population Sector”, 2010, p. 82). Thisvacancy rate is due to the current low salaries of many MoPH employees, which does not enable therecruitment of high quality health personnel, and the fact that many skilled health workers leftAfghanistan during its 30 years of war and have not returned. Many of those health workers who arecurrently in the system, require capacity building to upgrade them and there is a need for accreditationand enhanced professional standards.This Strategic Direction is well aligned with one of the core elements of the Afghanistan NationalDevelopment Strategy (ANDS), Facilitating Human Resource Development and includesrecommendations from the Human Resource Development Cluster of the National Priority Programs ofthe ANDS.The aim of the MoPH is to ensure that the MoPH has the right person, with the right skills, at the rightplace with the right attitude.Strategic Objective 1 (SO‐1): To develop new categories of health workers and increase the size of theworkforce in each major skill categoryPriority Interventions:Increase the number of female nurses, physiotherapists, x‐ray technicians, psycho‐social andanaesthetic nurses and other categories of staff as neededWork with the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) to increase the number of female doctors andother female mid‐level health workersCollaborate with appropriate institutions to support the development of curricula and trainingprograms for degrees in bio‐medical engineering, medical technology, environmental health andother categories of staff (as per the Human Resource Development Cluster of the NPPs of ANDS)Strategic Objective 2 (SO‐2): To enhance Professional Standards and Accredit Curricula for MajorHealth ProfessionsPriority Interventions:Ministry of Public Health Strategic Plan, 2011‐201526
Establish a Medical Council to work with medical profession and medical schools and other healthprofessions in order to improve professional standards through accreditationStrategic Objective 3 (SO‐3): To improve HR Practices (i.e. implement policies, strategies andprocedures to enhance the recruitment, retention and performance of all categories of health workers)Priority Interventions:Recruitment:o Support merit‐based recruitment through a fair and transparent process to fill all vacantMoPH positionso Recruit qualified administrative staff to effectively manage support services such as HR,financial management, procurement, planning and reporting in all functional areasRetention:oDevelop and implement a retention strategy based on the following components: careerdevelopment, realistic salary scales, HR development and performance‐basedpromotionPerformance Management:o Develop clear and appropriate job descriptions and ensure staff are aware of what isexpected of themo Put in place a fair and transparent performance appraisal systemo Encourage and support a results‐oriented culture where employees are rewarded forhigh quality work and expected to identify results (based on their performance); tomonitor and work toward themStrategic Objective 4 (SO‐4): To provide targeted training to support the recruitment and retention ofexisting and new cadres of skilled staffPriority Interventions:Implement enhanced training programs for various categories of health workers; in particular,midwifery, community nursing, physical therapy, psychosocial counselors, medical technology,biomedical engineering and environmental health (as outlined in the National Health WorkforcePlan 2009‐2013 and supported by the Human Resource Development Cluster of the ANDS)Strategic Objective 5 (SO‐5): To improve the flow of information within the health sector regarding HRrequirementsPriority Interventions:Amalgamate HR databases (e.g. link payment [salary], personnel and training databases) to enable acoordinated analysis of human resources within the MoPHMinistry of Public Health Strategic Plan, 2011‐201527
Page 1: STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE MINISTRY OF
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Page 12 and 13: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Strategic Plan
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