Global strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery 2016–2020

Global
Partners
INTERVENTIONS
1. Sustain the WHO Global Forum for Government
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers to enhance the
leadership capacity of the nursing and midwifery
workforce in countries.
2. Engage governments through the WHO Global Forum
on Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers to
share the evidence in support of nursing and midwifery
workforce development.
3. Review and analyse models of current governments’
chief nursing and midwifery roles and promote contextsensitive
approaches to introduce or strengthen these
roles.
4. Develop a competency framework for leadership roles in
the various aspects of nursing and midwifery.
5. Identify the best practices for good governance and
develop a tool to enable countries to evaluate the status
of their nursing and midwifery governance systems.
1. Seek participation from partners in monitoring and
evaluating the implementation of the national nursing
and midwifery development strategic plan.
2. In collaboration with partners, promote and disseminate
successes and lessons learned to all stakeholders,
including politicians and key civil society groups,
to strengthen perceptions of and raise commitment
to supporting nursing and midwifery leadership
development.
YEARS
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
1,
2, 3,
4, 5
1, 2,
3, 5
INDICATORS
1, 5 5 1, 5 1. Number of countries
participating in global
forums for leadership
development
2. Number of countries with
documented evidence of
increased nursing and
midwifery leadership
capacity
3. Number of countries
reporting the creation
of new structures within
the ministries of health
headed by a nursing or
midwifery professional,
carrying out a major role
in policy formulation both
for nursing and midwifery
and for health services in
general, undertaking and
implementing national
nursing and midwifery
strategic plans, and
providing informed advice
pertaining to nursing and
midwifery to other policyand
decision-makers
4. Leadership competencies
framework is available
and used at regional and
national levels to revise
and develop leadership
roles through guiding
curriculum development
and leadership programme
implementation, and
to revise and develop
leadership roles and job
descriptions
5. A strategic directions for
nursing and midwifery
reporting framework exists
and has been tested
1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1. Number of countries
with programmes
demonstrating
collaboration with partners
2. Percentage of partners
involved in dissemination
of information on the
activities and results of the
collaboration
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