The Annual Health Sector Performance Report highlights progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets set for the Financial Year (FY) 2019/20, and trends in performance for selected indicators over the previous FYs. The compilation process was participatory with involvement of all the Sector Departments, semi-autonomous institutions, partners through the Technical Working groups, Senior Management Committee, Health Policy Advisory Committee and Top Management.
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report highlights progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets set for the Financial Year (FY) 2018/19, and trends in performance for selected indicators over the previous FYs. The compilation process of the AHSPR FY 2018/19 was participatory with involvement of all the 14 Technical Working Groups, Senior Management Committee, Health Policy Advisory Committee and Top Management.
The National Health Workforce Accounts Handbook was developed under the direction of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Workforce Department as an accompanying document to support the implementation of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030.
The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Act (1996) section 2 defines a nurse and a midwife as “persons trained and qualified in the promotion of health, prevention of disease and care of the sick and registered or enrolled under section 24 of the same Act”. A nurse or midwife therefore provides holistic care which involves physical, psychological, social and spiritual care.
The guidelines provide for the context, definition of key terms, how to conduct performance planning, monitoring, appraisal, improvement, managing under performance, rewarding excellent performance while at the same time sanctioning poor performance.
The HRH audits and production of reports over the seven years have been supported and funded by projects under USAID funding. The reports enabled the Ministry to monitor the staffing levels, staffing gaps and skills shortagges of the health workers (HWs) in all the Public Health Facilities; and to know the same in the PNFP Health Facilities also. The reports show improvement in the staffing levels, dispite some shortage still of the HWs
These guidelines are developed to support the onboarding process of health workers, promote their levels of engagement and improve the rate of retention. This is against the background that the Ministry of Health planned to conduct massive recruitment at all levels of health service delivery. Currently, the Health sector is witnessing an increase in the number of Health workers recruited by the Health Service Commission at National Level and District Service Commissions in Local Governments to fill vacant posts existing in establishment structures of Health facilities. The staffing rate in the Health sector has increased from 60.5 % in 2013 to
Gender mainstreaming is an internationally accepted strategy that aims to institutionalize gender equality across sectors.It is the process of accesing the implications for women and men of any planned actions in legislations, policies and programmes.
The first section is the introduction. The purpose of this section is to give the structural outline of the document. It is under this section that the justification (the why?) of the guidelines is presented. The other sub-sections include a brief description of how the guidelines were developed and the intended users of the guidelines. The section ends with an extended definition of a community health worker. This includes the WHO definition and lists the roles and functions of the Community Health Workers (CHWs).
This report presents the results of the community health worker rapid assessment conducted in 61districts of Uganda. The assessment was conducted between May and June 2016 to quickly develop a preliminary understanding of the community health worker situation in Uganda.
This Report was prepared by a team led by Luis Felipe López-Calva and Yongmei Zhou. Lead chapter authors were Edouard Al-Dahdah, David Bulman, Deborah Isser, Marco Larizza, Ezequiel Molina, Abla Safir, and Siddharth Sharma. The extended core team was composed of Kimberly Bolch, Lidia Ceriani, Samantha Lach, Bradley Larson, Annamaria Milazzo, and Evgenia Pugacheva. Brónagh Murphy and Jason Victor served as the production and logistics team for the Report. Mart Kivine led partner relations and provided strategic advice and support for resource mobilization. Stephen Commins provided consultations support and advice on the “green cover” consultation
This Report has been prepared by a core team led by Emmanuel Y. Jimenez and comprising Jean Fares, Varun Gauri, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, David McKenzie, Mamta Murthi, Cristobal Ridao-Cano, and Nistha Sinha. The team was assisted by Amer Hasan, Sarojini Hirshleifer, Natsuko Kiso, and Annette Richter, all of whom also contributed to drafting parts of the Report, as well as Mehmet Ziya Gorpe, Claudio E. Montenegro, and Victor Sulla. Additional contributions were made by Deon Filmer, Paul Gertler, Elizabeth King, and Peter Orazem.
