| Action | Hire technical experts for staffing of Hubs |
| Description | Experts will provide regional support towards country HSS work-programs - organized into a Regional Expert Team (RET) supported by the Global Expert Team (GET) on health systems. Staff skills will correspond to identified needs of countries. |
| Year | 2009 |
| Deadline | 2009 |
| Source | http://hso.worldbank.org/hso/hso/about |
| Criteria for Assessing Performance | |
| Not Achieved | No technical experts hired |
| Working Towards | 6 technical experts hired and working in regional hubs |
| Achieved | 12 technical experts hired and working in regional hubs |
| Objectively verifiable indicator (OVI) | Technical experts fully operational in regional hubs |
| Means of verification | Health Systems for The Health MDGs Progress Report of the Africa Health Systems For Outcomes (HSO) Program |
| Final Rating | Achieved: • Six technical staff were hired and fully operational in Dakar by July 2009 -Dakar Hub Coordinator, an HRH specialist, two financing specialists, a pharmaceutical specialist, and a senior health economist. • Six technical staff were hired and fully operational in Nairobi by July 2009 - Nairobi Hub Coordinator, a pharmaceutical specialist, RBF specialist, governance specialist, financing specialist, and HRH specialist. |
| Contextual Information | |
| Where the action will be taken | Africa: Kenya, Senegal |
| Results under which we are tracking this action | Strengthening Health Systems |
| Explanations | • HRH - Human resource for health • RBF - Results-based financing |
| Background | • One component of the World Bank Africa Health Systems for Outcomes program, which is part of the broader Health Systems for the Health MDGs work. • Objective: Increase on-the-ground technical assistance and coordination of partners to better support national strategies. • Will improve the Bank’s ability to rapidly assist and advise HNP operations on the ground. • Signals a change in the way that the Bank will provide additional support for analytical and policy work, as well as implementation, to client countries and bilateral and multilateral partners, even when IDA may not be lending for health in a given country. • Being implemented with the H8, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, Global Fund, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, the Harmonization for Health in Africa Framework (HHA), and other partners. • Part of the implementation of the 2007 HNP strategy. |
| Links to relevant documents | See website here |
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