Health Workforce Observatories in Africa

Observatory Websites

** WHO/AFRO’s regional Africa Health Workforce Observatory (AHWO) **

** Cameroon’s Observatoire National des Ressources Humaines en Sante du Cameroun (ONRHSC) ** - Note the resource for individual health workers to check their own information, and even submit it, including skills and competencies! Great feature to support for iHRIS countries; our new self-service functionality will facilitate this. You can also generate a complete list of MOH employees by department, and you can drill down to an individual record if you know the date of birth.

** Malawi Health Workforce Observatory ** - This site is more nascent, with a good compendium of policy documents in the downloads section.

** Mauritania’s Observatoire National des Ressources Humaines en Sante du Mauritanie (ONRHS of Mauritanie) ** - The key health and HRH policy documents are organized down the left hand side. Below them, there is a clear vision for services for individual health workers.

Please add other Health Workforce Observatory websites to this list.

Other Resources

** Report of the Global Meeting of Human Resources for Health Observatories ** - This report summarizes the key conclusions of the Global Meeting of Human Resources for Health (HRH) Observatories: Evidence-informed Human Resources for Health policies – the contribution of HRH Observatories, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 4 to 7 July 2011. It is one of the best and most recent outlines of the Observatory concept and some of the latest thinking from countries about the approach.