OpportunityTitle: Health Workforce Improvement Program (HWIP)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: See NOFO for details
Description: The purpose of the Health Workforce Improvement Program (HWIP) is to address critical human resources challenges in Ethiopia&#8217;s health sector. The program will build on the work carried out under the Strengthening Human Resources for Health (HRH) Cooperative Agreement (AID-663-A-12-00008) that was awarded to Jhpiego in 2012. The Health Workforce Improvement Program will work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MOSHE) at the national level and their respective structures at the sub-national levels (regional, zonal and woreda levels), Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) levels that provide healthcare education at national and sub-national, and targeted health worker professional associations to improve the quality of Ethiopia&#8217;s health workforce. The focus areas of this Activity are: 1. Institutional and individual capacity building to improve the quality of pre-service education for priority clinical cadres to improve the competency of clinical health workers, 2. Improve the human resource for health management and regulation capacity of national and sub-national entities. The program will target program managers at MOH, Regional Health Bureau (RHB) and District Health Office; and faculty at HEIs, building their leadership, management and governance capacity for human resource development and management. 3. Improve the generation and utilization of evidence to inform HR planning, development and management
GrantorContactEmailDescription: tgebremedhin@usaid.gov
GrantorContactText: Tsegereda Gebremedhin &lt;br/&gt;Acquisition &amp; Assistance Specialist &lt;br/&gt;USAID/Ethiopia