Project profile — Enhancing the Ability of Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) increased availability of qualified and productive frontline health workers; (ii) increased use of evidence-based policies, strategies and plans that respond to the different needs of women and men to manage the health workforce; and (iii) improved partnerships and coordination for mobilizing sustainable health workforce resources.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (January 2021) include: (1) trained 7,179 primary health care workers (of whom 4,387 are women) to provide quality health services to their communities; (2) 11 health training institutions in Bauchi and Cross River states attained full or partial accreditation to train nurses, midwives and other frontline health workers; (3) improved recruitment of frontline health workers and their deployment to where they are needed most at the national level and in Bauchi and Cross River states, by establishing the Health Workforce Registry and the Workload Indicators of Staffing Needs information systems; trained 417 (of whom 130 are women) federal and state health and data managers on utilizing the information management systems; and (4) strengthened policies, strategies and annual plans for human resources for health at the national level and in Bauchi and Cross River states, allowing governments to be better equipped in providing gender-sensitive health services to a maximum of beneficiaries.