Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative
About Us
Vision
The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative engages in evidence-based advocacy to advance local, regional, and global efforts to enable all people, at the soonest feasible time, to have equitable and sustained access to a skilled, motivated, and well-equipped, informed, and managed health workforce who have decent wages and good working conditions, and are integrated into well-functioning health systems. The health workforce should be in the numbers, skills mix, and distribution with the management and leadership needed to achieve universal access to essential health interventions, the Millennium Development Goals, and to achieve and sustain universal access to comprehensive HIV treatment, prevention, care, and support by 2010.
We operate with the firm conviction that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of health and that an effective health workforce is central to fulfilling this right. The right to health places a solemn responsibility upon governments to make the maximum effort to meet all their people’s health needs, including those of marginalized populations. We also believe in the need to empower frontline health workers and civil society to engage as active participants in all aspects of national, regional, and global discussions on the health workforce, and to work in partnership with governments and other institutions to realize the right to health.
HWAI Steering Committee
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Goals
A) Secure at key global, regional, and national forums and processes specific commitments to prioritize human resources for health (HRH) and related health systems strengthening (HSS); policies and actions supportive of well-trained, motivated, adequately equipped and supported, and equitably distributed health workforces, and;
B) Secure adequate, predictable, and sustainable funding for HRH and related HSS and removal of restraints to spending expanded resources;
C) Build better accountability among all HRH stakeholders, especially governments, on meeting HRH-related commitments and obligations, including for HRH and related health financing, and;
D) Support the development and effectiveness of grassroots movements supporting HRH, especially in developing countries, and link national movements to regional and international networks.
the HWAI is supported by the GHWA
Secretariat
The HWAI Global Secretariat is hosted at the Physicians for Human Rights
Steering Committee
Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA) (Uganda)
ActionAid International
Africa Public Health Rights Alliance
African Council for Sustainable Health Development (ACOSHED)
African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH)
Global AIDS Alliance (USA)
Health GAP (USA)
Health Rights Advocacy Forum (HERAF) (Kenya)
International AIDS Society
International Council of Nurses
Oxfam
Physicians for Human Rights (USA) (chair)
Public Services International
The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative Network
The HWAI network is an on-going forum for strategizing, advocacy support, information sharing, and idea and information generation. For more information about the network please click here.
