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March 30, 2007
Call for Proposals: Health Worker Salaries and Benefits: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Global Health Workforce Alliance
Closing date: 30 March 2007
Low health worker salaries and benefits are an important dimension of the current global health worker crisis, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Civil service reforms have often compressed salary scales and failed to provide effective incentives to allow the retention of more senior and more capable staff. Recent initiatives in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania have focused on increasing health worker salaries, but there is little data on health worker salaries and how these have varied over time, or information to guide government policy on what health worker salaries and benefits should be.
This call for proposals - jointly issued by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Global Health Workforce Alliance - is aimed at generating ‘rapid research’ to feed into the next forum of the Global Health Workforce Alliance, planned for November 2007 in Sub-Saharan Africa, at which grantees would be expected to present their research findings.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) is an international collaboration, based in WHO Geneva, that aims to promote the generation and use of health policy and systems research as a means to improve the health systems of developing countries. For more information please visit: http://www.alliance-hpsr.org/
The Global Health Workforce Alliance is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions to the health workforce crisis. It brings together a variety of actors including national governments, civil society, finance institutions, workers, international agencies, academic institutions and professional associations. For more information please visit: http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/
Proposals are invited across three interlinked areas of research:
- patterns and trends of health worker ‘salaries and benefits’;
- determinants of health worker ‘salaries and benefits’; and
- the impact of health worker ‘salaries and benefits’ on the provision of care.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 30th March 2007.
