• The global health workforce

The global health workforce

The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action was formulated at the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health that was held in Kampala, Uganda in March 2008. It recognises the need for immediate action to resolve the accelerating crisis in the global health workforce including the global shortage of over four million health workers that are needed to deliver essential health care.

The declaration builds on existing commitments made by global and national leaders to address the HRH crisis, and calls upon governments to:

• provide the stewardship to resolve the health worker crisis
• determine the appropriate health workforce skill mix and to issue coordinated policies for an immediate scale-up of community and mid-level health workers
• devise rigorous accreditation systems for health worker education and training
• assure adequate incentives and an enabling and safe working environment for effective retention and equitable distribution of the health workforce
• increase their own financing of the health workforce
  

The declaration also calls upon multilateral, bilateral and other development partners to:

• provide coordinated and coherent support to formulate and implement comprehensive country health workforce strategies and plans
• provide dependable, sustained and adequate financial support and immediately to fulfil existing pledges concerning health and development
  

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