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Adapting Strong Partnerships to
Leverage Ebola’s Spotlight on Frontline
Health Workers
Who we are
Frontline Health Workers Coalition
Backgroundandhistory
• Working coalition launched in January 2012
• Mission: An alliance of United States-based organizations working
together to urge greater and more strategic U.S. and global
investment in frontline health workers in developing countries as a
cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer and
more prosperous world
• Members: 36 US-based members including NGOs, trade
organizations, advocacy campaigns, corporations
• Secretariat: Housed at IntraHealth International’s Washington
office
Examples FHWCAnalysis &Communications
We’veelevatedfocusonthefrontlinehealthworker…
Fact sheets, policy analyses and
reports on key issues such as
centrality of frontline health
workers to ending preventable
maternal and child deaths
Major communications
efforts to communicate
the impact of frontline
health workers worldwide
Regular communications
efforts to highlight impact of
frontline health workers as
central to building resilient
health systems
Advocacy Accomplishments
We’vecatalyzedamovementforfrontlinehealthworkers…
Provided crucial
Policy Analysis
Advocated for USG
HRH Leadership
Successfully advocated for the
a global effort for a robust
strategy to guide global health
workforce strengthening
efforts from 2016-2030.
Galvanized cross-agency
Commitments
Helped Galvanize and highlight new
commitments across USG global health
programs, including USAID Vision for
Health Systems, PEPFAR 3.0 HRH
strategy, and health workforce action
package in GH Security Agenda.
Urged greater
Legislative Action
Advocated for legislative
reporting requirements for
USAID and PEPFAR to report
efforts to strengthen HRH in
developing countries.
Developed analyses,
recommendations and fact sheets
that have served as crucial
resources for key policy questions.
Strengthened
Accountability
Advocated for targets and
indicators on health workforce in
the Sustainable Development
Goals
Ebola’s spotlight on health workers & resilient health systems
TIME Magazine honors health
workers as their “Person of the Year”
in 2014 and the Ebola epidemic
highlights the critical need for global
health workforce strengthening
Mainstream media and
prominent journalists develop
strong interest in issues
surrounding health systems and
workforce strengthening
FHWC’s response to Ebola
Callingforresilient,sustainableworkforceinWestAfricaandworldwide
FHWC-commissioned
costing analysis of
scaling up of health
workforce in West Africa
November 2014
policy
recommendations
for action in West
Africa and globally
Report calling for a common
definition & reporting on
community health workers
Multifaceted
communications
efforts
In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone:
• Increase support for local health workers on frontlines of Ebola fight
• Build a responsive and sustainable supply-chain management
system
• Ensure a sustainable frontline health workforce by supporting
training programs (FHWC- Commissioned Costing Analysis showed
it’s a low-cost investment with high potential returns)
• Address stigma
Key recommendations to US government
Worldwide
• Provide new investments to help jumpstart country efforts to strengthen capacity
of their health workforces to prevent, detect and respond to public health
emergencies
• Ensure through continued robust investments in global health that Ebola doesn’t
set back extraordinary progress in saving lives and preventing the spread of
diseases
• Provide specific targets for key health workforce targets in the Global Health
Security Agenda action package on health workforce
• Advocate for adoption of global strategy on human resources for health with
concrete targets and financing recommendations
• Create a multi-year, costed, cross-agency USG strategy for increasing access to
frontline health workers in developing countries with an implementation plan
Key recommendations
to US government
• Impact of Ebola on health workers and health services—strong
linkages to IntraHealth International’s mission of improve the
performance of (and protecting) health workers and strengthening
the systems in which they work
• December 2014: IntraHealth President/CEO Pape Gaye testified
during Ebola-focused US Senate hearing
“As this Ebola outbreak has already started to fade from the consciousness of
some, one of the crucial underlying conditions that helped the virus spread
remains the lack of a sustainable and resilient global health workforce.”
• January/May 2015: delivered statements to the World Health
Organization
“help countries transition from independent emergency response units into
sustainable capacity-building efforts fully integrated into ministries of health
with close connections with other ministries”
• Advocacy work informed programmatic responses; lack of
information in three most-affected countries made it difficult for
ministries and partners to coordinate effective responses
• Worked on the ground with ministries and other partners (especially
UNICEF) to develop real-time solutions based on existing
technologies and platforms, including mHero: a mobile phone-based
communications system that connects ministries of health staff with
frontline health workers via two-way SMS text messages
• mHero currently being scaled up and replicated to address both
emergency and long-term needs
• Ongoing work through Global Health Security Agenda to help
countries become more resilient, to prepare for and respond to crises
Member Alignment
• Health workers’ need for on-demand, accurate
information
• Challenge of coordination among responding
organizations
• Potential to share resources and learning
Shared Training Resources
• Training Health
Workers for Ebola
webinar series
• HRH Ebola Resource
Center
• Connecting global
resources to local
audiences and actors
Photo: EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
• Advocacy within the implementer community
• Power of a unified approach
• Need for health information – potential of
conflicting messages
• Ongoing need for coordination
Lessons Learned
Ingredients for Success
• Flexibility: Built-in ability and willingness
among partners/members to adjust
coalition/alliance work quickly
• Trust: Established relationships with key
stakeholders gave FHWC and members
ability for expertise to be trusted by
policymakers
• Be Bold: Swift, bold response needed to call
attention to issues you have long been
advocating for when the issue has the
spotlight
Lessons Learned
Ingredients for utilizing existing resilient health systems partnerships
to bring attention to crisis issue
• Long-term/short-term advocacy: How to adjust advocacy for long-term
strengthening of frontline health workforce to immediacy of challenges in
emergency like Ebola epidemic while not straying from mission? Examples of
partnerships you have engaged with?
• Connecting local to global: How to connect on-the-ground realities in West Africa
to global health policy and investments?
• Ensuring attention to the issues without exploiting them: How to call attention to
critical issues without exploiting spotlight?
• Maintain interest/adjust advocacy after emergency: How to maintain interest
once emergency disappears from the headlines – focus partnerships on deeper
policy issues (i.e. GH Security)
• How to mobilize/prepare for next emergency: How to translate lessons learned for
advocacy to build resilient health systems to prepare for next emergency?
Challenges
Questions for discussion
Thank You
Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition vblaser@intrahealth.org
Laura Hoemeke, IntraHealth International lhoemeke@intrahealth.org
Joan Holloway, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Joanholloway1@gmail.com
Carolyn Moore, mPowering Frontline Health Workers
Carolyn.Moore@mpoweringhealth.org

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Adapting Strong Partnerships to Leverage Ebola’s Spotlight on Frontline Health Workers

  • 1. @FHWCOALITION | FRONTLINEHEALTHWORKERS.ORG Adapting Strong Partnerships to Leverage Ebola’s Spotlight on Frontline Health Workers
  • 3. Frontline Health Workers Coalition Backgroundandhistory • Working coalition launched in January 2012 • Mission: An alliance of United States-based organizations working together to urge greater and more strategic U.S. and global investment in frontline health workers in developing countries as a cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer and more prosperous world • Members: 36 US-based members including NGOs, trade organizations, advocacy campaigns, corporations • Secretariat: Housed at IntraHealth International’s Washington office
  • 4. Examples FHWCAnalysis &Communications We’veelevatedfocusonthefrontlinehealthworker… Fact sheets, policy analyses and reports on key issues such as centrality of frontline health workers to ending preventable maternal and child deaths Major communications efforts to communicate the impact of frontline health workers worldwide Regular communications efforts to highlight impact of frontline health workers as central to building resilient health systems
  • 5. Advocacy Accomplishments We’vecatalyzedamovementforfrontlinehealthworkers… Provided crucial Policy Analysis Advocated for USG HRH Leadership Successfully advocated for the a global effort for a robust strategy to guide global health workforce strengthening efforts from 2016-2030. Galvanized cross-agency Commitments Helped Galvanize and highlight new commitments across USG global health programs, including USAID Vision for Health Systems, PEPFAR 3.0 HRH strategy, and health workforce action package in GH Security Agenda. Urged greater Legislative Action Advocated for legislative reporting requirements for USAID and PEPFAR to report efforts to strengthen HRH in developing countries. Developed analyses, recommendations and fact sheets that have served as crucial resources for key policy questions. Strengthened Accountability Advocated for targets and indicators on health workforce in the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 6. Ebola’s spotlight on health workers & resilient health systems TIME Magazine honors health workers as their “Person of the Year” in 2014 and the Ebola epidemic highlights the critical need for global health workforce strengthening Mainstream media and prominent journalists develop strong interest in issues surrounding health systems and workforce strengthening
  • 7. FHWC’s response to Ebola Callingforresilient,sustainableworkforceinWestAfricaandworldwide FHWC-commissioned costing analysis of scaling up of health workforce in West Africa November 2014 policy recommendations for action in West Africa and globally Report calling for a common definition & reporting on community health workers Multifaceted communications efforts
  • 8. In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone: • Increase support for local health workers on frontlines of Ebola fight • Build a responsive and sustainable supply-chain management system • Ensure a sustainable frontline health workforce by supporting training programs (FHWC- Commissioned Costing Analysis showed it’s a low-cost investment with high potential returns) • Address stigma Key recommendations to US government
  • 9. Worldwide • Provide new investments to help jumpstart country efforts to strengthen capacity of their health workforces to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies • Ensure through continued robust investments in global health that Ebola doesn’t set back extraordinary progress in saving lives and preventing the spread of diseases • Provide specific targets for key health workforce targets in the Global Health Security Agenda action package on health workforce • Advocate for adoption of global strategy on human resources for health with concrete targets and financing recommendations • Create a multi-year, costed, cross-agency USG strategy for increasing access to frontline health workers in developing countries with an implementation plan Key recommendations to US government
  • 10. • Impact of Ebola on health workers and health services—strong linkages to IntraHealth International’s mission of improve the performance of (and protecting) health workers and strengthening the systems in which they work • December 2014: IntraHealth President/CEO Pape Gaye testified during Ebola-focused US Senate hearing “As this Ebola outbreak has already started to fade from the consciousness of some, one of the crucial underlying conditions that helped the virus spread remains the lack of a sustainable and resilient global health workforce.” • January/May 2015: delivered statements to the World Health Organization “help countries transition from independent emergency response units into sustainable capacity-building efforts fully integrated into ministries of health with close connections with other ministries”
  • 11. • Advocacy work informed programmatic responses; lack of information in three most-affected countries made it difficult for ministries and partners to coordinate effective responses • Worked on the ground with ministries and other partners (especially UNICEF) to develop real-time solutions based on existing technologies and platforms, including mHero: a mobile phone-based communications system that connects ministries of health staff with frontline health workers via two-way SMS text messages • mHero currently being scaled up and replicated to address both emergency and long-term needs • Ongoing work through Global Health Security Agenda to help countries become more resilient, to prepare for and respond to crises
  • 12. Member Alignment • Health workers’ need for on-demand, accurate information • Challenge of coordination among responding organizations • Potential to share resources and learning
  • 13. Shared Training Resources • Training Health Workers for Ebola webinar series • HRH Ebola Resource Center • Connecting global resources to local audiences and actors Photo: EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
  • 14. • Advocacy within the implementer community • Power of a unified approach • Need for health information – potential of conflicting messages • Ongoing need for coordination Lessons Learned
  • 15. Ingredients for Success • Flexibility: Built-in ability and willingness among partners/members to adjust coalition/alliance work quickly • Trust: Established relationships with key stakeholders gave FHWC and members ability for expertise to be trusted by policymakers • Be Bold: Swift, bold response needed to call attention to issues you have long been advocating for when the issue has the spotlight Lessons Learned Ingredients for utilizing existing resilient health systems partnerships to bring attention to crisis issue
  • 16. • Long-term/short-term advocacy: How to adjust advocacy for long-term strengthening of frontline health workforce to immediacy of challenges in emergency like Ebola epidemic while not straying from mission? Examples of partnerships you have engaged with? • Connecting local to global: How to connect on-the-ground realities in West Africa to global health policy and investments? • Ensuring attention to the issues without exploiting them: How to call attention to critical issues without exploiting spotlight? • Maintain interest/adjust advocacy after emergency: How to maintain interest once emergency disappears from the headlines – focus partnerships on deeper policy issues (i.e. GH Security) • How to mobilize/prepare for next emergency: How to translate lessons learned for advocacy to build resilient health systems to prepare for next emergency? Challenges Questions for discussion
  • 17. Thank You Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition vblaser@intrahealth.org Laura Hoemeke, IntraHealth International lhoemeke@intrahealth.org Joan Holloway, Frontline Health Workers Coalition Joanholloway1@gmail.com Carolyn Moore, mPowering Frontline Health Workers Carolyn.Moore@mpoweringhealth.org

Editor's Notes

  1. ONE Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxuoPMkbruw   Podcast https://www.facebook.com/usdos/posts/10152732505301074 (link shown to play this podcast https://soundcloud.com/statedept/fighting-ebola-being-on-the-frontline-of-the-fight)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhS43QtJhmo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_bv33Y9Vk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrOde-JYs0
  2. Joan – these are your slides – taken from our Nov. 2014 policy recs, for point three on training programs that would be a good point to talk about the costing analysis more in depth
  3. Joan – I can take the last two bullets on this slide if you like
  4. Challenge of coordination: conflicting messages, ITU report on infrastructure overload,
  5. mPowering / IntraHealth partnership with support from MDG Health Alliance with JHU/ CCP. Webinars by Tech Change. XX speakers, viewers, questions, etc
  6. Advocacy was needed not only for more funding and policy that recognized Unified message – Ebola Alert sharing information Need for coordination in training and information to give complete information and for training to be consistent ORB platform