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The past year marked significant efforts by the Health Systems 20/20’s Workforce Planning activity team to finalize the Workforce Planning Tool (WPT). The WPT is an Access-based application developed to assist Egypt’s Ministry of Health (MOH) to estimate health facilities’ staffing gaps.

Read about project activities in Year 2 to increase the use of priority population, health, and nutrition services, especially by the disadvantaged through improvements in health financing, governance, operations, and capacity building.

USAID asked its three major health system strengthening projects (PHRplus/Health Systems 20/20; RPM Plus; and the Quality Assurance Project) to develop a rapid but comprehensive approach to assessing health systems by drawing from their experiences working on different, but complementary components of health systems. The result of this effort is an indicator-based, modular assessment tool—Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-to Manual. This seminar covered the contents of the manual, the circuitous path to its development, and a range of applications in Angola, Azerbaijan, Benin, Ghana, Malawi, Pakistan, and Yemen.

USAID’s Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition (HIDN) requested the development of a Health Systems Assessment Approach as part of its global Mainstreaming Health Systems Strengthening Initiative. The Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual was developed by Health Systems 20/20, Partners for Health Reformplus (PHRplus), Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus), and the Quality Assurance Project (QAP).It is designed to provide a rapid yet comprehensive assessment of a country's health system.