Coalition currently being “dormant”
Please note that the Health Workers for All Coalition is currently (2024) not active, for lack of core funding and capacity at the (former) core team members.
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The recording of our Civil Society Briefing on how and why civil society can contribute to the 4th round of reporting on progress of the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel is now live.
The 4th round of reporting on implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel is currently ongoing. Countries but also civil society and other independent stakeholders are invited to share reports on progress of Code implementation.
On this World Health Day, 7 April 2021, the Health Workers for All Coalition (HW4All) releases its political declaration and invites civil society partners to endorse this statement:
“Worldwide, the crisis in global health is rooted in the unequal distribution of and unequal access to skilled health and care workers. As recent pandemics have clearly and brutally shown, health workers themselves are one of the most neglected elements of dismantled and underfinanced public health systems, in virtually every country.”
The Health Workers for All Coalition (HW4All) strives for a strong, connected, global civil society movement that is able to lead advocacy and realize policy and investment commitments for the health workforce. We herewith relaunch the HW4All Coalition as a lively and democratic civil society community of independent, critical-thinking activists and organizations across Southern and Northern boundaries.
The Health Workers for All Coalition is rooted in the contributions and co-leadership of its members. The bulk of the work is done in thematic work streams and task groups convened and led by dedicated members and reaching out to others interested to engage.
Reflections on the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
This week, the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) is convening virtually to deliberate on core global health related challenges facing its Member States. Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, a key challenge is the global shortage of health workers and how to properly and ethically manage the international recruitment of health personnel without negative impact on the countries with critical shortages.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown evidence to the urgent need for better investments in public health care and in the health workforce in all countries. Public Services International (PSI) brings 8 key messages on the Relevance and Effectiveness of the WHO Code of Practice on the Ethical International Recruitment of Health Professionals in the context of COVID-19.
Here is a subject dear to my heart and critical for achieving global health equity.
“Health Workers for All and All for Health Workers” was the slogan of First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, March 2008, Kampala, Uganda.
The coronavirus outbreak, finally declared on March 11 as a pandemic, has upended our personal and professional lives, wreaked havoc on the global economy, and continues to claim lives. It has exposed the weakness of our health systems and its inherent limitation given current financing policies and misplaced priorities.
In the first instalment of our new series “Member Spotlight” we highlight the work of Denis Bukenya from the Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) and People's Health Movement and member of the Health Workers for All Coalition Steering Committee.
An urgent request is out today from 137 civil society organisations to major global health funders to invest in recruitment of health workers in resource limited contexts. The organisations ask commitments and contributions to pooled, adequate long-term investments in the health workforce for the short term COVID-19 response, ensuring continued access to primary care but also future health system resilience.
