Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter
Enabling sustainable health workforce investments for universal health coverage and health security for the Africa we want
Overview
This ground-breaking Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter sets out a clear vision to reduce and eliminate Africa's 6.1 million workforce gap and improve the health, economic, and social outcomes for communities everywhere.
Solving Africa’s health workforce challenges needs strong cross-sectoral collaboration, political and technical leadership, innovation, and country led partnership, as the basis to create evidence-based policy decisions, and secure better investments for the health workforce.
The Investment Charter contains a set of core principles aimed at aligning and stimulating sustainable long-term investments to increase health workforce education, employment, and retention across the region, and reduce inequalities in access to health workers, especially in rural and underserved areas. It enables countries to mobilise and secure the domestic and external funding that is needed to address the root causes of critical health workforce challenges. The Investment Charter is intended as an instrument that can align all partners and stakeholders around a common cross-sectoral health workforce investment agenda.
