HSCL conducted research to gather evidence regarding the recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention of frontline health workers. The project aimed to establish a cost-effective, well-trained, and motivated health workforce, particularly in the rural and remote areas of the targeted states as well as support monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities in the states of Ebonyi and Bauchi. HSCL recruited, embedded, and managed MEL Specialists in Bauchi and Ebonyi State. The state specialist supported HRH-related research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities in the State.
Project Goal
To identify factors affecting frontline health worker recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention in two focus States, especially in remote and rural areas of the two States. The study also aims to identify and prioritize evidence-based strategies to improve frontline health worker recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention.
Objectives
- Assess the HRH situation in both states: FLHW quantity, recruitment, deployment, and retention.
- Identify the push and pull factors affecting recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention
- Identify and examine contextual factors that enable or constrain the adoption and implementation of existing national policies and strategies for HRH planning and management by state and local governments.
- Make recommendations for improved HRH recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention mechanisms for frontline healthcare workers in both states.
Related Activities
- Developed a workplan, recruitment report, research protocol, and data collection tools.
- Convened stakeholder engagement
- Conducted HRH situational analysis (SITAN).
- Recruited and trained research support staff (research assistants/interviewers).
- Conducted research to identify the factors influencing FLHWs' recruitment, deployment, attraction, and retention, particularly in remote and rural areas
- Developed state-specific research reports and policy briefs
- Presented, validated, and disseminated research findings and policy briefs.
- Provided HRH and MEL support in the HWM focus State