Human resources development

The Ministry of Health and Population has recruited Conseil Santé to act as Contracting and Verification Agency (CVA) in health regions 4 and 5, in order to provide verification, coaching and capacity building services related to the tasks required by the performance-based financing (PBF) approach.
The general objective of the CVA’s mission is to help with the implementation of PBF in regions 4 and 5 (5 health districts) in compliance with the national PBF manual.

In the framework of the initial training component of the Health Human Resource Development Support Project (PADRHS), Conseil Santé was mandated by the University of Montreal to help develop a paramedical training offer that meets Congo's health human resource needs. This assignment resulted in: (1) the formulation of recommendations of priority areas for paramedical training taking into account the range of paramedical occupations: (2) the identification of training programmes that could be completed at the level of the paramedical schools and of capacities to be developed in the paramedical schools to meet these needs.

This cascade training project is part of the Health Sector Support Programme (PASS II).
Training of trainers and of health professionals, in collaboration with health technician training schools and continuous training centres.
The project covers the 5 provinces covered by the PASS II (Benguela, Bié, Huambo, Huila and Luanda).
Training on:
1) Integrated Management of Mothers and Newborns (IMMN) with a focus on emergency obstetrical and neonatal care;
2) Integrated child health attention with a focus on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), including control of the growth and development of children.

The objective of this study is to examine the liberalization of health worker training by national private bodies in a formal framework, taking into account the harmonisation of training curricula advocated by the West African Health Organisation (WAHO), and to propose a structured model for a health worker training school. More specifically, it involves:
1) Inventorying the main private bodies proposing health worker training;
2) Assessing the quality of the trainers working in these bodies and of the training provided;
3) Analysing the current training framework of public training bodies in relation with the requirements of the bachelor-master-doctorate (LMD) system;
4) Making comparative proposals for training curricula in the private training bodies in the context of harmonising practices;
5) Proposing a structured model for a health worker training school.