Oekusipost.com Dili — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Timor-Leste National Institute of Health (INS) today signed an agreement to significantly improve INS training data so health care workers can make more informed, data-driven decisions.
INS Executive Director Célia Alexandre Gusmão dos Santos joined U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Fitzpatrick and USAID Mission Director James Wright in a small ceremony to formalize a Technical Cooperation Agreement. Under the agreement, USAID’s Human Resources for Health 2030 (HRH2030) will work with INS to strengthen and develop the Timor-Leste health workforce by increasing capacity to create and use human resources health data. The goal is to teach health workers to generate, share and use high-quality data in ways that result in more strategic and data-driven health care decisions.
INS Executive Director Célia Alexandre Gusmão dos Santos joined U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Fitzpatrick and USAID Mission Director James Wright in a small ceremony to formalize a Technical Cooperation Agreement. Under the agreement, USAID’s Human Resources for Health 2030 (HRH2030) will work with INS to strengthen and develop the Timor-Leste health workforce by increasing capacity to create and use human resources health data. The goal is to teach health workers to generate, share and use high-quality data in ways that result in more strategic and data-driven health care decisions.
“This is an important step forward for health care in Timor-Leste,” said U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Fitzpatrick. “I am proud that we have been able to implement this program at a time when it is needed most. Developing healthcare workers is clearly essential for the security of the United States, Timor-Leste and the entire world.”
“ With this assistance we can work better together to improve our training data and also help improve our human resources at National Institute of Health," said INS Executive Director Célia Alexandre Gusmão dos Santos."
USAID’s HRH2030 strengthens countries’ capacities to improve recruitment, distribution, development, supervision, motivation, and retention of health workers. While applying existing quality improvement tools and modifying them to local contexts, the assistance also spans sectors to solve common human resources for health bottlenecks, such as information technology.
In Timor-Leste, USAID’s HRH2030 activity, which is implemented by Chemonics International, will support the Timor-Leste Health Sector Strategic plan. The idea is that if high-quality data are generated and shared among HRH stakeholders through a sustainable information system and if mid-level managers’ ability to use the data is increased, then better and more strategic decisions for allocating resources will result. (pr)
