Summary HRH

The ability to generate data for workforce supply and deployment is key for any countries HRH planning and decision making. To achieve this Palladium partnered with Emory university under the Kenya Health workforce project in developing and implementing a family of human resource information systems, similar in design, for health professionals, including nurses, physicians, dentists, laboratory technicians and technologists, and clinical officers. The goal was to establish electronic health workforce information systems that provide accurate and real-time data for policy, health program planning, and management of Kenya’s human resources for health (HRH).

The basic components of the regulatory Human Resource Information System (rHRIS) include databases for the supply of cadres of health workers and the deployment of those workers. The supply side data is collected and maintained by the various professional regulatory boards which are responsible for certifying and licensing each healthcare professional trained in or migrating to Kenya. The deployment data is collected and maintained by the Ministry of Health which requires quarterly staffing reports from MOH facilities and request data from private and faith-based employers. The supply data collection system is centralized in one location at the professional regulatory boards, located in Nairobi for each health cadre; while the MOH data is decentralized to each county and collected from each health facility in the county. The following diagram illustrates the overall system.