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National HIV & AIDS Strategic Plan (2015-2020)

This national strategic plan focuses on preventing new HIV infections in Liberia in order to maintain a low HIV prevalence in the next six years. The plan aims to reduce new HIV infections by 50% by 2020; intensify the provision of quality and accessible HIV prevention information and services for key populations; and also accelerate actions to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2020, including placing positive mothers on lifelong antiretroviral therapy (Option B+) as the preferred regime of treatment for HIV positive pregnant women.

The Government of Liberia remains committed to the international obligations as enshrined in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV, the Universal Access and UNAIDS Three Zeros: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero new AIDS related deaths.

Liberia Community Health Road Map

This Community Health Road Map document provides guidance to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to coordinate and activate the existing community health structures and support systems at all levels, as well as accelerate the implementation of a standardized package of community health services. It aims to improve the health and social welfare status of the population of Liberia on an equitable basis at the community level, with the vision of having a healthy population with social protection for all.

National Multisectoral Strategic Plan for Family Planning (2014-2020)

The National Multisectoral Strategic Plan for Family Planning (2014-2020) aims to ensure a sustained increase in modern contraceptive use by Congolese women and men who wish to use contraception, progressively decrease the use of less efficient traditional methods, and respond to the currently high unmet need for family planning. It provides a multisectoral approach with cooperative efforts from several ministries and donors, national and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and faith-based organizations (FBOs). These efforts are coordinated by the National Program for Reproductive Health (PNSR), the structure mandated by the Ministry of Public Health to promote and coordinate activities related to reproductive health.

Accreditation - Transforming and scaling up health professionals' education and training

World Health Organization Guidelines on Transforming and scaling up health professionals' education and training: Recommendation -- National governments should introduce accreditation of health professional education where it does not exist and strengthen it where it does exist. Accreditation, if properly used, is a key tool for quality management of professional education and for ensuring that graduates have the competencies that correspond to accepted professional standards and to the needs of the population. The alignment of accreditation with health goals is one of the four enabling actions that contribute to scaling up the education of health professionals. Accreditation is particularly important at a time when private health professional education is proliferating, often in an unregulated environment.

Transforming and Scaling up Health Professionals’ Education and Training: WHO Education Guidelines

These guidelines call for new approaches in health professionals’ education. Approaches are needed that transform systems and encourage the move away from the traditional focus on tertiary care hospitals to initiatives that foster community engagement. The guidelines recommendations support and advocate for implementation considerations in efforts to involve communities and countries collectively for this transformational change in health professionals’ education. It is the intent of the Guidelines to encourage educational and training institutions to foster and enhance the relational activity and the interaction and planning between education, health and other sectors.

Everyday Leadership: Tools for Teaching Leadership & Management

Developed by the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), the Everyday Leadership website is an online repository of materials developed as part of I-TECH's Everyday Leadership Project and includes more than 130 curricular materials, 370 short video teaching clips, 21 longer video profiles in leadership, and 21 case studies developed by I-TECH to strengthen global health leadership and management practices. Training topics include:

• Leadership
• Management
• Supervision
• Communication
• Policy & Advocacy
• Organizational Development
• Financial Management

Resource Mobilization in Civil Society Organizations

Country ownership, organizational sustainability and graduation from donor support are worthy goals of any civil society organization (CSO). Each of these goals are centered around an organization’s ability to mobilize resources to serve its clients sustainably while remaining mission driven in the face of market and donor shifts. Resource mobilization and sound financial management are essential in any CSO. CSOs in many countries list strengthening their resource mobilization capacity as one of their top organizational priorities, along with financial management, planning systems, governance, human resources and monitoring and evaluation. This technical note describes resource mobilization which includes all activities undertaken by an organization to secure new and additional financial, human and material resources to advance its mission. 

National Health and Social Welfare Policy and Plan (2011-2021)

To achieve Liberia’s vision of becoming a middle-income country, the goal of this policy is to improve the health and social welfare status of the population of Liberia on an equitable basis. Sustained leadership, stakeholder commitment, resources and effort are needed to achieve this. The underlying principle to this policy is that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and access to quality health and social welfare services is a precondition for individual and societal development. The guiding principles to this policy are that health is a universal human right, equity, quality, efficiency, sustainability, and accountability.

National Health and Social Welfare Financing Policy and Plan (2011-2021)

The overarching goal of this financing policy is to ensure that the health and social welfare services provided to the people of Liberia are affordable to the country while preventing catastrophic household expenditures. Sustained leadership, stakeholder commitment, resources and effort are needed to achieve this goal by accomplishing the following five objectives: (1) Increasing the mo­bilization and predictability of adequate, sustainable financial resources for health and social wel­fare; (2) improving the planning, budgeting and accounting for equitable resource allocations; (3) increasing the efficiency of resource utilization; (4) increasing systemic efficiency and equity through a harmonized provider payment mechanism; and (5) strengthening the financial evidence base for management and policy decision-making.

National Human Resources Policy and Plan for Health and Social Welfare (2011-2021)

The goal of this policy and plan is to efficiently staff and effectively manage the network of facilities in Liberia with the right mix of qualified workers in order to provide services according to the people's needs and according to the highest professional and ethical standards. The principles guiding this human resources policy and plan are equity, efficiency, quality, sustainability, decentralization, and partnership.