Capacity building is one of the pillars of IPSI. The project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of State Health Directorates, National Health Mission unit and affiliated agencies such as State Health System Resource Centre (SHSRC), State Institute of Health and Family Welfare (SIHFW), and State Medical Colleges to build stronger primary healthcare systems.
Resources will be made available on this page for the following two courses which have been proposed for State program officers in select states.
1. Course on Implementation Research
This course aims to develop knowledge and competencies on ‘Implementation Research’ (IR) among program managers. Program managers are key stakeholders in IR cycle, right from identifying the challenges to the use of the evidence for addressing those challenges. The course aims to equip them with the skills using evidence generated through IR in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health programs. To bridge the knowledge-to-practice gap that often hinders effective implementation of health programs and delivery of health services, the course also aims to enable program managers with the skills to identify challenges in service delivery using routine data and communicating the results to policy makers in an effective way.
The course would be delivered by faculty from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and AIIMS New Delhi.
2. Strengthening essential public health functions (EPHF) and Primary Health Care (PHC)
The IPSI project supports the Government of India’s Ayushman Bharat – Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWC) initiative. This aims at health system reforms to enable AB-HWC to provide effective Comprehensive Primary Health Care. This includes building the capacity building of program managers and policy makers to bring about changes in work processes and organization of PHC services. IPSI proposes two levels of capacity building workshops aimed at:
- Policy makers at Centre and State level: A round table seminar with the objective of introducing global good practices and models in primary healthcare systems to the participants. The intention is to foster thinking on different primary health care models among policy makers and health system managers
Duration: half-day/ one day workshop - State level program officers: The training would be focused on the features of primary healthcare approach and different aspects of Comprehensive Primary Health Care such as community engagement, human resources, and financing with global and state level case studies.
At the end of the course, program officers are expected to have good understanding data generated, interpret data to improve primary health care in the state and develop a state and district specific plan for building stronger primary health care system.
This is a collaborative exercise led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and AIIMS, Delhi. Key partners are NHSRC and the International Institute for Primary Health Care, Ethiopia.