HRH Governance: An Essential Ingredient for Enhanced Health Sector Workforces in Africa

This policy brief explores governance as critical to market performance for HRH. It highlights the importance of identifying policy levers and governance mechanisms available for governments to steer and regulate HRH markets and mitigate market distortions and failures as well as the institutional architecture and checks and balances needed to advance HRH. The brief calls for an initiative to advance Health Workforce Governance in Africa.