20 November 2012, Luanda, Angola : The 62nd Session of the WHO Regional Committee unanimously adopted the Road Map for scaling up the human resources for health to improve health service delivery in Africa. The Regional Committee is a WHO Governing Body for the African Region, composed of Ministers of Health of the 46 Member States.

The Regional Road map proposes strategies and actions to overcome the health workforce challenges in Africa. The Road map proposed strategies and actions in six areas:

1. Strengthening health workforce leadership and governance capacity;
2. Establishing or Strengthening HRH regulatory capacity;
3. Scaling up education and training of health workers with appropriate skills mix;
4. Optimizing the utilization, retention and performance of the active health workforce;
5. Improving health workforce information and generation of evidence for decision making
6. Strengthening health workforce dialogue and partnership.

36 countries in the African Region have a health human resources crisis and 10 of these face critical shortages. This acute shortage of skilled health works means that most countries are unable to avail appropriately skilled health workers in the right quantity where they are needed.

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