Human Resource Managers at Primary Health Care facilities in the Bono and Ashanti regions have met the Mastercard Foundation Health Collaborative.
The engagement sought to enlighten stakeholders on the activities of the Collaborative, and garner ideas for smooth execution of the project’s ideals.
The engagement also afforded them the opportunity to learn more about the Collaborative’s programme, Community Health Entrepreneurship, a 4-day short course meant to nurture them in entrepreneurship.
The managers will also play a key role in the Health Entrepreneurship pillar’s Community-based Trainer of Trainers programme.
“They’re such a critical component of our programme especially when it comes to health entrepreneurship. We have this community-based ToT programme and they will be conduits through which people can sign onto it.
“We’re aiming at getting them to be entrepreneurial and for them to see entrepreneurship as a career. We’re also keeping to the spirit of co-creation. We’ve dreamt of the programme alright but need involvement of everybody to ensure. We’re able to achieve the target,” said, Pillar lead for Health Entrepreneurship under the Collaborative, Prof. Wilberforce Owusu-Ansah
Deputy Director of Human Resources, Christian Health Association of Ghana, Ms. Gladys Amankwah commended the Collaborative for their continuous stakeholder engagement.
He however urged the collaborative to liaise with the Health Ministry to ensure proper placement of beneficiaries of the project.
“I’m happy you have engaged a lot of stakeholders. When they go for masters programmes and they return, placement becomes a problem. When they come, they want their salaries to adjust but we don’t know where to place them
“Since you speak with the ministry, try and see how graduates can be properly placed,” she appealed.
The chairperson and senior lecturer at the Department of Human Resource and Organisational Development, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr. Mrs. Felicity Asiedu-Appiah asked the managers to recruit passionate people for the training opportunities.
“Let us make sure in our recruitment process, we recruit people with the same passion we have,” she said.
