Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, 25-29 January 2011, Bangkok, Thailand: Submission for Awards for Excellence and Special Recognition Awards

The principal theme of the Forum is - Reviewing progress, renewing commitments to health workers towards MDGs and beyond. Building on this theme, the planned plenary sessions are:
Marking progress, forging solutions
Leadership, governance and coordination for universal access to supported health workers
Innovations in HRH that support strengthening of Health Systems

Submissions for Awards for Excellence: Case stories should be no longer than 2,000 words - preferably, in a narrative nature, story telling, rather than a technical style. There is no specific format requirement for the case stories. A short video of no more than 10 minutes may be included in the proposal. Case stories can be submitted by countries, organizations or development partners.

Submissions for Special Recognition awards: Countries, development and Alliance partners are encouraged to propose two outstanding candidates per contry, one from each category. The proposal should provide details of the candidates’ profiles and outstanding achievements as well as the transparent and participatory processes and mechanisms involved in selecting these two candidates. The length of the proposal should be no more than 2,000 words. A video of not more than 10 minutes may be attached to the proposal. (Countries may also create a country special recognition award to these two candidates, so that they are first recognized at the country level).

All submissions must be made electronically to global-forum@who.int. Submissions will be accepted from 1 June to 30 September, 2010. The awarding ceremony will be held at the closing session of the Forum.

For more information: http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/forum/2011/en/index.html

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