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      • arrow_forward AusAID Lowy Institute for International Policy think tank. Advancing Innovative Development and Aid strategies in the Asian –Pacific Acceleration Millennium Development Goals
      • arrow_forward Asian Development Bank (ADB) roundtable on maternal and child health
      • arrow_forward Asian development bank seminar
      • arrow_forward Asian Pacific Research Conference and WHO Western Pacific Regional Office Meetings
      • arrow_forward AusAID - JTA International Samoa Health Project -Human Resources for Health (HRH) Policy, Action Plan and Data Base User Specification Development
      • arrow_forward Australian aid ALA Fellowship Awards
      • arrow_forward Australian aid ALA Fellowships
      • arrow_forward Banda Aceh improving clinical teaching and learning in pre-service programs
      • arrow_forward Commonwealth Secretariat (Com Sec) Workshop to Develop Strategies and Systems to Manage Human Resources for Health (2007)
      • arrow_forward Credentialing of Mental Health Nurse Specialist Practice 2008
      • arrow_forward 'Development futures: Alternative pathways to end poverty' conference
      • arrow_forward Development of postgraduate diploma in emergency, high dependency and acute care nursing at the National University of Samoa
      • arrow_forward European Commission Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf)
      • arrow_forward Facilitation of Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing Network (APEDNN) meeting and capacity building workshops
      • arrow_forward First regional forum of WHO CC
      • arrow_forward Formulation of an emergency-disaster nursing curricular conceptual framework 2008-2009
      • arrow_forward Forum: The future of the Pacific matters to us
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      • arrow_forward Global Consultation on Producing and Developing an Appropriate Midwifery Workforce for Low and Middle Income Countries. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
      • arrow_forward Is Global Health in Crisis? UNSW
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      • arrow_forward Health Professional Education in the WHO Western Pacific Region
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      • arrow_forward The Impact of the 2004/05 New Zealand Nurses Employment Agreement
      • arrow_forward Improving the Quality of Disaster and Emergency Care and Patient Safety Overall
      • arrow_forward The International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne
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      • arrow_forward Invited to participate in the WHO Geneva 2007 consultation on The Contribution of Nursing and Midwifery in Emergencies and production of educational material
      • arrow_forward Launch of Hong Kong Polytechnic University WHO Collaborating Centre
      • arrow_forward Lowy Institute visiting PNG parliamentarian Dame Carol Kidu
      • arrow_forward Malaysian Ministry of Health Nurse Educators Study Tour
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      • arrow_forward Maternal and Child Health Initiative Papua New Guinea
      • arrow_forward Maternal and Reproductive Health World Bank Praxis Discussion Series
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      • arrow_forward Nurses at the Forefront: Dealing with the Unexpected ICN International Conference, Yokohama Japan, 27 May - 1 June 2007
      • arrow_forward Pacific plan review
      • arrow_forward Pacific society for reproductive health
      • arrow_forward Papua New Guinea Community Health Worker Schools Audit – AusAID
      • arrow_forward Papua New Guinea Schools of Nursing Audit – AusAID
      • arrow_forward Participation in Biennial Scientific Meeting of the Pacific Society for Reproductive Health
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      • arrow_forward Participation in Global Network Meeting Ribeirao Preto Brazil 2008
      • arrow_forward PNG Disaster & Emergency Nursing and Community Health Workers Program
      • arrow_forward Project: Improving the Quality of Disaster and Emergency Nursing Care, China Ministry of Health, Nursing Division, Department of Medical Administration 2008
      • arrow_forward Publication in Global Network of WHO CC links Magazine
      • arrow_forward Quality Improvement in Nursing and Midwifery
      • arrow_forward Regional Credentialling Program for Maternity Teachers in Samoa
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      • arrow_forward Research literacy and capacity building in low income countries
      • arrow_forward Revitalization of primary health care in Samoa
      • arrow_forward Scaling-up nursing through global nursing/midwifery faculty development
      • arrow_forward Short course in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
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      • arrow_forward South Pacific Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officer Alliance SPCNMOA
      • arrow_forward South Pacific Chief Nursing Officers Alliance (SPCNOA) Meeting, Apia Samoa, September 2006
      • arrow_forward South Pacific Chief Nursing Officers Alliance (SPCNOA) Meeting, Rarotonga Cook Islands, 2004
      • arrow_forward SPCNMOA Meeting April 2008
      • arrow_forward The Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services (SDNM)
      • arrow_forward Study and workshop Building Reproductive Health Research and Audit Capacity and Activity in the Pacific
      • arrow_forward Study tours November 2008
      • arrow_forward Synthesis of evidence on strategies applied to optimize health worker roles (task shifting/sharing) to address MDG 5 in Small Island Developing States
      • arrow_forward Technical assistance for emergency and disaster nursing, Ministry of Health Samoa
      • arrow_forward The Tenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
      • arrow_forward Understanding health labour market in the Western Pacific Region. A contract with WHO WPRO
      • arrow_forward Understanding the Pacific's adaptive capacity to emergencies in the context of climate change
      • arrow_forward UNSW Faculty of Medicine/ AusAID Human Resources for Health (HRH) Knowledge Hub
      • arrow_forward Western Pacific Region Human Resources for Health (WPR HRH) Action Framework
      • arrow_forward Western Pacific South East Asian Regions Regulatory Authorities (WP/SEAR) Meeting, New Zealand, 2006
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      • arrow_forward WHO Cambodia: Health worker incentives
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      • arrow_forward WHO Emergency and disaster nursing and community health workers - pilot training program Papua New Guinea
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      • arrow_forward WHO Global Network of Collaborating Centre's for Nursing and Midwifery Development Meeting: Resourcing Global Health
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      • arrow_forward WHO Laos: Health worker incentives
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      • arrow_forward WHO Regional Office Western Pacific Bureau Consultation on Human Resource Development in Making Pregnancy Safer, Shanghai China, 26-28 September 2006
      • arrow_forward WHO Shandong Meeting October 2008, Shandong University
      • arrow_forward WHO Western Pacific Region Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Summit 2006 Building Leadership Capacity and Disease Prevention in the Western Pacific
      • arrow_forward WHO Western Pacific Region Summit, Lessons from SARS, Sydney Australia, 2004
      • arrow_forward WHO WPR nursing and midwifery minimum data set of human resources for health indicators project
      • arrow_forward WHO WPRO Nursing Databanks
      • arrow_forward WHO/WPRO Country HRH Laos project - incentives
      • arrow_forward Women Deliver conference
      • arrow_forward World Bank Praxis Discussion Series
      • arrow_forward World Bank SWAP Review of Obstetric and Midwifery Care in Samoa
      • arrow_forward World Health Day 2009 Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies
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Proposal development

In April 2008, the SPCNMOA requested that the WHO CC FNMH at UTS develop a leadership program focused on skills development in leadership and identified priority areas. At the meeting, delegates reported they experienced challenges relating to HRH shortages, changing patterns of health care delivery relating to chronic, acute and emerging diseases related to climate change, under-developed regulation and standardised systems and lack of skills in policy development and data literacy. In April the Australian Government announced the Australian Leadership Awards and funding for Fellowships to citizens of eligible countries in the Asia-Pacific region which potentially would allow a number of these issues to be addressed. A proposal to this funding scheme from the UTS WHO CC was developed in partnership with the SPCNMOA and member countries were asked to identify suitable people for participation in the program.

The Australian Leadership Awards (ALA) is a regional program auspiced by the Australian Government and funded through Australian aid which aims to develop leadership, build partnerships and linkages within the Asia-Pacific, and address regional concerns. ALA Fellowships are for short term study, research and professional development programs in Australia delivered by Australian organisations. They are aimed at current or future leaders in the region and are based on identified regional priorities. Applications are restricted to Australian organisations demonstrating on-going linkages with counterpart organisations in eligible countries.

The WHOCC in partnership with the SPCNMOA applied for inclusion in the ALA round 4 in August 2008 following overwhelming interest from the region, 132 applications were received from 10 countries in the South Pacific. The initial application to Australian aid was for 90 applicants, Australian aid was able to provide scholarships for 30 participants for 2009 with a view that more will be funded in subsequent years should this program prove to be successful. The following countries were included in this initial program: Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Tokelau.

Program delivery

The aim of the Australian aid funded program was to strengthen regional relationships and build leadership capacity. This was achieved by working closely with the counterpart organization, The South Pacific Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers Alliance (SPCNMOA) and senior nurses and midwives in Pacific countries to develop and provide a regional skills development program. The SPCNMOA identified the following five priority areas around which the program was developed; leadership, policy development and implementation, human resources for health (HRH), regulation and data literacy for decision-making.

The program objectives were designed to increase local capacity to meet changing population and health system needs by providing tools and strategies and developing supportive nursing and midwifery networks across the region. These objectives were also met by facilitating the development and implementation of Action Plans in the priority areas which were relevant to the participating countries health development plans as they were specifically chosen by the Fellows in conjunction with their in-country mentors.

Significant achievement of these objectives was evident in the breadth and depth of collaboration and participation in the delivery of the three month leadership program, which included:

  • the counterpart organization (SPCNMOA)
  • the 30 Fellows from 10 Pacific countries,
  • their in-country mentors,
  • UTS WHO CC and UTS Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health staff and, external experts who contributed to the program.

For Fellows, the development of leadership capacity was reported as greater awareness of health system and nursing and midwifery issues, new knowledge and skills in the five priority areas, establishment and participation in new networks and exposure to new and relevant resources.

Outcomes initiated by Fellows that have the potential to generate real changes in practice included:

  • introduction of leadership mentoring schemes,
  • revision of membership of key health system committee (infection control) to include Fellows and other new members from important stakeholder areas (such as a pharmacist and operating theatre staff),
  • development of professional standards and;
  • instigation of a range of actions to improve the education and training for clinical nurses and midwives as well as their supervisors and managers.

Feedback from mentors who were members of the SPCNMOA, described how on return home after the study days, Fellows were enthusiastic and effective in reporting to senior in-country stakeholders and other colleagues about the program experience and their Action Plan. These reports also described their new knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation. Action Plan implementation has focused in the short term on instigation of a communication and reporting strategy with some outputs produced in the forms of survey tools, ministerial briefings and funding applications.

New leadership relationships have been formed at country and regional levels through this program. Strategies to maintain contact with in-country Fellows and mentors have been outlined and all have agreed to a plan for ongoing contact by the SPCNMOA and UTS WHO CC through to early next year (2010) where a further report will be produced on the progress of Action Plan implementation and levels of network activity.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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