Our Framework
Learn about our approach to capacity strengthening work
Please watch the accompanying film, and view the diagram and supportive tools shared below to learn more about our approach to capacity strengthening at HSG.
Overview and Goals
Capacity Strengthening
What do we mean by Capacity Strengthening?
Strengthening the capacity of the field of researchers and practitioners engaged in health policy and systems work is an important area of focus for Health Systems Global (HSG).
The capacity for strengthening the diverse, cross-disciplinary and multifaceted field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) can be defined as, “the collective ability of individuals, groups, and networks, to successfully consolidate, synthesize, harness and apply opportunities in the pursuit of shared goal of advancing, promoting and integrating HPSR for health systems development”.
What is health policy and systems research (HPSR)?
Watch this film to gain a better understand of HPSR.
How we look to strengthening capacity?
Our framework (detailed below) highlights and encourages, a systemic approach to capacity strengthening. This recognizes and leverages synergies across individuals, organizations and networks, who are working to strengthen the capacity of our community. Each of these three levels has distinct attributes but all are interrelated, with blurred and context-specific boundaries.
We believe capacity strengthening activities should:
- Have an explicit goal
- Be guided by clear values and principles
- Focus on the intended audience and their specific skills
- Be informed by an assessments of capacity needs and assets
- Build on and unlock constrained assets across all levels.
The role of power, operating within and between the different levels, must be also be recognized when planning and implementing capacity strengthening.
Resources and information
Supporting you to understand our approach to capacity strengthen, and in developing your own approach.
Key approaches & strategies for implementation.
Evaluation of available capacity strengths and needs.
- Using Participatory Group Model Building Methods for Mapping, Modelling and Re-Designing Systems for Health
- Capture it on video! A primer on planning and producing research documentaries
- Evidence-Informed Advocacy for Health: An Approach to Ensure the Effective Adoption of Evidence-Informed Policies
- Supporting Citizen Researchers: Action-Research for Health System Change
- Using standardized patients to measure quality of care in low and middle income countries
- Using Participatory Group Model Building Methods for Mapping, Modelling and Re-Designing Systems for Health
- Understanding procurement corruption risks in the health sector
- Managing Global Health Research Collaborations
- Building capacities to address multi-sectoral challenges in health: Transforming the roles & experiences of educators & policymakers in HPSR
- Innovative approaches to analyzing power and politics in policy processes: A practical introduction to discourse analysis with a historical lens
- Health systems research methods to study medicines quality and use: spotlight on design, data and dissemination
- Incorporating a Gender and Equity Lens into Human Resources for Health Research and Interventions
- Getting Published: A Guide for Early Career Researchers
- Capture it on video! A primer on planning and producing research documentaries
- Meet the Editors 2020: Exploring conflict of interest in academic publishing of HSR
- Supporting Citizen Researchers: Action-Research for Health System Change
- Doing Political Economy Analysis for Health Systems: Challenges and Approaches to Ensure Relevance and Policy Uptake
- Equity in health research.
- Using standardized patients to measure quality of care in low and middle income countries
- Health systems research methods to study medicines quality and use: spotlight on design, data and dissemination
- Understanding procurement corruption risks in the health sector
- Systems Thinking for District Health Managers
- Building capacities to address multi-sectoral challenges in health: Transforming the roles & experiences of educators & policymakers in HPSR
- Strategies and Considerations for Implementing Digital Health Interventions in Low-Resourced Environments
- Incorporating a Gender and Equity Lens into Human Resources for Health Research and Interventions
- Using Participatory Group Model Building Methods for Mapping, Modelling and Re-Designing Systems for Health
- Evidence-Informed Advocacy for Health: An Approach to Ensure the Effective Adoption of Evidence-Informed Policies
Take action today
HSG offers a range of opportunities for members to develop their individual knowledge, skills and experience through our learning resources and support materials including:
- HSG member resources
- How to guides
- Webinars, podcasts and posts from HSG members
- Downloads and additional support materials.
