The Jhpiego Difference Over the years, donors and partners have come to

rely on the “Jhpiego difference” - a standards

driven systems approach, which builds capacity

and ensures sustainability.

Jhpiego India’s Projects in HRH

Strengthening nursing midwifery education:

Striving to improve the quality of pre‐service education for nursing

midwifery cadre in public sector nursing institutions of Madhya

Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Bihar.

Pre-service education for nurse midwives:

Strengthening institutional capacity at national and state levels

(Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha), along with creating an

enabling policy environment for the nursing cadre.

Improving the leadership and management capacity of nursing

midwifery cadre and advocating for a greater role of nurse midwives

in India's public health system.

Scaling-up virtual trainings in Bihar:

Use of blended learning approach for enhancing knowledge and

clinical skills of nursing midwifery students on key components of

Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) in government ANM/GNM

schools of Bihar.

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Technical Expertise Quality

Assurance

Partnerships

Working in India since 2009

Reaching out to government nursing institutions across states

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Partners: MoHFW, GoI, State Govts., INC

4 active grants from UK govt., corporate and foundation donors

Addressing India’s Human Resource for

Health (HRH) Challenge: Global Evidence, Local Efforts

India

Strengthening Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) management

competencies of service providers in Bihar:

Use of virtual training platform for strengthening NCD management

capacity of in-service Medical Officers in two districts of Bihar.

Nurse Midwives are the Backbone of a Strong Healthcare System

What are we up against?

SHORTAGE of Human Resources for Health:

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India ranked as low as 52 of the 57 countries facing a HRH crisis

Estimated deficit of over 2 million nurses

Just 1.5 nurse midwives per doctor against the WHO norm of 3

18% posts (of staff nurses and auxiliary nurse midwives at primary and community health centers) are vacant

LESSER NUMBERof Nursing Institutions:

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EXISTING: Close to 6000 nursing midwifery institutions (public and private)

NEED: 58 new nursing colleges; 382 new nursing schools and 232 new ANM training centers to help India meet the target of 3 nurse midwives per doctor by 2025

SUB-OPTIMAL QUALITYof Nursing Institutions:

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61% nursing institutions found unsuitable for teaching

Acute shortage of teaching staff and training facilities

LIMITED AUTONOMYfor Nurses:

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Nurses in India do not meet the international definition of a Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA)

Minimal involvement in management of public health programs

Empowering

Nurse Midwives

for Saving Lives

Technical Assistance to MoHFW and states

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at scale

In-service trainings

Development of resource materials

Leveraging NHM funds for nursing

(increased 100 times in last 4 years)

Pre-Service Education strengthening

Competency Based Trainings

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Empowering nursing

tutors and service providers

Over 2500 personnel

trained in SBA guidelines

212 faculties completed

6-week training

Strengthening Nursing Institutions

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Standards based quality

improvement

10% nursing institutions

already strengthened

One-third of targeted

nursing institutions have well equipped skill labs, computer labs and libraries

Innovations

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Virtual classrooms in all

government nursing institutions of Bihar for enhanced quality of nursing education

E-learning content on Maternal

Newborn Health

Management and Leadership

(for Nursing)

· Through Nursing Cells/

Directorates in 6 states–i.e. Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar

Policy Influence

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Career progression

pathways for nurses

Enhanced clinical

autonomy for nurses

Engagement in public

health program management