News & Updates

Our two technical briefs, Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions and Data Quality Considerations in Human Resource Information System Strengthening, are now available in Spanish-language versions, as well as French and English. All technical briefs can be downloaded from the Publications page on the Capacity Project's website.

We developed our iHRIS Suite of human resources information systems for use by Ministries of Health and other public health organizations in low-resource countries. Currently, the software is only available in English. In order for our software to reach as many users as possible, we have a great need for it to be translated into other languages, particularly French, Spanish, Swahili, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese.We are calling on volunteers...

We are pleased to announce the release of minor updates to all three components in the iHRIS Suite.iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 3.1.4 incorporate some minor bug fixes. The full iHRIS Suite or any component may be downloaded from our Software Download web page. Please read the README file and installation instructions before downloading.You may access a live, working demo of each of the systems via our website as well. To get started, visit the...

We have found that as countries adopt HRIS like iHRIS Manage, their questions and needs grow with the availability of data. In addition to knowing the position and salary structure, for example, they now wish to know what in-service trainings employees require and what trainings employees have attended. What competencies have employees attained as a result of these trainings? What are the greatest gaps in skills, and how can effective training...

To better reflect its functionality, we have renamed the Windows version of the iHRIS Suite from "Offline iHRIS" to "Windows iHRIS."Although originally developed to be used in locations with limited or no Internet connectivity, Windows iHRIS can now be accessed via a local network or the Internet. Therefore, it is not strictly an "offline" application.In conjunction with the release today of iHRIS Suite 3.1.3, we have also released a minor update...

We are pleased to announce the release of minor updates to all three components in the iHRIS Suite. iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 3.1.3 incorporate several bug fixes, and we have improved translation support to better enable the software interface to be translated into multiple languages using Launchpad's translations feature. iHRIS Manage also has one new feature: the job application is now a module that can be turned on and off. The full iHRIS...

Pape Gaye, IntraHealth’s president and CEO, discussed the challenges of building sub-Saharan Africa’s capacity in health care and information communication technology (ICT) at the Public Health Informatics conference in Seattle, Washington, on September 19. Gaye spoke as part of the plenary session “Decision Support for Public Health and Policy Development: Building Capacity and Sustainability.”Gaye explained how IntraHealth’s Human Resources...

In September, Dr. Pamela McQuide, a member of the HRIS Strengthening team, participated in the East, Central and Southern Africa Directors’ Joint Consultative Committee Meeting to share the use and results of human resources information systems (HRIS) in the region. She emphasized the need for accurate and timely data to make informed decisions about the health sector. Delegates from Swaziland and Uganda publicly lauded the Capacity Project’s...

One of the important decisions we had to make when designing our iHRIS Plan workforce modeling software was which HRH projection model to use as the foundation for the software. We even held a workshop with workforce planning experts from all over the world to discuss this critical issue.The purpose of workforce planning is to determine the most appropriate balance among the mix, distribution and number of health workers. A new technical brief by...

Dykki Settle, the Capacity Project’s Informatics Director, and Barbara Stillwell, the Project’s HR Policy and Planning Advisor, published an article in the September 10-16 issue of Nursing Standard, a British nursing journal. The article, “Capacity for Progress,” gives examples of how the Capacity Project is using information technology (IT) in Africa and discusses how the resulting systems can be used to support planning and management of the...