Health Governance Leadership Workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to assess the relevance, importance, and character of leadership in health providers. The workshop will explore the role of leadership in health institutions, including historical and contemporary case studies and the different methodologies and conceptual approaches used to understand leadership. The ultimate objective of the workshop is to build competence around leadership and governance in health institutions.

Governance is a central element linking and guiding the other health system building blocks including financing and health workforce. Good governance requires some level of accountability to the beneficiaries and the broader public; a policy process that engages and allows negotiation among stakeholders; sufficient state capacity, power and legitimacy to manage policymaking and implementation processes effectively; and engagement by non-state actors in policy processes, service delivery partnerships and in oversight and accountability.

A key challenge of governance is the difficulty of disentangling the effects of changes in governance and accountability from those of parallel changes occurring in the health system; there is also potential for opposition to the research. As one strategy to address these challenges, we will work within Learning Sites located at sub-national level to: i) conduct action learning to support local managers in taking action on issues prioritized by them and of relevance to their organisation; and ii) to investigate critical governance issues in real time, as health system policies are implemented.

Course Content

Leadership in other areas of global governance: what can we learn?

 ‘Global Leadership, Organic Crisis and Healthcare Institutions
• ‘Blind leaders: on the politics of leverage
• Leadership in the governance of Health Institutions.

• Financial Governance in healthcare sector
• Risk Management and Leadership
• Management Process and Talent development in Health Governance'

Take Home

1. Participants will understand the key concepts of governance, leadership, projects and proposals; funding and reporting; financial analysis and reporting; budgeting and variances; accounting basics, policies and procedures; accountability, etc.
2. Participants will apply their knowledge to scenarios with a view to improving health services management activities.

The workshop objectives will help participants to develop new knowledge and skills so that they will enhance their capacity to plan and manage their portfolios.

For Whom:

Medical Directors, Healthcare Administrators and Directors and Senior Health Specialist and practitioners, Directors of the Health Boards in Private, Public and Institutions of Higher Learning.