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Health worker retention is critical to ensure better access to health services. There are many ways health workers can be motivated to accept posts and remain in underserved areas. In order to help make decisions about which retention strategies to pursue, and to advocate for funding support, you will need to know how much they will cost.

To respond to this need CapacityPlus, the USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and the World Health Organization (WHO) joined together to develop this retention intervention costing tool. The tool, based on the 2010 WHO global policy recommendations for rural retention, will allow you to determine the costs of different combinations of interventions across various cadres of the health workforce at a national, regional, or district level. Stakeholders can use the costing results to determine the economic feasibility of different retention intervention scenarios.

You do not need to be a health economist to use this tool; it will guide you through the costing process step by step.

Please click on the appropriate link below to get started.