Table 3 Existence of published documents relating to monitoring and evaluation of global health activities generally, and health workforce assessments specifically

Publicly available policy/ strategy/ position statement which guides evaluation of global health investments

EIB [50,51,52]; Gavi [53]; Global Fund [54, 55]; World Bank [56]

UNFPA [57, 58]; UNICEF [59]; WHO [60]

Australia [61]; BMGF [62]; Germany [63, 64]; Japan [65], Norway [66]; UK [67], USA [68, 69]

Publicly available monitoring and evaluation framework which includes compulsory HRH indicators

–

UNFPA [70]

–

Publicly available monitoring and evaluation framework which includes optional HRH indicators

EIB [52]; Gavi [71, 72]; GFF [73]; Global Fund [55]

UNICEF [41]

–

Public recognition that health workforce impact assessments could be appropriate/helpful

Gavi [74]; Global Fund [46]; World Bank [75]

WHO [76]

–

Publicly available policy to conduct health workforce impact assessments for certain types of activity

–

WHO [7, 10]

–

Publicly available guidance and/or tools about how to conduct health workforce impact assessments

Global Fund [46]

WHO [49, 77, 78]

USA [79, 80]