HRH in Africa: Problems Which Affect Their HRIS
With the recent growth of organisations employing HRIS technology into their organisations to manage their day-to-day as well as long term HR functions, and how these systems are used in various parts of the world are different, depending on the conditions of the country. In continents such as Africa where disease is commonplace, the dwindling nature of the health workforce is made worse by its health workforce crisis. It can be deduced that drastic improvement to the human resources for health (HRH) was required to resolve this crisis. Some of the HRH information systems in African countries are not adequately able to support the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of those actions. The entire system gathers information from different sources such as health facilities, regulatory bodies, health training institutions, censuses conducted and all sources of data are widely variable to be able to compile in terms of completeness, timeliness and comparability. The other key problems which affect the functional running of an HRIS are:
