HSTP partnered with the Government of Odisha and Institutions like AIIMS Bhubaneswar, KIIT School of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, and the Pharmacy Wing, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, and School of Nursing, SIST Tamil Nadu. HSTP also collaborated with the various professional bodies to Identify, Assess and build competencies of Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Lab Technicians in Primary Health Care. Competency building is a three-stage process A. Competency Assessment Framework (CAF) Development; B. Intervention (Competency-based Training) and C. Competency-based training Scale up.

Competency Assessment has been completed for Pharmacists and Medical Laboratory Technologists in primary health care and the training process has been initiated. The assessment phase for Nurses and CHOs is going on and the work for doctors is ready to start.