The self-evaluation “Toolkit on Health Workforce Planning” is a practical collection of tools addressing major topics in health workforce planning, adaptable for different country environments and facilitating the implementation of minimal steps to enable improvement. It helps understanding the current state and existing weaknesses of HWF planning, directs attention to possible points of improvement, such as monitoring your health workforce planning environment and formulate appropriate questions and develop a plan for implementation. The toolkit provides support through the identification of process bottlenecks, key components of planning and the stakeholders to be involved.