Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Details for Mechanism ID: 16981
Country/Region: South Africa
Year: 2013
Main Partner: Africa Health Placements
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $641,936

The goal of American Health Placements (AHP) is improved access to quality healthcare for people living in rural and under-served areas of South African through the South African government's public healthcare system and its HIV, TB and primary healthcare treatment programs. Objectives include: (a) Improve access to health workers for people living in under-served rural aead of South Africa, (b) Improve the orientation, rentention and efficacy of rural doctors - those placed by AHP and their colleagues, and (c) Inform human resources in health policy, improve systems and enable rural South Africa to compete more effectively for scarce and mobile health workers. AHP is responsible for maintaining the existing foreign recruitment program in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, North West Province and Limpopo Provinces with expansion of the existing foriegn recruitment program into Mpumalanga and Free State Provinces. AHP has developed a unique and proven model that is structured to promote the recruitment and retention of foreign skills from developed nations in a manner which attracts and retains local skills and builds sustainable hospital capacity. This model which is already delivering sustainable change in public healthcare facilities, combining long term thinking with short term pragmatism and involves the development of working partnerships between national governements, regulatory agencies, civil society and medical training institutions to ensure that the systems and process that support human resources in health are efficient and effective.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $641,936

AHP is responsible for (1) maintaining the existing foreign recruitment program in Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, North West Province and Limpopo, (2) expanding the existing foreign recruitment program into Mpumalanga and the Free State, (3) developing the orientation component of the foreign recruitment function into a comphrehensive program that is aligned with the Department of Health (DOH) priorities and recources and builds government capacity, and (4) extracing AHP's in-house experience and knowledge on best practice models and human resource staffing and retention, and communicating these so as to inform policy and improve current systems.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $74,239
Human Resources for Health $74,239