Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Details for Mechanism ID: 13923
Country/Region: South Africa
Year: 2012
Main Partner: Columbia University
Main Partner Program: International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs
Organizational Type: University
Funding Agency: HHS/HRSA
Total Funding: $1,162,707

The shortage of health professionals especially nurses, along with increased demand for health care as a result of TB/HIV, places severe limitations on South Africas ability to deliver effective services. Nursing Tutors lack appropriate knowledge and skills. The Nursing Capacity Building Program (NCBP), a multi country program, consists of two types of sub-projects: (a) general pre-service and/or in-service nursing training and capacity building has a special focus on HIV/AIDS, addresses a range of nursing issues, and has flexibility in addressing multi-sectoral, national, and local nursing issues and (b) the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) - focuses on improving the quality and quantity of nurse and midwifery graduates through the strengthening of nursing/midwifery educational institutions. The NCBP helps build individual country level programs and collaborates with Nurses Councils and Associations to provide enhanced technical expertise and networking support for governments to develop expanded scopes of practice and increased nursing leadership. The goals of the program are identifying the needs of nursing education institutions, so that they can adequately train graduating nurses for clinical work, and improving the pre-service training. NCBP will work closely with the DOH in identified provinces in the country as well as with nurse educational institutions (NEI) to build on the Campus to Clinic Mentorship Program (CTCM) developed by the ICAP Nurse Capacity Initiative (INCI) and to improve the production, quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address essential population-based health care needs, including HIV and other life threatening conditions.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $1,162,707

The continuing shortage of health professionals especially nurses, along with increased demand for health care as a result of TB/HIV, places severe limitations on South Africas ability to deliver effective services. Nursing Tutors who teach TB/HIV interventions in the nursing schools, lack appropriate knowledge and skills, and continues to contribute little to the training of nursing students in the area of TB/HIV.The goals of the NCBP program in South Africa is identifying the needs of nursing education institutions, so that they can adequately train graduating nurses for clinical work and improving the pre-service and in-service training. The NCBP in South Africa helps build programs aimed at:Identifying gaps in current pre-service and in-service nursing knowledge, clinical skills, system skills;Building nursing school faculty competency;Equipping nursing faculty with comprehensive HIV and TB training and confidence to teach these skills to nursing students; andProvide nursing students with a comprehensive pre-service teaching before entering practice.NCBP/SA will also collaborate with the South African Nursing Council and Associations to provide enhanced technical expertise and networking support for the South Africa government to develop expanded scopes of practice and increased nursing leadership in the country.

NCBP/SA will work closely with identified provincial Departments of Health as well as nurse educational institutions (NEI) in the provinces to expand on the Campus to Clinic Mentorship Program (CTCM) that was developed by INCI during 2009 and 2010, and to improve the production, quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address essential population-based health care needs, including HIV and other life threatening conditions, in low resource settings. Advisory Committees will be formed with heads of the relevant departments of health and senior representatives from each NEI. The program will employ full time staff that will be supervised by a senior nursing advisor. The program uses a case study approach covering knowledge, skills and systems thinking.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $1,162,707
Human Resources for Health $1,162,707