Donors and Partners
The AHP model
PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH WORKER STAFFING FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
Our aim is to fill present staffing gaps in the heathcare system, whilst working toward a more sustainably staffed future – ultimately helping people to view the public sector in a new light – as truly viable and exciting career options. We can place over 20 foreign-qualified doctors at the cost of training just a single doctor. This acts as an excellent immediate stop-gap, with beneficial repercussions for retention and training of local health workers currently in the system. We are also using our monitoring and evaluation capabilities to identify the factors that are driving the brain drain, in order to inform effective strategysetting and advocacy for improved future staff retention.
We work with a network of partners, including governments, the private sector and civil society in order to make this happen, using a model that we like to call “social profit”. The bulk of our services are donor funded and delivered free of charge:
- We help local health facilities with the recruitment functions for which they lack the resources at no cost.
- We help candidates to find positions and to manage the bureaucracy around these placements within the public health sector at no cost.
- We can act as an effective manager of investments in human resources in health projects in the public health system.
However, we are also partially self-sustaining, through a professional locum placement service, which we offer at competitive rates, reinvesting all revenues into improving the health system. Our locum service has become the preferred choice amongst candidates, because we guarantee payment within one week.
