Overview > The ELMA Foundation > Health Workforce
Focus Area:
Health Workforce
We succeed when countries have health workforces that transform maternal, newborn, and child health.
Current Investments
Project support to continue institutionalizing community health promoters by strengthening financing, leadership and governance, policy, and coordination for an integrated and sustainable community health system
Project support to train 18 pediatric sub-specialists and upgrade 36 nurse-midwives to improve quality and distribution of the specialized pediatric workforce in the public sector
Project support to strengthen capacity of two training institutions to deliver competency based education and increase the number of faculty, in order to increase production of nurse anesthetists and improve the quality of anesthesia care
Project support to expand Uganda’s Pediatric Hematology Oncology (PHO) specialty training for 22 new PHO fellows and 26 specialty nurses
Project support to secure financial resources and support the Government of Rwanda and national institutions to implement the National Strategy for Health Professions Development (2020-2030)
Project support to enable national and county-level planning and coordination of pediatric training for nurses and subspecialists, and to strengthen the capacity of the Kenya Paediatric Association as a regional resource for the pediatric workforce
Project support to assist the Ministries of Health and Finance in developing investment cases and securing funding for building the health workforce
General support for an organization that works with governments, donors, and the private sector to address financing challenges to scaling and sustaining primary and community health programs
Project support to train 111 pediatric (oncology, general pediatric, and critical care) nurses for the public sector, and to launch a pediatric oncology nursing fellowship program
Project support to expand the training of neonatal nurses through scholarships for 80 trainees in underserved counties
Project support for strategic leadership and coordination of the Kenya Paediatric Fellowship Program and establishment of the East Central and Southern Africa College of Paediatrics and Child Health
General support to an organization that supports the scale-up of digitally empowered community health workers
General support to an organization focused on compensating and supporting digitally enabled community health workers and strengthening community health systems to improve healthcare for mothers and children
Project support to scale a medical simulation pre-service training program in eight medical and nurse training institutions, and to improve newborn survival through facility-based training and deployment of appropriate medical technology
Project support to train 13 pediatric subspecialists and 32 pediatric oncology nurses for the public sector, and to launch three new fellowship programs in pediatric neurology, critical care, and oncology nursing
Project support to expand delivery of competency‐based nursing/midwifery education, and increase production of enrolled nurses, midwives, and anesthetic officers in Karamoja and Lango regions
Project support for equipment and infrastructure to strengthen pediatric workforce training, as part of the Government of Rwanda’s “National Strategy for Health Professions Development 2020-2030”
Project support to institutionalize competency-based clinical education to improve the quality of emergency care and maternal, newborn, and child health pre-service training, and to launch new postgraduate programs in midwifery and emergency care
Project support to provide technical assistance to finalize, disseminate, and pilot implementation of the National Community Health Strategy in three districts
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support to train 21 pediatric sub-specialists for the public sector, and to launch three new pediatric subspecialty training programs in gastroenterology, hematology-oncology, and pulmonology
Project support for the implementation of the Government of Rwanda’s “National Strategy for Health Professions Development 2020-2030” by establishing the faculty, equipment, and infrastructure needed to build and sustain training for the pediatric workforce
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support for the scholarships of 16 pediatricians to be trained and deployed to central and provincial hospitals, serving 6.7 million children
Project support to scale-up a regional pediatric anesthesia training network across five African countries, with the goal of graduating 38 new pediatric anesthesiologists and training over 500 non-physician anesthesia providers in pediatric anesthesia