AfricaFirst Healthcare Staffing Initiative

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AfricaFirst Healthcare Staffing Initiative
I n n o v a t i n g ? T r a n s f o r m i n g
? E m p o w e r i n g

• A Strategic Public/Private Partnership
• Designed To Meet South Africas
• Healthcare Staffing Needs

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Our Mission and Purpose

• To Establish a Public/Private
• Partnership Designed to
• Mitigate South Africas Healthcare
• Worker Brain Drain While
• Meeting Global Healthcare Worker
• Recruitment Demands

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Building SAs Domestic Healthcare HRWhile
Satisfying International Recruitment Needs

• The Problem- Brain Drain South Africas
  excellent allied health care graduates are
  aggressively recruited for foreign employment,
  leaving the domestic workforce depleted and
  unable to meet local healthcare needs in South
  Africa.
• Solution Using the model successfully
  implemented in the Philippines, OWDG will work
  with South African universities, the S. African
  government, and foreign employers to establish
  increased recruitment and graduation of qualified
  graduates, meeting both domestic AND
  international recruitment needs, while
  facilitating scholarships for graduates who
  commit to two years of service in South Africa
  upon graduation.

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Professions in Demand

• Registered Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Physical Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Radiology Technicians

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Floating a Better Idea
The Ultimate Healthcare
Strategic Alliance

• South African Universities work to attract more
  qualified healthcare workers through aggressive
  recruitment with secondary/high schools.
• Foreign Employers provide collaborative funding
  to qualified universities to seed future
  graduates via academic scholarships
• The South African Ministry of Labor establishes
  regulatory protocols designed to protect expat
  workers abroad and promote domestic retention
• One World Development Group serves as
  capacity-building coordinator, implementing
  AfricaFirst scholarships for students
  committing to two years post-graduate service in
  SA.

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How it Works

• OWDG/COLLEGES establish Letters of Intent with
  participating universities defining enrollment
  goals.
• OWDG/SAG implement AfricaFirst Program,
  establishing 1) increased healthcare worker
  graduate numbers, 2) domestic 2 Year Commitment
  Scholarships and 3) long-term benefit of
  repatriated foreign earned income.
• FOREIGN EMPLOYERS 1) co-fund educational
  initiatives in exchange for graduate credits, a
  preferred, university-approved international job
  placement program for SA healthcare graduates
  while 2) funding 2 Year Commitment Scholarships

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Strategic Partnership Intelligent Solution
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for an INTELLIGENT SOLUTION
An INNOVATIVE
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Benefits to Participants

• TO HEALTHCARE GRADUATES
• Academic scholarships in exchange for 2 year S.
  African service commitments
• the opportunity to consider foreign employment
  while protected by international fair employment
  provisions.
• TO SA UNIVERSITIES
• Increasing graduation rates for high-demand
  healthcare professions
• Meet South Africa local healthcare worker needs
• TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA better access to
  comprehensive national healthcare through
  increased staffing capability through elimination
  of brain drain

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About OWDG

• Over 5 years of healthcare consulting, project
  management, and capacity building in sub-Saharan
  Africa.
• OWDG Management Team has over 40 years experience
  in African healthcare initiatives
• Team includes former U.S. Peace Corps Director,
  former U.S. diplomatic staff, and South Africa
  registered nurse.

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AfricaFirst Healthcare Staffing Initiative

• President- James Jaime Kuklinski
• Vice President/Operations- Leah Latour
• Vice President/Legal- José E. Latour
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