Aspen Management Partnership in Health (AMP Health)

Context

Despite having the world’s most significant disease burden, Africa has the lowest ratio of health workers per population. Africa will have a shortage of 6 million health workers by 2030, and an additional USD 2 billion is needed annually to build and strengthen community health systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Among other reasons, governments struggle to address these issues, due to:

• Lack of government capacity
• Insufficient capacity building programs
• Sophisticated health strategies straining already fragile health systems

Solution

AMP develops bespoke Leadership & Management (L&M) capabilities of health ministry teams through an in-country approach, leveraging embedded private sector professionals. AMP aims to increase access to equitable and high-quality primary healthcare, reducing mortality and morbidity for remote communities in SSA. To achieve this, AMP is doing the following:

• Investing in L&M capabilities of people responsible for public health
• Increasing the adoption, uptake, and use of best-practice processes and tools
• Accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and the use of data to drive decision making
• Facilitating the capture and sharing of best practices

AMP provides its L&M training through various ways: 2-year placements of skilled management partners in health ministries, In-country workshops, distance learning programs, executive coaching, and leadership labs.

Impact depth

AMP identified 26 African countries that could benefit from their L&M training programs to achieve their public health goals. AMP contributes to:

• Improved individual L&M capacity in healthcare ministries, leading to durable institutional culture
• Better team effectiveness to deliver on strategic priorities in improving national public health systems
• Improved systems and processes in the respective country ministries