Global Capacity Building Programme
The Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Capacity Building Grant Programme (GCB). The GCB Programme collaborates to increase health system and health worker capacity between England and South Africa, Uganda and Zambia through global learning opportunities.
The programme overview
Funded by NHS England, the Global Capacity Building Programme facilitates transnational knowledge, skills and experience exchanges through the Health Partnership model between NHS institutions in England and health organisations in Africa.
The programme aims to:
- Facilitate global learning opportunities between NHS partners with LMIC partners.
- Provide specialist international development expertise which complements NHS technical knowledge.
- Expedite the positive impact of NHS global programmes.
With collaboration between the NHS and grant countries, the programme enhances the patient experience, improves health outcomes, and reduces health inequalities in South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
The programme also leverages the expertise of health institutions in England and technical experts to strengthen the health system and the capacity of the health workforce, as well as creating opportunities for bi-directional learning.
As a long-standing and trusted partner of the UK Government and NHS England, THET will work closely with Ministry of Health officials from each grant country to ensure the programme responds to national priorities and engages key stakeholders.
As part of the Global Capacity Building Programme, THET will also facilitate several events and workshops to encourage a wide range of NHS staff to participate. THET will collaborate with NHS staff and provide resources to ensure that the volunteers’ professional development and wellbeing is at the heart of this programme.
THET welcomes grant applications from new and existing health partnerships between England and operating in the following three priority countries: South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
Current Global Capacity Building grantees
THET is thrilled to have awarded 11 grants through the Global Capacity Building Programme (GCB).
Funded by NHS England, the new grants are comprised of 7 grants of £50,000 each and 4 grants of £10,000 each, with a combined value of £390,000. These grants form the first round of grants awarded through the Global Capacity Building Programme, and will support projects in Uganda, Zambia and South Africa.
4 small grants of £10,000 each
| Project Title | UK Partner | Global Partner | |
| Uganda | To equip midwives with specialist skills/qualifications in clinical research and undertake a qualitative focus group with midwives and women about vaginal health. | Imperial College London | Makerere University |
| Uganda | Initiating clinical Cardiac MRI services in Uganda | St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Heart Centre (BHC) | Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) / Makerere University College of Health Sciences |
| Uganda | Establish knowledge exchange links between Ugandan and NHS England mental health practitioners and educators | Manchester Metropolitan University | Butabika School of Psychiatric Nursing (BSPN) |
| Uganda | To lay the foundations for Gulu to become a centre of excellence in Emergency medicine – supporting the 2 current sites in Makerere Teaching Hospital and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital to support the MOH’s aim to significantly increase the number of EM Doctors in the next 5 years. | The Royal College of Emergency Medicine | St Mary’s Hospital
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South Africa |
Deliver a three-phase clinical and research capacity-strengthening project for post-collision care |
Centre for Post-Collision Care, Research and Translation. Hosted by the Devon Air Ambulance |
University of Cape Town (UCT) |
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South Africa |
Training Programme to improve mental wellness in dietitians and other healthcare professionals in South Africa |
The Nutrition Society |
Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) |
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Uganda |
Strengthening capacity of frontline healthcare professionals to recognise NCD multi-morbidity in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. |
Teesside University |
Makerere University |
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Uganda |
To establish a COSECSA (College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa) approved minimally invasive surgery (MIS) simulation curriculum at Mengo Hospital |
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
Mengo Hospital |
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Zambia |
To extend the development and pilot of online teaching modules in core stroke skills, thereby enabling access to high quality training and education opportunities in underserved areas of Zambia |
Wessex Ghana Stroke Partnership, UK and Ghana; hosted by the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust – University of Winchester Global Health Hub, UK |
Neurological Association of Zambia; hosted by the University of Zambia School of Medicine and University Teaching Hospital |
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Zambia |
Co-design a package of support to improve wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers working in maternal and newborn health services in Ndola Teaching Hospital (NTH) and Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital (ADCH), Ndola, Zambia. |
King’s Global Health Partnerships, King’s College London |
Ndola Teaching Hospital, Ndola |
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Zambia |
Training/upskilling healthcare professionals at Chipata First Level hospital and other health workers (such as caregivers) to become Dementia Care Coaches |
University of Huddersfield |
Chipata Level One Hospital |
7 large grants of £50,000 each
| Project Title | UK Partner | Global Partner | |
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The integration of nutritionist led enhanced clinical nutrition into healthcare and education facilities through the Capacity Strengthening of a Centre of Excellence for Nutrition at Levy Mwanawasa Medical University (LMMU) | Levy Mwanawasa Medical University | |
| Zambia | To assess the current landscape of anaesthesia provision across Zambia and to grow links between physician and non-physician cadres | Global Anaesthesia Development Partnerships (GADP) | Society of Anaesthetists of Zambia |
| Uganda | To increase the Retinopathy of Prematurity screening capacity among Midwives in the Bunyoro region at Hoima Regional Referral Hospital, Western Uganda, in twelve months. | Eye Health Africa | Ubora Foundation Africa |
| Uganda | To implement and evaluate a co-designed, mandatory, interdisciplinary, one-day Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) training course throughout the Kampala Metropolitan Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS). | NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board – West Yorkshire and Harrogate Local Maternity and Neonatal System (WYH LMNS) | Kawempe National Referral Hospital |
| Uganda | Strengthening leadership and management among local government health managers in Wakiso district, Uganda | Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) | Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) |
| Uganda | Modelling a transferable, multi-disciplinary orientation programme to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality from sepsis in four public health facilities in Uganda | Knowledge for Change (K4C), UK | Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital (FPRRH) |
| South Africa | Strengthening paediatric burns care through health worker training in the Cape Winelands | Children’s Hospital Trust UK | The Harry Crossley Children’s Nursing Development Unit |
