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      Our Vision

      Improving health outcomes in Africa.

      Our Mission

      Vaka Health lifts health outcomes for urban, rural and remote African communities by using fit for purpose education and training using scalable mobile technology.

      Our Story

      Vaka started in Zimbabwe in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. The goal was to increase nurses access to continuing education, training and clinical decision support tools like clinical guidelines. Growth of platform accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic due to travel restrictions and online learning was embraced. With 25000 nurses enrolled MyCpdZw has delivered Over 1.5 million units of CPD over 4 years. The vision was broadened to cater for micro-credentialing, advanced nurse training, and economic empowerment led to the current day scope of work and partnership with the East Central Southern Africa College of Nurses and Midwives ECSACONM (16 member countries).

      Our Name

      VAKA means ‘build,’ ‘develop,’ or ‘to be awake, watch or guard’ reflecting our values and ethos to build better healthcare in Africa.

  • Our work
      Workforce Development

      Diploma in Digital Health & Informatics

      CPD & Micro-Credentialing

      Advanced Practice Fellowship

      Mentorship and Empowerment program

      Partnerships for Health

      Midwife-led Community Transformation (MILCOT)

      Endometriosis Africa Program

      FarmScope, Zimbabwe

      ESG Partnerships

      Preventative Health

      VakaAfya

      Leadership & Entrepreneurship

      Entreprenuership Training

      Vaka Start-Up Accelerator Program

  • Our Ideas
  • Donate

  • About Us
      Our Vision

      Improving health outcomes in Africa.

      Our Mission

      Vaka Health lifts health outcomes for urban, rural and remote African communities by using fit for purpose education and training using scalable mobile technology.

      Our Story

      Vaka started in Zimbabwe in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. The goal was to increase nurses access to continuing education, training and clinical decision support tools like clinical guidelines. Growth of platform accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic due to travel restrictions and online learning was embraced. With 25000 nurses enrolled MyCpdZw has delivered Over 1.5 million units of CPD over 4 years. The vision was broadened to cater for micro-credentialing, advanced nurse training, and economic empowerment led to the current day scope of work and partnership with the East Central Southern Africa College of Nurses and Midwives ECSACONM (16 member countries).

      Our Name

      VAKA means ‘build,’ ‘develop,’ or ‘to be awake, watch or guard’ reflecting our values and ethos to build better healthcare in Africa.

  • Our work
      Workforce Development

      Diploma in Digital Health & Informatics

      CPD & Micro-Credentialing

      Advanced Practice Fellowship

      Mentorship and Empowerment program

      Partnerships for Health

      Midwife-led Community Transformation (MILCOT)

      Endometriosis Africa Program

      FarmScope, Zimbabwe

      ESG Partnerships

      Preventative Health

      VakaAfya

      Leadership & Entrepreneurship

      Entreprenuership Training

      Vaka Start-Up Accelerator Program

  • Our Ideas
  • Donate

Workforce Development

Vaka Health Foundation nursing and midwifery workforce development focuses on enhancing the skills, knowledge, and capacity of healthcare professionals to deliver quality care.
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Partnerships For Health

Vaka Health Foundation nursing and midwifery workforce development focuses on enhancing the skills, knowledge, and capacity of healthcare professionals to deliver quality care.
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Preventative Health

VakaAfya is a mobile and web application system developed and implemented by the Vaka Health Foundation and its global partners.
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Leadership and entrepreneurship hold immense value for nurses and midwives beyond clinical roles. Leadership skills enable them to guide teams, advocate for patients, and drive innovation in healthcare settings.
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Vaka Health Foundation

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Improving Health Outcomes in Africa.

VAKA means 'build,' 'develop,' or 'to be awake, watch or guard' reflecting our values and ethos to build better healthcare in Africa.
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Our Story

Vaka started in Zimbabwe in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The goal was to increase nurses access to continuing education, training and clinical decision support tools like clinical guidelines.
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What we do

Preparing Nurses and Midwives for action now.

Micro Credentialing

Micro-credentialing of nurses in key critical skills such a diabetes mellitus care, sexual health, stoma therapy, wound care, and nutritional care. These skills are in great shortage around the continent.

Continuous Professional Development

Provision of assess to Continuous Professional Development to keep nurses and midwives abreast with change. The technology used is accessible in Rural and Urban areas.

Fellowship training

Nursing workforce capacity building through a two-year fellowship program to develop cover skills shortages in key areas such critical care, non-communicable diseases and maternity.

Hospital Training Initiative

A program for hospital wide transformation of service delivery through training in areas such as health informatics, ethics, research, problem solving, data analysis, resuscitation and nursing leadership and management

 
Empowering through Microfinance

Empowerment and mentorship of nurses through career development and microfinance. Innovative nurses are given opportunities to develop and share ideas.

Strengthening health systems

Partnership models and consultancy to improve service delivery, research, quality improvement, leadership, and governance (stewardship).

 

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