WCEA for Africa, Asia & the Middle East
Building Healthier Communities via Education & Technology
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About the WCEA
- Social impact technologyWCEA is a social impact technology company. Our mission is to use technology to improve the skills and competencies of healthcare professionals, so they can deliver better care and people live longer, healthier lives.
- Africa’s largest verified networkWCEA is the largest network of verified healthcare professionals in Africa, with nearly 2 million members and additional reach through partnerships with trusted online healthcare communities in key markets.
- Accessible CME/CPDWe deliver millions of courses each year, free to healthcare professionals, from a wide range of international and local educators. This puts high-quality continuing education within reach, wherever people work.
- Services for our membersWe provide Continuing Professional Development, webinars, news and careers support to healthcare professionals across our network.
- Working across sectorsWe work with healthcare, NGOs and charities, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, providing continuing education programmes, market research, promotional programmes and skills assessment for employment.
- Built for real-world accessOur mobile-first platform is designed for low bandwidth and high data costs, so professionals can learn wherever they are, even with limited connectivity.
- Linked to licence renewalWe work with ministries, regulators and councils so completed learning is tracked automatically and counts towards professional licence renewal.
- Supporting foundations and ongoing researchWe work with foundations and research partners on ongoing studies, publishing findings through open-access research so that health systems, educators and policymakers can learn from the evidence.
Sister company
About the World Employment Alliance (WEA)
WCEA’s work doesn’t stop at in-service education. Through our sister company, the World Employment Alliance (WEA), healthcare professionals can have their skills assessed and verified, then present them directly to potential employers, at home or abroad.
Our ethical commitments
- No skills wastedToo many qualified nurses, midwives and doctors are unemployed, underemployed or working below their level. WEA helps employers see the full value of the people they could hire.
- Professionals stay in controlWEA is not a recruitment agency. Professionals choose what they share, and when and where they look for work.
- Local opportunities firstWe work alongside ministries, regulators and professional councils to support strong home health systems, so that working abroad is a choice, not a necessity.
- International experience properly recognisedVerified assessments help employers and regulators understand what internationally trained professionals can do, so their experience counts.
- Fair pay for real skillsWhen skills are clearly verified, professionals are better placed to be paid for the role they are qualified to do, not a lower one.
- Ethical mobilityWe support the principles of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and encourage employers using WEA to do the same.
- From learning to workEducation, assessment and employment are connected in one journey, with continuing development long after someone starts a job.
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What Our Stakeholders Say
Before SONAM started this initiative, nurses and midwives had expressed uncertainty about how to take care of Covid-19 patients. With the intense fear of contagion and threat to mental and psychological wellbeing served as a motivation for us to develop courses that can be reached by a large proportion of nurses and midwives.
Eunice Ndirangu
WCEA opened up opportunities for Namibian nurses to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge through online courses. Through this platform, interactivity and network opportunities for all are generated. Namibian nurses embrace with open arms technological solutions and appreciate WCEA initiative for this new education platform.
Dr Ndapeua Shifiona
WCEA availed a virtual learning platform for health workers with all the features we were looking for.
For example, the platform is specifically dedicated for education of health workers, the design is user friendly, has a real time tracking system o learners, has in built feedback mechanism for improving content of the eLearning modules etc.
