The Multiplier Model:
Investing in the Heart of Healthcare
Resilient healthcare systems require more than just equipment. They require a supported, skilled, and sustained workforce. We train the nurses and midwives on the front lines.
Our Multiplier Model is a dual-approach designed to move from individual clinical excellence to community-wide impact. By equipping frontline nurses and midwives with life-saving skills and then empowering them as leaders through the RISE Global Health Educator Network, we ensure that knowledge stays, grows, and belongs to the community.
The model is built on two core components:
1. Clinical Excellence
We train nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals, giving them the clinical skills they need to save lives, especially at birth.
Through hands-on, simulation-based training, providers gain:
Life-saving clinical skills
Confidence in high-risk situations
The ability to deliver safer, more dignified care
The result: Better outcomes immediately for mothers and babies.
2. RISE Educator Network
Through our RISE Global Health Educator Network, we identify local leaders and equip them to become educators, so they can train others in their own communities.
This creates a multiplier effect:
One trained provider becomes many
Knowledge spreads within the system
Training continues within communities
The result: A single trained provider becomes a teacher for hundreds more. This creates a self-sustaining cycle of learning that belongs entirely to the community, long after our initial work is done.
Why This Model Works
It Builds Local Capacity
Improving care today is vital, and ensuring care that endures is our ultimate goal.
We focus on:
Workforce Growth: Expanding the reach of local care.
Institutional Strength: Creating stable environments for professionals to thrive.
Lasting Dignity: Ensuring communities have the power to heal themselves.
It Addresses Local Needs
Our approach is unique, because we invest in the people who live in the community.
Local nurses and midwives:
Navigate culture and context
Drive long-term clinical stability
Lead the growth of their own health systems
Serve as the mentors for the next generation
It Protects Dignity
By strengthening local systems, we help ensure that:
Communities can rely on their own healthcare providers
Mothers receive safe, respectful care
Families are treated with dignity
Our training model is part of a larger strategic commitment to healthcare advocacy and professional governance.
Explore Our Strategic Priorities.
References
1. Train-the-Trainer effectiveness in healthcare: Read the systematic review
2. TTT improves system-wide knowledge dissemination: View summary of evidence
3. Local trainers are as effective as external experts: Read study on training outcomes
4. Training educators strengthens entire systems: Read the Vietnam nursing education study
5. Capacity-building improves outcomes and systems: Read quality improvement training study