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On Wednesday 23 April, from 1pm – 2.30pm GMT+1 People that Deliver (PtD) will host a live panel discussion dedicated to work-based learning.
Expect to learn
- Why we need to attract more professionals to a career in health supply chain management
- Why Africa has a unique opportunity to plug this workforce gap
- How work-based learning (WBL) can help employers develop a resilient workforce
- The resources available to help employers develop WBL initiatives
Who you’ll hear from
Moderator:
Ehijie Enato
Deputy chair, People that Deliver and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice at the University of Benin in Nigeria.
Panel:
Pamela Steele
Chief executive, Pamela Steele Associates and co-author of PtD’s Strategies for engaging youth in supply chain management careers
Yodit Admasu Birhane
Managing director of Freight in Time and long-time adopter of WBL initiatives in her organisation.
Simon Patrick Obi
Executive director of the Greenlight Initiative and youth champion.
Margaret Achieng
Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies Kenya and beneficiary of the Girls on the Move WBL initiative.
Why work-based learning?
An efficient health supply chain is essential to achieving key global health goals, such as reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria.
A significant challenge, though, is the shortage of qualified and skilled supply chain professionals: the global health workforce is projected to face a shortage of ten million professionals by 2030. This shortage is exacerbated by a skills mismatch, where the available workforce lacks the necessary competencies required for effective SCM operations. This skills mismatch stifles innovation and adaptation within healthcare systems, making them less responsive to new challenges such as emerging diseases or demographic shifts.
But, at the same time, we are witnessing the largest global youth population in history, with approximately 1.2 billion individuals aged 15 to 24. Eighty-five percent of these young people live in LMICs, where employment challenges are most acute and the skills gap in the SCM sector is widening.
Aligning the capabilities of young people with the demands of health supply chains offers a unique opportunity to address both youth unemployment and the understaffed, under-skilled SCM workforce.
This is where work-based learning comes in.
Work-based learning (WBL) can play an important role in developing a skilled workforce. WBL can also be used as a strategic tool to attract both youth and those currently in education and those not in education, employment or training to the SCM workforce.
Engaging youth in health SCM and supporting them throughout their career pathways is vital for addressing both current and future industry demands, retention challenges and building the next generation of leaders.
PtD has developed two documents – Strategies for engaging youth in supply chain management careers and the Work-based learning toolkit to help guide academic and training institutions, professional associations, public and private sector organisations, and government policymakers as they look to engage youth in the health supply chain workforce.
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