This STEP 2.0 impact brief looks back on 2024. Learn about a milestone year for the programme in which STEP 2.0 exploded on the scene in Asia.

These documents are designed to support a wide range of stakeholders, including educators, employers, government bodies and industry associations, in implementing WBL programmes. Collaboration between these stakeholders is vital for ensuring that WBL programmes cover all stages of career development, from career exploration to in work development. Employers provide hands-on experience and mentoring, while educators help ensure that WBL activities align with academic goals and facilitate a smooth transition from classroom to career.

Your transformation challenge (YTC) lies at the core of STEP 2.0. This brief explains how countries should select the topic of their YTC, offers practical advice on how to do so and provides examples of how other countries have made best use of the programme.

Capitalising on momentum sets out PtD’s five-year strategy (2024-2029). It defines the coalition’s three objectives over this period and points to four strategic enablers that will be crucial to achieving these.

People that Deliver (PtD)’s Theory of Action (ToA) explains how PtD will build on its achievements with a focus on influencing national-level HR for SCM. The ToA delineates the outcomes to which PtD contributes and the outputs of PtD’s activities. It provides a detailed blueprint for action, tracking progress and clarifying PtD’s role. It accompanies PtD’s logframe, which provides indicators, data sources, and assumptions. The monitoring and evaluation plan accompanies the ToA to ensure progress is tracked.

This STEP 2.0 impact brief looks back on 2023. It centres on the year's completed programmes, hears from coaches and participants, and looks ahead to 2024.

This is how to become a supply chain professional in low- and middle-income countries.

These infographics highlight two common supply chain career pathways. The first graphic highlights the challenges that the supply chain workforce faces and the second graphic highlights potential solutions and the available tools.

This guidance document provides recommendations to country governments and implementing partners to improve human resource capabilities for the management of supply chain information system (SCIS) implementations.

Digital transformation in health supply chains has the power to improve public health systems through the provision of tools to guide decision making, planning, and data management. By focusing on aligning the skills of human resources alongside fast-evolving technology, countries can ensure the effective utilisation of digital tools being implemented for supply chains.

In this business case data collected from donors’ budgeted investments at country level for human resources for supply chain management (HR4SCM) over the period 2017-2020, coupled with questionnaire responses and interviews with supply chain managers in country, reveals the value of allocations in these four areas.

A Theory of Change diagnostic was carried out in Liberia to explore barriers related to the four pathways – staffing, skills, motivation and working conditions – from the perspective of community health workers (CHWs) and their supervisors. The report contains findings detailing the working conditions of CHWs and recommendations to improve their performance in line with the four pathways.

This diagnostic was conducted by People that Deliver (PtD) and supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It marks the first time that the PtD Theory of Change (ToC) has been used to examine CHWs in their capacity as members of the supply chain workforce.