Without access to and appropriate use of quality medicines and health commodities, health systems lose their ability to meet the treatment and prevention needs of the patients and clients they serve.

A two-day workshop was held to review the draft curriculum for Health Supply Chain Management in which 40 participants representing different institutions.

The organization of an integrated Ministry of Health (MoH) pharmaceutical and commodity supply management system (known as SUGEMI, by the Spanish acronym) in Dominican Republic demanded an innovative training strategy for immediate implementation and long-term sustainability.

Documenter l’état des capacités des ressources humaines gérant la chaîne d’approvisionnement et les efforts de professionnalisation des chaînes d’approvisionnement sanitaire publiques.

Ce travail a été dirigé par Andrew Brown, directeur exécutif de People that Deliver, dans le cadre du Groupe de travail sur les ressources humaines et les pratiques visant à contribuer à la stratégie de la chaîne d’approvisionnement de GAVI, en étroite collaboration avec Kevin Etter, consultant spécialiste de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, UPS.

Diagnosis of the HR Capacity in the Dominican Republic resources capacities related with the supply chain management and the professionalization efforts of the supply chains in public health.

L’initiative People that Deliver (PtD) tient à exprimer sa gratitude à toutes les institutions mentionnées cidessous pour leurs contributions précieuses et constructives à la planification et l’élaboration du présent référentiel de compétences. Nous leur sommes particulièrement reconnaissants de nous avoir consacré leur temps et prodigué des conseils.

The People that Deliver Initiative’s mission is “to build global and national capacity to implement evidence based approaches to plan, finance, develop, support and retain the national workforces needed for the effective, efficient and sustainable management of health supply chains.”

The organization of an integrated Ministry of Health (MoH) pharmaceutical and commodity supply management system (known as SUGEMI, by the Spanish acronym) in Dominican Republic demanded an innovative training strategy for immediate implementation and long-term sustainability.

One of the major challenges identified during the effective vaccine management (EVM) and HR rapid assessments carried out by UNICEF and its partners in various countries in 2016 and 2017 was the non-systematic approach to HR capacity development and the ad-hoc manner in which training is conducted. This haphazard approach to training means that learning is not optimized and does not result in the full impact being achieved in terms of immunization supply chain performance.