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.

Tableau de bord accompagnant l’outil d’évaluation des capacités des ressources humaines en matière de gestion des chaînes d’approvisionnement du secteur de la santé publique.

On June 28th and 29th, 2011, 170 representatives - from 13 country delegations and more than 75 organizations - assembled at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva for the Global Positioning and Harmonization Conference of the People that Deliver Initiative (PtD).

The Conference had 160 participants from 20 countries.

To understand constraints and guide solutions that will develop Zimbabwean public health sector supply chain human resources the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) Directorate of Pharmacy Services (DPS), with support from the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, carried out an assessment of human resources for supply chain management in March 2012. The purpose of this assessment was to:

- Document the state of Zimbabwe’s public health supply chain human resource capacity;
- Identify opportunities to build the organizational and individual capacity of public health supply
chain human resources; and
- Document professionalization efforts of supply chain personnel.

A well-trained, professional workforce is the foundation of any health system. Because of this, in 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) included workforce performance as one of six building blocks in its health system framework needed to strengthen health systems. Similarly, ensuring the continuous availability of commodities is a critical element of a well-functioning public health system if it is to provide health workers and customers with vital public health products. To ensure commodity security (CS), a supply chain must engage the right people, in the right quantities, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time to follow the procedures that direct supply chain operations and ensure the supply of health products. An undisputed requirement of supply chain human resource (HR) strengthening is high-level champions. Toward this end, it has become increasingly apparent to the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT that our HR work must ask for input and support from supply chain managers at the highest level (Proper 2014).

Access to health products is one of the main priorities of the World Health Organization (WHO). Unfortunately, this guiding principle is undermined by stock-outs, lower quality drugs and weakness of the supply system: poor needs assessment, illegal circuits, non-compliant storage areas, lack of reliable information systems, lack of financial resources for procurement, etc. In this context, global initiatives fighting diseases and, more particularly, striving to reach Development Goals 4, 5, and 6, recognize the need for Health Systems Strengthening (HSS). One of the main objectives is to develop an effective and efficient supply system through institutional and organizational capacity-building which makes human resource (HR) development a strategic priority.

In order to identify the relevant actions that must be taken to improve health systems’ supply chains, Bioforce proposed to conduct a survey. As a result of this initiative, the present survey aims to generate a complete picture of the performance of the workforce in charge of SCM in the West African sub-region, and to consider areas for improvement.