The PtD-Namibia collaboration proposed a multifaceted, coordinated response that built on previous assessments and initiatives for the SCM workforce. PtD-Namibia sought to strengthen all five of the PtD human resources building blocks—that is, stakeholder engagement, optimized policies and plans, workforce development, improved retention and performance, and professionalized SCM workforce - through five integrated and interrelated activities over a period of 18 months.

Namibia is faced with one of the most severe health workforce shortages in the world, including a shortage of supply chain personnel to manage the key institutions of the public health supply chain, the Central Medical Store (CMS) and Regional Medical Store (RMS). As Namibia is a focus country for People that Deliver (PtD), a global initiative focused on raising awareness of human resource (HR) challenges for supply chain management (SCM), the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) requested the Initiative’s assistance in tackling its supply chain human resource challenges.

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In an effort to understand the breadth and depth of current academic offerings in supply chain management in Africa, People that Deliver and MIT CTL collaborated to complete a rapid landscape of current educational offerings (degree and certificate programs) in supply chain management, including health supply chain management. This landscape is a more specific and also wider analysis of the current offerings on the LAPTOP platform site, a supply chain course search engine developed by John Snow, Inc., and hosted by the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.

This paper presents the results of a review of published literature related to workforce excellence in supply chain management in developing countries. It was conducted through desk review and online search. Focus was given to articles published during the past six years. Documents were solicited from key organizations via listservs and direct correspondence.

An exploration of Human Resources for Logistics Storage and Transportation of commodities from the Central Level by Dr. M. Dgedge, Director HR and Paulo Nhaducue, CMAM.

The Guidance Manual was developed following requests from countries interested in establishing or strengthening National Logistics Working Groups (NLWG), in order to improve systematically the Immunization Supply Chain and Logistics (ISCL)infrastructure and systems at country level. This NLWG Guidance Manual provides both technical and operational guidance on how countries may create or/and strengthen NLWG. It outlines the various steps that may be taken to initiate, implement, monitor and reinforce a NLWG.

The assessment purpose is to effectively target capacity building and professionalization efforts for human resources strengthening in SCM. By Ribka Mekonnen, Logistics Management Information System Advisor, PFSA.

To provide insights on how the HIV/AIDS program at the Indonesian Ministry of Health leveraged donor funding and private sector expertise to build supply chain management capacity within Ministry of Health.

How can we make supply chain managers into true professionals serving health systems?