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- People that Deliver Theory of Change for Building Human Resources for Supply Chain Management: Applications in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
The Theory of Change for Building Human Resources for Supply Chain Management was applied in 5 countries to help highlight existing supply chain workforce challenges and provide a framework for addressing them.
- Promising Practices in Capacity Development for Health Supply Chains in Resource-Constrained Countries
We present 3 country cases with varied objectives to illustrate the potential of innovative, promising practices as potential solutions for strengthening supply chains in low- and middle-income countries.
- Creating a Career Development Path for Young Supply Chain Professionals: Three Case Studies in Benin, Kenya, and South Africa
Creating career development paths for young supply chain professionals in LMICs provides the youth with needed employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. This can help to unlock their potential and contribute to better supply chain performance in the public health sector.
- Exploring the Role of Gender in the Public Health Supply Chain Workforce in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
We identified potential barriers for women entering the health supply chain workforce and provide recommendations on how to improve gender equity in the health supply chain workforce.
- People that Deliver: Established to Address the Health Supply Chain Workforce Gap
This commentary details the People that Deliver coalition’s work globally in the area of human resources for supply chain management and examines its role in improving the capacity of the health supply chain workforce in low- and middle-income countries.
- Applying a Theory of Change for Human Resources Development in Public Health Supply Chains in Rwanda
The Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Theory of Change model enables users to assess how a country’s existing supply chain human resources system compares to the conditions necessary for optimized supply chain management workforce performance.
- The Supply Chain Workforce: The Foundation of Health Supply Chains
The articles in this supplement delve into the most pertinent topics in human resources for supply chain management (SCM), offering case studies and insights that exemplify best practices to strengthen the capacity of the health SCM workforce, support well-functioning health systems and increase access to health commodities.
- Strategic Training Executive Program 2.0: A Leadership and Change Management Program for Health Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
STEP 2.0 is an innovative approach to developing leadership and change management competencies that will enable local supply chain management professionals to contribute to commodity and medicine availability, leading to improved health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
- Presenting a Framework to Professionalize Health Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) Professionalisation Framework—a valuable tool to initiate awareness and advocacy in recognizing SCM professionals within national health systems—can be used to define and align SCM professional standards, competencies, and curricula, thus strengthening the labor market for health SCM professionals.
- Building Public Health Quantitative Methods Capacity and Networks in sub-Saharan Africa: An Evaluation of a Faculty Training Program
Capacity-strengthening for faculty teaching quantitative skills can be accomplished through a cross-national training program that simultaneously builds research networks.