Goodbye to a momentous 2022

A year in which PtD really did stand up for the supply chain workforce

Firstly, thank you to the PtD coalition and to the Executive committee: you have helped us achieve so much over the last year.

The culmination of months of work finally materialised when PtD held the Global Indaba in Zambia in October. Attended by over 250 delegates from more than 40 countries, the event exceeded expectations.

STEP 2.0 has gone from strength to strength and this year the first cohort of Virtual STEP participants (in Zambia) graduated. A six-month hybrid version of the programme, similar to the virtual model, was delivered in Côte d'Ivoire and the regular in-person STEP 2.0 programme was implemented in Uganda. PtD is now in the process of developing a monitoring and evaluation system to capture evidence of the impact of STEP 2.0 and refine the programme accordingly.

Supported by PtD, in 2022 two health supply chain professionals from low or middle-income countries, Douglas Omboga Onyancha and Claudette Ahliba Diogo, graduated from the Johnson & Johnson Supply chain star leadership development program.

This year PtD and ARC-ESM began implementing the SCM professionalisation framework in Nigeria. PtD is also working with Pamela Steele to conduct the youth labour market assessment for supply chain management in the country.

Also this year, PtD worked with Sara Jacobson to apply the HR4SCM Theory of Change (ToC) in Liberia to better understand community health worker needs, and published the Outsourcing public health supply chain services: A roadmap for building human resources capacity. At the end of the year PtD held a series of six TechNet-21 webinars on capacity development and professionalisation.

In 2023 we will see a change at the helm of PtD: after completing full-terms, Lloyd Matowe and Jenny Froome will be stepping aside from the positions of chair and deputy chair. PtD will continue to work closely with the two but it does mean that we are looking for PtD’s new chair and deputy chair (read more here). This year we also said goodbye to Project Officer Alexis Strader and welcomed Ronan Terrade. Lloyd, Jenny and Alexis were instrumental to the success PtD has enjoyed over the past few years and the secretariat would like to thank them for their efforts.

2023 is set to be just as busy as 2022, with activities including PtD’s supplement in the Global Health Science and Practice Journal to be published, a diversity and inclusion addition to the ToC, more STEP 2.0, more professionalisation and more HR4SCM assessments.

Everyone at PtD wishes you a happy, healthy and safe remainder of the year and we look forward to seeing you in 2023!

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