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Human Resources rapid assessment training guide & questionnaire

Strong supply chains are essential for positive health outcomes. Effective supply chains require a competent, recognized and supported supply chain workforce with significant technical and managerial capacity. This demands that governments and national health institutions demand, recruit and retain appropriately qualified personnel for positions with supply chain responsibilities.

The GAVI Alliance immunization supply chain (SC) strategy promotes five fundamental building blocks:

human resources (HR), data for management, cold chain systems, SC system design and continuous improvement. A critical part of the vision for the Alliance immunization supply chain strategy is that countries have dedicated and competent immunization SC leaders with adequate numbers of skilled, competent, accountable, motivated, and empowered personnel at all levels of the health system. Hence, one of the building blocks of the strategy being HR, which focusses on the need for strengthening HR for immunization SC management.

Authors

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2016

Type

Training

Categories

  • Programme management

Tags

  • HR

Topic references

HR-PLANNING

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Theory of ChangePeople That Deliver2018GuidanceEnglish
Human Resources rapid assessment training guide & questionnaireUNICEF2016TrainingEnglish
Strengthening HR for SCM in the immunization supply chain in Nigeria through stakeholder engagementBervery Chawaguta, Ibrahim Alhaji Umar2017Journal articleEnglish
The people factor: An analysis of the human resources landscape for immunization supply chain managementMusonda Kasonde, Pamela Steele2017Journal articleEnglish
Understanding the policy environment for immunization supply chains: Lessons learned from landscape analyses in Uganda and SenegalAbdoulaye Gueye, Annette Seck Ndiaye, Brian Atuhaire, El Hadji Mamadou Ndiaye, Erin Fry Sosne, Henry Luzze, Ousseynou Badiane, Phillippe Guinot, Phionah AtuhebweJournal articleEnglish