PEPFAR

Helping People Deliver: Improving patients’ lives by strengthening local capacity in supply chain management

Erin Hasselberg, Principal Advisor, SCMS Project- DCJennifer Chavez, Deputy Director, SCMS Project- Zambia

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The ChallengeThe Challenge

Under-performing health programs and unachieved health goals

Poor availability of health commodities at facilities, wasted resources

Health staff expected to manage supply chains with little to no logistics training

Supply chains poorly managed and insufficiently resourced

No people No products No programs!

A Sustainable Solution: Pre-Service Training

Build capacity of local training

institutions

Reduce reliance on costly in-service training

Improve the skills and

knowledge of future

supply chain staff while

they are still in school

Elevate importance of SCM as both a profession & as a critical

skill for health professionals

PST On-the-Ground

• Namibia• Rwanda• Zambia• Zimbabwe• Coming soon:

– Botswana, Nigeria – Guyana, Honduras

Ministry of Health

Academic/ Training Institutions

SCMS Project

Certifying Agencies/Professional

Associations

Thank you

Find out more!

Attend our satellite session tonight!

“Achieving Excellence in the Supply Chain Workforce”

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Mini Room 6