E-DRU: Namibia Synthesis Report
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Dear E-Drug Members,
We are very pleased to share the newly published 'PtD Namibia Synthesis
Report'.
In November 2013, the Minister of Health presented a formal request to the
People that Deliver (PtD) Board and member institutions for technical support
to develop a sustainable strategy to improve access to health commodities.
Led by the government of Namibia and supported by expertise from the People
that Deliver Initiative and its members—notably the USAID- and
PEPFAR-funded Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) project and
CapacityPlus—the PtD-Namibia collaboration sought to understand and improve
Namibia’s public sector health supply chain management (SCM) workforce.
The PtD-Namibia collaboration proposed a multifaceted, coordinated response
that built on previous assessments and initiatives for the SCM workforce
Activity 1: Competency mapping of central and regional supply chain staff
Activity 2: Estimating staffing needs at the central medical store and
regional medical depots
Activity 3: Rapid Retention Survey of pharmacists and pharmacist assistants
and costed retention strategies
Activity 4: Supply Chain Performance Improvement program
Activity 5: Documentation of the collaborative process and sharing of
lessons learned
The PtD Namibia Synthesis Report documents the methodology, findings and
lessons learnt from PtD’s systematic approach in Namibia with the hope that
what has been learnt in Namibia can be applied to other country contexts
To read the report, please
visit: http://www.peoplethatdeliver.org/node/26637
Sara A KHAN
People that Deliver
UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
saakhan@unicef.org
"People that Deliver" <info@peoplethatdeliver.org>