We use our skills in communication for development, operational research, procurement and supply management, and skills transfer honed in supporting malaria programmes to ensuring good outcomes for children and their mothers across a range of maternal and child health interventions, thereby driving progress on the MDGs.
The job is not to supply needed management skills but rather to make sure there is effective management in place, to oversee financial strategy and to help identify new efficiencies.
At Arrow Electronics, a Melville, N.Y.-based electronics component provider, the customer account managers use a custom-designed videogame to learn supply-chain management skills.
Nurturing collaboration between regional institutions in resource-limited countries to build in-country skills in pharmaceutical supply management appears to be an effective intervention.
Zambia's governmental health system suffers from shortage of surgical supplies and poor management skills for the sparse resources at hand.
There was thus a need to build skills in HIV/AIDS pharmaceutical supply management in all four countries.
This allowed the system to build a significant pool of professionals with skills and competences in pharmaceutical supply management.
In addition, CHWs delivering iCCM must master ancillary skills, such as documentation and supply management, among others.
Some of the interventions tested include applying and evaluating the effectiveness of a novel skills-building approach for pharmaceutical supply management.
This would require training of district health managers in effective leadership and management, drug supply management, monitoring and use of data for decision making; and strengthening the skills of supervisors in effective supervision techniques.
The RTRC is a cooperative organization whose ultimate goal is to build the skills of health care workers in pharmaceutical supply management.
