Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
Challenges Establishing suitable training centres face challenges including building a facility that can adequately simulate real production processes, the creation of course content and the development of sustainable business models as the overall biomanufacturing ecosystem is established. At present, several initiatives across Africa, including Institut Pasteur Dakar in Senegal, CSIR in South Africa, the University of the Western Cape also in South Africa, the Kemri Welcome Trust Research Program in Kenya, the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Rwanda, and the Kina Foundation in Ghana, are exploring options to establish such training centres. These initiatives have secured some funding, although at the time or writing it is not clear what funding is for onetime capital investment and what is committed for continuous support for ongoing training. PAVM proposes to develop Regional Capability and Capacity Centre Networks (RCCCNs) to resolve the three main challenges in talent development: lack of coordination between local talent development initiatives, brain-drain of local talent, and sustainable financing.