2021 CONFERENCE

The conference was held virtually over three days, and focused on different regions each day (Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia/Pacific) to enable active participation from delegates worldwide and gain an understanding of challenges in different contexts.

The conference theme of ‘building efficient supply chain connections’ focused on identifying locally sustainable and globally enabled supply chain management approaches which are adaptable to complex and challenging environments, and was looked at from the perspectives of the conference sub themes.

From the theme Keynote and panelist speaker insights spoke of the challenges they face in varying contexts across the globe, based on which HLA and its Advocacy Groups aim to create pathways forward throughout the coming year. This will include informing policies and strategies to strengthen health and humanitarian supply chain capacity, collaboration and interoperability between international, national and local organisations to ensure quality services, goods and knowledge are exchanged.