In collaboration with Sub-Saharan African business schools, development partners and international experts, GBSN coordinated a 3-day design workshop that worked towards the development of two new training programs in the field of health management and agribusiness. This workshop focused on the management issues common to both health and agribusiness and how to effectively leverage the multi-disciplinary, practical approach of business schools to better serve these two sectors.
As a result of bringing these actors together, GBSN facilitated the creation of two new consortia of schools, which have the collective resources to seek external partners, raise necessary funding, and develop a shared curriculum of international quality to be adapted for each school’s agribusiness and health markets. With the workshop laying a foundation, the new consortia will develop learning platforms for each sector and subsequently oversee the implementation of the newly developed management programs on an initial pilot basis. During this time the schools will have an opportunity to test the markets and revise the newly established programs accordingly while also extending the programs to include additional local and international partners.
Updates:
Read Press Release GBSN Convenes Stakeholders in Health Management and Agribusiness (April 19, 2010 NAIROBI, KENYA)
Read Program Update: Next Steps & AABS Partnership
Photo of 2010 Workshop Participants
Health indicators such as life expectancy, malnutrition, child mortality and HIV/AIDS infection rates have worsened over the last decade. Ineffective management of health workers and resources is a significant contributor to declining health outcomes. Forging a partnership between top local business schools and local health organizations (public, private and nonprofit) is an innovative approach to addressing to these problems.
