Lead Lab in India: Innovate, Do, Review

Operating a public health supply chain requires motivated leaders who are capable of fulfilling essential supply chain functions. With this in mind, the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT developed the Lead Lab initiative, a process through which leaders collaborate, identify, and solve their supply chain problems. This technical brief provides an... Read more

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Strengthening the Supply Chain in Zanzibar to Save Lives: Supply Chain Accomplishments

This report describes key investments of USAID-funded logistics projects, managed by John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM), in Zanzibar. From 2005-2016, USAID, in partnership with JSI, PFSCM, and others, worked with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar to improve access to medicines and medical supplies... Read more

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Improving Health Outcomes through Sustainable Health Workforce Excellence in Supply Chain Management White Paper, 3rd Edition

This paper describes the need for sustainable, reliable, well performing health supply chains in order to assure access to health supplies, and thus for positive health outcomes. Limitations on supply chain performance stem, inpart, from the lack of a qualified supply chain workforce within health systems, which in turn is... Read more

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The Logistics Handbook: A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities

The Logistics Handbook offers practical guidance in managing the supply chain, with an emphasis on health commodities. It is intended to help program managers who design, manage, and assess logistics systems for health programs. In addition, policymakers, system stakeholders, and anyone working in logistics will also find it helpful as... Read more

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Vision of future immunization supply and logistics systems: Landscape analysis summary

This section of the landscape analysis facilitated by Project Optimize highlights ongoing work and critical gaps related to human resources. As human resource policies provide immunization supply systems with adequate numbers of competent, motivated, and empowered personnel at all levels of the health system, they are essential to overcome existing... Read more

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Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management: Assessment Guide

The overall purpose of this Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management Assessment Guide is to document the state of a country’s human resource capacity in supply chain management and professionalization efforts in public health supply chains and identify professionalization efforts spearheaded by the Ministry of Health and... Read more

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Supervision and On-the-Job Training for Supply Chain Management at the Health Facility

These supervision guidelines serve as a resource for both supervisors and supervisees in how to prepare for a supervision visit, what to expect during a visit, and what follow-up actions should be taken post-visit. A sample supervision checklist complete with job aids provides county programs with ready-to-use guidelines that can... Read more

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Zimbabwe’s Logistics Sub Unit enables sustainable scale-up of HIV/AIDS programs

This June 2011 brief tells the story of how, with USAID and SCMS support, Zimbabwe was able to successfully scale up their procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS commodies and simultaneously make significant improvements to their supply chain management capacity through the establishment of a Logistics Sub Unit (LSU).... Read more

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