Project Optimize, a five-year partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH, conducted a small implementation activity in South Sudan. The goal of the activity was to test the feasibility and usefulness of implementing a mobile and cloud-based vaccine stock management information system capable of providing EPI staff at... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, LMIS
Document type: Country reports
Language: English
In 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO) presented 12 core indicators for monitoring and evaluating procurement and supply management (PSM) at national level. Zimbabwe was one of nine countries that began piloting the PSM indicators in 2009, and this document reports on key national-level activities and results from the implementation... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area:
Document type: Country reports
Language: English
This WHO guideline is designed to assist managers of immunization services to create and maintain a service infrastructure that is capable of responding to change. The guideline is aimed at senior managers at national and internediate levels, but may also be of value to other logistics specialists.... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
Document type:
Language: English
This evidence brief from Project Optimize describes the growing need for off-grid cooling solutions and provides an evaluation of two technologies designed to overcome off-grid cooling challenges.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
Document type: Country reports
Language: English
This guide is a practical reference for those managing or involved in setting up a storeroom or warehouse. It contains written directions and clear illustrations on receiving and arranging commodities; special storage conditions; tracking commodities; maintaining the quality of the products; constructing and designing a medical store; and waste management;... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: Storage and distribution
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
The Annual AMDS Partners Meeting noted that laboratory items are numerous and create serious challenges to procurement agencies. Significant progress has been made in the evaluation, prequalification, technical guidance, and generic technical specifications of laboratory items which could be used by procurement agencies and other partners involved in strengthening laboratory... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: Procurement
Document type:
Language: English
Improving maternal and child health is a global priority. An estimated 8.1 million children under the age of five die every year and an estimated 1 000 women – most of them in developing countries – die every day due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth.... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This project Optimize document provides supply chain managers in low- and middle-income countries with an overview of the potential benefits of outsourcing components of their vaccine logistics systems to the private sector. It also provides practical advice on determining whether outsourcing is a viable option.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: Private sector
Document type:
Language: English
This short technical brief outlines the opportunities, risks, and recommended best practices associated with ocean shippment of vaccines.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, Storage and distribution
Document type:
Language: English