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
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
User Frequently Asked Questions for Bangladesh Web-based Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) system.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: LMIS
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Language: English
The primer aims to serve as a quick and accessible reference guide that provides practical advice to help maximize resources available for procurement and to provide practical tips to help staff involved in contraceptive procurement improve their management practices and efficiency.... Read more
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Technical area: Procurement
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Language: English
Describes the key lessons the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT has learned in its efforts to strengthen national supply chains for laboratory supplies.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
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
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
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Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This report describes how supply chains have become fragmented and brittle due to outsourcing to partners and suppliers that are geographically distant, and in part to an increased focus on sole sourcing, whether to capitalize on price advantages or to cultivate relationships in the extended enterprise.... Read more
Author: Booz Allen Hamilton, Dermot Shorten, Jean Lewis, Joseph Martha, Salman Syed
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
This logistics brief describes how the Essential Medicines Public Pilot program in Zambia significantly improved access to malaria medicines at the health facility level.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Country reports
Language: English
This brief describes how routine reporting systems and data analysis capabilities in Malawi were improved by using Supply Chain Manager and PipeLine software. This resulted in fewer ACT stockouts and waste in the system.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Country reports
Language: English
The Human Resources Management Assessment Approach is designed to guide policy-makers, managers, and human resources practitioners toward better understanding and responding to the HRM challenges facing their health systems. The approach promotes the collection and analysis of information on defined HRM challenges and informs the development of policy, strategy, systems,... Read more
Author: Capacity Plus, Jim McCaffery, Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG), Margaret Caffrey, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), Paul Marsden, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH)
Technical area: Human resources
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Language: English
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
Author: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Human resources
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
