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
Technical area:
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
Technical area:
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
Document type:
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
The primary focus and purpose of this companion guide is to supplement the general guide on Quantification of Health Commodities: A Guide to Forecasting and Supply Planning for Procurement by describing in detail the specific methodology for forecasting consumption of HIV test kits as a critical step in the overall... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Forecasting and supply planning
Document type:
Language: English
This illustrated guide provides practical guidance for community health workers on how to safely handle and dispose of hazardous waste. It describes the basic principles of waste management and offers solutions for managing the waste generated from everyday activities carried out in the community.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
This fact sheet describes a selection of solar energy solutions being developed by the WHO and PATH to solve storage and transportation challenges in areas what have unreliable or unavailable power sources.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
Document type:
Language: English
This fact sheet describes a selection of solar energy solutions being developed by the WHO and PATH to solve storage and transportation challenges in areas what have unreliable or unavailable power sources.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
Document type:
Language: French
This document presents 12 core indicators for monitoring and evaluating procurement and supply management (PSM) at the national level. Six of the 12 indicators are defined as early-warning indicators of stock-outs and overstocking of medicines, which, in this document, are antiretroviral agents (ARVs) and medicines to treat tuberculosis and malaria.... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: M&E, Procurement
Document type:
Language: English
