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Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS) exists when people can choose, obtain, and use high-quality and affordable contraceptives whenever they need them. The concept of RHCS has become a standard term frequently used in the international public health arena. Based on the SPARHCS framework, achieving RHCS requires several elements, including:
• Commitment.
• An enabling environment.
• Capacity.
• Capital.
• Coordination.
• Client demand and use.
Within capacity, a well-functioning, resilient, and flexible supply chain is key to obtaining RHCS.
This collection represents key tools and resources to support technical advisors, governments, program managers, and implementers to design, improve, and measure RHCS and supply chains to make strategic decisions, plan, and create targeted interventions to increase access to contraceptive commodities.
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Contraceptive Security Indicators
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Family Planning Country Impact Briefs
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Modern Contraceptive Availability and Stockouts
Health Policy and Planning Journal (2021)
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About Knowledge SUCCESS
Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) is a five-year (2019-2024) global project led by a consortium of partners and funded by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health to support learning, and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange, within the family planning and reproductive health community. We use an intentional and systematic approach, called knowledge management, to help programs and organizations working in family planning and reproductive health collect knowledge and information, organize it, connect others to it, and make it easier for people to use.
About JSI
JSI is a global public health consulting organization dedicated to greater health equity and improving the health of individuals and communities, and providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause.
This collection was curated and published in September 2022. Resource links were active at the date of publication. Images courtesy of USAID Ethiopia Flickr, USAID Kenya and East Africa Flickr, USAID GH Supply Chain, World Bank Photo Collection Flickr, MCSP Flickr, UNFPA East and Southern Africa Flickr, UNFPA Liberia Flickr, A. Makulec, and ESHE Project.
Acknowledgements
This collection is made possible is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) Project. Knowledge SUCCESS is supported by USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health and led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in partnership with Amref Health Africa, The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics (Busara), and FHI 360. The contents of this webpage are the sole responsibility of CCP. The information provided on this webpage does not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or the Johns Hopkins University.
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Policy to Practice: Defining Health Market Interventions
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Challenges with Last Mile Supply Chain Financing
Acasus, JSI, VillageReach (2021)
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Contraceptive Method Introduction to Expand Choice: Planning Guide
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VAN & Reproductive Health Supplies Visualizer
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Building Resilient SRH Supply Chains During COVID-19 & Beyond
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Building a Supply Chain That Can Respond to SRH in Emergencies
FP2030 (2020)
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Investing in the Supply Chain Is Critical to Achieving FP Goals
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Created in 2009, the contraceptive security indicators (CS indicators) help in-country and global aid program managers, advocates, and decision-makers measure and track countries’ progress in improving access to contraceptives, particularly for those areas requiring more focused interventions. The survey is now conducted every two years with responses from 43 countries across Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with the most recent in 2021. Multiple factors across several sectors contribute to the availability and accessibility of contraceptives within countries, including:
• Political commitment.
• Financial capital.
• The policy environment.
• Partner coordination.
• Capacity.
• Client demand and use.
• Commodity availability.
The CS indicators assist stakeholders and countries in obtaining data and monitoring progress in support of initiatives such as FP2020 and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
About USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM)
GHSC-PSM purchases and delivers health commodities, strengthens national supply-chain systems, and provides global supply chain leadership to ensure lifesaving health supplies reach those in need, when they need them.
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The CS indicators help countries determine which policies are more likely to contribute to improved modern contraceptive prevalence. Greater contraceptive prevalence means more women have access to modern methods of family planning that enable them to space their births. This is good for the health of mothers and their babies and planning the size of families. The 2017 and 2019 dashboards allow users to see the indicators to measure the progress of CS.
USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (2019)
Contraceptive Security Indicators
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FP2030’s Data Dashboard is essential as it is the source for core family planning indicators and family planning financing indicators. A group of global measurement experts helped create these core indicators. They were selected with existing country data systems and monitoring efforts in mind and were designed to capture information on contraceptive use, method choice, quality, availability, and other key aspects of family planning programs.
FP2030’s Data Hub provides a Data Dashboard where you can look up data for key indicators, see trends over time, compare countries, and answer analysis questions. Indicators include:
• Total users.
• MCP (all women).
• MCP (married women).
• MCP (unmarried women).
• Unmet need (all women).
• Demand satisfied (all women).
• Method mix.
• Method information index.
The indicators are measures of key dimensions of contraceptive use for all low- and lower-middle-income countries. Some of the indicators are derived from modeling, while others are survey-based. The indicator estimates are produced by Track20: http://track20.org/. The data comes from several sources including the Expert Advisory Group on International Family Planning Expenditures and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Data Dashboard provides instructions on how to use the tool. You can download the data as an Excel file or PDF.
About FP2030
FP2030 works to ensure voluntary modern contraceptive use by everyone who wants it, achieved through individuals’ informed choice and agency, responsive and sustainable systems providing a range of contraceptives, and a supportive policy environment.
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It is important for countries to see the impact of FP/RH supply chain interventions on their populations so they will continue to support expanding access to contraceptives. It is also important for organizations and USAID to see this impact so they will continue to invest funding and human resources into these interventions so that people can have greater control over their health and the size of their families.
USAID has produced 25 family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) country briefs that estimate the impact of USAID’s investment in contraceptives since the fiscal year 2017. When combined with proper counseling and correct use, contraceptives can positively impact maternal and child health. The millions of contraceptives delivered to USAID-supported health facilities and organizations have or will help prevent or avert unintended pregnancies, abortions, and maternal and child deaths. Each country brief presents key FP/RH impact indicators estimating the global demographic, health, and economic impact of USAID investments from fiscal years 2017–2020.
About USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM)
GHSC-PSM purchases and delivers health commodities, strengthens national supply chain systems, and provides global supply chain leadership to ensure lifesaving health supplies reach those in need, when they need them.
USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (2021)
Family Planning Country Impact Briefs
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There have not been many studies that have examined contraceptive stockouts in the context of client volume. It remains unclear whether stockouts are primarily a response to a breakdown in the supply chain, an increase in demand, or both. This study describes trends in stockouts, method availability, and consumption of specific contraceptive methods using locally representative data from facilities in urban areas of Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Nigeria, and India.
Providing access to contraception is critical for achieving several global health outcomes, such as reducing maternal mortality, maximizing the health benefits of birth spacing, and promoting the economic empowerment of women. Millions of women continue to lack access to contraception due to “supply-side” barriers such as poor accessibility to health facilities, low levels of contraceptive method availability, and contraceptive stockouts (these likely play a role in this lack of access, though the relationship between contraceptive availability and use remains poorly understood. Ensuring an adequate range of methods at various levels of the health care system is crucial to guarantee that individuals and couples can select their contraceptive method of choice, thereby allowing them to achieve their fertility goals.
About the Health Policy and Planning Journal (HPP)
HPP is a journal owned by LSHTM and Oxford University Press that publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries.
Health Policy and Planning Journal (2021)
Modern Contraceptive Availability and Stockouts: A Multi-Country Analysis of Trends in Supply and Consumption
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This systematic, step-by-step approach allows users to quantify health commodity requirements and costs for program planning, budgeting, and mobilizing resources for procuring commodities.
This is a practical guide to quantification of health commodities to assist technical advisors, program managers, government officials, warehouse managers, procurement officers, implementing partners, and service providers in:
• Estimating the total commodity needs and costs to support the successful implementation of national health program strategies and goals.
• Identifying the funding needs and gaps for procuring the required commodities.
• Planning procurements and shipment delivery schedules to ensure a sustained and effective supply of health commodities.
The guide is complemented by product-specific companion pieces on RMNCH, DMPA-SC, and
laboratory commodities.
About JSI
JSI strengthens health systems and health delivery in lower-and-middle income countries, improving supply chains for public health commodities to better the health of individuals and communities.
JSI (2017)
Quantification of Health Commodities
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LEAP is the only tool currently available that situates contraceptives within the broader reproductive health context. It builds on projections of long-term change in supply use and demand based on historical data across all low- and middle-income countries. LEAP also offers comparable cross-country projections and triangulates a wide range of available data sources from across the different health areas.
The LEAP Analysis is an online, interactive tool that projects growth in the use of critical reproductive health supplies over the coming decade and then estimates likely supply costs associated with meeting that demand for all low- and middle-income countries. Produced together with Avenir Health, LEAP builds on nearly two decades of experience with the Commodity Gap Analysis (CGA). The tool breaks new ground by tapping synergies across several health areas and even ventures to trace the impact of hormonal contraceptive use on menstruation, which could affect women’s need for menstrual hygiene supplies.
As with the CGA, LEAP also provides users with the means to dig deeper into the data, to focus on specific product areas, different sectors (public vs. private), countries or groups of countries, or to compare different permutations of each. This deeper dive is accessed through a series of custom reports within each of the health areas.
About Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)
RHSC is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure better reproductive health.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (2021)
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Expanding method choice is an essential aspect of contraceptive security. It allows clients the ability to select the right product that best suits them. Successfully introducing a new product requires several elements to come together and this guide provides guidance with links to more in-depth resources, references, and tips.
This strategic planning guide (SPG) is intended to lead program managers, planners, national policymakers, and other stakeholders through a strategic process to coordinate the introduction of contraceptive methods through public and private access channels. The guide was developed through consultation with technical experts and summarizes guidance through seven key elements, including the supply chain, for method introduction. It provides an overview and links to other resources for more depth and detail.
About the High Impact Practices (HIP)
HIPs are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. The HIP Partnership includes various structures to ensure HIP products are developed, kept up to date, and disseminated widely.
Contraceptive Method Introduction to Expand Choice: A Strategic Planning Guide
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Supply chain staffing has long been in crisis and COVID-19 has only exacerbated the situation. For the pharmaceutical industry, a drop of just 10% in available contraceptives could result in an additional 49 million women facing an unmet need for modern contraception. Replenishing the ranks of a global supply chain workforce with talented young women and men is essential to ensuring reproductive health commodity security.
LAPTOP is the RHSC’s flagship program for attracting and cultivating the supply chain leaders of tomorrow. This innovative, comprehensive program encompasses four core components:
1. An easy-to-use online course-finder that profiles over 700 training opportunities in supply chain management around the world.
2. A growing collection of videos and video clips in which supply chain experts weigh in on the kinds of questions likely to be asked before choosing a career in the field.
3. Scholarships aimed at helping aspiring young professionals defray the costs of approved studies in supply chain management.
4. A component, currently under development, that aims to place young people in virtual internships with companies involved in supply chain management.
About Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)
RHSC is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure better reproductive health.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (2021)
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The paper offers examples of how governments and donors have addressed these challenges and outlines recommendations for both funders and governments.
This paper describes four challenges to last-mile supply chain financing and draws from the organizations' collective experience supporting last mile supply chains, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, including:
• Delayed or inefficient fund disbursement prevents timely health product distribution.
• Inefficient use of available funds constrains their impact.
• Insufficient financing for last-mile supply chain operations impedes activities.
• Actual supply chain costs are unknown.
Adequate financing and reliable financial flows for health product distribution to the service delivery point closest to the people are necessary to realize these investments and the promise of health care for all.
About Acasus
Acasus is a consultancy dedicated to helping governments implement transformational reforms in health and education. Since 2013, Acasus has developed a strong reputation for supporting governments across Asia, Africa, and South America.
About JSI
JSI strengthens health systems and health delivery in lower-and-middle income countries, improving supply chains for public health commodities to better the health of individuals and communities.
About VillageReach
VillageReach works with governments to solve health care delivery challenges in low-resource communities. Their programs focus on increasing access to quality health care at the last mile, or the point at which services are delivered.
Acasus, JSI, VillageReach (2021)
Getting Products to People: Challenges with Last Mile Supply Chain Financing and Recommendations for Funders and Governments
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To continue to evolve TMA implementation at the country level, stakeholders will need to aggressively address market failures, regulatory barriers, and inefficiencies through deliberate actions informed by evidence and supported by planned commitments. This brief supports governments, donors, and TMA practitioners in identifying concrete market interventions that they can implement to address market distortions and gaps.
There is increasing global interest among international health practitioners and the donor community to expand the private sector’s role in health markets to mobilize resources, improve efficiency, and achieve sustainability of essential health programs. However, there is still a lack of clarity around what actions governments, donors, the private sector, and total market approach (TMA) practitioners can take in different country contexts to improve sustainability in markets. The purpose of this brief is to provide family planning practitioners with information about different types of market interventions that are being implemented to support TMA outcomes.
About Health Policy Plus
Strengthening and advancing health policy priorities at global, national, and subnational levels, the project aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy design, implementation, and financing.
Health Policy Plus (2019)
From Policy to Practice Defining Health Market Interventions within a Total Market Approach
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This guide can help improve the tracking of contraceptive financing to ensure that decision-makers in these countries have timely information, can monitor trends, understand funding gaps, and mobilize resources for contraceptives. Improving this capability will also strengthen country environments for contraceptive security.
Adequate funding for contraceptives and related commodities is critical for ensuring that men and women in low- and middle-income countries have access to a full range of family planning services. This document guides readers through the steps to track contraceptive financing and finance processes. It provides information about financing schemes, sources, and agents and details how to collect and analyze data on how much funding was needed, committed, and spent for contraceptives. The document also provides information to help users map the funding processes (including organizations involved, funding decisions, timing, and potential bottlenecks) to determine when and to whom to advocate for adequate and timely funding for contraceptives. Finally, the guide suggests various situations in which to use the finance tracking information to enhance advocacy and decision-making.
About JSI
JSI strengthens health systems and health delivery in lower-and-middle income countries, improving supply chains for public health commodities to better the health of individuals and communities.
JSI (2013)
Enhancing Contraceptive Security through Better Financial Tracking: A Resource Guide for Analysts and Advocates
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A well-functioning supply chain is an essential part of a health system. This brief identifies key intervention areas of data visibility; product flow; a strong, skilled workforce; and leveraging the private sector to strengthen the performance of the supply chain. Tips with links to additional resources, and additional reading are provided in this resource.
Supply-chain management organizes the vast network of supply-chain players in a system to ensure timely delivery of products from the port to central and sub-national warehouses, and ultimately, to service-delivery points and communities. Interconnected supply chain processes for a seamless end-to-end supply chain are vital to avoid disruptions. This resource discusses four intervention areas to strengthen the management of each step of the supply chain from the manufacturer to the service-delivery point.
About the High Impact Practices (HIP)
HIPs are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. The HIP Partnership includes various structures to ensure HIP products are developed, kept up to date, and disseminated widely.
High Impact Practices (2020)
Supply Chain Management: Investing in the Supply Chain Is Critical to Achieving Family Planning Goals
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There are many different options of tools to use in supply-chain work. This guide provides insight into these major tools and their optimal use so that country supply-chain stakeholders and leaders can select the most appropriate tools.
This document is a review of major assessment tools to assist leaders and planners with selecting the most appropriate approach to provide baseline information on where to target improvements, where change is needed, and how to identify where investments in supply chain areas are needed. The document provides a summary of seven different assessment tools developed by agencies as an integral part of their contribution to promoting the capacity of national supply chains for medicines and health products.
About UNICEF
One of the world’s largest providers of vaccines, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, quality education and skill building, HIV prevention and treatment for mothers and babies, and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation.
About The Interagency Supply Chain Group (ISG)
The ISG shares information and seeks greater alignment across supply chain investments to bring more impact to individual agency supply chain strategies. The group promotes coordination both globally across programs and locally through national leadership with the overall aim of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of in-country supply chains.
UNICEF, Interagency Supply Chain Group (2019)
Technical Review of Public Health Supply Chain Assessment Tools: An Analysis of Major Tools and Approaches
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Supply chain recovery is essential for people to continue receiving contraceptives and life-saving medications when and where they need them. This requires thinking through different scenarios for supply chain recovery and then planning for the most likely scenario while being ready to adapt to any changes. Organizations that have recovered the quickest have usually been able to respond and adapt more effectively than others by focusing on sustaining or improving their internal processes during and after the black swan event.
A black swan event is an unpredictable and extremely rare episode with severe systematic consequences. This guide provides scenario planning and recommendations based on the GHSC-PSM's expertise and experiences during COVID-19 and other recent black swan events. The guide discusses the impact and the subsequent recovery efforts of three types of supply chain shocks: 1. Demand shocks 2. Supply shocks 3. When supply chains simultaneously experience both supply and demand shocks. Recovery efforts underscore the importance of supply chain planners coordinating with open communication across the supply chain and having the willingness and ability to methodically revisit and reassess recovery strategies and make any necessary adjustments to build resilient supply chains. This process provides stakeholders with a way to think through their recovery strategy—not just internally within an organization but as part of the supply chain network—and make necessary adjustments to build resilient supply chains. There is an associated podcast and the guide is available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
About USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM)
GHSC-PSM purchases and delivers health commodities, strengthens national supply chain systems, and provides global supply chain leadership to ensure lifesaving health supplies reach those in need, when they need them.
USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (2021)
Guidelines: Recovery Strategies for Public Health Supply Chains Post-Black Swan Event
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This guidance document identifies reusable and configurable LMIS software solutions and service providers that can help countries evolve from paper reporting and standalone technology (such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets) to integrated and networked LMIS software applications that simplify data entry and access and improve data quality, visibility, and use. This document also addresses key considerations and preconditions for acquiring and deploying a digital LMIS.
Managers of supply chains depend on timely and accurate data to make informed and effective decisions about routine operations like forecasting demand and resupplying health facilities. Introducing or enhancing a digital logistics management information system (LMIS) in a country’s health-supply chain improves the collection, analysis, communication, and use of accurate data for effective decision-making. This document is to support country planning for new LMIS software selection, acquisition, and deployment. It identifies off-the-shelf applications and service providers that meet global standards and common requirements for health-supply chain LMIS that are appropriate in challenging and resource-constrained environments.
About The Global Fund
The Global Fund is an international financing and partnership organization and the world’s largest financier of AIDS, TB, and Malaria programs.
About Gavi
Gavi is an international organization created in 2000 to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries.
Global Fund, Gavi (2019)
Qualified Software Solutions for Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS)
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The outsourcing toolkit comprises three resources that have been designed to complement one another and intend to support governments and national supply chain organizations to successfully outsource from a “people” perspective. Centering on the outsourcing roadmap, the toolkit allows users to assess the maturity of their supply chain and their current people practices. It defines the steps to be taken before outsourcing can be adopted.
The VAN offers the only comprehensive platform by which public sector procurers, country governments, and manufacturers can ensure informed and coordinated procurement and distribution of family planning supplies to 136 low- and middle-income countries. The VAN also houses four indispensable functionalities that have served as bedrocks of reproductive health commodity security for nearly two decades.
The VAN (Global Family Planning Visibility & Analytics Network) is a fully scaled, public health control tower, offering supply chain players the visibility needed to move contraceptive supplies effectively and efficiently. While access to the control tower requires membership, procurers, manufacturers, and countries that accept the VAN’s terms of use can track over 6,000 orders and shipments of 40 products across 136 countries in near-real time, thereby allowing them to see where products are in the supply chain and overcome any impediments to their movement. This collective vision enables all partners to better manage planned orders, track shipment status, resolve data inaccuracies, and make more efficient and cost-effective supply decisions.
About the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
The RHSC is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure better reproductive health.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (2021)
VAN & Reproductive Health Supplies Visualizer (RH VIZ)
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Supply chains must be robust and reliable during normal operations and flexible during emergencies so they can respond to a variety of disaster scenarios—whether they are localized events that can be managed with national resources or large-scale conflicts, or disasters, that require intervention by international organizations. This brief provides a framework and examples that illustrate that to be prepared for disaster, it is not enough to rely solely on the humanitarian architecture for disaster response. The systems and resources in place in a country must be leveraged for an effective response because it is these systems and supply chains that exist before and after a disaster.
This learning brief outlines what is necessary to create good preparedness and resilience for supply chain practices for SRH supply chains. The brief covers broad actions that countries can take to bolster their supply chains in preparation for emergencies to make them more agile and resilient, especially SRH supply chains. Some key country examples illustrate practices that can be employed to improve preparedness efforts. It is important to note that SRH commodities can be managed with the same principles and concerns as other health products, but special advocacy is needed to ensure that SRH is always a priority on the health agenda. General guidance is provided in this brief that can apply to any health program supply chain, but special emphasis is made throughout to make sure that SRH is included as a priority in all supply chain preparedness efforts at a country level.
About FP2030
FP2030 works to ensure voluntary modern contraceptive use by everyone who wants it, achieved through individuals’ informed choice and agency, responsive and sustainable systems providing a range of contraceptives, and a supportive policy environment.
FP2030 (2020)
Building a Flexible Supply Chain That Can Respond to SRH Needs in Emergencies
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The Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook is a key resource to understand the key principles, concepts, and fundamentals to manage supply chains for health commodities. The handbook distills the lessons from working with governments and public- and private-sector partners for over 40 years, improving supply chains in over 60 countries.
This handbook provides a comprehensive starting point to guide supply chain practitioners in managing essential medicines, antiretroviral medicines, vaccines, contraceptives, antimalarial medicines, diagnostics, tuberculosis medicines, and laboratory commodities. Technical areas covered include an introduction to logistics, supply chain strategy and design, information systems for data visibility and use, product selection, quantification, inventory management, and warehousing and distribution, serving as a resource for capacity building, a general reference, or for self-guided learning. The handbook includes an addendum on health care supply-chain management in the humanitarian response context. This can help supply chain managers understand the types of activities they may undertake throughout the logistics cycle in order to better prepare and deliver to the people who need relief during a crisis.
About JSI
JSI strengthens health systems and health delivery in lower-and-middle income countries, improving supply chains for public health commodities to better the health of individuals and communities.
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Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook
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This report summarizes the key findings from the assessment and lays out a community action plan to systematically strengthen end-to-end supply chains for SRH products. It includes recommendations grouped into functional areas outlining the risks, opportunities, and actions to take to strengthen the supply chain.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created acute disruptions to public health supply chains, revealing underlying vulnerabilities in the global supply ecosystem. This has resulted in increasing uncertainty in both the supply and demand for life-saving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) medicines and products. A crisis of this magnitude demands that we understand what worked well, what did not, and how best to plan for the future, even as the pandemic continues. JSI assisted the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition to understand the longer-term effects of the pandemic and its impact on the supply chain.
About the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
The RHSC is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure their better reproductive health.
About JSI
JSI strengthens health systems and health delivery in lower- and middle-income countries, improving supply chains for public health commodities to better the health of individuals and communities.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, JSI (2021)
Building Resilient Sexual And Reproductive Health Supply Chains During COVID-19 And Beyond: Community Roadmap for Action and Technical Findings
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Resources are grouped into six categories:
Measurement & Evaluation
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (2021)
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (2021)
High Impact Practices (2022)
Implementation Tools
Supply Chain
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Data Visibility
Recovery Strategies for Public Health Supply Chains Post-Black Swan Event
GHSC-PSM (2021)
Technical Review of Public Health Supply Chain Assessment Tools
UNICEF, Interagency Supply Chain Group (2019)
JSI (2019)
Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook
FP2030 (2022)
Implementation Tools
Supply Chain
Outsourcing Toolkit
People that Deliver (2022)
Outsourcing Toolkit
People that Deliver (2022)
Outsourcing has historically been provided by public employees and has been done so with a largely consistent rationale: that applying market mechanisms and private sector expertise to the work of governments can increase efficiencies, ensure that more products reach the patients, and ultimately, improve the effectiveness of the entire health supply chain. However, for governments (ministries of health, central medical stores, vaccine stores, and supply chain agencies) to outsource their supply chain services, they need to have the internal human resource capacity to effectively manage these outsourced activities. The roadmap builds on PtD’s maturity model for human resources in supply chain management, Kotter’s eight-step process for leading change, and is informed by interviews with health supply chain managers in Africa.
About People that Deliver
PtD is the global leader in human resources for supply chain management. PtD’s goal is to create a competent, supported, and adequately staffed supply chain workforce that is deployed across the public and private sectors within the health system.
The outsourcing toolkit comprises three resources that have been designed to complement one another and intend to support governments and national supply chain organizations to successfully outsource from a “people” perspective. Centering on the outsourcing roadmap, the toolkit allows users to assess the maturity of their supply chain and their current people practices. It defines the steps to be taken before outsourcing can be adopted.
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JSI (2013)
Enhancing Contraceptive Security through Financial Tracking
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