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Supply Chain Workforces in Pandemic Response

Health systems in low- and middle-income countries are facing the urgent pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch our webinar recording.

Achieving Better Data: How an eLMIS is Transforming Malawi’s Health Supply Chain

Thanks to the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM), an electronic logistics management information system is improving operations and outcomes for the Ministry of Health in Malawi.

Thank You For the Medicine: Supplies Saving Lives in Rwanda

The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) improves health outcomes and builds brighter futures by supporting supply chain heroes worldwide with training, tools, and treatments.

Tracking Commodities Down to the Last Mile in Nigeria: COMS Webinar Recording

Recording from October 7, 2020 webinar on the Commodity Order Management System we are piloting in Nigeria.

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Tesfaye Seifu

Ethiopia Country Director, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program - Procurement and Supply Management Project

Dr. Grace Adeya

USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project Malaria Task Order Director

Jean Bedel Evi

Mali Country Director, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project

Rolando A. Berrios

Process Improvement Director, Quality Management

Kevin Biggs

Myanmar Country Director, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program - Procurement and Supply Management Project

Gordon Brown

Deliver/Return Manager, USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project

White Paper: Private Sector Engagement to Advance and Sustain Health Supply Chain Resiliency

Preparing for the New Normal: Adapting Health Supply Chains to COVID-19 and Beyond

Leveraging Private Sector Transportation/Logistics Services in Nigeria

Quality Considerations of Zambian Wholesalers and Regulatory Authorities to Increase Availability and Access to Quality Maternal Newborn, and Child Health Products

Wholesaler Capacity to Provide Quality Assured Maternal, Newborn and Child Commodities

Coordinated Response to Cyclone Idai in Mozambique Provides Model for Supply Chain Emergency Response

Data Collection by Phone: The South Sudan Call Center

Measuring Temperature throughout Global Health Supply Chains Using Internet of Things (IoT) Data Loggers

Activity Booklet: COVID-19 Messages for Kids

Webinar: Supply Chain Workforces in Pandemic Response

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Integrating Supply Chains in Nigeria

By combining parallel donor-funded warehousing and distribution supply into a single streamlined supply chain, the project facilitates the provision of critical life-saving HIV and malaria health commodities to the people of Nigeria.

Tracking Products’ Temperature to Ensure Medication Quality

Tracking and documenting the temperature of products and storage conditions of medications from manufacturer to delivery can ensure product quality and inform supply chain decisions.

Improving Health through Digitized Logistics Information

Reliable availability of maternal, neonatal, and child health products in Pakistan is critical. A digitized and integrated Health Logistics Management Information Systems (HLMIS) can improve conditions.

Strengthening Logistics Information and Management Systems in Chad

Improving management of critical medical commodities in Chad is essential to sustaining the country’s progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.

Fostering Responsible Local Stewardship of Global Fund Grants

Supporting national committees that coordinate Global Fund grants reinforces local ownership and strengthens the effort to end the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics.

Enhancing Logistics Management for Ghana’s Health Supply Chain

Ghana’s Supply Chain Master Plan establishes a vision for an efficient health supply chain, which will only be realized through enhanced logistics management, data visibility, and last-mile distribution.

Stronger Book Supply Chains for Honduran Schools

With schools able to access more reading materials through a stronger supply chain, students in Honduras are benefiting from higher-quality education.

Empowering Health Leaders in West and Central Africa and Haiti

Through the USAID Global Health Supply Chain (GHSC) - Technical Assistance (TA) Francophone Task Order, health leaders are improving national supply chains and advancing global health security.

Cutting-edge Technologies in Global Health Supply Chains

To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project employs cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to make global health supply chains more efficient and reach more people.

Transforming the Nigerian Agriculture Sector

Nigerians who farm for a living often face low harvests and sales, which threatens the population’s livelihoods, access to food, and health.

Using Evidence-Based Analysis for a Food-Secure World

An early warning system that provides timely data and evidence-based analysis helps the international community identify and respond to populations that lack access to safe and nutritious food.

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Approaching 95-95-95 HIV/AIDS Goals by Focusing on Patients

Ensuring adherence to HIV treatment can significantly improve the quality of life for people living with HIV. A patient-centric treatment approach is successfully reducing the burden and helping the global health community maintain the progress made to end AIDS by 2030 during COVID-19.

A third party logistics provider uses a motorbike to transport samples across Nigeria.

Private Partnership Paves the Way to Better Health in Nigeria

Engaging private sector partners in Nigeria’s lab sample network has strengthened the country’s efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS and made its global health supply chain more resilient in the face of COVID-19.

In TransIT: Enhancing Visibility Across In-Country Supply Chains

Chemonics is helping to ensure that health commodities are delivered where they are needed most by using a low-cost, easy-to-use, cloud-based transport management system that increases visibility across the in-country supply chain.

Strengthening Health Systems and Access in Senegal

To improve health systems, the government of Senegal is creating tools, policies, and processes to ensure quality health service delivery.

Access to Medicines Transforms Lives for HIV/AIDS Patients

Bolstering the health supply chain in Zambia equips health facilities with the medicines and other supplies needed to care for patients like Catherine Nalungwe who live with HIV/AIDS.

Building a Skilled Health Supply Chain Workforce for Haiti

Haiti acquired in-country expertise needed to address the problem of donated medical and laboratory equipment maintenance, moving one more step closer to self-reliance and sustainability.

Attention to Detail

Adjusting small aspects of the patient — and staff — experience in Ethiopia’s health facilities is leading to significant improvements in how the country provides health-care services.

Making Supply Chain Data Visibility a Reality

With a new tool at their disposal, health facilities in Malawi are collecting reliable data that ensures lifesaving medicines and supplies reach their final destination.

Making Vaccines More Visible

By expanding the reach of its vaccine management information system, Pakistan is poised to increase immunization coverage and save thousands of lives from preventable diseases through greater data visibility.

Counterfeit medicines in circulation must be destroyed sustainably to limit the danger they pose on consumers.

Dealing with Counterfeits

A series of training events has helped Benin’s health supply chain workers learn how to safely dispose of counterfeit medicines that would otherwise find their ways into consumers’ hands.

Keeping Medicines Safe

Counterfeit and substandard medicines put millions of lives at risk in developing countries. In Kenya, Chemonics is equipping local testing labs to root out these killers.

Are Middlemen the Key to Stronger Value Chains in Uganda?

“Middlemen” is a term that often has negative connotations. But Stephen McCarthy, a Chemonics value chain expert, said middlemen have a key role to play in the transformation of agricultural value chains in Uganda.

Efficient Supply Chains Deliver Results in Kenya

By improving the pharmaceutical supply chain in Kenya, life-saving medicine is reaching more than 340,000 patients faster than ever.

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Achieving Data Driven Health Supply Chains: Local Lessons and Global Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every way in which global supply chains function. While one of the most striking examples is the desperate need for data visibility for vaccine distribution and patient vaccination status, supply chain practitioners also need visibility into distribution and consumption of health commodities procured outside of COVID-19. For these health…

From Billions to Trillions: Using Blended Finance for Scaling Impact in Climate and Health

The following blog post introduces Chemonics’ recently launched Blended Finance Technical Briefs series. Each explores a different development sector as it intersects with blended finance and impact investing, including agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes. With private capital outpacing traditional donor assistance, the devastating impact of the COVID-19…

News: Chemonics Announces New Senior Vice President Dzenita Korac Kolja

Chemonics International has named Dzenita Korac Kolja as senior vice president of its Operations, Finance, and Compliance (OFC) Division supporting its global health and supply chain portfolio. Ms. Korac Kolja is a seasoned finance, risk, and compliance expert with 20 years of experience supporting donor-funded international development projects around the world. Prior to joining Chemonics’…

Development Works Here with Andres McAlister

We’d like you to meet Andres McAlister! Andres is an integrated supply chain manager on the Global Health Supply Chain team on the PSM (Procurement Supply Management) Project. Andres discusses how he became interested in development, his experience in the MiniMasters program brought by Chemonics’ partnership with Arizona State University, and what motivates him. Andres…

Making the Last Mile Clearer than Ever

In an effort to reduce malaria and HIV morbidity, and to improve access to maternal and child health and family planning commodities, the Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project delivers key life-saving medicines to the last mile across the world. Distribution of commodities in Cameroon, Haiti, and Niger is often inhibited by…

Going the Extra Mile to Reach the Last Mile

Two supply chain experts, Bongisiwe Mosekoa and Fikreslassie Alemu, share strategies they’ve applied in Eswatini and Ethiopia to address social factors and systems challenges behind medical commodity uptake, implement inclusive delivery practices for last mile distribution, and ensure sustained health outcomes for everyone, including underserved populations such as people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, pastoralists and…

Where in the World Are Those Private Sector Partners?

As the countries of West and Central Africa struggle with ongoing health challenges such as a recent Ebola outbreak, one of the highest HIV/AIDS burdens in the world, and a fractured health infrastructure, many actors in the health supply chain remain unaware of what organizations and private companies already exist to provide valuable global health supply chain services…

3 Questions with Simon Cole: Re-envisioning Health Commodity Distribution in Zambia

Since 2016, the USAID GHSC-PSM project in Zambia has been working closely with the Ministry of Health, Medical Stores Limited, and other partners to improve availability and access to lifesaving health commodities through procurement, distribution, and supply chain technical assistance. GHSC-PSM and Medical Stores Limited (MSL)’s implementation of an innovative health commodity distribution system through a…

Creativity and Innovation During a Global Crisis

The full implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be determined, but it has disrupted nearly every aspect of socioeconomic activity at a breadth and scale not seen in modern memory. Now activities that once seemed routine — school, work, travel, errands, and social gatherings —present serious health risks, and the resulting lockdown is…

Upcoming Webinar: Emergency Supply Chain Response

Research has shown that planning for and investing in emergency preparedness in advance – and building resilient supply chains – reduces the amount of response funds needed and allows for a quick response to control, contain, and, hopefully, stop a disease before it spreads. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world and within countries,…

3 Questions with Juan Felipe Sanchez Franco

During the past two years, the USAID Honduras Quality Reading Materials Activity (QRMA) Project worked with the Ministry of Education to acquire, print, and distribute more than 3 million teaching and learning materials. Chief of Party Juan Felipe Sanchez Franco offers some insight about the project’s successful collaboration with the ministry and other stakeholders. How did partnerships…

News: Chemonics Announces New Executive Vice President Chris Scott

Chemonics International has named Chris Scott as its new executive vice president. Mr. Scott has more than 20 years of experience managing international development projects both worldwide and within Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, including 10 years serving as a member of Chemonics’ executive management team. In his new role, Mr. Scott…

Flying the Last Mile — Integrating Cargo Drones into Health Supply Chains

This post originally appeared on Devex. In remote regions of Malawi, terrain, infrastructure, and resource limitations delay — and can even prevent — lifesaving diagnoses and medicine deliveries to hospitals and health centers. Similar obstacles exist in countries across the developing world and the global health community is starting to turn to drones to…

News: Chemonics’ Executive Vice President wins 2019 ASCM Award of Excellence – Supply Chain Leader

On September 18, 2019, Chemonics Executive Vice President Jamey Butcher received the 2019 Award of Excellence – Supply Chain Leader from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), the global leader in supply chain learning, transformation, innovation, and leadership. Mr. Butcher oversees Chemonics’ global health supply chain portfolio, providing technical assistance and service delivery to…

News: Chemonics Recognized as Industry Innovators for Second Year in a Row

The Government Innovation Awards, presented by Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Washington Technology, and Defense Systems, showcases the best examples of innovation in government IT. This year, Chemonics earned recognition under the industry innovators category for its contributions and leadership to advance the private sector’s vital role in the government IT community. The award…

5 Steps to Better Government Supply Chain Technology

Automated information systems are now widely used to manage the data that flows throughout a supply chain, from procuring a commodity, to manufacturing it, and, finally, to distributing it to a consumer. For example, modern retailers like Amazon can track a product from the point of manufacture to the customer’s door. However, in the developing…

News: Partnering to Improve Lives in Frontier Economies

The Frontier Economies Logistics Lab (FELL) meeting will convene more than 100 forward-thinking supply chain leaders from the private sector, academia, and global development community to exchange ideas and harness commercial tools to enhance supply chains and improve people’s lives in developing countries. “This summer FELL meeting will focus on applying specific commercial tools and…

3 Ways to Better Protect Medicine Quality and Safety in Supply Chains

Medicines distributed at health facilities in small towns in Mauritania, large cities in Nigeria, and remote areas in Cambodia take a long journey to get there. It all starts with the manufacturers that produce them — many of which are based as far away as China or India. Once they have been produced by the…

News: Chemonics at the 72nd World Health Assembly

Every year, the World Health Assembly — the decision-making body of the World Health Organization —convenes to explore the top issues on the global health agenda. During the 72nd Session of the World Health Assembly, Chemonics looks forward to joining international stakeholders for side events that elevate the visibility of these issues, from universal health…

5 Reasons We Need Automation to Continually Improve Supply Chains

In global health supply chains, the geographic spread of delivery is often vast, the diseases we respond to are complex, and the potential risks for public health emergencies or supply chain interruptions are ever-present. This makes continual improvement that much more critical. Chemonics recognized this critical need in 2015 with the award of the $9.5…

News: Innovation, Technology, and Advancing the SDGs at ICT4D 2019

Digital technology has had a profound impact on global development across sectors and in many parts of the world. From April 30 to May 3, public, private, and civil society organizations from more than 80 countries will convene for the 2019 Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Now in its…

Development Works Here with Dzenita Kolja

We’d like you to meet Dzenita Kolja! Dzenita serves as managing director of the Audit Preparedness Unit within Chemonics’ Global Health Supply Chain Office. Once an aid beneficiary herself, she shares her development journey from Bosnia to the U.S. and what draws her to this work. Dzenita is one reason #DevelopmentWorksHere. 1. Can you tell…

News: GHSC-PSM Project Hits 87 Percent On-Time Delivery and Achieves $85 Million in Savings Per Recent Annual Report

As reported in the recently published Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report, covering the period of October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018, the USAID Global Health and Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project made big strides in delivering lifesaving commodities on time and building efficient, reliable, and cost-effective health supply chains…

Operating a Global Health Supply Chain in Low-Resource Settings

This post originally appeared on the APICS blog. Companies work tirelessly to optimize supply chain management and enhance end-to-end performance. From agribusiness to information technology, we all strive for better data, stronger foresight and breakthrough innovations. And, of course, we want that all-important metric — on-time delivery. But the global health sector confronts a unique…

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