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An in-depth landscape analysis of the various actors, objectives, and lessons learned from existing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programs operating within the humanitarian supply chain.
Inspired by the 20th anniversary of the first World Development Report, which focused on health, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health released the Global Health 2035 report in 2013. This visionary report asserts that we can achieve significant health gains in low- and middle-income countries by 2035, thus achieving a grand convergence. Aligned with Global Health 2035, this new report — Advancing Social and Economic Development by Investing in Women’s and Children’s Health: a New Global Investment Framework — mapped the health, economic, and social gains resulting from a greater…
This concept note outlines a costing model, cites available information sources, and identifies data gaps for estimating globally the country supply chain costs to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Using available information, we develop an approach for estimating the variable costs for country distribution costs based on a series of assumptions. We also propose a tool and approach to validate these assumptions and develop an approach for estimating the capital costs required to handle the expected increase in volume of commodities as MDG targets are met.
Supply chain design and optimization is a powerful, practical tool that can improve performance now and position supply chains for the future.
Contracting private logistics service providers can be a unique opportunity to improve supply chain performance, but that performance depends on investing in and executing long-term logistics contracts. This brief offers basic advice for getting the best possible performance from a logistics contract in a public health setting, describes the basic duties and required capabilities of a logistics contract manager, and summarizes several tools for contract management.
The GS1 Standards Implementation Project developed strategic recommendations for implementing and supporting GS1 Standards across USAID’s global health supply chain. Primary objectives included ensuring that ARTMIS is designed properly to capture product information according to GS1 Standards, developing a strategy for implementing GS1 Standards with the USAID supplier base, and informing country-level logistics management information system (LMIS) tools on the USAID/GHSC-PSM GS1 implementation to help ensure data can continue down the chain to truly create end-to-end visibility.
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