Resources
Quarterly Reports
May 18, 2018
This Quarterly Report summarizes GHSC-PSM's activities and outcomes for Year 3, Quarter 2, January 1 to March 31, 2018. In this quarter, the project procured $301 million and delivered $187 million in health commodities, an increase of $43.8 million and $11.3 million, respectively, over Q1. GHSC-PSM also expanded its country presence to 32 field offices — adding Mali to the countries supported with technical assistance.
April 27, 2018
The Pipeline Monitoring and Procurement Planning System (PipeLine) was designed to enable program managers to plan optimal procurement and shipment schedules for health commodities and to monitor the stock status of health products. Program managers can use PipeLine to assist in planning, to estimate future product needs in terms of quantities and costs, and to monitor the status of their procurement plans.
The tool has been used in more than 40 countries to manage program and national level health commodities planning. Under GHSC-PSM, the tool is being reviewed for system upgrade and…
April 27, 2018
The Laboratory Efficiency and Quality Improvement Planning (LabEQIP) tool is a GIS-based solution that helps improve laboratory network efficiency and advance quality service delivery through data-driven optimization.
Developed in partnership with LLamasoft and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the LabEQIP tool is for use by ministries of health, donors, and other key stakeholders who work in national laboratory health program development. The most common use of the tool is to improve referral network optimization, external quality audit (EQA) monitoring and performance…
Guidelines
March 20, 2018
Oxytocin — a medicine used to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage — is temperature sensitive and requires transport and storage in the cold chain. Despite general awareness of the threat to oxytocin quality if the cold chain is not maintained, many countries still do not transport and store oxytocin appropriately.
In October 2017, a group of scientists, researchers, manufacturers and health experts from the public and private sectors came together in Geneva to review current evidence on oxytocin and identify a way forward for improving the quality of oxytocin in countries…
Quarterly Reports
March 13, 2018
This Quarterly Report summarizes GHSC-PSM's activities and outcomes for Year 3, Quarter 1, October 1 to December 31, 2017. In this quarter, the project achieved an average on-time delivery rate of 72 percent while also supporting a 37 percent increase in the volume of commodities delivered.
Guidelines
February 22, 2018
This document presents the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan designed for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project.
