Liliane Kandeh and her son picking up their malaria drugs, Freetown, Sierra Leone. © UNICEF/Asselin.
Inter Agency Pharmaceutical
Coordination Group
Hitesh Hurkchand
RMNCH Strategy and
Coordination Team
Copenhagen June 18, 2015
Overview
Inter Agency Supply Chain Group
(ISG)
Inter-Agency Supply-Chain Group comprising policy and funding bodies
• Overall Vision - The global development partners will collaborate in support of
countries’ efforts to reach the goals of universal health coverage in part through
sustainable access to quality essential health commodities and supplies at the right
time, in the right place and at affordable cost for those who need them, through
cost-effective and efficient procurement and supply systems.
• Partnership of 13 major actors involved in providing supply chain support to
countries:
The Global Fund, USAID, DFID, The World Bank, GAVI, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Norway, Canada, German Development
Bank and World Food Program
• Informal Group - ISG Secretariat hosted by the RMNCH Trust Fund since 2014
through support from the Norwegian Government. Strong advocacy with the Global
Health Leaders.
Inter-Agency Supply-Chain Group comprising policy and funding bodies
• Joint vision statement, position paper and work plan
• The broad purpose of the group is to maintain communications and alignment
across the different investments to bring more impact to individual strategies as well
as those that are common.
• Promoting coordination across programs and coordinate engagement globally and
with countries, with the aim of improving the design and function of in-country
supply chains
• The ISG also identify projects that we work on as a group.
Inter-Agency Supply-Chain Group: current focus
Universal Health Coverage
More lives saved
Healthier lives
Sustainable access to quality essential health
commodities and supplies at the right time, in the right
place and at affordable cost for those who need them
IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Human
Resources
Information
Systems and
Forecasting
Distribution
(including
for the lastmile)
Performance
Management
STRENGTHEN SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY
National
Leadership,
Plans & Policies
Prototyping,
Diagnostics &
Costing
ENHANCE THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
Standardize Key
Performance
Indicators
Joint
Assessments
Align
organizational
activities and
contracting
Interagency
Coordination
Activities to date – selected examples
Selected developments at global level to support country efforts
• Adoption of GS1 standards for non vaccine commodities
(Contraceptives - CPPAG); possibly HIV, TB, Malaria in 2015 / 2016
(USAID, UNFPA, TGF and Gavi)
• Agency KPI harmonization
• Joint agency planning for Country Supply Chain Assessments
(WHO, UNICEF and USAID)
• Efficient coordination and planning at country level (Myanmar,
Senegal, Mozambique, Nigeria, DRC, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia)
(All agencies)
Activities to date – selected examples
Selected developments at global level to support country efforts
• Synthesis of investments for last mile distribution (UNICEF &
UNFPA)
• Coordination of GHSC (USAID)
• Coordination of LMIS global and country Investments (USAID)
• West African Logistics Hub (BMGF) / Regional Immunization
Hubs (WHO/UNICEF) / East African Regional Centre of Excellence
at the University of Kigali SPH (BMGF, KfW, Gavi)
Thank you