Private Transport Integration
VillageReach works with governments and the private sector to integrate private land and air based transport to optimize health supply chains to ensure equitable, resilient and responsive access to essential health products.
For Impactful Private Sector Engagement, the Details Matter
As countries work toward stronger, more resilient health supply chains, private-sector engagement (PSE) often plays a critical role. Private companies bring expertise in many areas including transportation and warehousing, telecommunications, pharmaceutical distribution and information systems — capabilities that can expand reach and improve efficiency across health systems....
Building Capabilities in Private Sector Engagement: Our Outsourced Transport Journey
At VillageReach, we believe leveraging private sector capacity for health supply chains is critical to driving sustained impact. Local private companies offer low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments and their partners a variety of effective and cost-efficient solutions to strengthen health supply chains. One...
Where countries should invest for strong, self-reliant, people-centred supply chains
The latest piece in our thought leadership series – Stronger together: Health supply chain voices – comes from Rebecca Alban, senior manager and team lead at VillageReach. She explains which investments represent best value for money for countries and donors.
OPINION: From Aid Dependency to Sustainable Systems: The Promise of Outsourcing for Self-Reliant PHSC
As the global health funding landscape shifts, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face an uncomfortable truth: their health systems are too dependent on external support to operate and function. Public health supply chains (PHSCs) in Africa exemplify this dependence as the warehousing operations,...
What WHA78 Tells Us About Supply Chains in Africa
As the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) convened in Geneva, the global health community faced a critical inflection point. Discussions focused on what it will take to prevent the next pandemic, rebuild public trust and create more equitable health systems. For African countries, the...
The Way There: Maintaining Health Product Quality in Transit
Increasing access to essential medicines and vaccines is critical to achieving universal health coverage. This, of course, is no simple task, especially in Africa where the challenges, both logistical and financial, are real,1 and the solutions are complex and varied. But to truly ensure...
Jumping Hurdles: Removing Blockers to Increase PSE
This blog is the second installment in a three-part series to engage stakeholders by focusing on sections of our new position paper, “Increasing Local Private Sector Engagement in LMIC Public Health Systems”. This in-depth paper identifies the need to integrate private sector Ecosystem Services & Products into public health systems,...
Transport management is critical for efficient global supply chains
Transportation is a vital link in virtually all supply chains. How goods are moved and effective transport management play a critical role in the efficiency of global supply chains.
Supply Chain Leadership Across Africa: The Complex World of Logistics in Public Health
Originally posted on Supply Chain Now. Integrating private sector resources and capacity into public health supply chains is critical for building high-performing supply chains that are equitable, people-centered, resilient and sustainable. In a new Episode of Supply Chain Now: Supply Chain Leadership Across Africa...
A Meeting of the Minds: Empowering Supply Chain Reform Champions
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb So much of my work as an advocacy professional is about bringing people together to create a collective voice for collective action. Last month, I...
From ideas to implementation — outsourced logistics in Africa
From Angelina Cumba and Olivier Defawe / Devex: VillageReach transforms health care delivery so that each person has the health care needed to thrive.
Opinion: From ideas to implementation — outsourced logistics in Africa
Originally posted on Devex. Donors are investing in integrating local private sector resources into public health supply chains. VillageReach’s Outsourced Transport Resource Center aims to put the theory of outsourced supply chain logistics into practice. No one wants to reinvent the wheel. Especially with...
Outsourced transport improves health care delivery across Inhambane
Point of care starts at the primary health center, where the patient and the health care worker meet. But for many communities in Inhambane Province, in the south of Mozambique, that point of care is harder to reach than for other Mozambicans. This is...Background
Based on the organizational value of radical collaboration, VillageReach provides technical assistance (TA) services and information to governments, private sector and implementing partners to integrate private transport into health supply chains. Through leveraging private sector capacity in both land and drone transport African governments can strengthen their supply chain and ensure products are available when and where they are needed. VillageReach offers TA to stakeholders interested in:
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- Exploration & Set-up: With these services governments and partners will be ready to start implementation with cost competitive contract with 4PLs/3PLs/drone airlines and it has an understanding of resources and skills necessary for managing sustainable outsourced transport.
- Implementation: With these services governments have the tools, people and processes in place for successful implementation.
- Management: With these services governments have the skills and tools to manage the implementation of outsourced transport and consistently achieve performance targets.
- Verification: With these services governments understand and have in place the verification process, standard operating procedures and tools to independently implement outsourced transport sustainability and monitor its quality.
Contact us at angelina.cumba@villagereach.org.
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Building Responsive, Integrated Health Supply Chains in Africa: Achievements and Lessons from the Supply Chain Integrators Investment
From Ambition to Implementation – The Use of Outsourced Transport to Deliver Polio Lab Samples
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Scaling Innovation: Mozambique Transport Case Study Summary
Transport Quality Management – Technical Assistance Toolkit
Outsourced Logistics Gap Assessment
Unlocking Opportunities Insights on Africa’s Outsourcing Landscape
Outsourced Drone Transport
Outsourced Transport Resource Center – Consulting Services (General Presentation, 2024)
Service Level Agreements – Enhancing collaboration between the public and private sectors
Outsourced Transport Resource Center Services Sheet
OTRC Infographic
Building Health Supply Chains for the Future: Opportunities for Private Sector
Outsourcing Perceptions Survey 2024 Flyer
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The Outsourced Transport Resource Center aims to enhance your comprehension of stakeholder perspectives on outsourcing transportation and warehousing in the public health supply chain to private sector transporters. These stakeholders include government officials, professionals from private sector logistics firms, as well as donors and implementing partners in your country. Gaining an understanding of these stakeholders’ perceptions is crucial for the effective implementation of an integrated and fit-for-purpose approach to outsourced transport and warehousing. By aligning with stakeholders, sustainable solutions for outsourcing transportation can be achieved.
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