Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Details for Mechanism ID: 7522
Country/Region: Ghana
Year: 2010
Main Partner: John Snow, Inc
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $517,508

JSI/Deliver is a five-year, worldwide project to design and develop safe, reliable and sustainable supply systems that provide a range of affordable, quality essential health commodities to clients in country programs. Activities will focus on supply chain management support, such as forecasting exercises and improving the supply chain sustainability through targeted TA, including the development of SOPs in various areas.

Funding for Treatment: Adult Treatment (HTXS): $100,000

Funding will be used for supporting the GHS for the forecasting and procurement of ART and related commodities.

Part of the funding will be used to support the FANTA-2 project in putting in place a logistics management system for Food for Prescription nutrional supplements at ART sites.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $117,508

The laboratory logistics system recently designed by the JSI/DELIVER will be introduced in at least 100 hospital labs. It will streamline the flow of laboratory commodities through the CMS and the RMS. JSI/DELIVER will build capacity in laboratory quantification. Currently, HIV test kits are the only laboratory commodities that are quantified on a regular basis. In addition, JSI/DELIVER will build capacity of the NPHRL to monitor and supervise the laboratory logistics system.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $200,000

Funding will be used to provide technical support for condoms, lubricant and female condom forecasting and procurement to the GHS; as a partner under the new Global Fund grant, it is becoming responsible of national condom procurement.

In addition, support for implementation of a new "vendor management inventory" (VMI) approach critical for large volume HIV-related commodities such as condoms. To shift responsibility for more supply chain functions from service providers and facility staff to professional logisticians, this activity would phase in a transfer of key logistics functions to RMS delivery personnel/logisticians including physical inventory at facilities, estimating resupply quantities, delivering supplies and reporting data to the RMS.

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $100,000

PMTCT funding will build the capacity of district pharmacists and other staff to provide supportive supervision through training, development of tools and forms, and creation of linkages between supervisory visits and the supply chain. This will provide specific support for supervision of PMTCT activities, for example ensuring availability of test kits, ARVs, condoms, and related consumables at PMTCT sites.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $200,000
Human Resources for Health $200,000