Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2012 2013

Details for Mechanism ID: 14578
Country/Region: Haiti
Year: 2012
Main Partner: Management Sciences for Health
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $572,000

Under the new PEPFAR II/USG strategy, to support the Ministry of Health in delivering good health services to the Haitian population while ensuring the availability of family planning and other health commodities at both USG supported sites and Departmental Hospitals or Warehouses, USAID/LMS will support the Ministry of Health to implement its strategy for improved logistic and delivery system nationwide. This effort will accelerate the achievement of targets under the health systems strengthening component of the USG/PEPFAR Haiti Reconstruction Strategy. USAID/LMS will work directly with the Family health Directorate (MOH/DSF) and the Pharmacist and Drugs Directorate (MOH/DPM) to reinforce the logistical capacity of the MOH to deliver family planning, HIV, and other health commodities to the major public sector hospitals and the Departmental warehouses. This effort includes: 1) strengthening local capacity to manage the supply chain of USG-donated condoms and family planning commodities; and 2) strengthening the capacity of MOHs DPM and DFS Directorates to manage commodity logistics and facilitate the delivery of quality family planning and other health services to the major public sector hospitals.

Global Fund / Programmatic Engagement Questions

1. Is the Prime Partner of this mechanism also a Global Fund principal or sub-recipient, and/or does this mechanism support Global Fund grant implementation? No

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $572,000

USAID/LMS will work directly with the Family Health Directorate (MOH/DSF) and the Pharmacist and Drugs Directorate (MOH/DPM) to reinforce the logistical capacity of the MOH to ensure and facilitate the delivery of Family Planning, HIV and other health commodities at the major public sector hospitals and the Departmental Warehouses. More specifically, LMS will oversee the actual delivery USG-donated condoms and family planning commodities while providing training and mentoring assistance to develop the internal capacity of the MOH to take over the management of the supply chain. DPM and DSF Directorates will also receive training and mentoring assistance in commodity logistics management and the development of appropriate processes and infrastructure to facilitate the delivery of quality family planning and other health services to the major public sector hospitals. A priority for the COP12 period will be to focus on sustainability of supply chain supportive activities in Haiti. The effort will be achieved through a collaboration with other supply chain support partners in Haiti, both USG and other donors. Specifically, a unified supply chain strategy has been developed addressing the need to house commodities centrally in the Port au Prince area, with strengthening of departmental warehousing and management systems. Key partners in this effort include SCMS, PAHO, and UNFPA. This strategically links vertical supply chain systems currently in place in Haiti. A steering committee has been defined and the newly appointed Minister of Health is the chair of this committee. Both SCMS and USAID/LMS provide central and departmental technical and managerial support. This human capacity support will be included in the Partnership Framework Implemenation Plan, with the objective of transition support to the GOH over a period of time. While SCMS human capacity support has focused on the delivery of HIV and TB related commodities and USAID/LMS has provided assistance with logistical delivery of family planning and reproductive health-related commities (through the embedding of approximately 14 staff at the central and departmental levels), these scopes will be strategically coordinated over the COP12 period to ensure efficiences achieved and to facilitate absorption of their capacity into GOH mangement systems. The USG supports a pilot project in Nippes and South East to ensure the delivery of health commodities in all sites in these two departments, with this pilot informing the development of a tracking and monitoring system for the DPM, the pharmaceutical management unit within the MOH. Identified field data coordinators will report weekly to the central level (MOH/UPE) to centralize the the tracking and mangement of commodity delivery. In order to centralize the monitoring of commodities tracking and logisitics, USAID will be expanding the Carte Sanitaire database within the UPE, the planning and evaluation unit within the MOH, during the COP12 period to include pharmaceutical tracking data systems. This system will serve to support the DPM as well. To better define our capacity building support to the Ministry, the HIV component under USAID/LMS will be transferred to MSPP HIV Prevention project, a USAID prevention project to be launched in Q4 FY12.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $450,000
Human Resources for Health $450,000
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
enumerations.Impact/End-of-Program Evaluation
Family Planning