Digital Development Awards
Seven Chemonics-implemented projects have received USAID’s coveted Digital Development Awards (DIGIs). Click on the dots to learn more about each project and award.
We operate three regional distribution centers — state-of-the-art warehousing facilities — in Belgium, Dubai, and South Africa to store and distribute the most frequently requested essential medicines and other health products. These help us position commodities closer to their end destinations so that we can respond quickly to countries’ needs and urgent requests.
Belgium
Essential medicines are stored in a warehouse positioned closer to their end destination.
PHOTO CREDIT: Lan Andrian | GHSC-PSM
In Benin, we're creating a health supply chain support system and career opportunities for a new generation of supply chain professionals.
Benin
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Health commodities are transported by motorized boat to the Sô-Ava municipal health center in Benin. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-TA Francophone Task Order
We work to eliminate malaria in Cambodia and around the world.
Cambodia
GHSC-PSM’s forest ranger long-lasting insecticidal net distribution campaign in the Rattanakroka Forest Protected Area of Cambodia. PHOTO CREDIT: Chris Norman | Chemonics
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The global community — including governments, donors, NGOs, and the private sector — must focus on three critical areas to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 and better prepare for future global health threats: health workforce expansion, supply chain preparedness, and private sector engagement.
Washington, DC (USA)
A One Health activity emergency training drill takes place in Tanzania. PHOTO CREDIT: Light in Captivity | Chemonics
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India
Suppliers located in places such as India and China provide the GHSC-PSM project with lifesaving commodities. PHOTO CREDIT: Andi Gultom | Chemonics
We work with with more than 360 suppliers in countries such as India and China to procure lifesaving HIV/AIDS, malaria, family planning, and maternal and child health commodities.
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Nigeria
COMS allowed the GHSC-PSM project to track the long-lasting insecticidal nets that these patients will receive at Bauchi LGA in Nigeria thanks to their netcards. PHOTO CREDIT: Mayowa Fadairo | GHSC-PSM
Innovative solutions like our Commodity Order Management System are letting us track the delivery of health commodities in Nigeria down
to the last mile in real time.
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In Rwanda, GHSC-PSM supply chain employees are a critical link in ensuring increased access to voluntary family planning. Their work is vital to safe motherhood, healthy families, and prosperous communities. USAID’s support to countries like Rwanda leads to better health outcomes for mothers and babies.
Video:
Thank You for the Medicine
Rwanda
A family planning nurse counsels a patient about contraceptive methods at Nayamata Hospital in Kinazi, Rwanda. VIDEO CREDIT: Bobby Neptune | GHSC-PSM
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Shipping Lanes
An international container cargo ship transports important life saving commodities the world over.
Simon Cole, distribution center logistics director with the USAID GHSC-PSM project in Zambia, explains how engagement of third-party logistics providers allowed for quick adaptation to an altered health supply chain and continued delivery of life-saving commodities even in the midst of a global pandemic.
Video:
Re-envisioning Health
Commodity Distribution in Zambia
Zambia
VIDEO CREDIT: Simon Cole | GHSC-PSM PHOTO CREDIT: Esther Muyangana |
GHSC-PSM
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Our global health supply chain utilizes 7,249 shipping lanes worldwide to serve more than
55 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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In 2019, we conducted emergency supply chain preparedness workshops with our partners to support 11 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean to respond to the Zika pandemic. The workshops allowed participating governments to develop protocols, create formal emergency response teams, and more.
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Latin America and
the Carribbean
Evens Civil, GHSC-PSM data manager, teaches health workers how to use the Smartphone for Reporting app for improved supply planning. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-PSM
Monitoring consumption and restocking health commodities is challenging with limited equipment and technology. “Smartphones for Reporting,” puts smartphones into the hands of health workers at service delivery sites to quickly and accurately report consumption data.
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Haiti
Applying best practices for technology usage can
be complicated in insecure operating environments with limited connectivity. In Afghanistan, we
applied principles for digital development to a new management information system enabling staff to better track and manage project data.
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Afghanistan
Workers transport malaria commodities on behalf of USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-PSM
Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Angola we found a way to strengthen health supply chains by introducing a new contract mechanism that enhanced competitive pricing for lifesaving malaria commodities.
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Angola
The world’s youngest nation faces many supply chain challenges. A private-sector model implemented by one of our projects uses low-cost call centers to collect essential data on commodities by phone.
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South Sudan
COLOMBIA
PHILIPPINES
INDONESIA
PAKISTAN
MOLDOVA
UGANDA
Moldova Competitiveness Project
Moldova Future Technologies Activity