Figure 1 Logistics chain supervision.
Both IPTp and widespread screening in ANC have cost implications, including commodity, logistics, training, supervision, and monitoring costs.
UNICEF supported logistics and supervision components, with the Government of Albania absorbing the cost of the remaining expenses for vaccines and related supplies.
Two years later, another nationwide hospital based EmONC survey in 2010 has shown advances in personnel, supplies, logistics and supervision, but not in providers competency [ 8].
The United Nations in Rwanda and especially UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA have assisted the Government of Rwanda to put in place logistics, enhanced supervision and monitoring, and social mobilization for the campaign, as well as to purchase vaccines to reach every last child, including those that live in far-flung areas.
Specific policy and implementation issues include ACT packaging and pricing, supply logistics, regulatory oversight and supervision, training, monitoring drug safety, and behavior change and communication.
Specific management aspects that were targeted for improvement included: supportive supervision, logistics for supplies, equipment and drugs, record keeping, monitoring and evaluation, and quality improvement techniques such as maternal death audits.
I am told there is as yet unpublished Ministry of Justice research on the logistics of the supervision programme that casts real doubt on its cost-effectiveness.
The inputs generally used in BCC interventions were staff time, BCC materials, logistics and supplies, supervision, capital items, and products contracted to external organizations.
Although both countries eventually embraced CDTI, challenges of training, supervision, logistics and accountability needed to be addressed by the NGDOs and national programmes.
