What are IMPACT teams? IMPACT teams are quality improvement teams that have been adapted to provide a structured and rigorous process for supply chain problem solving. They are a system of interconnected teams, made up of people across functions and disciplines who...
When to use an Outcome Harvesting evaluation approach: Lessons from measurement of community health supply chain models in four Kenya counties
Counties in the arid/semi-arid lands (ASAL) of Kenya host remote, hard-to-reach, and migratory populations and continue to have low modern contraceptive use prevalence rates despite improvements nationally. The Supply Chain Alternatives for the Last Mile Equity...
Connecting People with Data, Skills, and Technology to Improve Supply Chain Performance
inSupply’s Janet Makena with a participant at the national dissemination workshop in Nairobi. In a world that is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain professionals must employ technology and innovative ideas to streamline supply chain processes,...
What Does it Mean to Implement Sustainably, and What Have We Learned?
inSupply Health believes that solutions applied at every level of the supply chain outlive specific projects or funding streams. What does that mean, and how does it look in practice? What challenges have we faced during implementation? We answer these questions as we...
Making Data Useful: The VIMS Story in Tanzania
Background In 2015, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) review team observed low data quality, parallel reporting systems, low capacity and incentive to collect and use data for performance improvement among key obstacles in monitoring and improving...
Using Health Gaming to Increase Awareness of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
For the later half of the year in 2020, HCDExchange has rolled out health games amongst youth in Sub Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia with the goal of increasing learning around Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and Human Centered Design (HCD). Because...
A Public Private Partnership to facilitate E-Commerce Rural Expansion while Promoting Community Health Volunteer Sustainability
The Aim Kasha, an e-commerce company for women’s health and personal care in East Africa, collaborated with inSupply Health to expand their model of agent-supported e-commerce with last mile delivery outside of Nairobi. Their vision is to expand across the country,...
Skilled for the Process: IT Learning Packages
“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill”, in the words of Tony Buzan*. Skills bear the core of every knowledge gained beyond knowing, and this is what defines the art of actuality. At inSupply Health, our art has been building skills beyond the scope of...
Data Use Culture and Value
Introduction Data culture is a collective behaviour and beliefs of people who value, practice and encourage the use of data to inform actions and improve decision making. Increasingly, countries in Sub Saharan Africa, including Tanzania and Kenya, have been...