People Centered Supply Chains
People die, become ill or have suboptimal health outcomes because health services and supply chains are not designed to be responsive to their needs, challenges or desires. When services and supply chains are not optimized for performance or efficiency, or are not agile and resilient enough during times of crisis, communities experience poor quality, high prices, delays, or lack of access to products and services.
To meet SDGs, future supply chains must be predictive rather than reactive and able to respond to the needs of people, wherever they are. This intelligence must be driven by appropriate data, supported by agile processes and executed by a professionalized workforce.
cStock is an important component of one of the ministry's building blocks, which is the issue of commodity health products and technology. cStock incorporates a mechanism that allows you to efficiently manage commodities and has come at the right time to help us manage commodities.
cStock
cStock is a supply chain strengthening approach that combines simple resupply procedures with mobile technology, user-centered dashboards, and IMPACT teams.
cStock connects community health volunteers (CHV) to their facilities and promotes demand-based resupply, ensuring greater product availability at the community level. With this real-time, actionable supply chain data, CHV supervisors, facility staff and sub county and county managers can better manage inventory and demand planning. Adapted for Kenya in partnership with the Ministry of Health’s Community Health Division Unit, cStock was built within DHIS2 and integrated with KHIS to facilitate scale and sustainability.
cStock Use Cases
IMPACT Teams
The Information Mobilized for Performance Analysis and Continuous Transformation (IMPACT) Team approach is a structured supply chain problem solving and action planning approach that serves three purposes:
- Strengthening data use and management processes and practices
- Enhancing individual and team continuous performance improvement
- Improving supply chain outputs and outcomes.
IMPACT Teams Use Cases
Human-Centered Design
inSupply uses Human-Centered Design (HCD) to understand problems and to design more effective, sustainable solutions. HCD ensures we understand users’ barriers and needs and co-create solutions collaboratively to promote ownership. inSupply uses HCD as a spark, ingredient or end-to-end approach depending on the context; examples include improving the effectiveness and sustainability of IMPACT teams, redesigning cStock for nomadic communities, and redesigning vaccines cold chain equipment temperature monitoring data and dashboards.
Human Centered Design Use Cases
SCALE: Supply Chain Alternatives for Last Mile Equity Redesigning cStock to reach the last mile/Reducing Barriers to uptake of FP at the last mile
Redesigning vaccines CCE temperature monitoring data use and decision making using Human-Centered Design in Kenya and Tanzania
Capturing the HCD Process: Redesigning the IMPACT Team approach and building internal HCD capacity
Utilization focused Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE)
inSupply creates adaptable MLE systems, to support learning, use, and application of data to inform programming. Examples include:
- Development Evaluation
- Adaptive Learning
- Complexity awareness monitoring techniques: Ripple Effects Mapping, Outcome Harvesting and Most Significant Change.
These techniques help us identify unanticipated outcomes and effects of our programs as well as an understanding of what is working and why, and what needs to be adjusted and how.