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June 2017

Interagency Supply Chain Group (ISG) IPC Meeting, June 2017, Geneva

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Interagency Supply Chain Group (ISG)

Established in 2014 to provide better coordinated and more effective

support to country efforts in ensuring sustainable access to high quality

essential health commodities.

The group comprises 15 global agencies actively involved in supporting

supply chain efforts across all disease areas: Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, DFID, Global Affairs Canada, the Global Drug Facility, KfW,

the Global Fund, Gavi, NORAD, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, World

Bank, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation.

The ISG meets quarterly to address priority issues, with technical working

groups established for specific focus areas. This includes opportunities to

strengthen collaboration at the country level, and leverage institutional

support around key technical issues

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Country coordination and technical support to country-led efforts:

The ISG works with country programs to promote coordination and progress

towards continual improvements and a common supply chain approach.

http://www.lifesavingcommodities.org/interagency-supply-chain-group-strengthening-interagency-

collaboration-lessons-learned-from-six-countries/

Activities in 2017 under the Global

Public Goods programme (continuation

of RMNCH Trust Fund)

Areas of work

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Promotion of use of global information standards

• GS1 barcoding to provide a wider framework for supply chain visibility

• Strengthening anti-counterfeiting measures

• Sharing of data between parties

Leading agencies USAID, Global Fund, GAVI, UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP, WHO

Opportunity for collaboration in harmonizing master data for product

identification and labelling.

Areas of work

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Harmonization of Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Common reduced number of core strategic supply chain indicators

to be adopted and integrated by agencies in their planning and

reporting cycles

Areas of work

http://www.lifesavingcommodities.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/KPI-brochurefinal-Jan2016.pdf

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Medicine and Vaccine Shortages

Areas of work

WHA 69, Resolution 25

Member state support to develop:

• Notification systems

• Best practices for medicines, vaccines procurement, distribution, contract

management

• Strengthen institutional capacity for strong financial management of

procurement systems

DG to support

• Technical definitions

• Assessment of magnitude of medicine shortages

• Global medicine notification system

Global Vaccine Market Model (GVMM):

WHO, UNICEF, GAVI

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Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS)

Areas of work

• Sharing of expertise and experience in implementation

• Visibility Analytics Networks (VANs) programme, led by BMGF

• Health Data Collaborative LMIS working group

Last Mile Aviation: UAV

• Sharing experience and investments

• BMGF, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, GAVI, WFP

© 2016/UNICEF/Khonje

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Coordination and planning for supply chain assessments

Areas of work

• Opportunities for coordinated assessments and harmonized assessment

tools

• Sharing of assessment outcomes for targeted diagnostics follow up

• Coordination of partner support for implementation of recommendations

Supply chain financing

• Evaluation of cost at different levels in supply chain

• Data driven models of management- public and private

• Sustainability under Government and donor financed models

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Thank you!