SUPPLY ANNUAL REPORT 2008 Local Delivery Global ... - Unicef

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Essential commodities with a strategic focus UNICEF procures thousands of different products each year. Some of these have a higher direct impact on children’s survival and development than others, and are therefore considered to be essential. While some of these essential commodities are easily available in the global market, the availability of others may be hampered by different factors. Overcoming market constraints is a strategic focus for UNICEF and a core responsibility to ensure children have access to these life-saving commodities. Strategic essential products Product Impact Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) & Ready to Use Supplementary Treat severe and moderate malnutrition Food (RUSF) Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) Protect against malaria Protects against haemophilus influenzae B Hib vaccine disease which can lead to meningitis and pneumonia Vitamin A Improves nutrition Zinc Helps protect against severe malnutrition and diarrhoea Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) Treat diarrhoea and dehydration Pneumococcal vaccine Prevents streptococcal pneumoniae (reduces septicemia and meningitis) Antiretrovirals (ARVs) Treat HIV/AIDS, prevent mother to child transmission Antimalarials Treat malaria Measles vaccine Protects against measles Diagnostic kits Diagnose malaria, HIV/AIDS, etc. Co-trimoxazole Prophylaxis Treats bacterial infections Albendozale/Mebendozale De-worming tablets Tetanus Toxoid vaccine Protects against tetanus Safe injection devices Reduces transfer of blood-borne diseases Midwifery Kit Helps ensure safe delivery 6 SUPPLY ANNUAL REPORT 2008
Ensuring global availability through market shaping The availability of high impact commodities in the right quantities and at the right time and place can be a matter of survival for children. Ensuring healthy markets in essential commodity areas is a complex process. The products may not always be commercially attractive, nor the market transparent. Manufacturers are often not aware of the needs, or may consider the risks associated with entering the market too high. Consequently, the commodities may not be produced or developed. Market shaping is an integral part of what Supply does to ensure the global availability of strategic essential supplies such as vaccines, therapeutic food, nutritional supplements, medical devices and medicines. It is of critical importance that key stakeholders, such as UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), engage others, and take an active role in influencing the availability of these products to ensure the health of markets. This can involve aggregating needs through forecasting and encouraging industry to improve availability, pricing, quality and innovation of new products. It includes communicating the needs of children to suppliers to ensure fit-for-purpose commodities and the improvement of product suitability through guidelines, specifications and comprehensive prequalification processes. In addition to meeting short and medium term needs for specific supplies, which are often being scaled up at a rapid pace, market shaping activities aim to create sustainable markets which support countries buying these commodities on their own. Local delivery At the other end of the supply chain, and the motivation for all we do, are the children that UNICEF programmes reach every year. Global and national availability of commodities through healthy markets does not necessarily guarantee that supplies make it all the way to mothers and children. In many of the countries we work in, the regular distribution chain is not functioning as effectively or efficiently as possible. To address the associated logistic difficulties this presents we are strengthening programme/supply integration in the field and training our supply staff on various supply chain models, including population, health post and community level distribution models. We are committed to helping build the capacity of governments to improve systems and infrastructure. SUPPLY ANNUAL REPORT 2008 7
Page 1 and 2: SUPPLY ANNUAL REPORT 2008 Global Av
Page 3 and 4: Introduction Every day an estimated
Page 5 and 6: In order to improve effectiveness a
Page 7: Whilst Supply continues to focus on
Page 11 and 12: A champion of new products and inno
Page 13 and 14: Greener supplies Climate change can
Page 15 and 16: Lack of safe, clean drinking water
Page 17 and 18: Partnering to strengthen the nutrit
Page 19 and 20: Education and gender equality Educa
Page 21 and 22: Zinc - protecting against diarrhoea
Page 23 and 24: Partnerships, advocacy, integration
Page 25 and 26: Annexes Annex 1 UNICEF supplier cou
Page 27 and 28: Country/territory Annex 1 UNICEF su
Page 29 and 30: Annex 2 Local, regional and interna
Page 49 and 50: Annex 3 Where supplies are used Inc
Page 52: Supply Division UNICEF Plads, Freep

SUPPLY ANNUAL REPORT 2008 Local Delivery Global ... - Unicef

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?