Family Planning Logistics Manageent - part - usaid

Logistics Management Assistance
Family Health Services Project
July 22 - August 14, 1992
appropriate and responsive workshop curriculum for that group.
Recommendation 13: Follow-up evaluations should be conducted for
all workshops. FPLM/CDC advisors should participate in at least
one of these follow-up visits in 1993.
The follow-up team should be of a similar composition to the
needs assessment team, i.e., a Network trainer, an FHS
commodities unit staff person, and an FMOH representative, when
available. These follow-up visits should serve as an opportunity
not only to evaluate the effectiveness of the training workshops
but also to provide immediate technical assistance if problems
are noted. An FPLM/CDC advisor or advisors should accompany one
or more of the first follow-up team visits.
Information gathered during the follow-up evaluation should be
used to revise and improve the "generic" logistics management
curriculum (or curricula).
3. FHS Contraceptive Logistics Management Unit
Training Needs
Two FHS staff members working in commodities management have been
nominated for logistics management training, Dr. Ifeanyi Ibe and
Mr. Bright Ekweremadu. They will attend FPLM's Logistics
Advisors Training, to be held in September in Arlington, VA. We
agree that this course will be particularly useful for these
staff given the advisory role that FHS is moving into with
regards to the FMOH contraceptive supply system.
Any further logistics management training needs of FHS staff
should be assessed in six to nine months time, after the unit's
role vis-a-vis the FMOH system is clarified and more specific
needs can be defined.
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