What Is The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT?

Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project that aims to increase the availability of essential health supplies to clients and customers worldwide. The project works with national and international partners to strengthen national and international supply chains, ensuring transparent and cost-effective procurement and delivery of commodities. This is achieved through the creation of more supportive national and international legal, regulatory, and policy environments, as well as increased coordination, commitment, and collaboration for commodity financing, procurement, and delivery. The project focuses on five key objectives: Supply Chain Management, Commodity Security, Procurement Services, Technical Assistance for Supply Chain Strengthening and Commodity Security in Public Health, and Procurement and Distribution of Essential Public Health Supplies. The project also manages a global distribution mechanism for commodities to prevent and mitigate outbreaks of emerging pandemic threats, and provides technical assistance to the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and USAID in their efforts to reduce the burden of malaria worldwide. The project emphasizes capacity building of local partners to ensure that the project's work is increasingly done by local or regional staff and organizations. Partnerships with local, regional, and global organizations are leveraged to add value to their efforts and promote innovation, learning, accountability, and transparency. The project currently supports USAID's efforts to improve product availability by providing assistance in the focus areas of technical assistance for supply chain strengthening and commodity security in public health, procurement and distribution of essential public health supplies, emerging pandemic threats, and malaria. The project works on a range of health commodities, including contraceptives and condoms, malaria treatment medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets, and rapid diagnostic tests, essential medicines, as well as select commodities for HIV and AIDS, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, avian influenza (AI), and other emerging pandemic threats. The project's technical support strengthens all aspects of in-country supply chains, including forecasting, procurement, distribution, management information systems, quality assurance, storage and infrastructure, and medical waste disposal. The project is committed to a customer-oriented approach with a focus on improved availability of essential health supplies for the client at the end of the supply chain. The project encourages and promotes innovation, learning, accountability, and transparency in its own operations and those of its partners. The project partners with various organizations, including 3i Infotech, Inc., Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Cargo Management Logistics, and others, to leverage the strengths of existing organizations and add value to their efforts.