The importance of ensuring access to essential medicines has been recognized in target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims to achieve universal health coverage, including access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines for all. Access to medicines has also been recognized as a crucial element of the solutions to numerous important public health problems.

Through our core team of PSM experts, HEFDC offers technical assistance to organizations/institutions in the review and development of procurement and supply chain management (PSM) plan which includes the following components: management capacity; procurement policies and systems; quality assurance/quality monitoring; international & national laws; coordination; and Management Information Systems.

We give technical assistance services to organizations/institutions to strengthen procurement and supply management capacity in storage and distribution system.

We provide the following technical assistance services:

• PSM system assessments and systems strengthening
• PSM planning, forecasting and risk assessment
• Quantification and budgeting
• PSM strategy development and execution
• Supply chain monitoring and evaluation
• Business process improvement
• Capacity building on Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS) and Forecasting & Quantification (F&Q)

Contact Person

Mr. Alexander Kireria

akireria@hefdcgroup.org