This Working Group aims to strengthen the global, regional, and country systems needed to ensure reliable and predictable supplies of reproductive health (RH) supplies.  It works to ensure that these systems are better aligned, more data-driven, and more coordinated.

Under the leadership of Dr Alan Bornbusch from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Working Group comprises participants from: United Nations Population Fund; USAID; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; United Kingdom Department for International Development; the KfW Development Bank; World Bank; International Planned Parenthood Foundation; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; John Snow, Inc; RHInterchange; World Health Organization; Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria; USAID | DELIVER.

Dr Alan Bornbusch
Office of Population & Reproductive Health
USAID Bureau for Global Health
Washington DC
Email: abornbusch(at)usaid.gov  

 

16.05.08 Latest details on membership meeting available here

Overview of events planned around the membership meeting

12.05.08 PATH completes Procurement Capacity Toolkit

Toolkit and training intended for country-level use

05.05.08 UNFPA/European Commission organize joint training on RHCS

Training in Johannesburg for conflict and post-conflict countries

Topics included under the Working Group are the identification, design, and implementation of new funding mechanisms for RH supplies, as well as better systems for forecasting, warehousing, distribution, and information management. The Working Group currently has several workstreams: