Marie Stopes International is using Round 1 Innovation Fund support to conduct an assessment of logistics systems in three crisis settings, with a view toward understanding better the challenges facing agencies that deliver emergency RH supplies. The settings under assessment will be selected from RAISE Initiative project areas.

Objectives:

• To provide basic logistical support to three RAISE implementing partners 
• To compile data and other evidence needed for future advocacy efforts to bring about policy and attitude change among humanitarian actors (UN agencies, including UNFPA, donor governments, and humanitarian NGOs) and the RH community (Coalition members, Countdown 2015, EuroNGOs)  for RH supplies in emergencies at the regional and global levels 
• To ensure concrete suggestions for improving RH supplies access for the three RAISE projects are formulated and shared with European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and other interested parties such as Coalition working groups and UNFPA.

Activities conducted under this project will include mapping the challenges of RAISE partners in accessing RH supplies, identifying local solutions, compiling a report of the findings from the three countries, and drafting advocacy messages. The primary outcome of this nine-month project will be concrete actions that will contribute to facilitating access to RH supplies for emergency situations and NGOs.

For more information on this project, contact Maaike Van Min, MSI, or David Smith, SSWG Leader.