Compass - Charting the Way Ahead
In late 2019, the world first heard about COVID-19. Since then, the virus has swept the globe. In a bid to understand the end-to-end supply chain impacts of the pandemic for reproductive health products in low- and middle-income countries, an in-depth assessment was commissioned: Building resilient sexual and reproductive health supply chains during COVID-19 and beyond: a community roadmap for action and technical findings. The Roadmap contains a series of broad, far-reaching recommendations in the areas of RH product markets, financing, supply chain strategies, policies, stewardship, and data.
Now, we offer you an initiative to help put the Roadmap into action. Compass — Charting the Way Ahead builds on the Roadmap’s analysis and findings, helping to point the way as our community navigates through these unprecedented times, and prepares for a post-pandemic reality.
Priority Area 2

Contraceptive Commodity Funding during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of funding trends and potential pandemic impacts in low- and middle-income countries
Priority Areas
Priority Area 1: From globalization to greater regionalization of supply chains
Priority Area 2: Managing the competition for scarce resources
Priority Area 3: Learning from adaptations
Updates
- 23 February 2023: New Report Asks What Effect COVID-19 Had On RH Supply Funding
- 6 October 2022: New efforts gather speed under Compass initiative
- 3 December 2021: Sharing the Compass: Charting the way through COVID-19 and reproductive health supplies