Reducing Stockouts Impact Calculator
Stockouts of contraceptive supplies can discourage use of modern family planning by making it more difficult for potential users to get their method of choice.
Stockouts may be defined in several ways:
- Percentage of facilities where the method was not available on the day of the survey
- Percentage of service delivery points with stockouts at any time during the last six months
- Percentage of days when a method was not available at a facility
Steps to use the model
Steps to use the model
This model provides an idea of the magnitude of the potential benefits to be gained by reducing or eliminating stockouts. It follows several steps:
- Select a country from the dropdown list at the top of the screen
- Describe the current situation in terms of the level of stockouts by method
- The model will provide this information if it is available or use average values if no country-specific information is available
- You may change the current stockout rates if you have better data
- Define a target
- You may explore the effects of reducing stockouts to zero for all methods, or try some intermediate targets
- Review model estimate of impact on the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR)
- The impact is shown in the both the graph and the box at the bottom of the screen
- Review the benefits of increased MCPR due to reductions in stockouts