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FondsSECONAF helps shine a light on Congo-Brazzaville’s supply needs

The Coalition’s small grants fund for Francophone Africa, FondsSECONAF, has shed light on the supply needs of a country largely sidelined by donors: Congo-Brazzaville. A small grant to that nation’s IPPF member association, ACBEF, has made it possible to identify the bottlenecks hindering the flow of supplies and begin putting in place the means to overcome them. ACBEF found that with no public budget for supply distribution, well over 90 percent of health facilities and warehouses relied on public transportation, with providers often footing the transport costs themselves.[...] Read more