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OPINION: Embrace change to transform healthcare supply chains
Our shared history shows just how powerful a culture that embraces change can be.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains
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A Toolkit to Identify Sustainable, Market-Based Energy Solutions in Off-Grid Areas
The MIT D-Lab, working with Mercy Corps, developed the Energy Assessment Toolkit to help organizations with strong connections in off-grid communities assess local energy needs, and select and implement market-based solutions that meet those needs. The toolkit includes surveys and interview guides that an organization can use to gather information from a range of stakeholders.
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- Education, Energy, Telecommunications
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- supply chains
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ILO Says 50M Jobs Required to Address Global Health
A new study released by the International Labour Organisation, ILO, weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, said an estimated 50 million decent jobs were missing in 2016 to address essential global health requirements through universal health coverage, UHC, and ensure human security, particularly with respect to highly infectious diseases like Ebola.
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- Health Care
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‘Doing Good By Doing Deals’: How Law Students Help Social Entrepreneurs Help Small Farmers
The International Transactions Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School works with social entrepreneurs who are inventing new ways to strengthen agriculture in rural Africa, improving agricultural inputs, developing sustainable practices and building supply chains. They all operate in a legal no-man’s land between existing nonprofit and for-profit regimes, which means that both the social entrepreneurs and their legal counsel need to be especially enterprising.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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World Food Program USA and Cargill Partner to Strengthen Local Food Security
More than 100,000 schoolchildren in three countries will be served school meals sourced from local farmers over the next two years as part of a new joint program from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), World Food Program USA and Cargill.
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- Agriculture
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Outsourcing Transport and Logistics in Global Health
Routine maintenance required to keep cars, trucks and motorcycles moving simply does not happen in Africa, shortening the lifespan of the vehicles that are essential to delivering health commodities to the most remote communities. That means many institutions are declining to fund the capital expenditure required to purchase vehicles, parts or storage facilities – and governments and donors alike are identifying new ways to improve health supply chains and the transport systems they rely on.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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Reaching the last mile: The future of medicine access for everyone
According to the World Health Organization, much of the world’s burden of disease can be prevented or cured with known, affordable technologies. The problem is getting drugs, vaccines, information and other forms of prevention, care or treatment — on time, reliably, in sufficient quantity and at reasonable cost — to those who need them.
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- Health Care
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Why the Vaccination Supply Chain Needs Reform
I recently returned from a week in Mozambique with a goal of learning about new immunization supply chain models and observing their impact. I also wanted to better understand opportunities and constraints for taking this work to scale -- in Mozambique and across other Gavi-eligible countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains, vaccines