DKT Pakistan has identified and begun the steps necessary to reach Pakistani couples and the more than six million women (20.1% of married women of reproductive age) with an unmet need for contraception through Social Marketing and Social Franchising initiatives.
Informed Push Model (IPM)
Country of Operation
Senegal
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
- Higher middle-income (60-80%)
Health focus
- Family planning and reproductive health
Summary
The IPM is a distribution model that adapts principles used in commercial distribution to the public health sector. The IPM addresses common supply chain obstacles of transportation, quantification, data availability, and financial flowsProgram goals
The IPM is a distribution model that adapts principles used in commercial distribution to the public health sector. The IPM addresses common supply chain obstacles of transportation, quantification, data availability, and financial flows. The model involves dedicated logistics professionals, who deliver contraceptives from the regional level directly to SDPs on a monthly basis. A key component of the IPM project’s success has been the use of an LMIS. CommTrack is an open source turnkey product designed to strengthen logistics management through the use of mobile technology.
Key program components
With this support from Dimagi, the IPM project has identified a low-cost and highly scalable mHealth solution that makes it possible to substantially reduce contraceptive stock-outs and broaden Senegalese women’s access to a wide range of family planning products. IPM’s key features include:
■ Task shifting. By using specialized and regionally based logistics professionals to carry out logistics tasks such as IMPLEMENTATION DATE: August 2013 to Present By using specialized and regionally based logistics professionals to carry out logistics tasks such as quantification, data collection, and distribution, logistics performance improves and health workers are free to focus on what they do best— health service provision. Clément Tardif, IntraHealth International mHEALTH COMPENDIUM VOLUME 5 n 63 quantification, data collection, and distribution, logistics performance improves and health workers are free to focus on what they do best—health service provision.
■ Public-private partnerships. The Senegal IPM uses private operators, or third party logistics providers, to store and distribute the family planning products.
■ Payment based on consumption. Before the IPM, SDPs were required to pay for family planning products at the time of order, which resulted in cash flow problems and a broken cost-recovery system. With IPM, payments are based on quantities of product delivered and consumed.
■ Aligning incentives. The IPM aligns the incentives of all parties involved in making sure that family planning products reach SDPs and clients.
■ Open LMIS. The logistics professionals enter logistics data into CommTrack on tablets at the moment of delivery, and CommTrack automatically calculates delivery quantities based on previous consumption.
Financials
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