Resources relating to Private sector

ARC announces the appointment of a new CEO, effective from 1 May 2022.

Creating a space where government and the private sector could regularly interact to improve communication and understanding to facilitate effective, collaborative public-private partnerships across the public health supply chain.​

ARC supported the NDoH by mobilising the funding and resources to deliver a programme that would provide training in demand planning at the provincial and national levels.

ARC performed an independent advisory role to shape the overall TLD transition project and brokered additional expert resources from Novo Nordisk and a local private sector consultant to support the initiative.

ARC has been working with the Federation’s supply chain technical working group to engage the ministry of health in a collaborative platform where it can draw on insights and capabilities from the private sector.

ARC and J&J collaborated to support the costing and implementation plan activities to inform the annual and multi-year operational budgets for Kenya’s health products and technologies supply chain.

Collaborative public and private sector partnerships that provide flexibility to trial supply chain adaptations and solutions can have a significant impact on medicine availability in Africa. A SAPICS panel discussed some of the keys to successful private sector engagement in healthcare.

Public healthcare systems serve millions of people. Governments require complex systems and extensive management to provide care. To do this effectively, the patients the systems are created to serve have in many cases been reduced to numbers rather than people. What will it take to reimagine healthcare in Africa for patients as people first?

A decision-making resource for ministries of health and organisations affiliated to public health who are considering outsourcing as an option to improve supply chain performance.

If governments release part of their supply chain distribution and warehousing, they don’t lose control but actually gain an incredible advantage through better use of funding, supply chain functional agility and access to expertise from service providers.