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This project builds the capacity of staff working with humanitarian organizations, including international organizations and local NGOs, to manage health product supply chains in humanitarian settings. These staff will, in turn, support partners, local organizations and other health program managers in the field to improve health product availability for people affected by rapid-onset disasters—such as…
This project is strengthening the immunization services being provided at public health facilities in two sub-counties in Kenya by leveraging the demonstrated competence of frontline health workers (nurses) to mentor their peers in critical immunization skills and processes while also working closely with the nurses’ supervisors to ensure they are able to support mentors in…
JSI through its inSupply project based in Nairobi, Kenya, has developed social, virtual games that enable and extend the reach of accurate healthy lifestyle information to 5,000 young people and health professionals across Kenya and elsewhere. Gaming is an interactive, fun and habit-forming approach that motivates users to stay engaged and the games are creating awareness on sexual and reproductive…
JSI has been awarded a 1-year project from UNICEF in Mozambique. The overall goal of this project is to ensure sufficient nutrition supplies are available in health facilities in Zambezia Province. The project will work to strengthen the supply chain overall and move from an ad hoc to an organized to a more integrated system…
The Rotavirus Accelerated Vaccine Introduction Network (RAVIN) provided technical support to countries considering introducing the rotavirus vaccine into their national immunization programs. JSI worked closely with Ministries of Health and in-country partners in focus countries to support the successful introduction of the vaccine. Diarrhea is one of the world’s leading killers of children, and…
JSI’s Home-Based Records (HBR) project worked from 2015-2018 to explore the improvement of availability and use of home-based records (also known as child health cards or vaccination cards) through operations research in four countries. The project supported the redesign, monitoring of stock management, data triangulation and use, and capacity building of health workers in Benin,…
This project aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the vaccine supply chain in Ethiopia through technical support for the integration of vaccine supply chain management by the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency (EPSA). JSI provides technical leadership for supply chain analysis and design, development and implementation of logistics management information systems, and visibility and…
Books are essential to early grade reading instruction. Often times, however, when books (both textbooks and supplemental reading materials) are ordered for low-income countries, they do not end up in the hands of the students who need them. A critical step in solving this problem is the ability to track books in transit and trace…
In March 2014, Liberia confirmed its first two cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and in just seventeen months, the EVD had taken over 4,800 lives according to the WHO Ebola Situation Report (September 2015). During the height of the outbreak, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and ACDI VOCA (AV) were partnering on the existing…
The Stronger Systems for Routine Immunization (SS4RI) project built the capacity of Uganda's health system, particularly at district level, to provide timely, high-quality immunization services to protect eligible children and women from vaccine-preventable diseases. SS4RI ran from 2014 to 2020 in 10 districts and supported the Ministry of Health Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization…