Uganda Strengthening Supply Chain Systems Activity
Uganda Strengthening Supply Chain Systems Activity
Overview
The USAID-funded Uganda Strengthening Supply Chain Systems (SSCS) Technical Assistance Activity supports Uganda’s efforts to strengthen its health supply chain to increase availability and access to safe, quality-assured medicines and health supplies in public and private nonprofit health facilities. Further accelerating Uganda’s journey to self-reliance, SSCS will strengthen Uganda’s health system to more effectively combat infectious and non-communicable diseases and improve health services and outcomes for all Ugandan families and communities.
Following the successful implementation of the Uganda Health Supply Chain (UHSC) and Securing Ugandans’ Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) projects, SSCS builds upon nearly two decades of partnership with USAID and the Government of Uganda in strengthening the country’s pharmaceutical sector. Under SSCS, MSH will help Uganda improve the performance of key actors throughout the supply chain; advance transparent governance and effective, data-informed policies and regulations; and strengthen local capacity to promote self-reliance in managing a world-class supply chain. SSCS will also provide technical assistance to all US government partners—USAID, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Department of Defense (DOD)—operating at the subnational level and help to improve the capacity of central-level institutions and district-based entities, such as health offices, health facilities, and medical stores.
In implementing SSCS, MSH will partner with and build the capacity of two local Ugandan organizations: the Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) and Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE). These collaborators will gradually take on increased technical and management responsibilities as part of a deliberate strategy to promote local ownership and sustainability.
Webinar Series: Promoting Local Ownership and Sustainability of Uganda’s Supply Chain System through the 10-Year Roadmap
This webinar series highlights the progress and achievements of the Ugandan government’s efforts to modernize and digitize its health supply chain to increase availability and access to safe, quality-assured medicines and health supplies in public and private nonprofit health facilities.
Webinar: Health Workforce Development through the Lens of Sustainable, Locally Led Development
In this webinar, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) discusses country partnerships in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, focusing on how various health workforce interventions are taking a systems-approach to capacity strengthening in order to ensure that improvements last beyond the project cycle and are managed under the ongoing custodianship of local actors.
Digitalization of Uganda’s National Health Supply Chain System
MSH hosted the webinar, Digitalization of Uganda’s National Health Supply Chain System, on August 15, 2024, to share lessons learned and what remains to be done in the digitalization of Uganda’s national health supply chain system.
Eric Lugada
Chief of Party
Project Contact
Dr. Eric Stephen Lugada, a medical epidemiologist and senior public health physician with 26 years of experience managing national public health programs, is the Chief of Party for the MSH-led USAID/Strengthening Supply Chain Systems (SSCS) Activity in Uganda. Prior to joining us, he was the Program Director for the University Research Council (URC)-Uganda Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Director for the URC–USAID ASSIST project in Uganda, and Country Director, Axios Foundation, Inc. for Sudan and Nigeria.
Dr. Lugada is an HIV and AIDS and TB subject matter expert who has directed the implementation of transformational programs that advance health system strengthening and effective and efficient health care delivery across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania. He has extensive experience in restructuring medical supply chain operations to increase citizens’ access to quality medicines and health care. Dr. Lugada is also an external examiner for Post Graduate Programs at the Makerere University, School of Public Health.
He holds a Ph.D in Medical Epidemiology from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree (M.B.Ch.B) from Makerere University.
Donors & Partners
Donors
The United States Agency for International Development
Partners
Uganda Healthcare Federation
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment