THE IMPACT OF COORDINATION ON HEALTH COMMODITY SECURITY IN SIERRA LEONE

Technical Working Groups (TWG) in supply chain management comprise stakeholders, including government and non-government actors. The ability of these actors to articulate a collective focus to resolving identified challenges, irrespective of the interests and objectives of their affiliated institutions, provided one aligned front and strategies for tackling health supply chain management challenges in Sierra Leone. Relying on desk reviews of assessment reports and technical reports on different health supply chain operations revealed challenges of poor data visibility, low quality of LMIS data, and parallel operations within the system using various tools. Using the available and scarce resources via coordinated effort by the TWG, the challenges received attention, and there was a change of projection and a better narrative towards health commodity security.