SIAPS Quarterly Report: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Portfolio Project Year 7, Quarter 2

The overall objective is to provide support and overarching guidance on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health commodity financing and supply chain management approaches to the Global Financing Facility secretariat and participating countries. Highlights this quarter included an orientation workshop for 10 new GFF countries held in Accra, Ghana, at the end of January 2018, during which there was a parallel session on management of commodities and a technical webinar on commodity management for teams from the 16 existing countries. Technical support was provided for the review of documents, and technical discussions were held in Senegal, Liberia, Guatemala, and DRC. Also during this quarter, SIAPS planned for the transfer of funds from USAID to the E2A project to allow the consultancy to continue beyond the end of SIAPS.