Increased coordination among donors, technical partners, and host-country governments leads to improved information sharing, collaborative strategies and activities, and better use of human and financial resources. The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT and its partners are working to increase stakeholder coordination at the country and global levels.
The key to in-country stakeholder coordination is the formation of a country RHCS coordinating committee, which regularly brings together representatives of various ministries, multilateral and bilateral partners, technical agencies, and representatives of NGOs and the private sector to plan and coordinate their RHCS activities. Currently 11 of 14 project countries have formally established active CS coordinating mechanisms, all receiving active project support while a twelfth country, Mozambique, is currently establishing such a group. In addition, the project has been a catalyst for creating CS committees in non-project presence countries from Albania to Romania, and Benin to Madagascar.

Strengthening Global Coordination: The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT provides support to the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) as part of its effort to increase global advocacy and collaboration. The RHSC—a partnership that includes multilateral organizations, bilateral and private foundation donors, country governments, civil society, and private-sector representatives—provides global leadership to ensure that essential reproductive health (RH) products are available to developing and transitional countries. From providing field data to inform the RHSC’s work, to direct technical assistance, the project helps the coalition achieve its goals.

Reproductive health commodity security depends on increasing both public and private sector support to alleviate shortages of RH commodities and to strengthen systems. As part of RHSC’s advocacy, global-level donor coordination, and information needs strategies, it created the RHInterchange (RHI) in partnership with JSI. The RHI is a web-based tool of the RHSC that collects order and shipment information from the central procurement departments of USAID, UNFPA, and IPPF. The RHI helps capture the total donations made to a particular country by different donors to help ensure that commodity needs are being met.