Independent analysis on health supply chain analytics, procurement strategy, DHIS2, PEPFAR M&E, and health economics — written for programme teams across sub-Saharan Africa who need insight they can act on.
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A methodology walkthrough: from DHIS2 ANC headcount data and BANC+ contact schedules to a procurement gap analysis adopted directly into Gates Foundation grant reporting.
The four supply chain metrics every PEPFAR programme manager needs to understand — and how to read the early warning signals before stock runs out at facility level.
How to build a basic procurement spend dashboard from BAS and LMIS data — and what it reveals about supplier concentration, lead time risk, and budget burn.
Contracted volumes versus estimated demand — the gap analysis methodology that exposed a 45% shortfall in national diagnostic supply. With a replicable framework.
Zero vs null, period type mismatches, duplicate org units — the specific failures your validation rules will not catch and your donor report cannot survive.
The design decisions that separate a decision-support tool from a compliance report — and why most donor dashboards fail the people who open them every Monday.
What distinguishes a persuasive investment case from a compliance document — grounded in real Gates Foundation and Global Fund grant evidence packages.
Most dashboards show data. The best ones surface the decision that needs to be made. A practical guide to data model design for PEPFAR and Global Fund reporting environments.
Field findings from 16 Primary Distribution Sites across the Eastern Cape — the data management failures that cause stockouts before any commodity ever leaves the warehouse.
Three governance failure modes that destroy data quality in NGO environments — and why none of them can be fixed by a system upgrade or a new dashboard.
Views expressed are personal and do not represent any employer or affiliated organisation. All analysis is based on publicly available information.
What you will get
Grounded in 20 years of supply chain and programme practice
Every insight comes from real procurement cycles, real DHIS2 deployments, real RDT gap analyses — not from reading other people's frameworks. The R900M procurement budget and the 2-million-unit supply gap are not hypotheticals.
Written for the African public health supply chain context
Transversal Contracts, DHIS2, PEPFAR DATIM, Global Fund reporting cycles, NDoH procurement systems — the context your team actually works inside, not global health generics.
Something actionable in every issue
Each article ends with something your procurement or M&E team can do differently the following Monday. Analysis without action is just reporting.
Published when ready — not on a schedule that produces filler
Roughly biweekly. When there is something worth saying, it will be in your inbox. When there is not, there will be silence.
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