The DELIVER project helps developing countries establish effective and efficient supply chains for public health and family planning programmes. Begun in 2000, DELIVER is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is managed by John Snow, Inc. (JSI) with subcontractors The Manoff Group, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc., and Synaxis, Inc. DELIVER is the expanded follow-on project to the USAID-funded Family Planning Logistics Management projects that, from 1986 to 2000, facilitated the improvement of family planning and health logistics systems in more than 30 countries. That experience has enabled DELIVER to continue developing new approaches to supply chain management that promote commodity security for contraceptives, HIV/AIDS commodities, drugs for treating sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis, and other essential health products.
DELIVER improves health programme supply chain performance by strengthening logistics management information systems; developing streamlined procurement, inventory control and distribution systems; training managers at all levels of those systems; helping governments and donors develop policies that support commodity security; and mobilising necessary financing to procure and distribute essential health supplies.