SPARHCS - Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security

Acknowledgements

This publication culminates over three years of work that began in 2001 and has involved many people and organizations. SPARHCS was developed under the leadership of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The DELIVER Project of John Snow, Inc., the Commercial Market Strategies Project of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and the Policy II Project of the Futures Group International, Inc. were instrumental in the development of SPARHCS. In addition, many collaborating organizations contributed their expertise including: Abt Associates, Inc., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, International Council on Management of Population Programmes, International Planned Parenthood Federation, IntraHealth International, Inc., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs, Management Sciences for Health, Marie Stopes International, Pharmacia Corporation, Population Action International, Population Reference Bureau, Population Services International, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Schering-Plough Corporation, Wallace Global Fund, World Bank, World Health Organization, and Wyeth-Ayerst International Ltd.

The SPARHCS approach and framework were developed with technical direction from Karen Angelici, Alan Bornbusch, Robert Burn, Patrick Friel, Lisa Hare, Carolyn Hart, Steve Hawkins, Monica Kerrigan, Margaret Neuse, Tanvi Pandit, Caroline Quijada, Raja Rao, Mark Rilling, Joan Robertson, Susan Scribner, Carol Shepherd, Gary Steele, and Jagdish Upadhyay.

The following individuals helped develop or review the many drafts of SPARHCS: Mary Abeyta-Behnke, Koki Agarwal, James Allman, Benjamin Andriamitantsoa, Françoise Armand, Dana Aronovich, Michal Avni, Felix Awantang, Cheryl Barton, Wendy Benazerga, Margaret Britton, Peggy Chibuye, Kristin Cooney, Varuni Dayaratna, Rania Deek, Shyami deSilva, Joanne Epp, Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, Rich Feeley, Clea Finkle, Michael Fox, Nurul Hossain, Jane Hutchings, Monir Islam, Steve Kinzett, Lucy Lopez, Sheila Lutjens, Michelle Maloney-Kitts, Nancy McCharen, Ursula Nadolny, Jana Ntumba, Clifford Olson, Rich Owens, Sue Peniston, Susan Rich, Shannon Rogers, Margaret Rowan, Jay Satia, Elizabeth Schoenecker, Stephanie Seifried, Suneeta Sharma, Mark Sherman, Jeffrey Sine, Kimberly Smith, Ellen Starbird, Pat Taylor, Lea Teclemariam, Daniel Thompson, Janet Vail, Carolyn Vogel, Tim Williams, Susan Wright, Nancy Yinger, and Pangday Yonzone.

More than 100 experienced staff from dozens of agencies in 14 countries have applied SPARHCS in their programs. The content of the final version owes much to their comments and suggestions for improvements. Field tests were specifically conducted in Nigeria and Madagascar. Hany Abdallah, Nike Adeyemi, Richard Ainsworth, Sarah Alkenbrack, Nicolas DeMetz, John Durgavich, Charity Ibeawuchi, Luka Monoja, and Scott Moreland helped with the field tests.

Major funding for the development and publication of SPARHCS was provided by USAID under the following projects: Commercial Market Strategies Project (HRN-C-00-98-00039-00), DELIVER Project (HRN-C-00-00-00010-00), Health Communication Partnership (GPH-A-00-02-00008-00), Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health (GPH-A-00-02-00003), Measure Communication Project (HRN-A-00-98-00001-00), Partners for Health Reform plus (HRN-C-00-00019-00), Policy II Project (HRN-C-00-00-00006-00), and Rational Pharmaceutical Management plus (HRN-A-00-00-00016-000). Additional funding was provided by UNFPA.

Lisa Hare, Carolyn Hart, Susan Scribner, and Carol Shepherd consolidated the many inputs to author the SPARHCS document. Tanvi Pandit and Alan Bornbusch were chief editors. Gus Osorio (DELIVER Project/John Snow, Inc.) prepared the figures. Staff of the INFO Project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs provided design and production services. Photos are courtesy of the INFO Project Photoshare, DELIVER Project, and World Bank Photo Library. See the complete list of photo credits.

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