Procuring supplies for children
Supply services
Technical assistance
Management services
In-country logistics
Technical assistance
Including:
- Product needs assessment
- Product planning services, including identification of sources and product availability
- Assurance of product quality and sources
- Arrangements for purchasing
- Pre-shipment inspection
- Product assembly/installation
- Maintenance arrangements
- Product-use analysis
- Product monitoring services
- Training on product issues
- Institutional capacity building
Supply Division has teams of specialists for a wide range of commodity groups, including vaccines, cold chain and immunization devices, micronutrients and pharmaceuticals including HIV/AIDS and malaria treatments, medical equipment, educational supplies, and water, environment and sanitation commodities.
UNICEF assistance can be as comprehensive as you require and range from consulting, technical advice, provision of expertise, transfer of know-how or technical data, instruction and training.
Management services
Thanks to 60 years of procurement activities, UNICEF has considerable experience in the efficient and effective management of supplies. Assistance to partners can include:
- Warehouse management
- Project management
- Contract management
In-country logistics
In-country logistics is an essential, although often underestimated, part of the local supply-chain management process. It focuses on the planning, implementation and control of an efficient, effective flow and storage of supplies and services from the port of entry to the final destination in the receiving country. Services offered can relate to the planning and establishment of a new logistics system or to the support, improvement or securing of an existing logistics system.
It can cover:
- In-country receipt
- Pre-clearance inspection
- Customs clearance
- Warehousing
- Local distribution
- Transport and delivery
- Establishing support arrangements for the supply chain process
- Review of the existing logistics system
The exact scope and content of supply services depends on each specific case and is at the customer’s request. Details are discussed between UNICEF and the Procurement Services partner and are set out in a cost estimate or quotation provided by UNICEF Supply Division.
UNICEF Supply Catalogue
The UNICEF Supply Catalogue contains specifications for some 2,000 commodities based on the long experience of UNICEF Supply Division.
