• Editors' Summary
• Credits

1. A New Look at Logistics
2. Clients Come First
3. People and Performance
4. The Role of Information
5. Forecasting and Procurement
6. Distribution
7. Toward Contraceptive Security

• Figures
• Tables
• Side-bars
• Bibliography

• Programs face funding crisis
• Benefits of better logistics
• Improving staff performance
• Tips on building policy support
• Checklist: Assessing the supply chain
• How to make accurate forecasts
• Push or pull distribution
• The commercial sector can help

• POPLINE
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This issue of Population Reports was prepared in collaboration with the DELIVER Project of John Snow, Inc.

Published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA

Credits

This report was prepared by Vidya Setty-Venugopal, M.P.H., and Robert Jacoby of PIP, and Carolyn Hart of the DELIVER Project. Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor. Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by John Fiege, Peter Hammerer, Mónica Jiménez, and Deborah Maenner.

Population Reports appreciates the assistance of the following reviewers: Françoise Armand, Lori S. Ashford, Ravi Anand, Susanna Binzen, Rudolfo Bulatao, Telma Duarte de Morales, Clea T. Finkle, Steve Hawkins, Carl J. Hemmer, J. Timothy Johnson, Barbara Jones, Steve Kinzett, Tim McLellan, Paula Nersesian, Thomson Ngabirano, Richard C. Owens, Jr., Malcolm Potts, Mark Rilling, John Ross, Susan Scribner, Samaresh Sengupta, Patricia Shawkey, J. Joseph Speidel, Manual Thomas, Jagdish Upadhyay, Carolyn Gibb Vogel, and Timothy Williams.

Suggested citation: Setty-Venugopal, V., Jacoby, R., and Hart, C. Family Planning Logistics: Strengthening the Supply Chain.. Population Reports, Series J, No. 51. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Population Information Program, Winter 2002.

Jane T. Bertrand, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Communication Programs and Principal Investigator, Population Information Program (PIP)

Ward Rinehart, Project Director, PIP

Anne W. Compton, Deputy Director, PIP, and Chief, POPLINE Digital Services

Hugh M. Rigby, Associate Director, PIP, and Chief, Media/Materials Clearinghouse

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