Our Achievements
FSW Consulting’s Managing Director played an instrumental role in birthing ideas, crafting strategies and leading implementation of game-changing improvement milestones in Kenya health supply chain landscape since the beginning of the 21st century. The achievements include improvements led and funded through various agencies. Achievements include;
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- Successfully advocating for inclusion of the role of pharmaceutical personnel in public health project implementation.
- Initiating and piloting the currently wide-spread practice of integrated supply chain system for cost effective programming in Kenya.
- Conceptualizing and introducing the establishment of Health Products and Technologies Units at the County Health Departments as strategic structures to oversee resourcing of pharmaceutical supply chain at sub-national level.
- Initiating the faith-based subsector-led practice of holding joint supplier conferences in Kenya health sector.
- Leading organizational quality circles on ‘Job evaluation, Strategic planning, Organizational procedure manuals, Organizational Security Systems, Supplier Pre-qualification Audit, and Africa region supply chain operations benchmarking.
- Advising on and implementing systems strengthening activities and/or consulting assignments on strengthening Procurement and Supply Management for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Reproductive Health/Family Planning, Maternal Neonatal and Child Health programs.
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- Influencing the procurement policy framework in Kenya as a Board Member of Kenya Institute of Supplies Managment (KISM) and Senior Procurement Practitioner and Leader in the faith based health sector.
- Playing a central role in strengthening systems for procuring, warehousing, ditribution, use and reporting for essential medicines and medical supplies (EMMS) at national, sub-national and community levels in Kenya and East Africa.
- Guiding on establishing the health products and technologies emergency operations framework at the Emergency Operations Centre in Kenya Ministry of Health .
- Coordinating and partnering with ‘One Health’ stakeholders on Global Health Security Agenda for emergency preparedness and response.
- Contributing to knowledge management by authoring; (i) Issues paper on ‘Kenya: Last Mile Challenge for Contraceptive commodities’, 2009; (ii) Position paper on ‘Security and Accountability of donor funded health commodities in Kenya’ 2015; and (iii) Book chapter on ‘Stakeholder Dynamics in East African Development Projects’, 2023, (iv) Peer-reviewed journal article on ‘The Moderating effects of Legal and Regulatory Framework on Precursors of Sustainability of Donor Funded Health Projects in Kenya’, 2023, among others.