Kenyans can access Family Planning Commodities to the Last Mile: Innovating at KEMSA

Previously, it would take over two months for public health facilities to receive stock of family planning commodities. For women, particularly in rural Kenya, this meant if you requested a contraceptive or any family planning method, you had to wait. Beyond the access challenge, for some women, this would be a life or death scenario, they had eight children or more, and despite complications faced during childbirth, their husbands expected that they should still reproduce. A family planning method received when the woman needed it, was her way of taking control of her health: She wanted to live long enough to raise her other eight children.

KEMSA with support from Partners such as UNFPA, has developed an integrated Logistics Management Information System (iLMIS) that is pro-active, provides for a turn-around time of less than seven days and allows for visibility across the supply chain to key stakeholders from government to development partners/