Professional Driver Training Mozambique: radio jingle

Transaid’s Road Safety work continues in Mozambique, as part of an initiative led by GIZ Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D), by supporting refresher training for heavy goods vehicle drivers within small and medium-size enterprises. This important work employs our proven ‘train the trainer’ model in helping to deliver a sustainable change to driver training standards in Mozambique.

As part of efforts to reach as many potential driver trainees as possible, the project produced radio spots to promote the initiative. These radio spots were publicised in Mozambique during prime time.

Improving iSC performance through outsourcing – Considerations for using third-party service providers to increase innovation, capacity and efficiency

Development partners and donors have encouraged and incentivized governments in developing countries to explore ways of working with third-party service suppliers to reduce costs and increase service delivery capacity. The distribution of vaccines and medicines has for a long time shown demand for outsourcing but public health systems have struggled to develop the expertise and capital assets necessary to manage such ventures.

Existing transport and logistics capacity within public health systems, in particular, is well documented as being insufficient to support existing, let alone future immunization needs. Today, a number of countries are contracting party logistics providers (3PLs) to supplement the in-house distribution operations of public health systems. This commentary reflects on recent, leading examples of outsourcing initiatives to address critical gaps in transport and logistics