How can your company help fight COVID-19 in South Africa?

How can your company help fight COVID-19 in South Africa?

Depending on the specific intervention, private sector assistance could take the form of:

• Expertise and skill sets (e.g., supply chain, data analytics, marketing/communications, technology and innovation)
• Use of company assets (e.g., locations for vaccinations, equipment)
• Collaboration with and/or funding of local or international organizations undertaking COVID response programs
• Provision of funding or donated items to government entities

Country-Specific Needs

Increasing Vaccine Access & Delivery

Demand Generation, Incentives, and Messaging

• Provide technical and financial assistance for design, generation, and/or distribution of messaging to increase demand creation in priority districts
• Support geo-mapping and analytics to drive and strengthen demand creation (profiling, hesitancy mapping, participatory mapping)
• If present in the country, increase vaccine awareness and access amongst your organization’s staff

Vaccine Distribution, Planning, and Sites of Delivery

• Provide facility infrastructure enhancements for reliable operations and connectivity in harder-to-reach areas (e.g., generators; solar power systems and batteries; ICT infrastructure that extends access to reliable data and internet connectivity)
• Leverage in-country locations (e.g., storefronts) for temporary/mobile vaccine site set-up and implementation
• Provide donations for, or of, tablets, mobile devices and SIM cards to collect data and increase availability of data for district vaccination teams.
• Provide technical assistance for detailed planning to ensure vaccine distribution in hard-to-reach locations and at-risk populations

Logistics, Warehousing, and Infrastructure

• Provide, or support financially, vehicles and fuel for district vaccination campaigns

Expanding Availability of Tests, Therapeutics, and/or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Data and Monitoring

• Provide and expand cloud hosting services for nation-wide vaccine data in line with broader National Department of Health data systems targets
• Provide specialized IT support to improve Stock Visibility Systems (SVS) for reporting compliance, as well as to develop and implement a digital platform to monitor/audit cold chain capacity
• Support creation and implementation of district vaccination dashboards and technical assistance where needed
• Support development and implementation of integrated wastage monitoring tools
• Enhance data collection systems to track Human Resource for Health –to help identify skills gaps for vaccine delivery capacity strengthening.

Staffing, Training, and Administration

• Develop menu of courses and training delivery methods customized for different health care workers
• Training in cold chain management in targeted provinces

Other

• Support efforts to ensure children who have lost parents due to COVID-19 remain in nurturing, protective family care via targeted support to families, e.g. family strengthening and economic support, parenting and psychosocial support, early childhood care, and/or educational support.