Current Activities, Programs & Initiatives

STEP 2.0 IFPW Foundation continues its role as a collaborative donor to this impactful change management and leadership program, along with The Global Fund and Gavi.  STEP empowers supply chain leaders from the public sector in LMICs and MICs in overcoming obstacles and challenges in their respective health system and/or organization. IFPW’s members continue to strongly support the private-sector coaching aspects of STEP. In addition to funding STEP implementations, IFPW Foundation is now offering private sector coach recruitment services for other donors’ implementations, and continues to develop facilitators and co-facilitators from the private sector to ensure program sustainability and expanded reach. Click here for more information on the STEP Program.

Fight the Fakes Fight the Fakes Alliance (FtFA) continues to raise awareness of the prevalence and dangers associated with substandard and falsified medicines (SFs), and to share information on how to address and prevent the problem. IFPW serves on the Executive Board of the organization and Chris Goetz (IFPW Executive VP) serves as one of the Vice Chairmen in support of the Alliance’s strategic and governance activities. The FtFA secretariat has been established in Geneva and  the topic of medicine quality and addressing SFs are being positioned as a core components of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and other key global health agenda objectives. Click here for more information.