Featured Resources
Protecting Ghana’s Election: Instant Agility With Zipline’s Autonomous Delivery Network
January 12, 2021
Zipline
A case study on how Ghana leveraged the Zipline autonomous delivery network to distribute >18,000 face masks to poll workers in less than a day’s notice.
Drones in International Development: Innovating the Supply Chain to Reach Patients in Remote Areas
October 27, 2020
USAID
Final project report from the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management drones for HIV/AIDS commodity delivery project in North Malawi.
Context-Specific Challenges, Opportunities, and Ethics of Drones for Healthcare Delivery in the Eyes of Program Managers and Field Staff: A Multi-Site Qualitative Study
August 17, 2020
V. Jeyabalan, E. Nouvet, P. Meier, et al.
This paper aims to document and advance awareness of diverse context-specific concerns, challenges, and complexities encountered by individuals working on the front lines of drones for health.
How to Select a Drone Service Provider for Transport of Health Products
July 20, 2020
VillageReach
Document describing VillageReach’s experience selecting a drone service provider with contracting tools which can be adapted for use by others looking to partner with a drone delivery provider.
How Delivery Drones Are Being Used to Tackle COVID-19
April 25, 2020
WeRobotics
This catalog is documenting how cargo drones being used in response to COVID-19.
Drone Delivery of PPE and Test Kits for COVID-19
May 13, 2020
Center for Global Development
This webinar shared data and insights from new work being carried out by Zipline to help Ghana and other countries in their COVID-19 response supply chain.
Drones, Hype and COVID-19
May 28, 2020
NetHope Solutions Center
The purpose of this webinar is to critically review and question how drones are being applied in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
African Drone Forum 2020 Recap
March 18, 2020
UPDWG and African Drone Forum
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Malawi Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Toolkit
December 2, 2019
The Malawi Department of Civil Aviation, MACRA, VillageReach, GIZ and UNICEF
A guideline for drone service providers and implementers in the development, humanitarian and research fields.
UAS Evidence Generation Toolkit
December 4, 2019
VillageReach, ISG UAS Coordinating Body
This toolkit provides donors, governments, technology partners, and implementing partners tools and resources to improve the quantity, quality, and availability of evidence around the use of UAS. The toolkit contains an implementation roadmap, logical framework, priority indicators, data collection plans, and sample data collection tools.
Integrating Drones into Immunization Supply Chains
November 7, 2019
UPDWG, TechNet-21, VillageReach and UNICEF
Launch of the UAS for Payload Delivery Evidence Generation Toolkit
September 26, 2019
VillageReach
UAS: Product Profiles and Guidance
October 1, 2019
UNICEF
This brief provides background information on UAS for use in health supply chain delivery. It highlights existing regulations and systems, as well as use cases for supply chain operations…
Bi-directional drones to strengthen healthcare provision: experiences and lessons from Madagascar, Malawi and Senegal
July 31, 2019
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
This article presents the experiences from Madagascar, Malawi and Senegal, who are among a group of early adopters piloting the use of bi-directional transport drones for health systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
UAV Delivery Decision Tool
March 21, 2019
FHI 360
A tool for program planners, government officials, and others considering using UAVs to transport medical goods or laboratory samples in low- or middle-income countries.