Purpose
To provide technical support to Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Agency (EPSA), Regional Health Bureaus, zonal and district health offices on planning and response to vaccine-derived Poliovirus outbreaks with a focus on vaccine management which is consistent with the latest SOPs for outbreak responses.
Specific tasks
The consultant will work closely with national and regional emergency operation center (EOC), the Cold Chain and Vaccine Management technical working group, EPSA hubs managers and regional health bureaus and authorities of the national and regional Immunization Programme to accomplish the following :
1. Develop/review the outbreak response SIAs supply and logistics plan.
2. Establish cold chain functionality and failure report tracking method and coordinate the maintenance activities.
3. Develop/review the distribution plan, route, transport, and organize the distribution of the mOPV2 outbreak response supply and logistics.
4. Provide training to SIA facilitators at regional and sub-regional levels on mOPV2 vaccine management
5. Support Woreda health offices in the management of m0PV2 during the SIA including reverse logistics with accountability for each and every mOPV2 vial received.
6. Supervise the use of mOPV2 by vaccination teams during outbreak response SIA and participate in region/ district command post daily coordination meetings and report daily performance to central outbreak response team/command post
7. Organize reverse logistics for used and unused mOPV2 vials
8. Support the organization of the destruction and disposal of used mOPV2 at the end of each round of SIA and the destruction of used and unused mOPV2 at the end of the last round of SIA.
9. Work with Cold Chain and Vaccine Management team at the hub level and document and report on all vaccine and logistics management and retrieval and destruction of used and unused mOPV2 delivered for the SIAs.
10. Contribute to visibility and development of case reports
The consultant must meet the following criteria
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