Chemonics International seeks experienced professionals for the USAID-funded Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project. GHSC-PSM Ethiopia will serve as the primary vehicle through which USAID will procure and furnish health commodities, provide technical assistance to improve the country’s management of the supply chain, and collaborate with key international stakeholders to support global and local health initiatives.
Most of the Ethiopian public suffers from diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, HIV, and malaria that could have easily been prevented or treated by ensuring continuous availability and proper use of essential medicines, supplies and reagents in transparent and sustainable way. However, inefficiencies involved in pharmaceutical supply chain and management at health facilities has resulted in multiple forms of irrational practices and wastages. Traceability of pharmaceutical transactions at health facilities is very poor and accountability has not been properly defined. The absence of tools and systems for tracking products and financial information has made auditing of transactions and services almost impossible. The lack of transparency and accountability in managing medicines and financial transactions has exposed the system to theft, pilferage, and misappropriations. The poor and vulnerable segment of the population is most affected by these inefficiencies as its access to medicines is limited to government health facilities through a fee waiver mechanism.
To solve these problems, the Ministry of Health and regional states have designed and implemented an innovative system called Auditable Pharmaceuticals Transactions and Services (APTS). APTS is enacted by regulation at federal and regional levels.
APTS is a data driven package of interventions designed to establish accountable, transparent, and responsible pharmacy practice. It enables health facilities to optimize utilization of medicines budget, improve access to medicines, and decrease wastages. APTS continuously monitors the number, mix & performance of pharmacy workforce. It also improves pharmacy premise design and workflow. Through improving recording and documentation, it generates reliable and consistent information for decision making. As a result, APTS improves overall quality of pharmacy services thereby increasing patient knowledge and satisfaction. Ultimately it contributes to better health outcomes. APTS has five result areas: efficient budget utilization, transparent and accountable transactions, reliable information, effective workforce development and deployment, and improved customer satisfactions.
APTS has been one of the flagship programs at the ministry of health and regional health bureau levels. Accordingly, a lot of effort and resources have been utilized to realize APTS in health facilities. The implementation needs improvement of facilities, deploying and training of pharmacy professionals. Moreover, there is a huge demand for scaling up of APTS at all hospitals and health centers in all regional states.
This assessment aims to identify the status of APTS implementation, the gaps and challenges of implementation, the lessons learned and best practices in implementing APTS so far. More specifically, the assessment has the following objectives:
The results obtained from this assessment will be used in designing a workable APTS scale up and maintenance strategy for the next 5 to 10 years.
Therefore, the GHSC-PSM Ethiopia Field Office would like to engage supervisors and data collectors for the successful execution of this assessment as per the following scope of work and requirements.
The scope of work for the data collectors will include but not limited to the following:
The scope of work for the supervisors will include but not limited to the following:
Timeline and place of assignment
MOH and GHSC-PSM Ethiopia project requires and expects mainly the followings deliverables:
Reporting
The consultants will report to GHSC-PSM Ethiopia Field Office, APTS and Pharmacy service case team coordinator for FMOH.
Summary of candidate(s) qualifications
Data collectors
Supervisors
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