The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Ethiopia seeks to ensure the uninterrupted supply and availability of high-quality health commodities. It does so through an array of procurement services, logistics support, and health systems strengthening technical assistance, spanning all elements of a comprehensive supply chain as well as global and local collaboration. GHSC-PSM in Ethiopia also works to improve pharmacy services through policy, legislative, and operational-level interventions to ensure the appropriate use of medicines, transparency, and accountability in pharmaceutical management at the health facility.
Project Name:
USAID Global Health Supply Chain Project- Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM)
Budget Source:
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), USAID’s family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) program, and USAID’s maternal and child health (MCH)
Project Life:
October 2016 – September 2020
Project objective:
The project supports five health areas: HIV/AIDS, malaria, voluntary family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), maternal and child health, and emerging public health threats such as Ebola, and hinges on three key objectives:
- Commodity Procurement
Ensuring the continued availability of quality public health commodities on time and at best value to save lives and provide the most health for the money.
- Health Systems Technical Assistance
Fostering resilient and sustainable in-country supply chains that harness practical, cutting-edge solutions in order to maximize the availability and high-quality management of public health commodities. - Global Collaboration
Engaging partners throughout the world to promote adoption of global standards, security of health commodities and the markets that support them, and the use of data to guide effective decision-making by all who provide public health commodities.
Project area:
All over Ethiopia
Project focus on health emergencies:
Establishment of emergency supply chain (ESC) system to effectively prepare and respond to health emergencies.
Project targets:
- EPHI/PHEM and EPSA structures and health emergency supply chain cadres working in RHBs, WoHOs, and treatment centers
Partners:
- S. government agencies (USAID, PMI, PEPFAR, CDC) and Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
- Ethiopian Government Entities: EPHI/PHEM, EPSA,
What we do:
GHSC-PSM) project in Ethiopia seeks to ensure the uninterrupted supply and availability of high-quality health commodities. The project provides an array of services for commodity procurement, supply, and systems strengthening technical assistance in four health areas: HIV/AIDS; malaria; family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH); and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH). In line with these services, the project supports the Ethiopian Public Health Institute/Public Health Emergency Management and the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Agency to establish an agile emergency supply chain system with a focus on determining ESC governance, commodity planning, and supply chain logistics. The project aims to support the establishment of national and regional ESC structures and plans to build the capacity of responsible staff at relevant levels of the supply chain.
Contact:
Tesfaye Seifu
Email: tseifu@ghsc-psm@.org
Phone: +251 11 667 4627