Policy dialogue workshop: Improving the Supply Chain for the Health Sector: What Role for Local Manufacturing? 

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Venue: REPOA, Dar es salaam, Tanzania

Date: June 27, 2013 

The project partners, ACTS, The Open University, Rand Europe and REPOA organised a one-day Policy Dialogue Workshop on 27 June 2013. The workshop hosted by REPOA discussed research findings with various other stakeholders from government ministries and departments/agencies, district health care facilities, research institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers in Kenya and Tanzania.

Workshop aimed at:

Present health sector respondents’ perspectives on

• Interactions between local manufactures and imports in supplying the Tanzanian and Kenyan health systems; and
• The structure and performance of the public and private supply chains into the health sector

Discuss with and learn from participants

• Lessons concerning scope for mutual benefit between industrial development and health sector performance; and
• Issues for further research to examine specific opportunities, challenges and policy implications.

Power point presentations of findings based on health sector respondents’ perspectives

Project Overview [PPT] : by Prof Maureen Mackintosh of  Open University UK

Session 1 Presentations:

• Locally Manufactured and Imported Medicines and Medical Supplies in Kenya [Pdf]
• Local manufacturing and the Tanzanian Health Sector Market [Pdf]

Session 2 Presentations:

• The Tanzanian Public Health Sector as Buyer and User of Medicines and Other Supplies and Equipment [Pdf]
• Local Supply Chains of Medicines and Medical Supplies in Kenya: Understanding the Challenges [Pdf]

Session 3 Presentations:

• Private Distributor Supply Chains in Kenya [Pdf]
• The Tanzanian Private Health Sector as Buyer and User of Medicines and Other Supplies [Pdf]

For further details on the Policy dialogue workshop in Dar es Salaam, please follow this link .