Third Quarter

GHSC-PSM project assisted the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency (EPSA) in conducting M&E training to 42 EPSA staff and organized a quarterly supply planning workshop. The workshop enhanced the capacity of FMoH and EPSA to complete quarterly procurement quantification exercises to ensure sufficient products, including FP commodities are in the pipeline.

SGD pool fund contributors made USD 211.25 million commitment and USD 159.82 million (75.7%) disbursed to SDG PF with 25.6% reduction from te previous budget year. Total Budget USD 135,810,636 (22%) spends on Public Health Commodity Procurement.

National Health Account (NHA) is recognized and an accepted resource tracking methodology for the Ethiopia health sector. The NHA estimate the flow of health resource in the overall health sector of Ethiopia. It also tracks spending on health sector priority areas including reproductive health every two years. The seventh round NHA (FY 2014/15) was launched recently in September 2019. Results indicated that THE increased from 49.5 billion birr to 72billion Birr while the OOP reduced from 33% to 31%

More than 42,000 government-salaried female HEWs are deployed in the country. In addition, the HEP was revised to provide an additional one year training to the HEWs.

CORHA held different consultation meetings where Family planning was one of the priorities discussed. For instance, organized national consultation and awareness raising workshop for concerned government and non-government partners to conceptualize the DD and consider both the opportunities and challenges that the country could face to benefit from the DD, including using FP as one of the game changers to harnessing the DD.

Supported FMOH to conduct advocacy on FP and organize important platform to address barriers on family planning program.

The FMoH-MCH-N Directorate organized a meeting to orient members of the Social Standing Committees on the health status with a focus on family planning in Ethiopia. A total of 70 members of the social standing committee of the Ethiopian parliament were in attendance. The meeting provided constructive discussions between members of the Social Standing Committees of the House of People Representatives to deliberate on priority policy interventions build and sustain the momentum for political will for FP within the existing situation.

Ethiopia has been implementing a community health extension program (HEP) since 2003. Upon completion of the 12-month training, HEWs are assigned as salaried government employees to health posts and work directly with households. A total of ETB 466.77 million has been allocated from government at federal level for capital and operating budget and out of which ETB 399.22 (86%) has been utilized. The percentage of health budget from the total government budget in 2011 EFY was 12.2%.

The ministry led the initiative and restructured PFSA currently renamed as Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency (EPSA), which is responsible to ensure uninterrupted supply of quality assured pharmaceuticals to the public at affordable price through strengthening Integrated Pharmaceutical Logistics System (IPLS), efficient procurement, improved warehousing and inventory management, and efficient distribution of pharmaceuticals to health facilities to make the supply chain easy and effective.

Procured FP commodities to a tune of $15.4million between 2017 and Dec 2019. The FP commodities procured included male condoms, implants, ECs oral contraceptive pills (CoCs and PoPs)