Nutrition International (NI)
has been supporting
the Ministry of Health (MoH), Government of Indonesia in strengthening Vitamin
A Supplementation (VAS) program in Indonesia since 2006. NI through ISG fund is now continuing its
support to the VAS program at the national level to increase the coverage of
the VAS program.
In 2018, NI supported the MoH to conduct
an assessment of the quality assurance system of VAC supplies in two provinces,
West Java and Banten. The purpose of this assessment was to support MoH to
improve the quality assurance system of VAS program in Indonesia. Even though
VAS program has been implemented quite well in Indonesia, particularly in West
Java and Banten provinces, still some gaps related to QA/QC system of VAC along
its supply chain, ranging from procurement, storage, distribution to
documentation and reporting procedures were found in this assessment. Findings
and recommendations from this assessment including proposed revisions to SOPs
(e.g., SOP for receiving of VAC supplies, storage, inventory and distribution
process (at PHO, DHO and Puskesmas level) have been reported to both MoH and
PHOs.
The quality assurance of VAC along its
supply chain is very important to maintain and assure quality of VAC which in
turn determines the safety and efficacy of VAC for end users. NI plans to
conduct meetings with the Public Drugs Directorate of MoH to propose revisions
to the VAS SOPs to improve VAC supply chain management at all levels based on the
assessment conducted by NI in 2018.
The
objectives of meeting/s with MoH are to propose revisions to the VAS SOPs to
improve quality assurance system of VAS program in Indonesia. Specifics
objectives are as follows:
a.
Share key findings and recommendations from the
assessment of VAC quality assurance conducted by NI in West Java and Banten
provinces in 2018.
b.
Propose revisions to the VAS SOPs at province, district
and Puskesmas level and make necessary changes in those SOPs based on inputs
from MoH.
c.
Advocate with MoH to accept the proposed revisions to the
VAS SOPs and make necessary changes to improve the quality of VAS program
particularly supply chain management.
NI is to seek a suitable agency to
support Nutrition International to conduct meeting/s with the Public Drugs
Directorate of MOH to propose revisions to the VAS SOPs and advocate with them
to accept the revisions.
Kindly find detailed RFP along with TOR and Budget
Template in the link as follows:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x3b1O6zKQ5Gxl9p3W1lJfEGlW9fga_aD?usp=sharing
The
submission deadline for proposals is Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 by 17:00 HRS. West Indonesia Standard Time.
The Technical and Financial Proposal in two separate files put into a
covering email specifically indicating the subject line “Organize Online Meetings
with the Public Drugs Directorate of MOH to Propose Revisions to the VAS SOPs” and
should be sent by email to:
proposalsindonesia@nutritionintl.org
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