Client: Guidehouse (US)
Contract Value: USD 137,000
Status: Complete
Location: Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Year: 2023
Benguela Health’s Team Members: Catherine Brown, Derry Heron, Dr Edmore Marinda, Louise Allen, Trevor Pocock, Kim MacQuilken, Sandla Maseko, Erika Maree
Project Description:
Benguela Health was successful in tendering for the
RFP published by Guidehouse under the Tanzania USAID Global Health Supply Chain programme – Technical Assistance programme to develop a full business case for the transition of the Zanzibar
Central Medical Stores from a unit within the Ministry of Health to a stand alone, semiautonomous entity,
The timescales were extremely tight with the entire business case to be completed in eight weeks.
The Business Case included the following:
The proposed Bill was then enacted into law in February 2024 with the creation of CMS as a stand alone entity.
The Business Case has been highly utilized to secure additional donor funding to support the implementation of the new CMSA.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Responsible for: Delivery of business case including financial modelling, statistical analysis, health economics input into pricing and volumes of health commodities, human resource and change management expertise, IT supply chain and warehouse system expertise