PMI End Use Verification Tool
This process is used to assess the availability of malaria commodities at the end-user level, as well as provides a snapshot of how malaria is being diagnosed and treated at a given set of health facilities. It includes suggested approaches to sampling, key indicators to track and a tool to collect the key indicators. The End-Use Verification Process informs policy makers and planners on the effectiveness of the health system in making malaria commodities available to those who need them. It can be used to strengthen NMCP and MOH supervisory efforts, gather information to help satisfy audit requirements, verify the end use of commodities and provide timely, actionable information for the detection and correction of issues surrounding programmatic implementation. The End-Use Verification Process is designed to be implemented quarterly, with results available shortly after data collection in order to quickly allow corrective action to be taken.
Many countries are already implementing some approach to monitoring product availability at different levels within the health system. This guidance is intended to complement and strengthen such efforts rather than replace them.
This tool includes also guidance in English, and in French, as well as an Indicator names and formula guide.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- PMI, in collaboration with the USAID, DELIVER PROJECT and the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems Progam
- Download:
- tool
in English - Contact:
- Mike Frost
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Reduce malaria mortality and morbidity by improving the availability and use of the malaria medicines and commodities
- Scope of interventions
- Useful for national policy makers and planners
- Limitations
- n/a
- Output
- To complement and strengthen countries’efforts when implementing approach to monitor product availability within the health system.
- Time frame
- Implemented quarterly, with results available up to 15 days after data collection
- Potential users
- Policymakers and planners, program managers
- Skills required
- Knowledge of malaria case management and supply chain Organizational analysis
- Type of software
- Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- Yes
- Type and length of training required
- One- to three-day training, including if possible a visit to a facility and practicum with the forms
- Available languages
- English, French - guidance only
- Country applications
- Not country specific
- Last update and version
- January 2010