Senior National Consultant - CMA at Malaria Consortium

Objective of the Assignment
Specific Objectives:

• Review and finalize the Malaria Health Product Management Audit protocol and Tools.
• To determine the availability and use of relevant tools for proper tracking and control of the distribution at every point in the supply chain.
• Determine accuracy of record keeping for key activities such as receiving, warehousing and distribution at each point in the supply chain.
• Determine the concurrence or otherwise, between paper-based inventory and the digital application (Digit-HCM) inventory
• Ascertain the quantities of individual malaria health products and other commodities that passed through every holding and transit point in the supply chain/pipeline, including quantities ordered from manufacturer, received at Nigeria port, delivered to state CMS and distributed to health facilities for the 2025 SMC implementation.
• Determine from the service database, quantities of SPAQ used for treatments, including main dosing, re-dosing, after-referral-dosing, wasted and damaged.
• Do physical count and document of the quantities, conditions and expiry dates of commodity at each state CMS and LGA stores currently holding SPAQ.
• From 3 - 5 above and annex 1 (SDP Categorization and Applicable Audit Activities), determine loss and wastage rate for the product of interest.
• Assess the capacity (Knowledge, Training, and Commodity Management practices) of the health workers at the facility levels to manage malaria commodities generally and on digital applications.
• Assess the knowledge of health workers involved in the SMC campaign on pharmacovigilance.
• Do an assessment of the availability and compliance (Screening and reporting of all suspected cases of ADR) with pharmacovigilance process for drug safety during SMC implementation?
• Assess the distribution strategy for the commodities to determine compliance with state malaria supply chain management strategy, national policies and procedures as well as best practices for management of malaria commodities.
• Do a rapid assessment of the stock (bad, good or expired).
• Do assessment of the storage conditions for SMC commodities at the state CMS and selected health facilities (capacity, environmental conditions, safety and security) and at holding or transient points.
• Carry out a survey of private outlets across the states to identify the type and cost of antimalarials sold in the outlets (This will allow for the identification of diverted SPAQ).
• Submit report with appropriate recommendations on key finding

Methodology
Data Collection Method:

• Document (Commodity delivery and transaction documents) review at the state office of Malaria Consortium.
• Record (Commodity delivery and transaction documents) review at state CMS, LGA and zonal stores where applicable.
• Record (Commodity delivery and transaction documents) review at health facility level.
• Back-end DIGIT-HCM commodity data review
• Assessment of storage facilities at the different holding/transit stores and health facilities.
• Collection of SMC related pharmacovigilance forms at the health facilities where available.
• Key Informant interviews with relevant staff of Malaria Consortium and government (state, LGAs, and health facility workers) in the nine states that have roles and participated in 2025 commodity management and service delivery. The lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) methodology would be adapted for this commodity audit.

The following activities will be undertaken by the Senior National Consultant:

• Briefing of the state-level consultant on the end-of-round (EoR) commodity management audit.
• Review, revise and finalize draft protocol and templates for data/information capturing at all holding and transient points.
• Work with the MC technical team to develop a data analysis and presentation plan
• Coordinate the activities of the state-level consultants.
• Supervise the state-level consultants in completing the assigned tasks.
• Debrief with the MC team at the national on findings at the conclusion of the assignment.
• Write a comprehensive report on the assignment, making recommendations where necessary and using an appropriate template.

Profile Requirements of Senior National Consultant

• S/he should have a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or a health-related discipline, with a postgraduate degree in Pharmacy. S/he will provide oversight and coordinate the activities of the nine (9) auditors participating in this assignment. Other requirements include:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in drug supplies and management systems in Nigeria, especially in the Public Health sector.
• The lead consultant will be a Health supply chain and health system expert with experience in commodity and project auditing.
• Have experience in developing protocols for health commodity audit or assessment of supply chain systems in Nigeria.
• Demonstrable experience in systems assessment/evaluation.
• Experience in report writing and communicating with stakeholders.
• Good understanding of what is feasible in highly resource-constrained environments.