2. Terms of Reference
The main purpose of the technical assistance is to assist the Ministry of Public Health in developing and populating a national cold chain inventory, to assess the overall capacity and status of existing equipment, to identify elements of a long-term rehabilitation plan, and contribute to strengthening national institutional capacity in the immunization programme. The present consultancy will be a follow-up to an earlier visit made in mid- 2008, during which the framework for the inventory was designed, a start was made on collecting baseline information, and some of the building blocks for future activities were created. Key activities to be carried out during this second phase were to train a national team for data entry and data processing, to supervise population of the inventory using all raw data collected, to review and analyse the completed database, and to prepare materials to assist management discussions and decisions on future directions for the EPI programme.
Detailed terms of reference for the consultancy are attached at Annex 1.