Strategy for Pooled Procurement of Essential Medicines and
Health Commodities, 2013-2017
9.2
Operational arrangements
The SHD&SP Senior Programme Officer in the SADC Secretariat will coordinate the activities relating to information and
work sharing, as well as the necessary preparations for setting up the SPPS planned for the first phase of implementation.
Initially, information and work sharing electronic platforms will be tested in a pilot among a few Member States, after
which these platforms are expected to become fully operational.
After its establishment in the Strategy’s second year of implementation, the SPPS will coordinate and manage the pooled
procurement process.
The SPPS will be established under the principle of subsidiarity. Its functions will be to:
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10. MONITORING AND EVALUATION
The Results Framework of the Strategy will form the main M&E tool, which is guided by the principles of results-based
management, and by the SADC Policy on Strategy Development, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. The objectives
of the M&E mechanism of the Strategy are to:
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In line with the Results Framework of the Strategy, the SADC Secretariat and the SPPS will put in place the following
measures to ensure implementation of the planned activities and delivery of outputs:
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SADC Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee to the SADC Secretariat, which will submit an annual report to the
SADC Ministers of Health.
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