Sizing study of the Regional Centre for Expertise in the Health Products Supply Chain in Ivory Coast - CREMCAPS

The CREMCAPS project aims to position the New Public Health Pharmacy of Côte d'Ivoire (NPSP-CI) as a centre of excellence for the distribution of health products in sub-Saharan Africa. This sizing study focuses on the operationalisation of the new training centre for the health products supply chain of the NPSP-CI, which aims to increase the skills and capacities of the sector's actors through the development of a continuous training programme dedicated to pharmaceutical logistics.Initially national in scope, the project has evolved towards the development of its skills at the international level, positioning itself among the 22 member countries of the African Association of Essential Drug Purchasing Centres (ACAME), and the 16 ECOWAS countries.The objective of the study is to diagnose the achievements and needs, to propose a framework of recommendations and an operational action plan to guarantee the effectiveness of its training activities, to perpetuate its activity and to open the way to new development opportunities.The implementation of this dimensioning study is based on the technical analysis of the existing situation in order to propose an operational development plan in line with the needs of the sector and the project's outreach issues.This approach takes the form of a four-stage action:

• A preliminary technical analysis of the project's achievements and the difficulties encountered, and the diagnosis of its operational framework
• The proposal of an economic and legal model adapted to the needs and challenges of the training centre, with a view to the sustainability and development of its activities
• The presentation of a framework of recommendations and dimensioning of the project, in the form of an operational action plan to be implemented by the NPSP-CI teams
• In support of the action plan, the proposal of a medium-term development plan should allow the conclusions of the study to be deepened and identify the project's development opportunities.

For the implementation of these activities, Egis Forhom provided, in addition to the project management and its expertise of more than 40 years as a training centre, 3 experienced technical experts, whose responsibilities are distributed as follows

• Head of Mission and Expert in Technical Education and Vocational Training (TEVT)
• Expert in financial management - Business plan
• Expert Architect - Sizing of facilities