EAC Secretariat and RCE VIHSCM are convening the different meeting which are to be held at Kigali, Rwanda for EAC Pooled Procurement and Africa Pooled Procurement Mechanisms
The 20th Ordinary Meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health adopted Group Contracting as the Pooled Procurement Framework for the EAC which was developed jointly with the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization, and Health Supply Chain Management (EAC RCE-VIHSCM). Following the approval of the model, experts from the region including the National Medical Stores, the National Medicines Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) and the National Procurement Authorities recommended that the operationalisation of the PPF roadmap begin with information sharing. Subsequently, the 24th Ordinary Meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health adopted the EAC Pool Procurement Mechanisms operationalization model and the digital platform for the information sharing module that will coordinate and manage the EAC Regional Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM).
It is against this background that the EAC Secretariat and RCE VIHSCM are convening a series of meetings as outlined below: