Mozambique: National Consultant, Mapping Veterinary Medicines Supply Chain

Mar 6, 2022 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security.

Organizational Setting

Within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease Operations (ECTAD), under the policy and technical guidance of the Animal Health Officer/ECTAD Global Coordinator (NSAH), in line with programme management guidance from the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer/ECTAD Global Programme Budget Holder (OER), the functional and administrative supervision of the FAO Representative in Mozambique, the direct supervision of the ECTAD country team leader in Mozambique, and in collaboration with ECTAD country and regional teams in Eastern Africa.

Technical Focus

The incumbent will be expected to:  Map the veterinary medicines drug supply chain with respect to the following variables and using the approach mentioned below.

Tasks and responsibilities

1. Variables

A. Stakeholders – actors; # and role; sector (public or private)

  • Importers of finished veterinary medicines – ready for distribution
  • Importers of raw materials for manufacture or local repackaging
  • Manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)
  • Distributors – primary and secondary
  • demand point- where veterinary medicines are retailed to users – sales and dispensing
    • Type of retail outlets for AMs; number and density
    • Level of technical capacity manning the retail outlets
    • Categories of animal health service providers – number and density
    • # of vet clinics pr animal hospitals
    • Consumers – who are they and proportions 
    • Sources of medicated feeds and drugs to be incorporated

B. Stakeholder linkages- the network and relations 

C. Vet medicines regulation including stewardship policies and use guidelines

  • Regulatory bodies, role, staff capacity and distribution
  • Price controls
  • compliance levels with legislation and barriers to compliance
  • proportion of veterinary antibiotics sold with and without prescriptions – from which demand points  and technical categories involved
  • legislation
  • antimicrobial stewardship strategy
  • antimicrobial use guidelines

2. Registered veterinary medicines products in the country

  • List and # of registered ingredients and  formulations
  • % of registered veterinary medicines that fall within the WHOs and OIE lists of priority drugs
  • % of antibiotics; Antivirals, antiparasitic, antifungal locally manufactured in the country disaggregated by volume and number of products.
  • % of antibiotics; Antivirals, antiparasitic, antifungal imported into the country disaggregated by volume and number of products.

3. National and stakeholder information systems to capture flow of AMs- at import, export, wholesale, retail and farm levels

4. Identify challenges encountered by the various actors in the veterinary medicines supply value chain

5. Approach – the consultant is expected to use the following approach

  • Literature (published and grey) review
  • Conduct stakeholder workshop to map the supply chain actors and roles
  • Conduct key informant interviews – with the stakeholders
  • Collect publicly AMU available data from relevant agencies and analyse to generate data on the required variables
  • Work in collaboration with FAO AMR Team to develop a wholistic report on various aspects of AMR in Mozambique
  • Present the report to stakeholders for validation
  • Prepare the final report

Candidates will be assessed against the following

Minimum Requirements

  • University Degree in Pharmacology or Veterinary Medicine with experience in Pharmacology
  • Good skills in design of cross-sectional surveys, data collection methodologies and analytical skills such as use of statistical software
  • Experience with advance management of pharmacy is an asset
  • Experience in document review and analysis
  • Excellent knowledge on antibiotic resistance and Antimicrobial use.
  • Portuguese mother tongue with working knowledge of English.
  • Nationality of Mozambique or resident in the country with a regular work permit. 

Please note that all candidates should adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency. 

Additional Information

  • FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing).
  • Incomplete applications will not be considered. If you need help or have queries, please contact: Careers@fao.org
  • Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
  • Only language proficiency certificates from UN accredited external providers and/or FAO language official examinations (LPE, ILE, LRT) will be accepted as proof of the level of knowledge of languages indicated in the online applications.
  • For other issues, visit the FAO employment website: http://www.fao.org/employment/home/en/

How to apply

  • To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, and language skills
  • Candidates are requested to attach a letter of motivation to the online profile
  • Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application
  • Please note that FAO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/ 
  • Candidates may be requested to provide performance assessments and authorization to conduct verification checks of past and present work, character, education, military and police records to ascertain any and all information which may be pertinent to the employment qualifications
  • Incomplete applications will not be considered
  • Personal information provided on your application may be shared within FAO and with other companies acting on FAO’s behalf to provide employment support services such as pre-screening of applications, assessment tests, background checks and other related services. You will be asked to provide your consent before submitting your application. You may withdraw consent at any time, by withdrawing your application, in such case FAO will no longer be able to consider your application
  • Only applications received through the FAO recruitment portal will be considered
  • Your application will be screened based on the information provided in your online profile
  • We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
     

If you need help, or have queries, please contact: Careers@fao.org