Nigeria Private Sector Health Assessment - SHOPS project

There are obvious links with recommendations 1 and 4 for training and access-to-credit for pharmacists.
Such an undertaking also would require an in-depth feasibility study to:
• identify an area with significant needs but that also offers sufficient opportunities to create and
maintain viable pharmacy businesses
• negotiate a design acceptable to the PCN, NAFDAC, and state ministries of health
• provide costs on the provision of services by the network franchisor and establish a fee structure
for membership in the network
• design monitoring and evaluation strategies
Ideally representatives from the PCN, PMV association, and NAFDAC could be part of the design team
for a pilot and would be involved in management and monitoring. The monitoring and evaluation design
would have to permit evaluation of pilot subcomponents as well as the overall effect on increasing
access to essential drugs and contraceptives. The pilot may prove to be a success in one area (such
as increasing access to credit to support business expansion) while failing in another one. To best
inform the advocacy efforts, which would follow the evaluation of the pilot, it is important that each
subcomponent be considered in the evaluation design.
Depending on mission priorities and interest, PSP-One can develop these recommendations more fully,
including cost estimates and illustrative timelines for implementation.
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