Follow up call

Date: March 26, 2021

Participants: @Brian Taliesin @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) Hamidreza Setayesh hsetayesh@gavi.org; Ibrahim Mohammed imohammed@gavi.org (HSS focal point), Craig Beyernick, GAVI (Program Officer Nigeria, Gavi)

How to Chris W and Frederic from Novel T fit into the mix/decision-making?

How do we overcome the challenges of implementation that people seem to be worried about in the past?

Ibrahim: the number of attendance in the call was a positive to take away; reflects how the conversation has been evolving. Issue with past STTA and trying to do the best first-level screening. First impressions- could have gone better but good that they were asking the hard questions

Hamidreza: pleased with the outcome and think we are at the point of decision-making; think this could mover very fast because we had everybody from senior mgmt at national level on the call. They seem like they want to move. He is losing patience; this process is taking very long. Wants to discuss what we can do next assuming the decision will come soon. Manage expectations of what will be delivered

• What he sees of the scope: HUGE quantities of valuable vaccines being distributed without visibility of what is happening. Current system is ODK just messaging, with very ow reporting of inventory. First basic priority is to have visibility of inventory. Audit is coming up and without a system in place it looks very bad. And there is the case of COVID vaccines, concerned with wastages.

  • COVID is an opportunity; could be rolled out fast and then need to add other products. (Perhaps we could do the covid edition first, then expand?)

  • priority is immediate rollout at the state level, then after to the LGA level (800 locations in total), then can move to lower level

  • Interested in what connectivity can be linked to the last mile

  • Programs to include other than vaccines?

    • COVID19 Edition

    • RHSC

  • There is a master facility list; might not be super accurate; global fund has invested in this list for their own systems

Brian: starting with COVID edition; then migrate to other areas; so if the COVID catalog is linked already; 800 locations seems like a good fit to get started

Craig: will look into what requirements are need to be met from their end

Ibrahim: Could the country propose an implementing partner? Propose to work with others like HISP as part of the imp?

Brian: local implementing partners that are brought on board could be good for embracing and extending the system later on. The HISP people could be good partners on the integration side. That seems like a natural extension

Implementation plan: just want to see what has been done before

• good feel for the cost elements; but that doesn't stop this from being a participatory process;

  • we send them a light level of scoping elements , timelines, and costs; back of the envelope

  • want us to consider virtual training

    • is there a partner that can handle this aspect? Willing to pay for people to do it to incentivize

    • we can ask partners if someone can do this

• Devices: they are moving ahead with procurement with some devices for Nigeria; they are sending phones but could also send tablets

Next Steps:

• Rebecca: Share COVID Edition materials with the team and share partner info from UNDP; (tablet requirements on page 44)

• Rebecca to reach out to partners to see who is interested in supporting; propose co-creation session to help design high level SOW

• Gavi to investigate what process is required by them internally (do they need to issue an RFP?)

• near future: pull together Nigeria specific demo site, start collecting master data