OCoPP project

Observatoire Communautaire des Pratiques Pharmaceutiques project aimed at improving access to reliable information and strengthening community-level pharmaceutical care.

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Sector: Community pharmaceutical practices Location: Burkina Faso, Cameroon and additional areas of intervention Period: Project timeline Status: Project

General objective

The Observatoire Communautaire des Pratiques Pharmaceutiques (OCoPP) project aims to improve access to reliable information on pharmaceutical practices and strengthen the delivery of pharmaceutical care at community level in pilot districts across the targeted countries.

Publicly stated action areas

  • improve and strengthen community-level management of health commodities and medicine dispensing
  • establish or reinforce a minimum package of pharmaceutical activities in the targeted pilot districts
  • implement an early warning and monitoring system together with a citizen-facing platform for reliable information access

Publicly stated expected effects

The project highlights improved medicine governance through community data collection, alerting and information-sharing systems, drawing in particular on observatories already in place in Burkina Faso and Cameroon.

Stated funding

The OCoPP project is presented as funded by Expertise France with a budget of EUR 600,000.

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