Effect of Monitoring and Evaluation on Sustainable Pharmaceutical Waste Management: The Case of Pharmaceutical Supply Agency in Ethiopia
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2021-02
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Addis Ababa University
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The poor disposal of wastes leads to serious personal and environmental health hazards.
Preventing these wastes from being generated and improving the environment through preferable healthful options needs: the importance of monitoring and evaluation during an implementation. When the performance of monitoring and evaluation is carried out correctly and at the right time and place, it ensures the success of sustainable pharmaceutical waste management (PWM). But in the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Agency (EPSA), attempts do not undertake on the focus of monitoring and evaluation effects on sustaining development of waste management. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of monitoring and evaluation (monitoring and evaluation) implementation on enhancing pharmaceutical waste management in EPSA.This study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Purposive sampling procedure used to select five branches EPSA out of nineteen. The study used stratified sampling and simple random sampling technique to select the sample frame of 384 professional staffs that use the monitoring and evaluation system for designing, planning, and implementing pharmaceutical supply chain in EPSA’s from which 161 samples selected for data collection using the selfadministered questionnaire. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, whereas qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis.
The finding showed that variable such as decision-making, use of a legal and regulatory
framework, access to monitoring and evaluation training and data quality has a significant effect on the performance of PWM in EPSA. The study recommends that EPSA should implement an efficient and effective monitoring and evaluation system based on the purpose of the PWM. EPSA Management should be committed and provide high emphasis in designing and implementing of monitoring and evaluation related to PWM. The finding of this study will be significant to the organization, to the stakeholders, researchers, Government Public Sectors, Ministry of Health and Environment Protection Authority
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Sustainable Pharmaceutical Waste Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Challenge and Practice, Knowledge and Perception.