Ahmed Mir

Office of The Principal Recipient for The Global Fund Grants -
National TB Control Program (NTP), Pakistan
MAJOR RESPONSIBILTIES:
* To lead the Procurement & Supply Chain Management Unit at NTP country office;
* To lead the team of procurement and supply chain officers for all the National/ Local
and International procurements;
* To organize and manage a system for the procurement and supply chain management
of all health and non-health products for the program and its allied projects;
* To develop a mechanism for the maintenance of record of all in-progress and completed
procurements;
* To develop Procurement & Supply Chain Management (PSM) Plans;
* To coordinate and help all the components of NTP in devising quarterly/ annual
procurement plans;
* To assist NTP in development of guidelines for procurement of goods;
* To assist NTP in purchase of all Equipment and other program commodities including
Anti-TB drugs;
* To develop Invitation for Bids, Request for Quotations, Expression of Interests, Request
for Proposals, Pre-qualification and other formats relating to procurement;
* To ensure secure transportation of equipment, supplies and Anti-TB drugs to all across
the country;
* To supervise the

Strengthening Logistics Management system (District & Facility level) of Ministry of
Health (MoH), Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) and LHWs’ Program, Govt. of
Pakistan;
* Reproduce the material for orientation trainings;
* Conduct trainings of BHU/ RHC/ THQ/ DHQ/ FWC/ RHSA & MSU staff;
* Collect consolidated comprehensive reports from DoH/ PWD & LHWs’ Program;
* Coordinate with MoH/ MoPW for contraceptive stock status
Key Achievements
* Developed “Module on Logistics Management at First Level Care Facility”
* Successfully trained 415 BHU, MCH, THQ, DHQ and provincial level logistics related staff
of Department of Health on “Logistics Management at FLCF level”.
* Developed proformas for collection of Stock Reports from Provincial, District and Facility
level stores.
* Initiated the process of Information flow of Contraceptive stock status both from MoH
and MoPW warehouses/ stores.

Strengthening the Logistics Management system (Central, Provincial & District level) of
Ministry of Health (MoH), Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) and LHWs’ Program,
Govt. of Pakistan.
* Lead the teams of Sub-contractors LMI (USA) and UTi Pakistan.
* Keep close liaison with high govt. officials of both the ministries of Govt. of Pakistan.
* Advise the Chief of Party (CoP) TACMIL Health Project for Procurement of services of
different short term consultants.
* Module Development on Logistics Management.
* Lead the team for development of Software on Logistics Management Information
System (LMIS).
* Capacity building of Federal, Provincial and District Level staff dealing logistics of MoH,
MoPW and LHWs’ program by organizing country-wide training workshops on Logistics
Management and LMIS software.
* Follow-ups through regular field monitoring and mentoring through-out the country to
ensure that the system is working efficiently.
Key Achievements
* Successfully completed the task of emergency procurement of about 40 million rupees
in just four days time and ensured the in-time delivery of drug/ medicines and
equipments to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.
* Managed about 102 trainings on different topics all around the country in collaboration
with MNCH project of GoP.
* Lead a team for conducting need assessment study on “Logistics Management systems
of Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) of Govt. of
Pakistan” at 20 districts, 4 provincial and central level warehouses/ stores.
* Detailed report on findings and recommendations of the study and presented to MoH
and MoPW.
* Lead the team for the development of fully dedicated software on Logistics
Management Information system for MoH and MoPW.
* Translation of a booklet (English to Urdu) “Guidelines on storage of Essential Drugs and
Contraceptives”.
* Developed basic “Concepts and Guidelines on Logistics Management of Essential Drugs
and Contraceptives” for officials of MoH and MoPW dealing logistics management at
district, provincial and central levels.
4. Provincial Logistics Officer