Enhancing Data Systems of African National Regulatory Agencies - Burkina Faso

Issiaka Soulama of the Agence Nationale de Régulation Pharmaceutique (ANRP) in Burkina Faso will support national regulatory processes by enhancing the data systems with a package of improvements. The project is a collaboration with the Food and Drugs Authority in Ghana. They will implement training programs for staff to enhance the technical evaluation of marketing authorization applications and clinical trial protocols. For all pharmaceutical regulatory functions, they will define a framework for developing key performance indicators as well as develop and implement standard operating procedures for the production, collection, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics. They will also implement a digital and integrated information management system to support standardizing the regulatory data and connecting the relevant databases.