IPA NAP Project Field Officers 18 Urgent Jobs in Kenya

IPA NAP Project Field Officers 18 Urgent Jobs in Kenya

About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems.

IPA works in partnership with development partners and academic researchers to create and evaluate approaches potential solutions to poverty problems using randomized evaluations in the fields of health, education, microfinance, governance and agriculture.

We also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build better programs and policies at scale.

About the Project:

Medicine Access Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new non-communicable disease medicine access program on the availability and price of the new medicine included in the program portfolio at health facilities and households in 8 counties targeted by the program in Kenya using a cluster-randomized trial design.

Access to medicine in Kenya is via public, non-for-profit.

In the private sector patients pay the price of the medicines out-of-pocket; in the public and not-for-profit sector— Ministry of Health facilities or facilities affiliated with faith-based organizations—patients may be charged either the full price or a partial cost-recovery fee.

Out-of-pocket spending can result in catastrophic health expenditure and increased poverty. A household survey conducted in 2008 indicates that 82% of patients pay out of pocket for their Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) medicines.

We seek to evaluate the impact of the new medicine access program on the availability and pricing of the new medicine in the program at the facilities and households in target counties.

Data for the evaluation will be collected at two levels: health facilities and households.

We are preparing for midline data collection, the third of five phases of data collection, after the program implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities: