Patient safety practice aims at making health care safer for both clients and staff. All health-care

professionals and institutions have obligations to provide safe and quality health care and to avoid

unintentional harm to patients. The Ministry A Health, Health Sector Development Plan (HSDP)

2015/16 to 2019/20, emphasizes patient safety as a priority intervention to be considered at all levels

health service delivery for both public and private sector.

Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa indicates that healthcare workers and other clients are frequently

exposed to chemical, biological, physical, and psychosocial occupational hazards. Data on Patient safety

management among healthcare workers and their mitigation measures remain scarce in most of sub-Saharan Africa and Uganda in particular. Like other developing countries, Uganda lacks evidence based

information on Patient Safety practices and health facility compliance to safety standards, yet this is vital

if progress is to be made in this area. This is particularly important for development and enforcement

of uniform standards and guidelines provided across tiers owned by both public and private providers.

The Ministry of Health has received support from the Belgo-Uganda Study and Consultancy Fund to

conduct a survey on Patient Safety Practice in Uganda for financial year 2017/18. The Ministry of Health

intends to apply some of the resources to acquire services of a consultancy firm as a short term support

to the study to the Ministry of Health Task Force in implementing the study.

This study shall be used to determine the magnitude of the patient safety problem in Uganda and

generate data for the development of evidence based patient safety strategies in health sector in

Uganda.

The two entities (MOH and Enabel) are looking for a team of consultants (under a consultancy firm)

to undertake this study. Tender Documents are available from the Enabel website www.enabel.be.

Proposals should be submitted at the address below in closed envelopes by 4:00 p.m. local time on

Friday February 23'd 2018.

Belgian Development Agency, Enabel

Lower Kololo Terrace, Plot 1B

P.O. Box 40131

Kampala/Uganda

Tel. +256 (0)41 4230 543

Fax. + 256 (0)41 230 542