Inventory Management Performance of Health Facilities in South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia

18 health facilities from the South Gondar Zone in Northcentral Ethiopia were assessed for inventory management performance between 2020 and 2022. The dataset includes quantitative metrics such as emergency order frequency, inventory record accuracy, and storage compliance, alongside qualitative findings on challenges like human resource constraints. It was created by Zewdu Tessema and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking inventory performance metrics like emergency order frequency and record accuracy across health facilities.
• Identifying systemic challenges such as human resource constraints and weak data management systems from qualitative findings.
• Analyzing the correlation between storage condition compliance and inventory accuracy rates.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of reporting systems based on report completeness and accuracy metrics.

Strengths

• Includes specific performance metrics: 83.3% of facilities placed at least one emergency order in 2020–2021, and average inventory record accuracy was 71.3% (±9.6).
• Combines quantitative data from 18 facilities (30% sample of the zone) with qualitative expert interviews.
• Provides a clear temporal scope for the quantitative data, covering the periods 2020–2021 and 2021–2022.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Facility-based cross-sectional study with a concurrent mixed-methods approach, using structured tools and expert interviews.

Time Range

2020–2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 17:41:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Gondar Zone, Northcentral Ethiopia