Ethiopia
Opian's anchor deployment. ForLab+ is in daily use across all 11 regions and 2 city administrations, supporting quarterly supply planning and real-time facility-level decision-making across 5,100+ health facilities.
- Facilities
- 5,100+
- Connected through ForLab+
- Users
- ~7,000
- Planners, pharmacists, clinicians
- Coverage
- 13
- Regions + city administrations
- Since
- 2022
- National live deployment
Photograph · EPSS central warehouse, Addis Ababa. Photograph to be commissioned.
Photograph · Regional Health Bureau team reviewing quarterly supply plans. Photograph to be commissioned.
Photograph · Primary health care unit, rural woreda. Photograph to be commissioned.
Where ForLab+ operates
ForLab+ is active in all 11 regions and 2 city administrations of Ethiopia. Regional coordination hubs manage facility onboarding, training, and ongoing support.
Detailed facility-level mapping is available on request.
Programs covered through ForLab+
HIV/AIDS
Tuberculosis (TB)
Malaria
Maternal & Child Health (MCH)
Government and implementing partners
~7,000 active users across three tiers
Pharmacists, planners, and clinicians across the facility, regional, and national levels rely on ForLab+ for supply planning and decision support.
7,525 active users at last count. Counts are updated quarterly and roles overlap — many users perform multiple functions.
What the deployment has measurably delivered
Every quarter, ForLab+ aggregates facility-level supply plans into a single national view. The figures below come from Opian's implementation evidence; further metrics will be published as they are formally validated.
Saved by identifying and correcting data errors
Facility-level demand errors invisible until national aggregation
Caught at the point of entry, before they became supply decisions
Commodity budget gap revealed in essential medicines
Funding gaps hidden inside unreliable bottom-up data
Visible to national planners from trusted facility-level demand
Demand captured through the platform
Fragmented spreadsheets, partial visibility
One aggregated national demand picture, quarterly
Facilities onboarded — the planned pilot was 15
Planned pilot: 15 facilities
National scale, including remote and conflict-affected sites
Forecast error (MAPE) is tracked per commodity inside the platform, with improvement targets set in Opian's 2025–2028 blueprint. Audited accuracy figures will be published here as they are validated.
Upcoming work in Ethiopia
Link rollout to select hospitals
Link v1.0 testing begins Q2 2026. Planned deployment to 15–20 regional referral hospitals and specialty centers in Addis Ababa by Q4 2026.
Deeper DHIS2 integration
Automatic sync between ForLab+ and DHIS2 for facility-level performance reporting, reducing manual data entry and improving data freshness.
Regional analytics capability
Equip regional health bureaus with direct query access to ForLab+ data, enabling them to build custom dashboards and run analyses independently.
Learn more about Ethiopia
Download the Ethiopia country brief for detailed metrics, facility maps, and implementation timeline.
Prints this page. For detailed maps and facility-level deployment status, contact us.