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.
Note: User counts are approximate and updated quarterly. Roles overlap — many users perform multiple functions.
Supply plan completeness, quarterly
Every quarter, ForLab+ aggregates facility-level supply plans into a single national view. Completeness has risen from ~70% in late 2021 to 94%+ in Q1 2026.
Stockout risk
Forecast accuracy
Planning cycle time
Metrics that moved since launch
Supply plan completeness
~70% (Q1 2024, pre-ForLab+)
94%+ (Q1 2026)
Stockout risk reduction
Baseline (Q1 2024)
Q1 2026
Forecast accuracy
Measured against actual dispensing
Within acceptable range (Q4 2025)
Quarterly planning cycle compression
12–14 weeks (manual reconciliation)
6–8 weeks (automated)
Quotes from the field
"We used to look at spreadsheets EPSS sent and check them in Excel. Now I see my data live, I see what facilities submitted, and I can ask the real questions—why is this facility's consumption pattern unusual? That's the decision I need to make."
"Before, we'd fill out the forecast and hope it was right. Now we have numbers we understand and can stand behind. When the allocation comes back, we understand why."
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.
PDF, 2.1 MB. For printable maps and facility-level deployment status, contact us.