This is a two-year (24-month) project that started on 1 October 2024 and will end on 30 September 2026.

The Global Grand Challenges on Strengthening African National Regulatory Authorities’ data systems to enhance and track performance aims to improve transparency and timely regulatory decision making by digitizing, automating and enhancing of sub-optimal existing data systems for capturing and reporting key data and metrics in the key regulatory functions for products marketing authorization, regulatory inspection and clinical trials controls oversight. The project is funded by the Gates Foundation.

The East African countries regulatory authorities participating in the Grand Challenge Project are TMDA (Tanzania), NDA (Uganda), EFDA (Ethiopia) and RFDA (Rwanda), with TMDA) being the lead NRA.