Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 22 Jul 2019
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The purpose of the consultancy is to ensure the design and implementation of an assessment of the job aids, including training manuals, intended to improve the Community Health Workers’ IPC skills for Immunization in Ethiopia, with a special attention to the Immunization IPC manual (Immunization desk job aids). By Community Health Workers are included Health Workers and Health Extension Workers. The results of the assessment will be used by health managers, decision-makers, national and international partners in the area of Immunization and the overall Health Program to guide the strategies and interventions aiming at improving the performance of frontline workers in communicating with caregivers for the ultimate purpose of better coverage of high-impact interventions and adoption of healthy behaviors by the communities.
The following assessment questions will guide the consultancy:
Scope of the assessment
The assessment will focus on the effects of IPC skills enhancement job aids – with an emphasis on the Immunization IPC manual – on Health Workers and Health Extension Workers’ performance in communicating with caregivers and the community in Ethiopia. Regions representing main community subgroups in Ethiopia will be selected for the assessment : agrarian, pastoralist, urban poor, refugees and IDPs and people living in geographically isolated areas. The assessment will look at job aids, including training manuals, used for CHWs’ IPC skills improvement from 2012 to date in the priority area of immunization and the overall health program as the impact of these different job aids on CHWs’ skills cannot be dissociated. For this purpose, the consultant will mainly support the EPI program and will work very closely with the Health Extension Program and Primary Health Care Directorate, the other programs under the MNCH Directorate such as Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation and other relevant Directorates.
This assessment will complement the EPI behavioral analysis which is done in the 8 regions (2019) that will evaluate the impact of the communication activities, including the dissemination of the IPC manual, on the knowledge and attitude of the population vis-a-vis Immunization.
Main duties and responsibilities
The consultant is expected to carry out the following:
Methodology
The Consultant will be hired as a national SSA, assigned to UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office, based in Addis Ababa, with trips to selected regions. He/she will work mainly through desk reviews, field visits, key informant interviews and FGDs, meetings with key stakeholders and workshops. The consultant can propose, in agreement with MoH and UNICEF, adjusted methods for completing the task. The consultant will also propose the budget needed for the realization of the different consultations especially for the FGDs and interviews.
Reporting
Time Frame and Mode
The consultant will be hired for 70 working days with tentative starting date of 01/08/2019.
Expected Deliverables
Deliverable
Deadline
Deliverable – 1
An inception report with methodologies as per the TOR, a proposed structure of the assessment report and a detailed activity plan (15 days)
21/08/2019
Deliverable – 2
Information collection tools (10 days)
04/09/2019
Deliverable – 3
Preliminary assessment report (30 days)
16/10/2019
Deliverable – 4
Final assessment report (15 days)
06/11/2019
Payment terms
The payment will be linked to deliverable as per the above timeline.
Deliverables
Tranche of payment
Upon signing of the contract
20%
Deliverable – 1
30%
Deliverable – 2
10%
Deliverable – 3
30%
Deliverable – 4
10%
Mode of Price Quotation
The price quotation is as stated above, in the summary chapter.
Expected background and experience
A reputable consultant shall be required to have the following attributes:
General condition
The consultant should work based in Addis Ababa with expected visits to the regions
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