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Background
The Health Pooled Fund began its third phase (HPF3) in July 2018 and is supported to run until 2023 by the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Government of Canada, the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). HPF3 merges two previous health programmes - Health Pooled Fund 2 (HPF2), which provides healthcare at health facility level, and the Integrated Community Case Management 2 (ICCM2) programme, which provides healthcare to children under-five within more remote communities. HPF3 supports delivery of community level, essential primary health care, secondary health care and referral health services, stabilisation of local health systems, and procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities.
Montrose has been directly supporting the Government of South Sudan to improve health care across eight states since 2012. The South Sudan Health Pooled Fund is used to ensure the delivery of health care and hospital referral services in 8 out of South Sudan’s 10 states.
The programme impact will be an improved health and nutrition status for the population that saves lives and reduces morbidity (including maternal, infant and under-5 mortality), and has the following five principal outputs:
- Output 1: Delivery and increased availability/ readiness of quality health services at facilities.
- Output 2: Community level interventions that increase awareness, prevention, and treatment of common conditions.
- Output 3: Availability of safe, effective, and quality essential medicines and supplies.
- Output 4: Stable health systems that enhance accountability and responsive to the needs of the people.
- Output 5: Funds and processes that are efficient, effective, inclusive and offer value for money.
To attain these outcomes, the HPF3 team is responsible for:
- Effective programme management, including robust risk management.
- Ensuring continuity of and support to service delivery, with a focus on improving quality.
- Specialist technical assistance covering health service delivery, community engagement, nutrition, health planning, information and HRH.
- Procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities.
- Management of the Implementing Partner fund.
- Management of fiduciary risk associated with use of donor funds.
Purpose of the Consultancy
The purpose of this consultancy is to undertake a high-level assessment of 1) Family Planning in South Sudan including a mapping of actors and current programmes as well as key drivers and barriers to FP delivery and utilisation 2) Review HPF3 current FP strategy and technical approach to improving FP service delivery and uptake across its supported facilities 3) Create a short- and medium-term plan with actions and recommendations for improvements in FP service delivery and uptake. The indicators in the HPF3 logframe directly linked to family planning are:
- Percentage of all women that used modern contraceptives.
- Percentage of health facilities utilising a minimum number of modern methods of contraception available (3 methods for peripheral health centres; 5 methods for hospitals).
- Couple Years of Protection delivered.
- Number of new users of modern family planning methods.
- Number of community members reached for family health sessions (Disaggregate by age and sex). (Family health sessions: General, Family Planning, Child health and nutrition, SGBV).
- Number of Boma health workers providing Family Planning information, referrals, and/or services.
- Percent of service delivery sites providing family planning (FP) counselling and/or services.
Specific Roles and Responsibilities of the Consultant
The following are the specific roles and responsibilities of the Consultant:
- Collect and create a current state play of family planning in the HPF supported states in South Sudan - this should include:
- Who are the current decision makers on access to FP services? Who are the highest risk groups from being able to exercise their reproductive health rights?
- Comparison of performance of the individual HPF implementing partners (IPs) and advise how the difference in performance can be addressed
- Collect data from other FP programmes e.g. WISH and Momentum, where possible.
- Review the HPF FP strategy and assess the capacity and methodology of the HPF3 approach to supporting FP activities at both IP and health facility level. Make recommendations around possible improvements and priorities for the remaining life of programme as well as changes to the HPF FP strategy.
- Specifically include options for integration with other community services such as schools and the broader education sector.
- Use available data to make a detailed plan by Lot with low-cost interventions to improve performance, including but not limited to:
- Increased availability of FP methods at facility level (community, PHCU, PHCC and hospital).
- Regular supply of FP methods and reduced stock-outs of FP methods.
- Options for integration of FP into other health and community services.
- Feasibility for roll out of Sayana Press at the community level. If feasible, provide detailed plan for roll out.
- Availability of trained health workers to issue all methods according to the level of health facility.
- Improved demand creation for FP.
- Develop an implementation road map with key milestones to track progress.
Requirements
Qualifications and Essential Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in health related discipline, preferably clinical
- Master’s degree in public health with specialisation in Sexual and Reproductive Health or related discipline will be an added advantage
- Extensive relevant experience in supporting the family planning/maternal, new-born, and child health components of projects in a senior management role
- Extensive experience working and delivering results in fragile and conflict-affected states
- Previous experience working in South Sudan strongly preferred
- Extensive experience in strategy development
- Experience managing and implementing large, multi-donor funded projects with an understanding of various donor compliance requirements
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with team and partner organisations to achieve results
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent written and spoken English; strong report writing skills and experience
Desirable:
- Previous working experience in Family Planning, Maternal, New-born, Child, and Adolescent Health projects in South Sudan or other fragile states
- Understanding of Family Planning, Maternal, New-born, Child, and Adolescent Health issues in the South Sudan context.
- Experience working with Non-Governmental Organisations
How to apply:
If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application Here before 10 July 2021. Please note that this position is desk-based and in country support in Juba, South Sudan for a maximum of 25 days.
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