(Tender REFERNCE No.: T-SCI-ET-2017-030) Date April 16, 2017)
Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Based Newborn Care (CBNC) program package with the aim of bringing newborn health care (focusing on infants 0-59 days old) closer to the communities (Federal Ministry of Health 2012). The program was built upon lessons learned from the implementation of integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of common childhood illness (focusing on children 2-59 month old) and the Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) Community Based Intervention for Newborns in Ethiopia (COMBINE) research. The phased roll out of CBNC started towards the end of 2013 in seven selected learning zones in four initial regions (Oromia, Amhara, SNNPR, and Tigray), with additional zones enrolled beginning in 2014.
Therefore Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office wants to hire competent Consulting firms for the consultancy service on the “Cross-Sectional Qualitative study to assess how communities and health extension workers provide care for low birth weight babies in Amhara and Oromia Regions, Ethiopia”.
The firm is expected to fulfill the following minimum requirement:
· Technical staff from multi-disciplinary backgrounds including higher level qualification in the disciplines of public health, child health, epidemiology and social sciences with strong experience in qualitative research. Training and practical experience in CBNC, ICCM, IMNCI or BEmoNC implementation is desirable.
· Proven expertise of carrying out large scale qualitative studies including observational skill assessments, ideally focusing on maternal, newborn and child health related topics
· Strong understanding of national health system, including the Health Sector Transformation Plan, the National Newborn and Child Survival Strategy, the Community Based Newborn Care Program and the Health Extension Program.
· Is able to bring on board professionals with extensive qualitative data collection and probing experiences and skills, able to go in-depth to explore the real issues