Background
Ethiopia has registered substantial progress in reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality over the past decades as a result of strong leadership of the FMOH, coordination of efforts and intensive investment in the health system by the government, development partners and the community at large. The Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP) 2016-2020 provides a clear guidance on where the country plans to be by 2020. The Reproductive Health Strategy (2016-2020) and the Adolescent and Youth Health Strategy (2016-2020) both provide strategic guidance on key priority areas in reproductive, maternal and adolescent health through out the country.
Ethiopia has strong policies and plans to continue implementation at scale of reproductive, maternal and adolescent health interventions as part of five-year health systems plans and movement toward SDGs. However, the experience so far focused on development of five-year ‘incremental’ strategies based on lessons from implementing preceding strategies and global new interventions. With the global move towards Universal Health Coverage and the Ethiopia’s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goal, the FMOH believes that it is now the time to develop a long-term vision for reproductive, maternal and adolescent health programming in Ethiopia based on critical review of lessons learned so far, in-depth analysis of the environment (national and global) relevant for good health outcome taking into account its fast changing nature including the demographic and epidemiologic shifts, as well as experiences of other countries and putting them into 15-20 years strategy context to pave the way towards universal health coverage.
The FMOH has identified experts from partner organization (implementing partners as well as donors) and key departments within the Ministry and tasked them with the development of the long-term sexual and reproductive health visioning document. The pool of experts will serve in three technical Working Group for the task (Adolescent and Youth, PMTCT and maternal health, and fertility and FP TWG). The working modality and process of which will be detailed further in a separate document. The FMOH, in collaboration with Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSIE), seeks to engage highly competent individual consultants to each TWG, that facilitate the Working Group sessions, identify and analyze list of documents, coordinate inputs, streamline the overall process and shape the visioning document using an agreed upon framework.
Key tasks of the consultancy
The Consultant is expected to play a critical role in the development of the visioning exercise. In addition to facilitating smooth functioning of the working group through development of guiding framework for inputs, coordinating the inputs and presenting it back to the group for further debates and enrichment, and writing various drafts of the visioning document, the Consultant will also serve as a technical resource person through identifying key documents relevant for the exercise and contributing to synthesizing the documents to inform the visioning exercise. More specifically, the Consultant will:
Deliverables
Key /high level Consultant deliverables are listed below. These will be unpacked in to specific deliverables under the key tasks outlined above once the timeline for key milestones is finalized in consultation with the Working Group and the FMOH.
Required qualification and experience
Time frame and estimated duration
The consultancy will start immediately and end within 2 months period.
Supervision
The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Maternal and Child Health Directorate of the FMOH and with support of the co-chair of the specific sub-team group.
Terms of payment
Payment will be made up on successful and timely submission of deliverables per the agreed time line.