Amref Health Africa is one of the biggest international African based health development organization established in 1957 in Nairobi, Kenya. Amref Health Africa lives with a Vision of “Lasting Health Change in Africa” with a Mission Statement i.e. Amref Health Africa is committed to improving the health of people by partnering with and empowering communities and strengthening health systems in Africa. It is for Africa and committed to improving health and health care in Africa.
Amref Health Africa became formally registered in Ethiopia in 1998 and started its fully-fledged country program in 2002 with one project in Addis Ababa. Since then, the country program has grown both geographically and programmatically. At present, Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia has over 25 projects which operate in eight Ethiopian regions (Addis Ababa, Afar, Oromiya, Amhara, Gambella, Somali, Benishangul Gumuz, Somali Regional states and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region).
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia started its health programme in North Shewa zone Amhara region in 2013 where it implemented one project targeting eleven districts. The organization currently has been implementing projects in Amhara region North Shewa and West Gojjam zones.
Amref Health Africa strongly believes that there is an acute gap between vulnerable communities and the Ethiopian health system. To contribute towards closing the gap, Amref Health Africa has chosen to act in a holistic and integrated way and hence focused on three interrelated thematic areas: (1) Human Resource for Health (HRH) (2) Innovative Health Services and Solutions (3) Investments in health.
Project Background
The project targets young boys and girls age 10 to 29 in North Shewa zone Amhara region as they are particularly susceptible to SRHR problems. It was noted that they had lack of SRHR information, support and access to services. In Ethiopia the official definition of young people is 10-29, in contract to the internationally accepted definition of 10-24. Interventions that aim at behavioural change were proposed more effective in young people. Special attention had been paid to young people aged 10-14, out of school youth lacking livelihood possibilities, youth in remote areas, pregnant girls and women, young people with a disability and university students.
Extensive skills, experiences and qualification in applying qualitative and quantitative methods, data analysis skills and facilitation skills and other relevant competencies required to conduct this assessment. Specifically;
ü At least Master Degree in public health, epidemiology, demography or related field and demonstrated experience in household data collection related to SRH for the lead consultant ;
ü A renewed professional license for consultancy in similar tasks;
ü At least five years of experience in undertaking similar surveys of health projects;
ü Good knowledge with demonstrated practical working experience or research;
ü Experience of effective interaction with local non-government organizations, government departments, and international organizations;
ü Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English;
ü Evidence of similar work in the recent past will be a key requirement;
ü Local Language skills of data collectors,;
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