Consultancy firm to conduct gender analysis across primary health care
Duration: 60 days
Background
As part of its commitment to ensuring universal health coverage, Ethiopia aspires to provide the full spectrum of essential and equitable high-quality health services by strengthening the primary health care system (PHC). This investment, which will be implemented through a partnership between Amref and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), referred to as Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) from here on, aims to strengthen the functionality of and bidirectional linkage across Ethiopia's PHC delivery platforms—health post (HP) to the health center (HC) to the primary hospital (PH)—for improved reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health, and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) outcomes. This project will strengthen health system capacity to implement the HEP roadmap, pressure-testing PHC service delivery approaches and modalities, and provide the evidence base to inform improved national PHC policies, leverage larger financing mechanisms, and transform PHC service delivery for improved health outcomes.
As such, this investment, over five years, will focus on approaches that contribute to three objectives at the PHC level: 1) ensure equitable access to and use of essential health services; 2) improve the quality of essential health services, and 3) strengthen technical oversight and accountability. The project will be implemented in eight regions of Ethiopia: Amhara; Oromia; Sidama; Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s (SNNP); Southwest Ethiopia Peoples; Afar; Somali, and Gambella. These regions were selected to represent agrarian, pastoralist, and agro-pastoral contexts.
This investment will integrate gender into all of the project cycles by conducting gender analysis, developing gender-responsive strategy and building project staff capacity on gender-responsive health programming, implementation, and monitoring. Hence, AMREF and JSI seek to hire a consultancy firm which will conduct gender barrier analysis across PHC. The findings of the gender analysis will be used to inform the development of gender-responsive strategy, design gender intentional and transformative interventions, and inform the Ministry to design a gender-responsive PHC system.
Scope of the consultancy work
The gender analysis will be conducted in different contexts (agrarian and pastoralist), in 9 woredas of eight regions (Amhara; Oromia; Sidama; Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s (SNNP); Southwest Ethiopia Peoples; Afar; Somali, and Gambella), primary health care facilities, and communities.
Objectives:
Proposed Methodology
The methods used to collect and analyze data should ensure and meet quality standards. The consultancy firm will prepare or adopt appropriate method and tools, which covers the key areas identified in the key tasks of the study.
The tools should be seen and discussed with Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia and JSI project staff before fieldwork starts. Appropriate sample size and sampling techniques which goes with design should be determined for the study during proposal development. Standard tools which are adopted should be used for data collection. Data analysis methods should also be explained in the methods part.
Specific tasks to be done by the consultancy firm
The study will include the following activities;
Key activities and tasks
The following key activities and tasks will be done to achieve the intended objectives.
Period for Submission and deliverables
Expected Key Outputs
Key Deliverables /outcomes
Submission of the proposal
I. Cover letter: Signed one-page cover letter containing, the name, mailing, address, telephone number and brief relevant information of the applicant.
II. Detail Technical Proposal: In addition to detailed technical matters, the technical proposal shall provide a description of the consultancy firm’s relevant experience including an outline recent experience in similar undertakings and a detailed plan for accomplishing the tasks described in the specific task section.
III. Detail budget/financial proposal: a detailed budget proposal should be submitted.
IV. References: A list of clients for whom similar work has been done together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
V. Annex: CVs showing experience and education background of individuals/experts who will partake in the study
Annexes: Any documents such as curriculum vitae, work experiences and other information, which the applicants feel, will assist the proposal review team in evaluating the proposal may be attached as annexes.
V Logistics
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia and JSI will not provide copying, printing, vehicle services, data collectors recruitment and data collectors training.