CONSULTANTS’ SCOPE OF WORK
To support Acceleration Plan USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity
BACKGROUND
The USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity (U-HB) is managed by FHI 360 with its partners, ActionAid Ethiopia; Zeleman Communications, Advertising, and Production; and Fraym. U-HB works to increase the sustained adoption of appropriate health and nutrition behaviors in Ethiopia using evidence-based, theory-informed social and behavior change (SBC) strategies. It does so with the goal of contributing to reductions in unmet need for family planning (FP); reduced malaria-related morbidity and mortality, and its elimination; and improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) outcomes. It also supports other priority health needs related to nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and emerging infectious diseases (EID), like COVID-19; and works to transform social and gender norms that impede healthy behaviors and drive poor health outcomes across health areas.
PURPOSE
FHI 360 is looking for “Individual Consultants” to support an upcoming accelerated plan in four regions – Benshangul Gumz, Gambella, Oromia and Amhara. The main goal of this plan is to reach households and community groups in the target woredas with messages on family planning, MNCH, malaria and COVID-19. The social mobilization activities will deliver these messages to different audiences. The individual consultants will work closely with the USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity regional technical hub team to carry out various tasks; such as organizing region-level launch and woreda-level plan harmonization workshops, training facilitators and social mobilization facilitators, and monitoring the implementation of the social mobilization activities at household and community levels. This consultancy work will run from 15 May to 31 July, 2023. The consultants will be responsible for planning, leading, and reporting on the activities. The community-level social mobilization activities are expected to start in the fourth week of May 2023.
SCOPE OF WORK
In close coordination with the USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity’s Regional Technical Hub teams, the consultants will be expected to accomplish the below tasks:
Task 1: Support the organization of woreda level social mobilization plan harmonization workshop
Task 2: Facilitate training of community-level social mobilizers
Task 3: Make a follow-up of the household and community-level social mobilization activities
Task 4: Develop the post-consultancy report and submit it to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team
DELIVERABLES/ MILESTONES & DUE DATES:
Task | Activity | Deliverable(s) | Estimated due/ Performance dates |
1 | Organization of woreda-level social mobilization plan harmonization workshop
| · Planning of the harmonization workshop/identification of agenda, relevant tools/materials, participants and development of session plan/ | o/a May 15-18 |
· Workshop event |
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· Submit major plans |
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· Submit standardized report |
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· Design major social mobilization activity plan and implementation modalities to be implemented at woreda-levels and agree with USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team |
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2 | Training of community-level social mobilizers
| · Facilitation training for consultants | o/a May 18-20
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· Travel to assigned woredas |
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· Design a training for community-level social mobilizers / identification of relevant participants |
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· Woreda-level training for social mobilizers |
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· Submission of community-level social mobilization plan and report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team. |
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3 | Field-level follow up of social mobilization activities.
| · Make onsite visit of social mobilization activities by social mobilizers. | May 23 – July 24 |
· Submit a weekly based report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team the overall status and activities delivered by the social mobilizers. · Document success stories as per the standard and submit to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team |
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4 | Develop the post-consultancy report and submit to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team | · Draft Report | July 22 |
· Final Report incorporating U-HB comments | July 28 |
Travel expenses will be provided by FHI 360
Period of Performance: o/a May 15 – July 30
Location of work:
Region | Based in [Town] | # of consultants required |
Oromia | ‒ Woliso town ‒ Finfinee | 2 1 |
Benshangul Gumz | ‒ Assosa Town ‒ Beles (Metekel Zone) | 3 3 |
Gambella | ‒ Gambella Town | 3 |
Amhara | ‒ Bahir Dar ‒ Enjibara | 2 1 |
| TOTAL | 15 |
Qualifications and Experience
At the minimum, the Facilitator must demonstrate: