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BACKGROUND / RATIONALE:

in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.

Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.

1. General Objective

• Develop a national guidance, including a tool of quality improvement for health care at national, sub-national level, as well as for health facilities aligned with quality standards defined by the Family Health programmes for the provision of sexual & reproductive health, maternal, neonatal and child health services.

2. Specific Objectives

• Develop the national guidance of QoC for SRH/MNCH
• Develop a standardised Quality Improvement package for Reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health
• Develop a training package to certify evaluators and mentors.
• Standardise the implementation of quality improvements cycles for Primary Health Care.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

Develop the national guidance of Quality of Care for Reproductive, maternal, newborn, Child Health and Nutrition.

PROGRAMME AREA AND SPECIFIC PROJECT AREA:

The consultant shall perform his/her tasks based on international and national evidence.

Consultant's Tasks

The consultant will be tasked with developing a standardised MQ-SMI package, namely:

• Develop national guidelines or a roadmap on QoC for SSRH/MNCH that will enable standardised guidance on QoC for SSRH/MNCH interventions and their integration as routine practice, as well as in the programmatic management of SSRH/MNCH by the Family Health Department, based on the implementation of PDSA cycles.

A QoC for SSRH/MNCH tool is understood to be a set of:

• A guideline or roadmap on QoC on SSRH/MNCH that allows for standardised guidance on interventions and their integration as routine in the programmatic management of SSRH/MNCH by the Family Health Department.
• Standard package of training of health care professionals
• M&E tools

QoC for SSRH/MNCH training package is:

• Develop a training package to certify evaluators & mentors for the QoC on SSRH/MNCH approach:

facilitators manuals, participants manual, including practices sessions

• Develop tools for recording and reporting QoC improvement sessions and results on SIS-MA

Work Assignments Overview

Desk review     

Deliverables/Outputs

1.           Inception report

2.           Technical proposal and timeframe      

Timeline (Working days)

5 days 

Estimate Budget

 

Work Assignments Overview

Development of QoC national guideline for SSR/MNCH at Primary Health Care including M&E tools           1.          

Deliverables/Outputs

1. Draft of QoC national guideline

2. M&E tools    

Timeline (Working days)

20 days             

Estimate Budget

 

Work Assignments Overview

Validation workshop   

Deliverables/Outputs

1. Conduct a two days’ Workshop to validate the QoC national guideline

2. Workshop report

3. with inputs accommodated

Timeline (Working days)

7 days

Estimate Budget         

 

Work Assignments Overview

Development of training package for QoC       

Deliverables/Outputs

Manual for participants

Manual for Facilitators

Guide for practical sessions   

Timeline (Working days)

45 days             

Estimate Budget

 

Work Assignments Overview

Conduct validation workshop

Deliverables/Outputs

1. Prepare and facilitate a 3 days’ Workshop to have consensus on the training package

2.           Workshop report

3.           Inputs accommodated on training manuals

4.           Final Consultancy report          

Timeline (Working days)

13 days

Estimate Budget

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  Annex 3 TOR for QoC on SSRHMNCH.docx 

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Masters

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

Knowledge of Quality improvement for health care

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The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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