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Digital applied sciences play an necessary position in facilitating well timed availability and high quality of data for higher well being care companies provision. In Tanzania, digital transformation is more and more making high quality information extra available. The nation has prioritized this and is on a journey to strong well being information programs and information use. Vital advances are underway, however vital investments are required to comprehend the imaginative and prescient. The Digital Well being Technique in Tanzania was launched in 2019 to leverage digital applied sciences to enhance healthcare supply, entry, and high quality all through the nation. The technique goals to strengthen well being info programs, facilitate data-driven decision-making, and promote innovation within the well being sector. The technique stipulates 5 strategic areas 1) Strengthened digital well being governance and management, 2) Improved consumer expertise via environment friendly provision of high-quality well being companies, 3) Empowered well being care suppliers and managers to take evidence-based actions, 4) Sustained availability of well being sources, and 5) Standardized info change. It additionally has 10 key priorities: Strengthen digital well being governance and management to facilitate higher coordination and implementation of digital well being initiatives; Enhance effectivity, accessibility (together with use of telehealth), affected person security, and high quality and continuity of care via digitalization of well being service supply in a holistic method; Enhance well being workforce competency and use of expertise to supply specialised care to beneath – served services; Promote wholesome conduct via entry to related well being info, schooling, and communication; Improve seamless and safe info change; Enhance information use for evidence-based actions in any respect ranges of the well being system; Enhance provide chain administration of well being commodities in any respect ranges of the well being system; Enhance administration of human sources in any respect ranges of the well being system; Enhance administration of monetary sources; Strengthen illness prevention, surveillance, detection, reporting, response, and management in any respect ranges of the well being system. UNICEF (United Nations Youngsters’s Fund) is a key accomplice to the Authorities of Tanzania in implementing its Nationwide Digital Well being Technique 2019-2024. By shut collaboration with each the Ministry of Well being and the President’s Workplace Regional Administration and Native Authorities, UNICEF has supported a number of initiatives in the direction of nation digitalization, together with the Tanzania immunisation registry (TIMR), the Mama na Mwana digital consumer suggestions platform, DHIS-2 (District Well being Data System model 2) bottleneck evaluation app and enchancment of digital medical information for main well being care (GOTHOMIS).
How are you going to make a distinction?
UNICEF Tanzania is in search of for a certified particular person advisor to plan and conduct the assessment of the implementation of the Nationwide Digital Well being Technique 2019-2024 in shut collaboration with the Ministry of Well being, PORALG (President s Workplace, Regional Administration and Native Authorities), UNICEF, and different key companions and stakeholders from group stage to Nationwide stage. As it’s over 4 years into the technique’s implementation, a complete assessment to evaluate achievements and challenges is extremely wanted now to assessment progress, allow course correction and inform the event of a brand new Technique. The results of such a assessment can be utilized by the Ministry of Well being and companions to grasp the progress of the implementation of the present Technique. Additionally, will present beneficial insights to strengthen ongoing and future digital well being initiatives, finally contributing to improved healthcare outcomes and higher well being companies for the individuals of Tanzania. Key choices anticipated from the outcomes of the assessment can be classes to tell the implementation of the present Technique and the event of the subsequent technique.
Scope of Work:
The target of the consultancy is to supply high-quality technical and scientific experience in conducting the assessment of the implementation of the Digital Well being Technique 2019 – 2024 in Tanzania and intention to supply reply to the next questions: 1. What has been the training (achievements, successes, failures) throughout the implementation of the nation’s digital well being technique? 2. What has hindered the implementation of the technique to date? 3. How has the technique/nation been capable of adapt to challenges and new developments? The precise scope of labor is to: a. Assess the progress made in the direction of attaining the technique’s said targets and aims, together with figuring out any areas the place progress has been restricted and the explanations for this b. Determine the important thing achievements, successes, and failures realised throughout the implementation interval as per the monitoring and analysis street map for the Nationwide Digital Well being Technique 2019–2024 implementation. c. Assess the effectiveness of the coordination and governance buildings in place for implementing the technique, and determine any areas the place these buildings might be improved d. Determine and analyze the important thing bottlenecks, challenges, and dangers which have hindered the implementation of the technique, and develop suggestions for addressing them e. Determine and analyze the teachings discovered from the implementation of the technique, in addition to one of the best practices and alternatives to tell future digital well being initiatives f. Present suggestions for enhancing the technique’s effectiveness within the remaining interval, to strengthen ongoing and suggest future digital well being initiatives and inform growth of future technique g. Determine and analyze new developments within the context (coverage, social financial modifications, international points/occasions with native implications, rising requirements, and tech and many others) that ought to inform the subsequent evolution of technique.
Anticipated outputs/Deliverables.
| Work Assignments Overview | Deliverables/Outputs | Estimated Days | Estimated Finances |
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Inception section:
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1. Inception report and energy level presentation | 5 days | 10.5% |
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Information assortment and evaluation:
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2. Report and presentation from information assortment and evaluation, together with:
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30 days | 62.5% |
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Report writing and validation of outcomes:
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3. Draft report and presentation for validation.
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10 days | 20.8 |
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Ultimate report and transient:
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4. Ultimate report
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3 days | 6.2% |
| TOTAL | 48 days | 100% |
PAYMENT SCHEDULE.
UNICEF reserves the precise to withhold all or portion of cost if efficiency is unsatisfactory, if work/output is incomplete, not delivered or for failure to fulfill deadlines
ASSESSMENT / SELECTION PROCESS AND METHODS
Evaluations: The applicant ought to submit each technical and monetary proposals which clearly stipulate how the work can be performed. The Monetary Proposal ought to embody all prices of this task together with payment, journey prices, lodging as UNICEF is not going to pay any DSA.
Proposals can be each technically and financially evaluated. The technical half will carry a weight of 75%, by which the advisor will put clear his/her technical strategy to make sure high quality attainment of every deliverable and the consultancy in totality. The monetary half will take 25% exhibiting the proposed price range breakdown of consultancy value for every deliverable (charges, journey and lodging) and eventual whole consultancy value.
LOCATION, DURATION & LOGISTIC
The advisor will work remotely with scheduled journey to Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, and different areas in Tanzania mainland as acceptable. The validity of the contract can be for 48 days.
METHODOLOGY:
The assessment will undertake a mixed-method strategy which can embody the next parts:
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Desk assessment: Conduct an in depth assessment of paperwork associated to the technique, implementation plans, progress experiences, related literature, present experiences, progress paperwork, information units, and different related sources to collect information on the technique’s implementation.
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Stakeholder consultations: Interact with key stakeholders each private and non-private stakeholders and the digital well being governance buildings at completely different ranges (group to Nationwide) via conferences, interviews, and focus group discussions (FGDs), together with coverage makers, authorities officers, healthcare suppliers, digital well being consultants, non-public sector, academia, and civil society organisations, to collect insights and views on the technique’s implementation based mostly on out there information. Surveys/questionnaires: to collect quantitative information on the implementation progress, digital interventions per the strategic areas and outcomes
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Website go to. To evaluate the utilisation and adoption charges of digital well being technique and digital well being interventions. The number of the websites can be completed collectively with the Authorities (MoH (Ministry of Well being) and PORALG) and UNICEF.
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Evaluation and synthesis: Analyse the collected information, determine traits, patterns, gaps, and unmet wants, and synthesise the findings to attract significant conclusions and alternatives for a brand new Technique. f) Information validation: Current findings to related stakeholders for validation functions.
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…
- Superior diploma in a related area, together with Data Programs, Public Well being, Well being Coverage, Well being Programs, Major Well being Care, High quality of Care, Implementation Analysis
- A minimal of eight years’ expertise in conducting and managing insurance policies and methods assessment for Well being programs and companies, together with expertise in digital-related actions.
- Familiarity with the Tanzanian healthcare system and digital well being panorama.
- Expertise in participating with initiatives and networks on digital well being associated actions and dealing with nationwide and subnational ranges
- Expertise in analysing healthcare insurance policies and methods would allow the particular person to evaluate the alignment of the digital well being technique with broader well being sector targets and aims in Tanzania
- Expertise in stakeholder engagement and communication at each nationwide and sub-national ranges.
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative information assortment, evaluation and report writing.
- Wonderful interpersonal and facilitation expertise to have interaction with excessive stage policymakers in Tanzania
- Confirmed undertaking administration expertise in the direction of guaranteeing well timed manufacturing of high-quality deliverables.
- Documented wonderful written communication expertise, together with the flexibility to tailor messages relying on the meant viewers.
- Potential to determine and keep efficient working relationships with worldwide and nationwide workers in any respect ranges.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required
- Proficiency in Swahili is an asset
For each Youngster, you exhibit…
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Remarks:
Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
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Marketed: 15 Nov 2023 E. Africa Commonplace Time
Deadline: 29 Nov 2023 E. Africa Commonplace Time
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