Mapping digital health interventions for learning and performance management functionality integration, Kampala, CSD, 6 months (National Consultancy)

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Background and Function

Globally, 1.5 million lives are misplaced to vaccine-preventable illnesses yearly, and 25 million youngsters stay under-immunized. In Gavi-supported international locations in 2021, 12.5 million “zero-dose” youngsters lacked any vaccination, highlighting a crucial hole. Concurrently, a rising well being workforce scarcity and chronic considerations about working situations are making a disaster in human assets for well being. Well being techniques closely depend on expert well being employees to carry out very important capabilities. Intensive literature underscores the hyperlink between well being employee availability and the standard of care and inhabitants well being outcomes. Nevertheless, many low- and middle-income international locations (LMICs) face extreme shortages and an uneven distribution of expert well being employees, impacting the supply of important well being companies, particularly in gentle of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

In Uganda, DPT1 protection initially improved throughout the early levels of the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 97 p.c in 2021. Nevertheless, this progress reversed in 2022, signaling a rise in zero-dose youngsters. DPT3 protection additionally decreased to 89 p.c in 2022. Regardless of reported declines in maternal and new child mortality, as per the Uganda Demographic and Well being Survey (UDHS), these enhancements are inadequate and are occurring at a slower tempo, hindering the achievement of SDGs by 2030, significantly within the context of rising teenage pregnancies and insufficient inventory administration practices in well being services.

 

The supply of human assets for well being is essential for delivering high quality well being companies. Whereas efforts are underway to handle well being workforce shortages, it’s crucial to concentrate on enhancing the efficiency of the prevailing workforce. Conventional in-service coaching and routine supervision, in a lecture-style format, haven’t yielded the anticipated enhancements in well being employee efficiency and care high quality. Consequently, exploring new and modern approaches underneath the umbrella of studying and efficiency administration is warranted.

 

In Uganda, challenges to common coaching for frontline well being employees embody the excessive price of handbook coaching processes and a scarcity of assets (each infrastructure and human energy). Compounding the problem is the already restricted employees availability, making in-person coaching disruptive to service supply. New native staffing norms have lately been accredited to reinforce the amount of well being employees in alignment with inhabitants wants. Nevertheless, challenges lie in attracting well being employees to fill these positions and securing the required fiscal assets to accommodate the elevated employees. Using digital channels reminiscent of SMS and app-based platforms might help mitigate these challenges.

Recognizing the necessity for enhanced system capability, the Uganda Ministry of Well being has lately established the Division of Institutional Capability and Human Sources for Well being Growth, appointing a Commissioner to guide it. This marks an institutional shift in direction of strengthening well being system efficiency.

UNICEF Uganda, with technical help from UNICEF NYHQ and UNICEF ESAR workplace supported the Ministry of Well being, to determine Studying Efficiency and Administration (LPM) methods geared toward bettering and sustaining well being employee efficiency on the highest high quality by means of supporting the adherence to nationwide tips in order to attain programmatic aims.

Because the Immunisation programme would be the entry level for Uganda, UNICEF NYHQ and ESAR supported UCO to engaged UNEPI to determine precedence LPM options aligned with GAVI precedence investments in addition to the Ministry of Well being’s Digital Well being technique.

Function of the Project and Scope:

The aim of this task is to have interaction a advisor in conducting a complete panorama evaluation of digital instruments at the moment in use inside the healthcare system in Uganda. This evaluation will inform the mixing of studying and efficiency administration in these instruments and supply particulars of which cadres are utilizing digital instruments, if any, and which cadres would require growth of recent instruments

Justification

Implementing LPM methods will deal with crucial gaps and strategically align with latest efforts to fortify Uganda’s well being system. By conducting this panorama evaluation, UCO goals to determine current digital instruments that may be optimized to handle crucial challenges in immunization protection and well being employee shortages. The consultancy aligns strategically with the institution of the Division of Institutional Capability and Human Sources for Well being Growth, and general Ministry of Well being priorities together with these in contained within the Nationwide Well being Info and Digital Well being Strategic Plan 2021-2025. The Division of Institutional Capability and Human Useful resource for Well being Growth is within the means of creating an eLearning platform. This evaluation may even inform this growth course of by means of a greater understanding of the prevailing instruments and gaps and contribute to strengthening the design of the platform.

In response to the inadequacies of conventional coaching strategies, this consultancy focuses on modern approaches to make sure well being employees are regularly upskilled and reskilled. By offering a data-driven basis for decision-making, this panorama evaluation will map current instruments, perceive their functionalities, and consider their protection. This data will information evidence-based suggestions for the mixing of studying and efficiency administration options.

Targets

The aims of the task will embody:

Consider Present Digital Instruments:

In collaboration with Ministry of Well being departments (UNEPI, MCH, Human useful resource, DHI) to collect the required data.

• The advisor will systematically assessment and analyze the digital instruments employed in Uganda’s healthcare sector.

• Establish instruments already utilized for studying and efficiency administration amongst well being employees.

• Assess the extent of protection, particularly specializing in which well being employees and topics/interventions are addressed by these instruments.

Assess Growth Potential:

• Primarily based on the panorama evaluation, confirm which of the prevailing digital instruments are conducive to additional integration of performance to supply studying and efficiency administration methods.

• Consider the adaptability and scalability of current instruments to leverage their performance in supporting ongoing coaching and efficiency analysis initiatives.

Mapping Digital Instruments and Well being Staff:

• Develop a complete map illustrating the correlation between current digital instruments and the well being employees they attain.

• Establish any gaps in protection to find out which well being employees stay unreached by present digital instruments.

• Formulate suggestions for the event of recent instruments focused at reaching these unreached well being employees.

Suggestions for Enchancment:

• Present strategic suggestions for optimizing using digital instruments within the context of studying and efficiency administration.

• Suggest enhancements or modifications to current instruments to maximise their affect on well being employee coaching and efficiency enchancment.

Align with Institutional Initiatives:

• Coordinate efforts with UNICEF’s Studying Efficiency Administration (LPM) initiative, using the Uganda Nationwide Expanded Programme on Immunization as a focal entry level.

Main Duties

1. Develop an inception Report detailing understanding of the task and plan of execution
2. Consider current use of digital instruments for integration of studying and efficiency administration
3. Disseminate & validate the digital instruments analysis report

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

1. Schooling:

1. A grasp’s diploma with not less than 5 years of labor expertise within the following domains

• Healthcare/ hospital mission administration
• Digital transformation mission administration
• Consulting expertise with authorities businesses
• Capability Constructing

2. Labored in information evaluation and generated data-driven insights.
3. Skilled stringent reporting calls for and may write skilled mission plans and stories.
4. Has expertise working with each Authorities and worldwide NGOs.
5. Engaged various stakeholders amongst private and non-private sectors in addition to growth businesses.
6. Glorious written and verbal communication in English

Competencies:

Communication: expresses opinions, speaks clearly, has a way of diplomacy whereas interacting with exterior stakeholders.

Drive for outcomes: keen about motion and serving to to get issues transferring.

Workforce Spirit: enjoys working as a part of a bunch with members of various backgrounds.

Studying and Researching: quickly learns new duties and demonstrates an understanding of newly acquired data.

Independence: can take initiatives and work with restricted supervision to ship outcomes.

Dealing with stress maintains a optimistic outlook at work and works productively in a pressurized setting and in a disaster whereas maintaining feelings underneath management.

Language:

English

For each Youngster, you reveal… 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

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