National Consultancy, Development of national guidelines to sustain the silver tier of EMTCT certification and achieve golden tier, Gaborone, Botswana

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Background

In 2021, Botswana turned the primary nation with a generalized HIV epidemic that was licensed the silver tier in the direction of the Path to elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, following a rigorous validation method based on WHO steering. The Silver Tier is awarded when international locations obtain 90% of antenatal care protection (at the very least one go to), 90% of HIV testing protection amongst pregnant girls, 90% antiretroviral remedy protection amongst pregnant girls dwelling with HIV, and a case charge of latest pediatric HIV infections resulting from mother-to-child transmission of lower than 500 instances per 100,000 reside births. In 2024, Botswana shall be due for endeavor a validation of standing on sustaining the silver-tier certification, or higher, which relies on Botswana’s compliance with a collection of suggestions.
As Botswana responds to those suggestions and continues to make efforts to take care of the silver-tier and obtain the golden tier certification for EMTCT and be licensed and awarded standing by the World Well being Group, efforts have to be doubled to make sure that the progress made will not be misplaced and that programme efficiencies are enhanced, with improved tangible outputs.
To this objective, this consultancy will concentrate on growing nation tips to that reply to the suggestions to take care of the silver tier and put the nation on the fitting path to attain the golden-tier certification.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Objective of the Task

Underneath the supervision of the Chief Adolescent Growth, the guide will develop EMTCT Nationwide Tips, which is among the key conditional suggestions, in the direction of sustaining the EMTCT silver tier and / or obtain the golden tier certification.

Scope of Work

1. Actions and duties

• Literature assessment of accessible knowledge, present insurance policies, and technical briefs on the nationwide, regional, and international ranges.
• Seek the advice of key informants and stakeholders to tell an evaluation on present bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers, and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification.
• Produce, validate, and current to the Ministry of Well being, an evaluation of the EMTCT element of the HIV response, and establish bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers, and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification.
• Seek the advice of key informants and stakeholders to tell the event of nationwide tips.
• Develop, validate, and current draft nationwide tips

2. Outputs and deliverables

• Inception report, together with workplan.
• Situational evaluation of bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification.
• One draft nationwide tips doc to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification, primarily based on WHO and UNICEF technical steering.
• Last Nationwide tips incorporating feedback from WHO, UNICEF and Authorities.

3. Schedule of actions: consultancy shall be for 85 days unfold over 5 months.

4. Working relationships

The guide will report back to the UNICEF Chief Adolescent Growth, and a committee composed by UNICEF, WHO, and the HIV Division on the Ministry of Well being.

5. Cost schedule

Cost shall be achieved in opposition to accredited deliverables, as follows:
• 25% inception report / workplan
• 25% scenario evaluation report
• 25% last draft nationwide tips paperwork
• 25% consultancy report and last nationwide tips

Duties	Deliverable/Output	Timeline/deadline	Estimated finances
Literature assessment of accessible knowledge, present insurance policies, and technical briefs on the nationwide, regional, and international ranges	Inception report, together with workplan	23 February 2024	15 days
Seek the advice of key informants and stakeholders to tell an evaluation on present bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers, and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification	Situational evaluation of bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers, and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification	29 March 2024	25 days
Produce, validate, and current to the Ministry of Well being, and evaluation of the EMTCT element of the HIV response, and establish bottlenecks, efficiencies, potential dangers, and alternatives to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification.
Seek the advice of key informants and stakeholders to tell the event of nationwide tips	One draft nationwide tips doc to take care of the silver tier and obtain the golden tier certification, primarily based on WHO and UNICEF technical steering	third Could 2024	25 days
Develop, validate, and current draft nationwide tips	Last nationwide tips incorporating feedback from WHO, UNICEF, and Authorities	31 Could 2024	20 days

 

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have… 

Minimal {Qualifications} Required:

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s) in Training certificates greater than, or on the degree of a Nursing Diploma with Midwifery or associated fields, and/or medical sciences, public well being, social work, analysis, public coverage, public administration, public coverage, monitoring and analysis, strategic planning, information administration, and analysis.
• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise.

Related work expertise required (in years):

• At the least 7 years {of professional} expertise on the nationwide degree within the HIV response and programming, with an expertise on PMTCT, sexual and reproductive well being and rights, maternal and youngster well being, and/or strategic data on well being.
• Confirmed expertise in growing public well being tips, normal working procedures, and/or remedy and care protocols, and/or different associated fields.
• Confirmed expertise in growing methods for public well being on the nationwide and/or district degree.

 Specialised expertise and/or coaching if wanted:

Fascinating:  educated in PMTCT and/or programme design, implementation, and monitoring.

For each Youngster, you display… 

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Remarks:  

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

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