National Consultancy: Formative Assessment Social Work Interventions/Programme in Hospitals with focus on children’s services including prevention of child abuse

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Nationwide Consultancy: Formative Evaluation of Social Work Interventions Programme in Medical Settings with Give attention to Kids’s Companies Together with Prevention of Little one Abuse

CONTRACT PROPOSED DURATION: twelve months

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BACKGROUND

Little one abuse is a world public well being downside with critical life-long penalties for youngsters’s psychological and bodily well being, tutorial efficiency and social life. Past the well being, social and academic penalties of kid abuse, there may be an financial affect, together with prices of hospitalization, psychological well being therapy, youngster welfare, and longer-term well being prices. From the right-based perspective, youngster abuse is a big violation of elementary human rights, together with the fitting to life, proper to safety from all types of violence, and the fitting to benefit from the highest attainable normal of well being.

The social service workforce performs a key position in supporting people and communities in addressing social and different determinants of well being. Given the multidimensional nature of kid abuse which requires multifaced response throughout numerous sectors, social employees of well being/medical settings are in a novel place to forestall and determine the circumstances of kid abuse and likewise coordinate throughout well being, authorized, social and safety sectors for a holistic and built-in care and safety interventions via case administration and referral.

Social work has greater than 60 years of historical past in Iran. Regardless of its lengthy historical past, the worth of social work interventions and its position in offering a holistic well being intervention has not been nicely outlined within the general well being system but. Findings of the UNICEF-supported analysis of Prevention of Little one Abuse Programme in PHC settings additionally highlighted the hole of social interventions together with case administration, follow-up and referral. The research additionally advisable integration of social work interventions alongside health-related companies in prevention of kid abuse programme. In view of the above, Ministry of Well being and Medical Training has moved in direction of professionalization of the social work interventions within the medical settings via formalizing social employees’ job descriptions and standardization of its companies via growth of specialised protocols and coaching of the related professionals.

In keeping with these efforts, the Little one Safety unit and Social Work Workplace of MoHME has initiated a brand new partnership in 2023, aiming at capability enhancement of the medical settings/hospitals in offering youngster abuse prevention companies.

Implementation of this research contributes to Key Intervention 3, i.e. help advocacy for mainstreaming social and safety companies for youngsters and their households in medical facilities.

OBJECTIVE / SCOPE OF WORK

UNICEF and MoHME are meant to conduct a formative evaluation of the present social work programme within the medical settings aimed on the identification of gaps, strengths and weaknesses of the present programme with particular deal with youngsters’s companies. The outcome may also help monitoring of the programme progress in view of its additional alignment with the designed programme targets and outcomes. It additionally contributes to proof technology of the cost-effectiveness of the programme as a possible coverage advocacy effort to reveal the worth and contribution of the social employees/interventions for additional growth of the companies in each well being and medical settings. Suggestions from beneficiaries (i.e. youngsters and their households) may also inform high quality enchancment, relevance and acceptability of the companies.

The next key targets are set for this consultancy:

–             Assess effectiveness, and relevance of the present social work intervention programme within the hospitals/medical settings with particular deal with youngsters’s companies together with prevention of kid abuse;

–             Present proof on cost-effectiveness and worth of the programme;

–             Present suggestions/classes learnt for revision/high quality enhancement of the companies;

–             Generate proof for higher programme and coverage recommendation for growth/professionalization of social work intervention in well being system.

The scope of the work contains all social work interventions at present offered within the public hospitals/medical settings notably youngsters’s companies. The Workplace of the Social Work Interventions (MoHME) is each the accountable authorities companion and fundamental viewers of this formative evaluation alongside MoHME’s coverage and choice makers and youngsters/ their households/caregivers as the final word beneficiaries of the social work companies within the well being system.

METHODOLOGY

The advisor is predicted to deploy required quantitative and qualitative strategies along with the desk assessment for conducting this formative evaluation. It contains clear elaboration on analysis/evaluation questions which guides the research in keeping with the above-mentioned targets. Given the character of this evaluation, the preliminary proposal should embody a piece figuring out anticipated/precise moral points all through the evaluation in addition to the measures and strategies adopted to deal with or mitigate towards these points in keeping with UNICEF’s normal guideline on moral requirements.

ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINES, PLUS BUDGET PER DELIVERABLE

ACTIVITY	DELIVERABLES	ESTIMATED TIME	PAYMENT
Exercise 1: Develop the inception report	Deliverable 1: Inception report	30 days	20
Exercise 2: Conduct the formative evaluation	Deliverable 2: draft report of evaluation	200 days	60
Exercise 3: Submit the ultimate report	Deliverable 3: last report together with a presentation on the findings/advice	40 days	20
Complete		270 days	100

CONDITIONS OF WORK

The advisor shall use her/his personal services to handle the work, however, the place circumstances demand in any other case, shall be allowed to make use of accessible UNICEF workplace area, laptop and web services with prior notification and association with the supervisor and UNICEF Admin/ICT. The supply of those services by UNICEF shall be topic to their availability.

Consultancy charges embody the prices of journey, inter alia, flight tickets, lodging, and another journey bills, if any.

NOTE FOR CONSULTANTS AND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTORS:

The Guide ought to submit a technical proposal together with an in depth elaboration of the methodology, timeline, and checklist of technical workforce members.

Please submit a monetary supply alongside along with your technical proposal, which accommodates the next info:

•            Price for companies to be offered – based mostly on the deliverables within the Phrases of Reference

•            Wherever potential, point out the itemized value of the journey (air tickets and so on.)

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have… 

The advisor and his/her technical workforce ought to possess the next {qualifications}:

•            PhD’s diploma in social work, well being coverage and administration, well being economics, or associated disciplines,

•            Confirmed analysis background and expertise in conducting comparable analysis/formative evaluation research,

•            Confirmed technical data or working expertise on prevention of kid abuse planning and programming,

•            Earlier working expertise with UNICEF/UN and MoHME is an asset.

For each Little one, you reveal… 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

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