National consultant to develop the Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030, Tanzania

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Digital technologies are essential for providing timely, quality information that enhances healthcare services. In Tanzania, there is a strong focus on digital transformation to increase accessibility to high-quality health data and build robust systems for data utilization. However, substantial investments are required to fully achieve this vision. 

The Digital Health Strategy launched in 2019 is Tanzania’s comprehensive initiative to leverage digital tools to improve healthcare delivery, access, and quality nationwide. This strategy targets five key areas: 1) enhancing digital health governance and leadership, 2) improving client experience through quality health services, 3) empowering healthcare providers with evidence-based actions, 4) ensuring sustained availability of health resources, and 5) standardizing information exchange. It also outlines ten priorities: strengthening digital governance, advancing digital health competencies, promoting secure information exchange, and fostering data use for evidence-based decisions. 

UNICEF, as a key partner in Tanzania’s digital health efforts, is working with the Ministry of Health and PORALG on initiatives such as the PHC digital client feedback platform, the DHIS-2 bottleneck analysis app, and the enhancement of GoTHOMIS, Tanzania’s electronic medical records system. 

The Government of Tanzania is renewing its Digital Health Strategy 2025–2030 to further advance digital health systems. An accompanying Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030 will define the organisational, financial, technological, and infrastructure investments needed to achieve strategic goals and ensure sustainable, responsive and resilient systems for better health outcomes.  

How can you make a difference?  

The Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030 is a crucial tool for translating the strategic goals of Tanzania’s forthcoming Digital Health Strategy into actionable, funded initiatives that enhance healthcare access, quality, and efficiency. Given the current fragmentation of digital health efforts in Tanzania, the roadmap will align investments with national health priorities, ensuring strategic resource allocation. It provides a clear framework for identifying funding needs, attracting investors, and guiding the development, implementation, scaling, and maintenance of digital health and data-driven interventions. 

Additionally, the roadmap will guide decision-making in critical areas such as policy alignment, resource allocation, system design, capacity building, and monitoring. Senior leaders in the Ministry of Health and PORALG, financial planners, technical experts, and development partners will use it to prioritize investments, allocate funding, and implement strategies to advance national health goals. Stakeholder collaboration will shape governance structures; while monitoring and evaluation units will ensure progress tracking and impact assessment. Collectively, these efforts will promote equitable access, sustainability, and alignment with global best practices, driving transformative improvements in Tanzania’s healthcare delivery system. 

Scope of Work:  

To develop a comprehensive Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030 that aligns with the goals of the Digital Health Strategy priorities investments in digital health and identifies funding and partnership opportunities to ensure the effective execution of the strategy. This consultancy will contribute to answer the following questions:  

1. What digital health interventions, actions/ initiatives need to be prioritised for the smooth implementation of a new Tanzania Digital Health Strategy 2025 – 2030?  

2. What are the activities, tasks, approaches, input resources, and organs responsible for implementing each strategic initiative and digital health intervention of the Digital Health Strategy 2025 – 2030?  

3. What funding sources, including domestic and international, can be sought?  

4. What are the key considerations for establishing successful public-private partnerships in digital health?  

5. What investment recommendations must be prioritised for the smooth implementation of the Digital Health Strategy 2025 – 2030?  

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:  

• Literature Review and Analysis Review current digital health frameworks, strategies, and roadmaps, including the National Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP) and previous and ongoing Tanzania Digital Health Strategy 2025–2030, to ensure alignment with national health objectives and priorities. 

• Stakeholder network analysis: Conduct a document review, key informant interviews, and snowballing to map key stakeholders and organisations involved with digital health-related initiatives, data systems, and data use in Tanzania. Analyse their roles and responsibilities in the digital health strategic investment, and implementation.  

• Stakeholder Engagement and Needs Assessment: Consult relevant stakeholders, including government entities (e.g., MoH, PORALG), development partners, and private sector players, to identify key investment needs, gaps, and priorities.  

• Development of the Investment Framework In collaboration with the Health financing Consultant, develop a framework that outlines priority areas, funding needs, and investment mechanisms necessary to implement the digital health strategy.  

• Identify Funding and Partnership Opportunities In collaboration with the Health financing Consultant, explore potential funding sources, including government allocations, international donors, public-private partnerships, and innovative financing options.  

• Drafting and Validation of the Roadmap Prepare a draft investment roadmap document. Organise validation workshops with stakeholders to gather feedback and finalise the roadmap. 

• Disseminate the final roadmap: Develop a dissemination plan for the Tanzania Digital health investment roadmap  

WORK ASSIGNMENT, DELIVERABLES & TIMELINE 

PAYMENT SCHEDULE.   
UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/output is incomplete, not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines.  

ASSESSMENT / SELECTION PROCESS AND METHODS   

Evaluations: The applicant should submit both technical and financial proposals which clearly stipulate how the work will be conducted. The Financial Proposal should include all costs of this assignment including fee, travel costs, accommodation as UNICEF will not pay any DSA.   

Proposals will be both technically and financially evaluated. The technical part will carry a weight of 75%, in which the consultant will put clear his/her technical approach to ensure quality attainment of each deliverable and the consultancy in totality. The financial part will take 25% showing the proposed budget breakdown of consultancy cost for each deliverable (fees, travel, and accommodation) and eventual total consultancy cost.   

LOCATION, DURATION & LOGISTIC   
The consultant will be working remotely but with scheduled travel to the field offices. The consultant will travel to Dodoma 4 times and spend 5 working days per each trip. Another travel is to Arusha /Morogoro/ Mwanza where two days will be spent per each trip. 

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

• Advanced degree in a relevant field, including Information Systems, Public Health, Health Policy, Health Systems, Primary Health Care, Quality of Care, Health financing and Implementation Research  

• A minimum of eight years’ experience in conducting, developing and managing policies and strategies review for Health systems and services, including experience in digital-related activities.  

• Familiarity with the Tanzanian healthcare system and digital health landscape.  

• Experience in engaging with initiatives and networks on digital health-related activities and working with national and subnational levels  

• Experience in analysing healthcare policies, strategies and investments would enable the person to assess the alignment of the digital health strategy and digital interventions with broader health sector goals and objectives in Tanzania  

• Experience in stakeholder engagement and communication at both national and sub-national levels.  

• Experience in mixed methods research design, qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and report writing.  

• Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills to engage with high-level policymakers in Tanzania  

• Proven project management skills towards ensuring timely production of high-quality deliverables.  

• Documented excellent written communication skills, including the ability to tailor messages depending on the intended audience.  

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with international and national staff at all levels.  

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required  

• Proficiency in Swahili is an asset.  

For every Child, you demonstrate…  

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).  

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Remarks:   

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.  

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.  

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.