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Challenge Description:
On January 19, 2023, USAID/Tanzania awarded Worldwide Enterprise Initiatives (IBI) and SI a four-year contract for the Tanzania Monitoring, Analysis, Studying and Adaptation (T-MELA) Exercise. This exercise is to help the USAID/Tanzania Mission with strategy- and activity-level efficiency monitoring, analysis, and studying. This exercise may even present information gathering and verification, information visualization (together with Geographic Data Methods), information high quality assessments, impression and efficiency evaluations, assessments, organizational studying, and collaboration amongst USAID’s implementing companions and DO groups.
Background:
The aim of the Uhuru TB&FP Native Organizations Community (LON) Exercise is to enhance entry and use of high quality tuberculosis (TB) and household planning (FP) providers for higher well being outcomes of Tanzanian residents. Tanzania Well being Promotion Help (THPS) is the lead accomplice and works with Baylor School of Drugs Kids’s Basis Tanzania, Ifakara Well being Institute (IHI) and ‘Mwitikio wa Kifua Kikuu na UKIMWI Tanzania’ (MKUTA) as sub awardee companions. Over the previous three years, direct assist to well being services (HFs) elevated from 118 (FY01), 150 (FY02) to 253 (FY03). Among the many 253 HFs, 25 are hospitals, 74 are well being facilities (HCs) and 154 are dispensaries out of 1,024 whole HFs within the 4 supported areas. Cumulatively, the Exercise has supported the institution of TB-directly noticed remedy (DOT) providers in 360 HFs which makes a complete of 613 HFs reached with TB providers. Uhuru will develop assist to achieve a further 110 dispensaries and enhance total assist to cowl 726 HFs throughout FY04.
The precise focus areas are elevated TB case detection, facility and group linkage, retention into take care of TB sufferers, and elevated fashionable contraceptive use amongst younger women, adolescents, and grownup women and men of reproductive age teams. The Exercise’s targets are that at the least 75% of the supported well being services within the 4 areas present TB screening and referrals on the factors of care together with reproductive and little one well being (RCH) clinics and at the least 50% FP outreach providers embody TB screening and referrals. The Exercise goals to realize the next three key intermediate outcomes (IR):
IR 1: Entry to and use of top quality, person-centered TB, DR-TB and TB/HIV providers at facility degree improved. This goals to speed up achievement of the MOH-NTLP aim of 90% of shoppers/sufferers in Katavi, Kigoma, Rukwa, and Songwe areas accessing and repeatedly utilizing prime quality, person-centered TB/DR-TB and TB/HIV prognosis and remedy providers by 2025.
IR 2: TB illness transmission and development lowered by facility-based service supply. The intention is to strengthen TB an infection prevention and management (TB-IPC) methods that scale back TB transmission and development to growth of signs and sickness at supported HFs in each private and non-private hospitals and HCs within the 4 goal areas.
IR 3: Entry to and use of high quality FP providers at facility degree strengthened. The aim is that at the least 90% of HFs in Katavi, Kigoma, Rukwa, and Songwe areas present voluntary FP counseling, providers, and/or referrals to all eligible girls, males and youth by Exercise yr two.
USAID Afya Shirikishi is a five-year grant community-based exercise on TB and FP carried out in eight areas of Tanzania Mainland (Dar es Salaam, Geita, Katavi, Kigoma, Mwanza, Pwani, Songwe, Rukwa areas) and two Zanzibar areas (city west and north Pemba). The exercise is carried out by Amref Well being Africa in Tanzania because the prime accomplice with three sub-awardees: the Tanzania Communication and Improvement Heart (TCDC), Service Well being and Improvement for Folks Residing Positively with HIV/AIDS (SHDEPHA+), and Mwitikio wa Kudhibiti Kifua Kikuu na Ukimwi Tanzania (MKUTA).
The aim of the exercise is to deal with precedence gaps in TB case findings and unmet FP wants at group degree in 9 areas of Tanzania by 2025 with the next targets:
Improved entry to and use of high-quality, person-centered TB, DR-TB and TB/HIV providers at group degree
Diminished TB illness transmission and development by community-based service supply
Strengthened entry to and use of high quality FP providers at group degree
Improved the transparency, suggestions, and entry to information associated to TB programming; strengthened nationwide coverage and tips; and elevated management and political assist for TB as a public precedence
Assertion of Function:
The intent of this analysis is to conduct particular person exercise evaluations of USAID Tanzania’s TB and FP LON actions, whereas additionally offering an total image of what the Mission’s TB and FP programming has achieved over the past 3 years. This may present the well being Workplace with the data and learnings that it wants in an effort to inform the subsequent spherical of TB and FP exercise designs.
Analysis Questions:
To what extent are the interventions carried out by the Uhuru and Afya Shirikishi actions related to the TB and FP wants of Tanzania and to USAID’s TB and FP methods?
Have these actions successfully built-in TB and FP work? What have been an important components in enhancing or stopping this integration?
In what methods have these actions improved TB and FP outcomes in Tanzania’s healthcare system? What impact did having separate facility-based and community-based companions have on the achievement of those outcomes?
To what extent did the actions facilitate native possession, coordination, partnerships, and sustainability? How will the outcomes of those actions be sustained as soon as they finish, or if they won’t, what will be completed to enhance their sustainability?
What are an important learnings from these actions that can be utilized to tell future TB and FP programming?
What function have Group Well being Staff (CHWs) performed in reaching TB and FP outcomes and the way can that function be sustained after these actions finish?
Place Description:
SI is in search of a TB Specialist to assist T-MELA with the Efficiency Analysis of TB&FP Actions. As a subject skilled in tuberculosis, this particular person will concentrate on evaluating the TB elements of the Uhuru TB&FP LON and Afya Shirikishi actions. Their deep understanding of TB prevention, prognosis, remedy, and care shall be essential in assessing the effectiveness of TB-related interventions and their alignment with the Ministry of Well being’s Nationwide Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) targets. The TB Specialist may even consider the mixing of TB providers with household planning within the supported well being services. It is a consulting place with an estimated interval of efficiency of March – September 2024. The estimated degree of effort (LOE) shall be 58 LOEs.
Obligations:
The TB Specialist will:
· Consider the TB part of the LON actions, specializing in case detection, remedy, and integration with FP providers.
· Assess the effectiveness of TB-IPC methods on the facility degree.
· Contribute TB-specific insights to the analysis report, together with challenges, successes, and suggestions for future TB programming.
· Collaborate with the group to make sure TB-related findings are precisely built-in into the general analysis.
· Conduct Desk Evaluate, assist growth of analysis design and instruments, conduct information evaluation and develop findings conclusion and suggestions.
· Help growth draft report and presentation of findings to USAID.
· Help any activity as requested by Workforce Lead, USAID T-MELA and Social Affect
Deliverables:
With assist from USAID/T-MELA and group members, the Workforce Lead shall be anticipated to take total accountability for the manufacturing and administration of the next:
1. Ultimate Evaluation Design: An in depth, full evaluation design and work plan following an preliminary session with USAID that may embody chosen methodologies and information assortment instruments.
2. Kick-off assembly/Briefly: A PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation summarizing the methodological strategy for use to excute the evaluation for USAID/T-MELA and key companions previous to the launch of information assortment.
3. Findings Conclusions and Suggestions (FCR) Matrix: An evaluation software by which information is triangulated and findings, conclusions, and suggestions particular to every evaluation query are produced. Two FCR matrixes are anticipated, a preliminary doc after the primary full week of information assortment, and a remaining matrix on the finish of the information evaluation interval.
4. Preliminary Findings PPT: The group will current the important thing findings to the broader USAID/Tanzania Mission by a PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation. The TL is anticipated to replace this PowerPoint after the ultimate report.
5. Draft Analysis Stories: A draft regional reviews with totally developed findings, conclusions, and suggestions, not than 30 pages excluding annexes, shall be submitted to the T-MELA COP who will undergo the USAID COR for T-MELA exercise. The format will embody an government abstract, desk of contents, methodology, findings, and suggestions. USAID/T-MELA and key native stakeholders will present feedback on the draft report.
6. Ultimate Stories: The group will submit a remaining report that includes responses to USAID’s/accomplice’s feedback and recommendations. The report shall be submitted electronically in English. The report shall be disseminated inside USAID and key stakeholders.
7. Weekly progress report: Present weekly progress report back to USAID-TMELA and SI within the agreed format.
{Qualifications} and Expertise:
The TB Specialist should be Tanzanian who’ve/maintain:
· At the very least 8 years of senior-level expertise engaged on analysis/evaluation is fascinating, with intensive expertise assessing public well being/FP/TB/sexual reproductive well being is required.
· Postgraduate diploma in grasp’s diploma in public well being, Epidemiology, or a associated discipline with a specialization in tuberculosis.
· In-depth information of TB epidemiology, prevention, prognosis, remedy, and care.
· Expertise in evaluating TB packages, together with familiarity with TB-IPC methods and DOT providers.
· Capability to investigate and interpret information associated to TB interventions and outcomes.
· Earlier work with TB interventions in an analogous regional context, ideally in Tanzania or East Africa.
· Expertise within the designing of devices for information assortment together with quantitative questionnaires, qualitative instruments resembling KIIs and Focus Teams utilizing various know-how.
· Glorious oral communication and written abilities in English is a should.
· Demonstrated expertise in speaking with native stakeholders at managerial and technical ranges.
· Expertise working with worldwide donors, particularly USAID.
Degree of Effort (LOE):
Anticipated as much as 58 days. Solely precise time spent is billable.
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