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Undertaking 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 also 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 purpose 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 companion and works with Baylor School of Drugs Youngsters’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 help 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 therapy (DOT) providers in 360 HFs which makes a complete of 613 HFs reached with TB providers. Uhuru will broaden help to achieve an extra 110 dispensaries and improve general help to cowl 726 HFs throughout FY04.
The particular focus areas are elevated TB case detection, facility and neighborhood linkage, retention into take care of TB sufferers, and elevated fashionable contraceptive use amongst younger ladies, adolescents, and grownup women and men of reproductive age teams. The Exercise’s targets are that not less than 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 youngster well being (RCH) clinics and not less than 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 stage improved. This goals to speed up achievement of the MOH-NTLP purpose of 90% of shoppers/sufferers in Katavi, Kigoma, Rukwa, and Songwe areas accessing and repeatedly utilizing top quality, person-centered TB/DR-TB and TB/HIV prognosis and therapy providers by 2025.
IR 2: TB illness transmission and development decreased 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 stage strengthened. The purpose is that not less than 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 applied 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 applied by Amref Well being Africa in Tanzania because the prime companion with three sub-awardees: the Tanzania Communication and Improvement Heart (TCDC), Service Well being and Improvement for Individuals Dwelling Positively with HIV/AIDS (SHDEPHA+), and Mwitikio wa Kudhibiti Kifua Kikuu na Ukimwi Tanzania (MKUTA).
The purpose of the exercise is to deal with precedence gaps in TB case findings and unmet FP wants at neighborhood stage in 9 areas of Tanzania by 2025 with the next aims:
Improved entry to and use of high-quality, person-centered TB, DR-TB and TB/HIV providers at neighborhood stage
Decreased TB illness transmission and development by community-based service supply
Strengthened entry to and use of high quality FP providers at neighborhood stage
Improved the transparency, suggestions, and entry to information associated to TB programming; strengthened nationwide coverage and pointers; and elevated management and political help for TB as a public precedence
Assertion of Objective:
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 general 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 so as to inform the following spherical of TB and FP exercise designs.
Analysis Questions:
To what extent are the interventions applied 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 had been crucial 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 might be achieved to enhance their sustainability?
What are crucial learnings from these actions that can be utilized to tell future TB and FP programming?
What position have Neighborhood Well being Employees (CHWs) performed in attaining TB and FP outcomes and the way can that position be sustained after these actions finish?
Place Description:
SI is searching for a Group chief to help T-MELA with the Efficiency Analysis of TB&FP Actions. The Group Chief shall be an English speaker with experience in challenge administration and a robust background in public well being, the Group Lead will be certain that the analysis’s aims are met and that the findings and suggestions are clearly communicated to USAID and different stakeholders. This particular person will liaise carefully with governmental our bodies and supply management throughout the conduction of this essential project. It is a consulting place with an estimated interval of efficiency of March – September 2024. The estimated stage of effort (LOE) for the Group Chief will likely be 60 LOEs with anticipated journey of as much as 4 weeks in Tanzania.
Duties:
This particular person will oversee all the analysis course of, guaranteeing that the challenge stays on schedule and inside price range. The Group Lead may also be liable for coordinating communication between group members, T-MELA, and SI HQ. The Group Lead will:
· Line-manages the Analysis Group collaboratively with the T-MELA’s Chief of Social gathering and duties 2 Group Lead.
· Lead desk assessment, preliminary stakeholder session, and establish extra info/analyses required.
· Lead the group to arrange and finalize evaluation design together with methodologies, evaluation methods, vital instruments for information assortment, and work plan to conduct all the evaluation.
· Lead and oversee information assortment efforts in collaboration with the recognized information assortment agency and thru session with implementing companions and authorities based mostly on analysis/logistical wants.
· Take accountability for information evaluation and iteratively develop findings, conclusions, and suggestions.
· Write the excellent evaluation experiences in coordination with group members, making an allowance for suggestions from all stakeholders.
· Take the lead within the preparation and presentation of the important thing findings, conclusions, and suggestions to USAID, key stakeholders, and analysis customers following SI’s and USAID’s requirements.
· Take accountability for main the group to answer USAID and USAID T-MELA’s feedback and suggestions and ship high-quality deliverables that meet USAID and SI’s requirements.
· Make sure the analysis methodology is strong and aligns with the aims of the SOW.
· Handle any logistical and administrative challenges that come up throughout the analysis course of.
Deliverables:
With help from USAID/T-MELA and group members, the Group Lead will likely be anticipated to take general 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 can embody chosen methodologies and information assortment instruments.
2. Kick-off assembly/In short: A PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation summarizing the methodological method 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 predicted to replace this PowerPoint after the ultimate report.
5. Draft Analysis Stories: A draft regional experiences with absolutely developed findings, conclusions, and suggestions, now not than 30 pages excluding annexes, will likely 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 comes with responses to USAID’s/companion’s feedback and solutions. The report will likely be submitted electronically in English. The report will likely 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 Abilities:
The Analysis Group Lead should be Tanzanian who’ve/maintain:
· At the least 10 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.
· PhD or postgraduate diploma in public well being or associated discipline
· In depth expertise in main groups and making ready high-quality paperwork.
· Expertise within the designing of devices for information assortment together with quantitative questionnaires, qualitative instruments corresponding to KIIs and Focus Teams utilizing numerous know-how.
· Wonderful oral communication and written expertise in English is a should.
· Demonstrated expertise in speaking with native stakeholders at managerial and technical ranges.
· Expertise working with worldwide donors, particularly USAID.
· Ideally, the applicant will possess expertise conducting evaluations within the schooling sector in East Africa, Tanzania particularly.
Stage of Effort (LOE):
Anticipated as much as 60 days. Solely precise time spent is billable.
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