State Consultant - Demand Side / Gender Senior (National STTA) at Malaria Consortium

Activity Timelines: February - March 2022
Total TA Days: 8 TA Days / State
Slots: 3 Openings (1 per State)

Overview

• We require qualified personnel with expertise in Malaria programming who will facilitate a landscape and context analysis of the malaria control situation in Borno, Lagos and the FCT.
• The landscape and context analysis will involve collaboration with key stakeholders at the national (NMEP, FMOH -Child Health Dept) and sub-national levels (Borno, Lagos and FCT) especially the SMOH, SPHCBs, SMEPs, LGAs and MFPs including community-based service providers.

The key domains of the analyses will include :

• Community accountability structures
• Malaria control and child health situation analysis
• SMEP and LGA institutional capacity assessment
• Partners and private sector stakeholders landscaping
• Health systems assessment (especially PSM and HMIS relevant to malaria programming) in both public and private sectors.

Objectives of the analysis are to:

• Assess the state’s community level structure for malaria accountability and expansion of access to quality services
• Describe the current malaria situation and programme implementation status in the states (malaria epidemiology, intervention coverage, barriers and facilitators of intervention coverage, and treatment seeking behaviour).
• Conduct a rapid assessment of the capacity of key personnel at the state and LGA (programme officers) to plan and implement malaria control activities effectively and selected health facility workers on integrated case management of fever.
• Conduct a landscape analysis of partners and private sector organizations working on malaria in the state.
• Assess the key health systems components especially procurement supply chain management and health management information systems relevant to malaria programming both in the public and private sector.

Specific Tasks / Deliverables

• Draft protocol and tool for landscape and context analysis
• Organize stakeholder engagement meetings and interviews
• Conduct desk reviews - published and unpublished literature review, review of reports, policies, plans etc
• Mapping of stakeholders and potential malaria partners in the states
• Conduct field work – including key informant interviews and health worker interviews
• Map commodity procurement and distribution channels and document gaps
• Conduct S.W.O.T analysis of LMIS and HMIS
• Assess SMEP/LGA institutional capacity
• Synthesize findings from desk review and empirical data collection
• Write report.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Nursing, Medicine or Pharmacy
• A Post-graduate Degree in a relevant field, such as Sociology, Ecology, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Environment, Sustainable Development or closely related area, Public Health Communication or similar.
• At least ten (10) years’ post-qualification experience
• At least eight years’ experience in communication, demand creation, and social mobilization
• Strong experience in carrying out participatory gender equality analysis towards gender mainstreaming
• Experience in working on or evaluation of community accountability mechanisms or structures.
• Experience in qualitative study design
• Experience in evaluating community structures and systems
• Experience working closely with senior government officials.