Overview : UNDP wishes to engage the services of a partnership/ consortium of two consultants who will work jointly to carry out the review of the Health Workers Retention Scheme. The team leader will be responsible for submitting the proposal and should assign/select a partner to work on this assignment. The proposal should include the CV’s of each team member. It is expected that the partnership of consultants/company makes use of relevant international expertise. The consultants will agree on how to deliver on the shared deliverables based on their areas of strengths and expertise. The consultants will be health systems strengthening experts with strong focus in the following areas : 1) Health Financing and 2) Human Resources for Health The two consultants will work jointly to produce the final output: A report detailing issues affecting Health Workers Retention Scheme (HWRS) and Results Based Financing (RBF), outlining today’s status quo and benchmarking competitiveness of remuneration, dynamics and feasible options for Global Fund implementation approach and prioritization for next funding cycle. This will require an agreement between the two consultants on the division of labor for the following tasks: - Undertake in-depth analysis of the current status of the human resources for health in terms of macro-economic situation, remuneration, retention and the risk of catastrophic attrition, i.e. is HRH retention still the problem in Zimbabwe;
- Undertake technical analysis of the RBF scheme by mapping those operational issues that are directly linked to incentives provided to human resources for health retention, i.e.:
- What are the indicators in the RBF framework?
- How does performance link to health workers incentives?
- Provide a comparative analysis of the implementation of the HWRS and RBF models:-
- Which approach is more relevant under the prevailing macro-economic and health system issues?
- Are the approaches targeting the appropriate cadres?
- Are there any remaining gaps in both models, i.e. technical, operational, etc.?
- Provide practical recommendations to the Global Fund on the following:
- The most appropriate and impactful modality of funding the human resources for health interventions within the current funding cycle (2019/20)
- Priorities of the Global Fund support to human resources for health in the next funding cycle (2021-2023) by focusing on both the value for money and sustainability
Expected Outputs A report detailing issues affecting HRH retention, outlining today’s status quo in terms of HRH remuneration across all categories for the purposes of HRH retention and benchmarking competitiveness of remuneration, RBF dynamics and possible options for Global Fund implementation approach and prioritization for next funding cycle List of Reference Documents To be provided after the inception dialogue on the review approach with the Country Team List of Key Informants To be provided after the inception dialogue on the review approach with the Country Team Timeline and Deliverables The assignment will start in June 2019 and is expected to complete in 6 weeks with the submission of the draft report. Travel to Zimbabwe is envisaged during the period of 1-2 weeks. The Global Fund plans to share the report with the Government of Zimbabwe and partners by September 2019 . Application Procedure Sbmission Required Qualifications Individual team members - Graduate level training (Masters level) in public health, international health, healthcare management or relevant areas
- Each team member should have at least 7 years of practical experience as a technical specialist, adviser or consultant
Between the team members there should be :- - Evidence of practical experience in health systems strengthening, health systems performance assessments, with strong focus on healthcare financing and human resources for health in low/middle-income countries
- African experience is essential, Zimbabwe experience desirable
- Evidence of previous experience working on the Global Fund related issues
- Experience in working in complex, multi-partner environment
Candidate(s) is/are expected to enclose in the application two technical reports regarding the work done on similar assignments during the past 2-3 years. Proposal should be submitted no later than 15 June 2019 Please click on the link below to apply: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=85568 |