USAID’s Strengthening Systems for Better Health (SSBH) Activity is a 6-year project aimed at improving health outcomes in Nepal, particularly for the most marginalized and disadvantaged groups in the country. SSBH supports the Government of Nepal’s efforts to expand access to and use of quality maternal, newborn and child health and family planning services, with a specific focus on newborn care and is designed to achieve three major outcomes:
(i) improving access to and utilization of equitable healthcare services,
(ii) improving the quality of health services at facility and community levels and
(iii) improving health systems governance, within the context of federalism.
The project is implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population at federal level and with provincial and municipal governments, health facilities and other key health sector stakeholders at sub-national levels.
USAID’s Strengthening Systems for Better Health (SSBH) Activity is a 6-year project aimed at improving health outcomes in Nepal, particularly for the most marginalized and disadvantaged groups in the country. SSBH supports the Government of Nepal’s efforts to expand access to and use of quality maternal, newborn and child health and family planning services, with a specific focus on newborn care and is designed …
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Background:
In July 2020, USAID developed a Supplemental Program Description for SSBH focused on targeted support for the Government of Nepal’s (GoN) response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with federal, provincial, and local-level health sector counterparts, the SSBH team has been working since then aiming at strengthening the health sector response to the pandemic, reducing transmission of the virus in Karnali and Lumbini Provinces, and mitigating the effects of the pandemic on delivery of essential maternal, newborn, and child health services. SSBH recruited and deployed more than 60 professional staff and consultants to provide technical, operational, and material support for Nepal’s pandemic response, while building on the Activity’s established structures, working relationships and technical approaches.
The two-year Health Emergency Response (HER) component of SSBH will be phased out by the end of September 2022. Accordingly, the team will plan and undertake an internal review of HER activities to determine (a) the extent to which planned interventions succeeded in building counterpart capacity and systems to respond to future emergencies, and (b) whether the immediate assistance provided by SSBH was timely, appropriate and responsive to GoN priorities for the response. SSBH will use the findings of this review to document successes, issues, and challenges, and identify transferable lessons to guide future design and implementation of health emergency response programs.
Objective of the Assignment
The objective is to review the activities of Health Emergency Response Supplemental Program of SSBH per the approved Program Description (emergency response pillars one through nine), to determine if the activities were implemented strategically, appropriately, and timely to strengthen Nepal’s health system response to the COVID-19 epidemic and future emergencies.
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Scope
Requirements for the consultants
The Team Lead will be responsible to guide the overall process, analysis and report writing and ensuring quality of the deliverables.
Consultant - Team Lead
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