Purpose and Tasks:

Under this short-term consultancy, the Private Sector Specialist will assess the second area of the GGMS evaluation. Sample questions that the Consultant will answer include:

• How have GGMS social marketing activities contributed to the expansion of or improvement in the quality of the private health sector in Nepal? Have GGMS activities helped to grow a sustainable commercial market for the provision of specific health products and services?
  
• What resources or contributions, if any, has CRS leveraged from the private health sector? Have media companies given the project concessionary rates? Have the distributors, wholesalers and retailers contributed time or resources?
  
• Have CRS/GGMS activities (advocacy, promotion, training, supervisions, etc.) contributed to improving the quality of products and/or services in the private health sector?
  
• Has the social marketing program had any negative impacts on the private health sector such as crowding out of commercial suppliers or discouraging investment in markets due to their dominant market position?
  
• Have any CRS/GGMS activities contributed to improving the organization of the private health sector? For example, has the project strengthened any private provider organizations or established new organizations or networks of private providers to help them improve practices or engage with the government?
  
• Have social marketing product subsidies been well targeted to consumer groups who most needed them? 
  
• Are there some socially marketed products for which subsidies should be reduced or phased-out to allow for greater commercial sector provision?
  

In order to answer evaluation questions, the Private Sector Specialist will complete the following tasks in collaboration with two other consultants: 

• Prepare an evaluation plan, including specific methodological approaches (e.g. key informant interviews, data analysis) and documentation protocol
  
• Conduct evaluation in alignment with approved evaluation plan
  
• Prepare a draft evaluation report
  
• Respond to SHOPS Plus comments and submit a final report
  
• Participate in bi-weekly calls with SHOPS Plus to discuss the implementation of the evaluation
  

Deliverables & Timeline:

The consultant is expected to use 30 days of labor between January 24 and April 5, 2019 to complete the above tasks and produce the deliverables outlined below. 

Qualifications:

Preferred qualifications for the Private Sector Specialist include the following:

• Proven experience and expertise in private sector health, including experience analyzing private health systems and/or conducting policy and advocacy work around private health sector reforms
  
• Familiarity with quality improvement/assurance systems for the private sector, private health sector financing techniques, public-private partnerships, and private health sector engagement strategies
  
• Fluent in written and verbal English