Ipas Nepal

Senior Research Consultant

Ipas Nepal

Senior Research Consultant

Ipas Nepal is a non-profit international development organization that works to increase women’s ability to exercise their Sexual and Reproductive Health, especially the Right to Safe Abortion and Contraception. We seek to eliminate Unsafe Abortion and the resulting deaths and injuries and to expand women’s access to Comprehensive Abortion Care, including contraception and related reproductive health information and care. 

Family Planning (FP) is one of the priorities programmes of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) with an aim to foster equitable access and utilisation of quality FP services throughout the country. Over the years, Nepal has achieved a remarkable improvement in the reproductive health including FP services. However, despite this improvement, Contraceptive Prevalent Rate (CPR) in the country has been stagnant for decades. In addition, contraceptive knowledge and use is low while and Age specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) and unmet need for family planning is high among adolescent and youths because of various structural and socio-cultural barriers.

Research suggests that youths are most effectively reached with messaging on sensitive issues like family planning among others when it comes from their peers. To capitalise on that approach, Ipas Nepal intends to orient and mobilise students in grades 11 to 12 who are studying in rural areas and provide them with the knowledge and skills to be “Change Agents” and disseminate FP messages in their community. Accordingly, Ipas Nepal invites applications from interested Nepalese candidates for the below mentioned position for its UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) funded Nepal Family Planning Project (NFPP) on “Addressing Unmet Need for Family Planning among Excluded and Vulnerable Women” implemented in partnership with Marie Stopes International (MSI)/Sunaulo Pariwar Nepal for identifying and orienting youths in two of its the project districts namely Kavre and Dailekh. The youth activity will be conducted in 2 project districts: Dailekh and Kavre. Youth related orientation and mobilisation will take place in Dailekh and Kavre in the 5 clusters (in each district) comprising 20 youths in each cluster.

Ipas Nepal is a non-profit international development organization that works to increase women’s ability to exercise their Sexual and Reproductive Health, especially the Right to Safe Abortion and Contraception. We seek to eliminate Unsafe Abortion and the resulting deaths and injuries and to expand women’s access to Comprehensive Abortion Care, including contraception and related reproductive health information and care. 

Family Planning (FP) is one …

Senior Research Consultant

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Period: 18th March to 15th June 2018

After liberalization of abortion law in Nepal in 2002, Ipas Nepal is supporting Family Health Division (FHD) in expanding medical abortion (MA) service in the lower health facilities through task shifting to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) who also are trained as Skilled Birth Attendants (SBA). Despite the legalization of abortion and expansion of the service in Nepal, women are still accessing to unsafe abortion services. In 2014, nearly 58% of abortions were clandestine. To overcome this gap, Ipas Nepal proposes to conduct an assessment study to explore the stakeholder’s views on increasing service access and expanding providers base. To accomplish the above-mentioned task, Ipas Nepal is looking for a Senior Research Consultant. The detailed roles and responsibilities and specific requirements of the high-level consultant are as follows:

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Support the development of research protocol and data collection tools including the Key informant interview guide, for obtaining ethical approval from Nepal Health Research Council.
  • Translate all developed tools into Nepali language, lead the tools pretesting and ensure all the research tools are updated prior to fieldwork.
  • Participate and support Ipas study team in conduction and facilitation of data collection training for field researchers.
  • Coordinate and conduct the central level stakeholders interview, transcribe and translate the interviews conducted at the central level.
  • Perform the data coding, entry in Atlas.ti and perform the analysis.
  • Prepare the draft report and share it with Ipas for the necessary feedback.
  • Finalize the report based on feedback received from Ipas study team.

Required Qualifications and Competencies:

  • Advanced university degree in public health, population studies or related discipline with minimum 7 years of relevant work experience.
  • Sound knowledge and proven track record of conducting qualitative research,
  • preferably in sexual and reproductive health.
  • Sound understanding of sexual and reproductive health, in particular, safe abortion program, as well as national health priorities and challenges.
  • Proven competence in management and analysis of qualitative data, producing high-quality research paper.

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