Consultant

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for completing the following tasks during the assignment period:

1. Technical Support for Standardized Community-Case Definitions development
   • Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in developing/reviewing and updating standardized community-case definitions for identifying and reporting signs and symptoms of potential diseases, health risks, and public health events.
   • Assist MoH in updating community-case definitions for key notifiable diseases, incorporating a One Health approach through consultations with relevant stakeholders and departments.
   • Support MoH in updating existing paper-based tools, securing endorsement and adoption for national-scale implementation.

2. Development of a Structured Case Notification and Reporting Protocol

• Conduct a gap analysis to assess existing case notification and reporting protocols, covering both paper-based and eCHIS-integrated reporting mechanisms.
• Provide technical support in updating reporting protocols, ensuring seamless case notification from community level to health facilities and district health offices.
• Strengthen the feedback loop process by integrating a mechanism that triggers investigations by Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) or healthcare workers, linking to the facility-based notification system (6767) for timely response and action, including integration into eCHIS with an embedded alert system to flag notifications that remain un-responded to within 72 hours.

3. Integration of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Indicators into eCHIS

• Collaboratively work with Living goods towards technical support provision to the MoH Division of Health Information (DHI) on integration of CBS indicators into eCHIS, ensuring real-time data capture and reporting.
• Lead capacity efforts on use and reporting of community-based surveillance indicators within Mukono, Wakiso, and Kampala through eCHIS.
• Actively participate in MoH Technical Working Groups (TWGs), including EPI, Community Health (CH), and eCHIS, contributing technical insights and documenting best practices and lessons learned from the CBS integration process.

4. Capacity-Building for District, Facility, and Community Healthcare Workers

• Lead capacity-building initiatives for 3,870 Village Health Teams (VHTs) across Mukono, Kampala, and Wakiso, equipping them with the updated CBS tools.
• Document key learnings from the capacity-building process to assess effectiveness, challenges, and additional capacity needs, ensuring continuous improvements and optimization of CBS efforts.

Major Tasks

• Development of inception report detailing understanding of the assignment and implementation plan.
• Technical Support for Standardized Community-Case Definitions development including structured Case Notification, Reporting protocol and Integration of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Indicators into eCHIS
• Capacity-Building for District, Facility, and Community Healthcare Workers and overall activity report highlighting best practices, challenges, and recommendations.

Deliverables:

• Inception report detailing approach to the assignment including anticipated collaborations (MoH, Sub-national level).
• Report on Standardized Community Case Definitions, Reporting Tools, and Case Notification Protocol, including Successful Integration into eCHIS.
• Capacity Building Report on the Optimization of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Efforts, including Comprehensive Documentation on CBS/eCHIS Integration and Implementation.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education background: Advanced university degree in Public Health, Social/political sciences, Statistics or other relevant fields.
• Work-experience: Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional work experience at national and international level in analysis and/or research and/or communication/advocacy in public health, primary health care, digital health, emergency response, community health programming
  • Extensive experience producing timely and high-quality reports for UN systems
  • Experience working with international development organizations and/or government institutions is an asset.
  • Technical knowledge Health Informatics and digital health systems including the electronic community health information system
  • Experience in scoping, user testing, and training in digital health projects.
  • Experience in development and deployment of low bandwidth solutions in challenging and/or low resource settings.
  • Ability to align technical and strategic goals in multi-partner engagements Community health systems in Uganda & Region
  • Primary health care and Health System Strengthening
• Language skills: Excellent written and verbal communication in English is required.
• Knowledge of the local language is considered as an asset.

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