Back Live Saved Tool Outcome Data Analysis - Consultancy opportunity

Montrose is an international development project management and consultancy company providing support to clients operating in the developing world. Specialised in the sectors of health, education, rural livelihoods and private sector development, our clients include bilateral and multilateral development agencies, the private sector, Non-Governmental Organisations, and other development stakeholders.

Background

The Health Pooled Fund began its third phase (HPF3) in July 2018 and is supported to run until 2023 by the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Government of Canada, the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). HPF3 merges two previous health programmes - Health Pooled Fund 2 (HPF2), which provides healthcare at health facility level, and the Integrated Community Case Management 2 (ICCM2) programme, which provides healthcare to children under-five within more remote communities. HPF3 supports delivery of community level, essential primary health care, secondary health care and referral health services, stabilisation of local health systems, and procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities.

Montrose has been directly supporting the Government of South Sudan to improve health care across eight states since 2012. The South Sudan Health Pooled Fund is used to ensure the delivery of health care and hospital referral services in 8 out of South Sudan’s 10 states.

The programme impact will be an improved health and nutrition status for the population that saves lives and reduces morbidity (including maternal, infant and under-5 mortality), and has the following five principal outputs:

• Output 1: Delivery and increased availability/ readiness of quality health services at facilities.
• Output 2: Community level interventions that increase awareness, prevention, and treatment of common conditions.
• Output 3: Availability of safe, effective, and quality essential medicines and supplies.
• Output 4: Stable health systems that enhance accountability and responsive to the needs of the people.
• Output 5: Funds and processes that are efficient, effective, inclusive and offer value for money.

To attain these outcomes, the HPF3 team is responsible for:

• Effective programme management, including robust risk management
• Ensuring continuity of and support to service delivery, with a focus on improving quality
• Specialist technical assistance covering health service delivery, community engagement, nutrition, health planning, information, and HRH.
• Procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities
• Management of the Implementing Partner fund
• Management of fiduciary risk associated with use of donor funds.women, under- fives, and neonates). The Consultant will estimate lives saved based on HPF3 interventions (i.e., Maternal, Child, New-born health and Nutrition)

Using FCDO recommended LiST Tool the consultant will use available data such as South Sudan Household Surveys, Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS), MICS, DHIS2 etc. To model the LiST tool data for HPF 3 log frame outcome indicator No 4 - Lives Saved (disaggregated by women, pregnant women, under- fives, and neonates). The Consultant will estimate lives saved based on HPF3 interventions (i.e., Maternal, Child, New-born health and Nutrition)

• Customise the Spectrum Software (LiST Tool) to include HPF3 programme implementation areas such as State and County level.
• The consultant will train HPF MEL team to be able to conduct the analysis and write a comprehensive report.
• Review the data elements used in the LiST Tool (Spectrum Version 6.0. or the latest version) with the current data collected, and developed a data collection tool as may be required.

Purpose of the Consultancy

The consultant will model the LiST tool to be used for estimation of lives saved through health interventions (i.e., Maternal, Child, New-born health and Nutrition) implemented through HPF3 programme. The consultant will also train and support the HPF MEL team to be able to estimate the impact of coverage change on mortality in South Sudan with specific focus on HPF3 programme Intervention areas. See sections on Specific Roles and Responsibilities of the Consultant and Deliverables below.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities of the Consultant

The following are the specific roles and responsibilities of the Consultant for the work:

• Review available data collected within the HPF3 programme and align with the LiST tool data requirements
• Developed a data collection tool(s) for the required data for estimation of live saved as per the LIST tool
• Customised LiST Tool and support the MEL team to be able to customise based on the FCDO reporting requirements such as state and county.

• Support and train HPF MEL team to be competent to use the LiST Tool for future programme reporting so that they are equipped with knowledge and skills to conduct analysis using the LiST tool.

  • Prepare Training TOR in conjunction with MEL team, for the training using HPF training ToR template.
  • Facilitate the training to ensure the objectives highlighted in the ToR are accomplished.
  • Build in-house capacity for using LiST to integrate LiST into internal workflows among the programme staff

• Estimate live saved using the specific intervention under HPF programme and provide related narrative. The model will include but not limited to:

  • Calculate cause specific mortality based on intervention coverage changes, intervention ineffectiveness etc.
  • Estimation of impact of scaling up interventions on maternal, child and neonatal health and nutrition
  • Model and perform intervention costing for the programme
  • Model changes in commodity distribution and coverage
  • Other relevant estimations for the programme

Provide technical support where required. This will be hours spread across several days.

Requirements

• Masters degree or equivalent in public health, international development, statistics, epidemiology or equivalent
• Experience implementing the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) in large, complex programmes
• Ability to work well both individually and as part of a team
• Excellent written English with experience of report writing for international development partners
• Experience of working on FCDO-funded programmes
• Experience and understanding of the South Sudan context
• Strong time management, organisational and communication skills, and exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the experience of seeking creative ways to overcome complex problems
• Microsoft Office proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint)