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Consultancy for iCCM Curriculum development for Somalia/Somaliland

1. Introduction

For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world’s largest independent child rights organisation, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We are an equal opportunity organisation dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, and Collaboration. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.

Save the Children has worked in Somalia/Somaliland since 1951. Our vision is that every child in Somalia and Somaliland attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way children are treated in Somalia and Somaliland and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Across all of our work, we pursue several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity. Each year about 650,000 people benefit from our work in Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Education, Child Protection and Child Rights Governance.

2. Background

Following the invitation from UNICEF, Save the Children has taken the role to provide support to the Ministry of Health, implementing partners and community health services providers in the roll out implementation of the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of childhood illnesses in Somalia/Somaliland.

Integrated community case management (iCCM) is a strategy to extend case management of childhood illness beyond health facilities so that more children have access to lifesaving treatments. It is a proven/evidence based simple, low cost life-saving intervention that has been tested in many developing countries with remarkable progress towards reducing child mortality through assessing, classifying and treating children for common diseases like malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea as well as identifying and referring children with danger signs and severe acute malnutrition by the community level worker selected and trained in basic skills. The strategy also aims to improve equity by reaching the hard-to-reach and underserved segments of the population. Evidence and programmatic experiences from across the world have demonstrated that community level service providers if well trained, equipped, supervised and supported can effectively deliver integrated community case management of diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria.

Experience of iCCM implementation in Somalia/Somaliland is limited as the approach is just recently gaining traction. However, the huge unmet healthcare needs and a conducive policy environment which will present an exceptional opportunity for scaling up iCCM.

The community level is recognised as the lowest level of health service delivery. In 2014, the Ministries of Health in the three zones adopted a Community Health Strategy that has emphasis on addressing the most common causes of child mortality (ARI, diarrhoea, malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases), improving reproductive health status of adolescents and women and generally promoting good health at the community level. The NCHS discerns two categories of community cadres –the Community Health Workers (CHW) based at health post and the Female health Workers (FHW) based at household level.

Effective implementation of iCCM requires policy support, training, supervision, performance maintenance and regular supplies. WHO and UNICEF have developed an integrated package to train community health workers to manage illness in children 2 to 59 months of age which is the ‘gold standard’ training package for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (iCCM).

**3. Objective of the consultancy
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The overall objective of the consultancy is to undertake development/review, harmonization and refinement of iCCM training curriculum, job aids and reporting tools to support rollout of pilot iCCM of Malaria, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Malnutrition and newborn screening and referral in Somalia/Somaliland.

3.1. The specific objectives of the consultancy are as follows:

1. To develop an integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) training package for Female Health Workers (FHWs) to implement iCCM based on WHO guidelines and Somalia/Somaliland context.
2. To develop iCCM job Aids for the FHWs (Sick child recording form, Newborn assessment check list, iCCM training video).
3. To develop iCCM community reporting tools for Female Health Workers (Community treatment and tracking register, Referral slip, FHWs commodity management register/ Stock control card and FHW support supervision checklist).
4. Deliverables:
5. Initial inception report detailing the methodology to be used to undertake development/review, harmonization and refinement of iCCM training curriculum, job aids and reporting tools
6. Final draft of iCCM training package for FHWs (participants and facilitators training manuals).
7. Final draft of iCCM job Aids (Sick child recording form, Newborn assessment check list, iCCM training video).
8. Final draft of iCCM reporting tools (Community treatment and tracking register, Referral slip, FHWs commodity management register/ Stock control card and FHW supportive supervision checklist).
9. Skills required:

• The consultant will have experience/knowledge in:
• Implementation iCCM in Somalia/Somaliland or similar context
• Implementation of iCCM in Somalia or other countries
• Implementation of community health and health promotion at facility level
• MD with a Master degree in Public Health and at least 8 years of experience managing public health programs, a community health specialist.
• With at least 5 years direct experience in iCCM, Monitoring and evaluation specialist with at least 5 years of experience in health projects monitoring and evaluation.
• Previous experience on similar task
• Excellent writing and presentation skills
• Fluency in spoken and written English

1. Consultancy Terms and Logistics Support/Arrangements

The consultant will work with iCCM Team Leader based in Nairobi and M&E specialist based in Somaliland. The consultant might be require travel to Somalia/Somaliland as security permits.

Save the Children will be responsible for all the logistical arrangements when the consultant arrives in the mission for the following:

• Local transport for all official movements
• Hotel accommodation in Somalia
• Communication costs.
• Application for entry visas
• Equipment needed to do the job to a degree of quality.

1. Reporting:
   1. The consultant will report to the Head of Health and Nutrition based in Nairobi and work closely with iCCM Team Leader.
2. Timing:**
   1. The position is to be filled as soon as possible
   2. Total number of days allocated to finalize the task is approximately 25 days

How to apply:

1. To Apply:

Qualified candidates are requested to apply through a short proposal detailing past experience and the budget to [email protected]: to be received by close of business 7^th July 2017

Disclaimer – Save the Children is under no obligation to award to the lowest or highest or any applicant at all and may cancel the whole/part process when deems fit without giving further justification. Applications shall not be accepted beyond the stipulated time.