Consultant:Indonesia USAID MNH Bid

Background

USAID/Indonesia is expected to release the Maternal and Newborn Health Flagship Activity solicitation in January 2025. Jhpiego is planning to pursue this opportunity as a prime.

CONSULTANCY KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Gather information, data and documents (refer to landscaping tools that will be shared in advance of consultancy) needed to fill in Jhpiego’s identified gaps and better understand the local context.
• Completing a rapid desk review of new /current relevant strategies, initiatives, documents, roadmaps, guidelines and policies in Indonesia (English translations) in the following areas:
  • Maternal health
  • Newborn health
  • PHC
  • Quality of care:

1. Quality improvement including supporting
2. Quality assurance mechanisms – accreditation system
   • Networks of care
   • Community health workers
   • AMPSR
   • Improving demand for quality services
   • Referral system strengthening
   • Public private partnerships to ensure availability of high quality services.
   • Health care worker behavior change initiatives.
   • Promoting individual level behavior
   • Social accountability mechanisms
   • Climate resilience – heat, pollution, and lead
   • Data quality and use
   • Domestic Violence (GBV)
   • Climate resilience
   • Targeting vulnerable population groups
   • Gender

Consultant will be asked to upload these docs onto the relevant SharePoint.

• Prepare interviewer documentation forms based on the interview guide (guide to be shared upon contract award)
• Assist with setting up and conduct stakeholder interviews and document findings in the interview guides provided. The interviews with identified key informants and stakeholders are expected to gather information, opinions and perspectives on the upcoming bid, gather information and impressions on Jhpiego’s reputation among government and USAID stakeholders relevant to the bid in order to inform Jhpiego’s positioning, and proposal themes
• Identify and assess strengths and weaknesses of primary competition, confirming current and new related information
• Support synthesis and integration of notes from the desk review and other interviewers into a power point template provided
• Compile a contact list of individuals and organizations who have been consulted

DELIVERABLES:

1. Completed desk review documentation with full resources used noted
2. Updated findings in PowerPoint presentation
3. Interviews with key stakeholders documented and follow-up conducted as needed
4. Reference documents uploaded into proposal folders

CONSULTANT SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Public health expertise with academic qualification in e.g. public health, epidemiology, health systems management, M&E.
• Ability to efficiently collect and synthesize data across different technical areas
• Prior experience with work of a similar nature and able to share previous work.
• Familiarity with key stakeholders, Gov of Indonesia structure and where to locate documents and working knowledge of key government strategies and documents.

How to Apply

Please submit your application letter and CV with 3 referees to the following email address: IndonesiaHumanResources@jhpiego.org with subject : Consultant: MNH Bid

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org.

Only those selected for interview will be contacted.