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We seek suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:<\/p>\n
Job Title:\u00a0Thought Leadership Consultant to Support Case studies on Mothers Group Component. Background<\/strong> SAQIP\u2019s Primary Outcome III focuses on increasing utilization of public MNCH services in health facilities using the WORTH Model (a literacy-led approach to economic empowerment for women through savings and loans). WORTH also layers health education sessions onto the literacy and savings & loans sessions to increase knowledge of danger signs associated with pregnancy as well as the motivation of members to seek MNCH services at the PHC\u2019s. SAQIP also utilizes an MNCH module intended to improve knowledge and attitudes on MNCH for pregnant and other members of the groups\/ women of reproductive age who come together to save and utilize the funds to increase access to MNCH services including health, nutrition and positive parenting practices.<\/p>\n As the project will be folding up in June of 2019, the project is seeking for technical support from a consultant to come up with case studies that will support Pact West Africa with an understanding of the effective practices and innovative solutions that evolved due to the implementation of the State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) in Gombe under the mothers group component.<\/p>\n Purpose of the Consultancy<\/strong><\/p>\n Description of Key Tasks<\/strong><\/p>\n Requirements<\/strong> Language:<\/p>\n Milestones and Deliverables<\/strong> Working Relationships:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Thought Leadership Consultant to Support Case Studies on Improved Accountability and Community Participation in Public Health System<\/strong> Background<\/strong> To achieve this, SAQIP works with the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, including Local Government Area (LGA) Health Teams, Primary Health Centres, Ward Development Committees and members of Mothers Groups who are rural poor Women of Child Bearing Age within the eleven LGA\u2019s in the State.<\/p>\n The project has built very strong and veritable partnerships across the state and LGAs through which it is providing the support to address institutional gaps that exists at the SPHCDA, LGA Health Teams and facilities. The project has evolved several strategies and approaches through the Ward Development Committees and Mothers Groups to strengthen community structures and stimulated action for the support of high impact primary health services across the 57 intervention wards. This capacity development processes that included hands on support and mentoring is observably showing improvement in their planning and coordination roles of the primary health services.<\/p>\n The LGA health teams now take charge of coordinating the activities of all partners within the LGA for effective collaboration and synergy to reduce duplication of efforts, and enhancing linkages and collaboration with other stakeholders and community structures contributing to their health systems.<\/p>\n The Consultant will be expected to support the Project in the understanding of effective practices and innovative solutions evolved in the course of implementation for institutionalization. The study will solicit responses of primary and secondary stakeholders of the project to harvest information\u2019s through face to face interview. The respondents would be randomly selected across the 57 intervention wards; in addition to the desk review of literature and programme reports. The findings will serve as knowledge base for Pact West Africa and other Pact Offices across the globe.<\/p>\n Purpose of the Consultancy<\/strong><\/p>\n Description of Key Tasks<\/strong><\/p>\n Candidate Requirements<\/strong> Language:<\/p>\n Expected Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n Milestones and Deliverables:<\/p>\n Working Relationships:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Thought Leadership Consultant to Support Case studies on Quality Improvement and Clinical Mentorship. Background<\/strong> The SAQIP Quality Improvement (QI) approach uses an iterative process whereby QI teams share and learn from one another and build upon each other\u2019s findings and results. Using the Model for Improvement tool, QI teams identify non-clinical and clinical maternal and newborn Health (MNH) problems in their communities and develop appropriate interventions.<\/p>\n Each of the 57 SAQIP supported PHCs have QI teams comprising of 4 healthcare workers, 4 WDCs and 1 traditional ruler and have tested changes in different domains: ANC, labor and Delivery, postnatal care and facility system strengthening. 35 of these facilities have layered use of WHO safe birth checklist on their QI structures. 19 changes have so far been tested for period ranging from 18 \u2013 24 months. The teams have recorded remarkable success such as improved used of partograph to monitor labor, improved use of uterotonics and decrease in client waiting times. The facilities have also recorded increase access: ANC, skill delivery and post-natal visits.<\/p>\n In Gombe state, health care providers at primary health care level usually have little access to experienced clinicians and specialists to call upon for consultation, review cases, solve problems and reinforce clinical diagnosis and decision making. Most health workers at these levels are likely to have limited experience in managing complicated and emergency cases. Health care providers were trained to provide quality maternal and newborn care and were followed up with supportive supervision.<\/p>\n However, because of limited contact time between the care providers and the supervisors there has been slow improvement in skills and competence of the trained care providers that is expected to translate into improved maternal and newborn outcomes. This fact gave birth to the concept of S AQIP clinical care mentorship program. Experienced nurses and midwives were deployed as residential mentors to reinforce the skills of birth attendants at PHCs. 6 months into the program. Many successes were recorded in skills, adherence to protocols and attitude of the birth attendants at PHCs.<\/p>\n Purpose of the Consultancy<\/strong><\/p>\n Description of Key Tasks<\/strong><\/p>\n Requirements<\/strong> Language:<\/p>\n Milestones and Deliverables<\/strong> Working Relationships:<\/p>\n
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\nThe State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in Gombe State by Pact West Africa. The project\u2019s targets include; improving the governance capacity for the public health system, improved accountability and community participation in the public health system and increased utilization of public Maternal, New-born and Child Health (MNCH) services. To achieve this, SAQIP works with the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, including Local Government Area (LGA) Health Teams, Primary Health Centres, Ward Development Committees and members of Mothers Groups who are rural poor Women of Child Bearing Age within the eleven LGA\u2019s in the State.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in Gombe State by Pact West Africa. The project\u2019s targets include; improving the governance capacity for the public health system, improved accountability and community participation in the public health system and increased utilization of public Maternal, New-born and Child Health (MNCH) services.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe State Accountability for Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) is a six-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Nigeria officially launched in mid-January 2015. It is designed to develop the capacity of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and its associated Local Government Area (LGA) structures to carry out their mandate to provide quality maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services through public primary health care centers (PHCs), while empowering community structures such as Ward Development Committees (WDCs) to provide the oversight needed to ensure delivery of quality health services at PHCs. The project works towards achieving this impact through four key approaches:<\/p>\n\n
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