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Position

CONSULTANCY- DEVELOPMENT OF THE KADUNA STATE HRH STRATEGIC PLAN (2016-2020)

 

State: Abuja, Nigeria (Temporary)   

Type: Advocacy   

 

Project Summary

 

Save the Children, through the improving health workers capacity project, aims to improve access to lifesaving healthcare, by directly building the capacity of 5,000 frontline health workers. We will focus on improving skills in areas with the highest potential to positively impact maternal and child health outcomes, and which have been identified as gaps through observation at service delivery level and in consultation with Ministry of Health partners. In addition, by supporting activities to influence policy change, SCI will contribute towards an overall goal of improving the quality of health services and reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality in Kaduna states.  In the approach focus will be on addressing key HRH challenges in three broad areas:

 

State level: Advocate and support the government to establish effective HRH management systems, ensuring that issues, ranging from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HRH, in the target states are adequately addressed, as well as owned and managed by the state in the longer term

 

Community level: Improving access to basic Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) services for communities, through training health workers to treat common childhood diseases, and to educate mothers on disease prevention and home care practices to ensure the early detection and treatment of common childhood illnesses within communities

 

Facility level: Improving the quality of care provided to mothers and children by training frontline health workers on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), Essential Care for every Newborn, and the delivery routine immunization services.

 

Kaduna State HRH Policy Direction

 

The Kaduna State government seeks to institutionalize rational planning of HRH at state and LGA levels as part of the corporate planning process for health. This will ensure HRH forecast and interface between supply and demand are adequately supported with funding and planning tools.

 

Rationale for developing a new HRH Strategic plan (2016-2020)

 

Since 2011, there have been a lot of changes on the Kaduna landscape. Some of which is the change in leadership. The new governor has also made his intentions known to fully turn around the health sector working with the relevant agencies, the officials and partners. The HRH strategic plan will serve as a guide for the state government to execute the HRH policy for the state.  In it are various components which address the issues of the HRH situation within the state backed up with figures.

 

The Kaduna state HRH Strategic Plan document will provide a strategic framework of implementation to actualize the policy directions and strategies contained in the state HRH policy in dealing with HRH crisis undermining the attainment of health sector goals. 

 

The review HRH strategic plan will hinge on seven strategic objectives geared towards addressing challenges of number and appropriate mix of qualified staff, training and the distribution among others

 

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate the review and development of Human Resource strategic plan for Kaduna state. The Current HRH Strategic Plan as a five year document that was developed in 2011, and expired in 2015. To enable the state government fulfil its obligations towards strengthening the HR interventions, Save the Children will work to support the development of a 5 year plan set to run from 2016 to 2020.

 

Qualification

The consultant must be an expert in the field of health, planning and economics.

The consultant must be a postgraduate degree holder and at least 10 years expertise and experience in developing strategic and financial plans, as well as in facilitating workshops.  

(S)He should have a very good grasp of the policy environment of the Kaduna state government especially in matters related to health.

The person should have a good knowledge of the government structure as well as key officials who will be able to contribute effectively.

 

Specific Tasks

Development of relevant templates, Presentations,

The consultant will work with the HRH unit of the Kaduna State government and SCI personnel to develop the relevant templates for the development of the HRH strategic Plan. The templates will form the structure of the strategic plan.

 

Review of current statistics, as well as the recently expired Strategic development plan (2011-2015)

This will be a 2 days meeting to review current, Kaduna state data, statistics and other relevant information. The information gleaned will form the basis for the background / Introduction to the document.The information would include the recent socio-demographic and health indicators as well as the current staff strength and number of facilities.

 

The exercise will be done in collaboration with staff from the Department of Planning research and statistics Kaduna State Ministry of Health, the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, as well as from other implementing partners in the state.

 

Facilitate a 4-day workshop to develop and cost HRH strategic development plan activities

The consultant will take the lead in facilitating the workshop to develop strategic plan. Among the participants will be officials from the state ministry for health, as well as the partners. The meeting will be a residential programs to enable the participants fully participate in the activity.At the end of the workshop a first draft of the HRH strategic plan would have been developed for further review and corrections.

 

Review, correction and cleaning of developed costed activities and feedback

The Consultant working with the Advocacy officer and other members of the Ministry will work together to produce final draft of the HRH strategic Plan.

 

Costing

The consultant will facilitate the costing of the draft HRH strategic plan for the state

 

Report writing

The Consultant will produce a final report on the activities as part of the deliverables to be submitted to Save the Children.

 

Validation and dissemination

The Finalized document will be produced and disseminated as well as an orientation to be given to key stakeholders highlighting important sections of the document and how to use it.

 

Expected Deliverables/ Output

By the end of the assignment the following outputs will be expected:

 

Report of the 2011-2015 Strategic Plan Review

A finalized draft of the2016-2020 HRH Strategic plan with supported costed plan should be submitted to the SCI personnel on or before the end of the consultancy.

HRH Strategic Plan Costing

A full report will follow within 5 working days of the end of the assignment

Slide presentation of the methodology and key highlight of the plan

 

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