Consultancy to Support Contextualization of ICCM Study Tools

Deadline: 04/30/2024

Concern Worldwide is an international non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Kenya is among over 70 countries that have adopted the WHO protocols to treat wasting. Nevertheless, the treatment of acute malnutrition was for a long time restricted to facility-based approaches, greatly limiting its coverage and impact. However, in many settings, the implementation of national guidance for the treatment of child wasting faces challenges, owing to limited resources and capacities, which hamper efforts to reach all children in need. The launch of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in the year 2000 was a promise of scale, access and coverage, a promise to make treatment truly universal. Unfortunately, the treatment was still being offered by health professionals, literary setting up pseudo health facilities at community level. In settings where human resources for health is limited like Kenya, it means health workers shall close the static health facility to go and provide treatment closer to home – proverbial digging a whole to fill another. Consequently, 20 years later, only 60 percent and less 30 percent of children with severe wasting receive treatment in Kenya and globally respectively (MOH 2013, Miller et. Al., 2020; UNICEF, 2021).

The consultant (s) will undertake the following;

• Train the local designer/ IP staff on the Human-Centered designs and the pre-testing methods.
• Conduct an extensive review of the existing current iCCM national framework, tools and training materials.
• Conduct an extensive review of the existing IMAM guidelines, tools and training materials
• Be familiar with the proposed changes in the current IMAM guideline and the 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of child wasting.

Essential and Desirable Experience/Qualifications

Bachelor degree in nutrition, public health or related field. Master’s degree nutrition related field is an added advantage. Experience in human-centered designing and writing up tools and training materials for health workers and community volunteers.

Consultancy services – ToR- Human Centered Design Deep discovery and engagement session with staff at Food for the Hungry- Kenya (FHK)

Deadline: 04/22/2024

FHK is currently in the process of piloting and deriving lessons on Food for the Hungry’s (FH’s) new program model. The intent statement of the new program model is: We build resilience that enables children, families, and communities to flourish.

FH’s new Program Model is a systems-based theory that builds resilience to unlock the potential for flourishing communities. FH believes that by building the resilient capacities of the communities using social and behavior change approach and transforming the systems in which they live and work, the children, families, and communities will achieve greater resilience to flourish. At the heart of the program model is the people we serve. The Program Model fundamentally redefines power and shifts power to the communities to define what value needs to be accrued and how.

It is against this backdrop that building capacities in HCD emerges as using a HCD approach will be critical to design and deliver on our program model.

Women Deliver call for Emerging Leaders for Change East Africa Cohort

Deadline: 05/30/2024

The Women Deliver Emerging Leaders for Change Program is a two-year leadership program that supports passionate young activists with the resources, platforms, connections, and trainings necessary to amplify and achieve their advocacy goals. Women Deliver, with its strong commitment to both gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), has a strong history of equitable youth engagement and co-leadership.  They’re looking for Young people (aged 15-29) of any gender and sexual identity who:

• Live and work in Burundi , Ethiopia , Kenya , Rwanda , Tanzania , or Uganda 
• Advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and/or gender equality, particularly focusing on advocacy that affects adolescent girls within their communities. Preference will be given for those interested or experienced in our focus issue areas: universal health coverage, the climate crisis, and countering the anti-rights movement.

See more details on eligibility, including language proficiency requirements, here.

Learning Circles Cohort – Breakthrough ACTION

Deadline: 04/26/2024

Are you a SBC practitioner working to address social and gender norms in FP/RH programming?
Are you based in East or Southern Africa?
If so, this learning opportunity is for you!

Apply for a Learning Circles Cohort on Addressing Social and Gender Norms in SBC for FP/RH Programming.
A participatory peer-to-peer learning program to discuss and share what does and does not work in addressing social and gender norms in SBC for FP/RH Programming in East and Southern Africa.

We invite you to apply today to be considered for a Breakthrough ACTION-hosted Learning Circles, focused on addressing social and gender norms in SBC for FP/RH programming in East and Southern Africa.

Spots are limited! Apply by April 26 to be considered for this opportunity.

Quantitative Researcher (Contract), Climate-Health

Deadline: 04/01/2024

YLABS is seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join their Gender Equity x Climate project. You will be a key contributor in developing a first-of-its-kind predictive model to understand the effects of climate change stressors on reproductive health and gender equity outcomes in a subset of low- and middle-income country contexts. One key goal of the analysis is to identify areas of high climate risk where additional research and investment will likely be needed in order to avert poor health and gender outcomes.

This is an independent contractor (Consultancy)  position, based remotely. This is approximately a four-month contract, running from April 8 2024 through July 31 2024, with 25-35 hours per week expected.

Pauline Bakibinga Memorial Scholarship – Call for Applications

Deadline: 03/29/2024

To be considered for the Scholarship, applicants must have attained an undergraduate degree and received admission for a master’s degree program focusing on the broad area of public health and research topic that embraces the application of digital health innovations.

Call for expression of Interest: Addressing neglected areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa

Deadline: 05/20/2024

The ANSRHRA Initiative will prioritize projects that address the following five priority areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR):  improving access to family planning and contraceptive services expanding access to safe abortion where legally permitted and post-abortion care upholding SRHR rights and ensuring access to services for adolescents  preventing and improving services for people experiencing sexual and gender-based violence strengthening advocacy for SRHR Successful projects will address at least one of these priority areas of SRHR.

MIT SOLVE 2024 Global Health Equity Challenge

Deadline: 04/18/2024

MIT Solve seeks exceptional solutions—rooted in and driven by communities—that leverage technology to increase access to quality care and good health. They are excited to select and support innovators across any health area, and they have a particular interest in solutions that ensure health-related data is collected ethically and effectively, that increase capacity and resilience of health systems, including workforce, supply chains, and other infrastructure. And lastly that increase access to and quality of health services for medically underserved groups around the world (such as refugees and other displaced people, women and children, older adults, and LGBTQ+ individuals).

TOR for Midterm Review of Female Sex Worker Project in Ethiopia

Deadline: 03/28/2024

Are you a consultant keen on sexual and reproductive health work? The Danish Family Planning Association is inviting applications from vendors to assist in reviewing their Female Sex Worker Project in Ethiopia.