Emergency Health Coordination training support and review

Context:

The Red Cross and Red Crescent aims to meet health needs in emergencies as rapidly and effectively as possible, by mobilizing its resources across its network in a coordinated manner so that the needs of the affected communities are met. Emergency Health Coordinators (EHC) are a strategic key surge tool for the IFRC global emergency health response. Their role involves health assessment, health risk identification and scenario planning that are used as basis for developing and implementing high quality health programming through the IFRC Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA). Planning for required resources for adequate and efficient response to health in emergencies is a crucial responsibility. EHCs facilitate and support the implementation and quality assurance of the RCRC health response. They are required to lead on an effective inter-agency coordination for RCRC health response and communicate essential information to key stakeholders effectively and in a timely manner. Through problem-based learning EHC training, participants are expected to build up their competencies to be able to perform their role within the frame of the RCRC humanitarian crisis response.

Parallel to the EHC training, the IFRC also carries out Coordination, Assessment and Planning (CAP) trainings, with a focus on:

• RCRC competencies (Movement context, principles and values and Movement in the humanitarian sector);

• Operational competencies (coordination, assessment, information management, direction setting and operational objectives);

• Cross-cutting and behavioral competencies (collaboration and teamwork, interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, judgement and decision making and personal resilience).

Objective of the EHC training:

1. To contribute to providing expert technical support and guidance to National Societies’ emergency medical services and public health in emergencies activities.

2. To contribute to the Secretariat’s expert support to the Regions and the Membership in the area of clinical emergency health services, including medical emergency response units (ERUs) and prehospital care contributing to high-quality service delivery, and public health in emergencies, including public health ERU configurations and outbreak prevention and response.

Alignment to the IFRC’s objectives and strategy

IFRC’s Strategy 2020: AOF4 Health, and AP021 (Public Health in Emergencies) and AP022 (Care and Treatment in Emergencies).

Desired outcomes

The overall aim of this work is to facilitate an EHC training, and then provide written recommendations to IFRC regarding the future of the EHC training.

In order to do so, the consultant will:

• review the existing IFRC Emergency Health Coordinator training package and make small adaptations/improvements for immediate use and testing;

• lead the facilitation of an EHC training (January 2020);

• review the existing IFRC CAP training package and compare with EHC training to identify redundancies, gaps and synergies;

• compare EHC/CAP to emergency health coordinator core competencies, and identify the most cohesive and coherent training pathway(s), including identification of components that can be provided through distance and/or blended learning.

Consultancy outputs

Output 1: Deliver EHC training (January 2020)

Main Deliverables:

(1) Rapid evaluation of training gaps and next steps

(2) Delivery of EHC training as master facilitator

Output 2: Building on experience of EHC January 2020 training, provide recommendations on best training pathway for emergency health coordinators, taking into account other IFRC coordination/assessment trainings and available online/blended learning approaches

Main Deliverables:

(1) Report identifying principal gaps and areas of overlap between IFRC coordination trainings with regards to emergency health profiles

(2) Recommendation of best training modality to rapidly increase the roster of IFRC emergency health coordinators

Method of delivery and reasons for selecting that method

• Home-based other than:

• Travel to Geneva or other location (TBD in collaboration with IFRC) for briefings and/or trainings

Support to be provided to the consultant

• Support will include: IFRC personnel available for discussions and briefings; access to existing training modules and trainers; guidance and support for overall vision and key challenges in IFRC emergency health coordination

• Direct management line: Laura Archer, Senior Officer, Emergency Medical Services and Gwen Eamer, Senior Officer, Public Health in Emergencies

Work schedule and payment of fees

Note: Dates to be adjusted when required in collaboration with IFRC

Task 1 Facilitation of EHC training

• Training preparation and delivery dates (in-person required): 16-28 January 2020

• Pre-training preparation home-based

Task 2 Post-training report with recommendations for future

• Home-based

Payment to be made upon completion of each task and upon presentation of invoice to IFRC by the consultant(s).

Notes

• The consultant will be contracted by the IFRC and the standard contractual terms will apply.

• Agreed travel expenses will be reimbursed at cost in accordance with in the IFRC’s relevant regulations.

Interested candidates should send their CV, letter of interest, and daily consultancy rate to Emergency.health@ifrc.org

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.