Overall objective:
To support the development and revision of guidance documents on how countries can adapt ‘traditional distribution strategies’ to conduct Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work will be conducted as part of a team of technical experts covering various areas including;
Finance
Logistics
Monitoring and evaluation
Programme implementation
Social and behaviour change
Work with an editor to ensure final documents are consistent in terms of the reading level of language used, are aligned with other document and use a consistent style guide.
Background:
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of malaria and progressing towards elimination. Between 2000 and 2015, global malaria incidence fell by 37 percent and mortality rates by 60 percent. Over 6.2 million deaths were averted, primarily among children less than five years of age. Since 1998, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing unprecedented resources and supporting scale up of innovative interventions to put the world on a path of eliminating malaria.
The Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) is a workstream within the RBM Partnership. AMP is a partnership of more than 40 organizations, including government, private sector, faith-based and humanitarian organizations. AMP is housed and chaired by the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC).
AMP provides distance and in-country support to mass ITN distribution campaigns as well as operation guidance on all aspects of ITN distribution. AMP works to coordinate the financial and technical resources of its members to support countries conducting mass and continuous distribution of millions of ITNs. Its low-cost, action-orientated operational structure includes a Core Group of key partners overseeing AMP strategies, four working groups, and dozens of partners that volunteer their time and expertise. AMP partners have developed core technical competencies – planning, logistics, monitoring and evaluation, social and behaviour change communication to support ITN scale-up efforts.
With the WHO declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in early March 2020 AMP has focused on the development and dissemination of technical guidance and the provision of distance support. To date the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the planning and implementation of ITN mass campaigns, with the risk of countries missing an entire ITN mass distribution cycle and leaving populations unprotected against malaria.
Additionally, planning needs to begin almost immediately to ensure that 2021 campaigns will take place on time and that the COVID-19 response does not detract from work to ensure vector control is in place in a timely manner. Malaria-endemic countries are requesting immediate support from AMP to adapt their existing ITN campaign strategies to ensure flexibility and rapid action and to allow them to continue providing life-saving services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Terms of reference for consultancy:
The consultancy will work within a team to develop global guidance on;
1) ITN operational strategies across campaign areas (e.g. social and behaviour change, logistics, implementation arrangements, communications, monitoring and evaluation) in the COVID-19 context. This includes:
Support countries to use AMP’s COVID-19 guidance tools to revise their campaign strategy to the COVID-19 context. This will conclude revising: roles and responsibilities of campaign partners, quantification and allocation of ITNs to households and beneficiary identification, and methods for ITNs distribution
Support countries to use AMP’s COVID-19 guidance tools during the revision of a plan of action, timeline of activities and budget for mass distribution of ITNs to the COVID-19 context.
Support countries to use AMP’s COVID-19 guidance tools during the development or modification of technical tools for campaign implementation, such as training guides, data collection forms, supervision and monitoring checklists, in the COVID-19 context.
2) As part of the AMP team participate in relevant WHO COVID-19 / malaria workstreams.
3) Work with the editor (member of AMP team) to finalize key documents and support on decisions on how to disseminate these key documents (websites, web presentations, etc.)
How to apply:
Please submit a letter of motivation and CV to Jason Peat jason.peat@ifrc.org by 24:00 UTC Monday May,18th 2020.
Only successful candidates will be contacted