Job ID

2023-5677

Location

PH-Manila

Category

Consultancy

Employment Status

Consultant

The Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) Project is a seven-year engagement of Global Affairs Canada in partnership with Oxfam, Jhpiego and local civil society organisations.  The ultimate goal of the project is to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls in remote, conflict-affected, and disadvantaged regions in the Philippines, namely, BARMM, Regions V, VIII, IX, X, and Caraga.

The project has two strategic pillars that work together to achieve the shifts in power relations needed for transformative change. Pillar 1 focuses on engaging community members and health care practitioners to support gender-responsive services and promote positive gender norms, which improve health-seeking behaviour and Pillar 2 on building knowledge and capacity of institutions and alliances to influence change for socially accountable SRHR programs.

Jhpiego, the technical service delivery partner, provides technical assistance through training of health service providers and managers, strengthening youth-friendly and gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, and promoting effective coordination of SRH and gender-based violence (GBV) services within the public and private health system in the twenty municipalities and one city within the project sites.

To assess the present status of the 20 rural health units of the SHE Project on gender responsiveness of health service delivery vis-à-vis their baseline assessment scores, Jhpiego seeks to contract a lead consultant to conduct the assessment using Jhpiego’s Gender Service Delivery Standards and academically present the data with a review of related literature, as well as provide stories from the perspective of health service providers on what has changed in their health facility and personally in relation with providing gender-responsive health service delivery. This research engagement will serve as the endline assessment of the health facilities with expected presentations of key changes since the baseline assessment.

The STTA is expected to deliver the following task for a total of 30 days spread out over four (4) months to commence on 22 January 2024 until 30 April 2024.

The following deliverables are expected from the consultant:

1. Inception plan
2. Draft written report
3. Final written report
4. 2 stories on social behavioural change as evidenced by the assessment
5. Slide deck of summary of the assessment
6. Raw data (tabulations, recordings, etc.)

The potential Short-term Technical Consultant should have a strong background in gender, public health service delivery and research, particularly on project assessments and evaluations.