Consultant Jobs at Palladium Group

Job Title: Consultancy Services for provision of Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E) support to Improved Accountability of National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC) M&E working group to carry out NEMCHIC M&E program activities at the FCT.

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• Palladium invites applications from suitably qualified individual consultants to provide technical support to the NPHCDA in its role in the provision of technical and programmatic support to states, LGAs, and other stakeholders in the planning, implementation, functioning, supervision and monitoring of PHC services in Nigeria through the National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC) as a coordinating platform to respond to the emergency facing Maternal and child Health care provision in the country.
• In this Request for Proposal, Palladium expects offerors to develop a custom solution and proposal to Palladium for consideration. Bidders are required to provide justification for the work proposed or methodology to be adopted. This will be a Best Value procurement.
• The Consultant will support improve accountability of the NEMCHIC M&E working group to carry out NEMCHIC M&E program activities including review and implementation of NEMCHIC M&E plan, reviewing the M&E indicators, setting up database and linking same to the NEMCHIC dashboard.
• S/he will oversee data validation, quality assurance of data, creating of database, data analysis and reporting. S/he will build the capacity of NPHCDA staff in NEMCHIC M&E, including supportive supervision, support regular reviews, and provide insights in research. The consultant shall attend NEMCHIC, RMNCAH+N and other related meetings and make inputs as deemed necessary.

Type of Contract:

• This is a firm fixed price deliverable-based contract. The consultant is expected to satisfactorily accomplish the deliverables before he/she gets paid for that deliverable.
• The IHP Chief of Party reserves the right to confirm if a deliverable is delivered adequately or otherwise. No price change is expected after contract is signed. IHP will not pay for cost of any deliverable that is not complete, of quality or on time.

Job Title: Consultancy to Cost the Kebbi and Sokoto Contributory Health Scheme Benefit Packages

Locations: Kebbi & Sokoto

Introduction

• Sokoto and Kebbi states have established contributory health schemes with the overall goal of ensuring all residents of the states have access to quality and affordable health care services with financial and social risk protection.
• All states have established structures and staffing for the State Health Insurance Agencies (SHIA) and have gone on to develop a benefit package that will ensure guaranteed provision of a package of health services to their residents through the contributory health schemes.
• To aid the implementation of the schemes, IHP wishes to support the schemes to determine the cost of providing the health services identified in the benefit package. The costing exercise will involve collection of direct and indirect Уabove siteФ costs at the facility and LGHA/SPHCDA levels respectively.
• The costing study will employ a purchaser perspective, in this case the Contributory Health Scheme(s) will be regarded as the purchaser seeking to estimate the cost of covering the services in the defined benefit packages. The study will cover a sample of the government-owned secondary health facilities and ward-level PHCs in the states as outlined in the table below:

Scope of the Consultancy
The specific responsibilities of the Costing Specialist will be to:

• Develop a comprehensive MS Excel costing model which identifies and disaggregates the inputs (staff time/commodities/diagnostics/operating expenses etc.) required to provide each distinct service within the statesТ benefit packages.
• The benefit packages for Kebbi and Sokoto states are outlined in Annex 1 of this SOW.
• Participate in the training of a team of data collectors (including IHP project and contract staff) on the study objectives, methodology and tool(s) to be applied at the facilities and other levels e.g. Local Government Health Authorities (LGHAs) and/or State Primary Healthcare Department Agencies (SPHCDAs) for above-site costs
• Conduct quality checks on costing data collected by data collectors during the costing study and develop course correction strategies, where necessary
• Liaise with IHP State Health Financing Advisors on the collection of above-site data from the LGHAs and/or SPHCDAs in each of the states, where necessary
• Aggregate direct costs and allocate indirect costs of the required services to determine the total cost of each distinct service within the benefit package. Allocation of indirect costs will be based on criteria/bases agreed by IHP and the state stakeholders
• Compute the average cost of each service within the benefit package and the total average cost of the benefit package. The model should be designed to determine the actual cost and normative cost for each service within the benefit package. Normative costs should be aligned to evidence-based clinical guidelines to ensure technical quality in the provision of services and computation of full costs
• Identify wide variances in service costs across different types of facilities (location, ownership, size and type) and determine the drivers of the variances. The completed costing model containing all assumptions, input data and analyses used in arriving at the benefit package cost must be submitted to IHP in an MS Excel format
• Co-facilitate with IHP staff a results-sharing workshop with the state health contributory schemes and other relevant stakeholders to present the results of the costing study for each state
• Develop and submit a report detailing the methodology, key findings and recommendation of the costing study for each state
• Respond to questions and/or requests for information by IHP as needed during the study and inform of any changes in the timeline for delivery of products associated with the study
• This is a fixed price consultancy which required the consultant to send both technical and cost proposals. Price does not change after the final cost has been identified and agreed upon.