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1. Background
USAID’s Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program helps low- and middle-income countries strengthen their pharmaceutical systems to ensure people have sustainable access to safe, effective, quality-assured, and affordable essential medicines, and to pharmaceutical services that ensure their appropriate use.
In 2020, MTaPS conducted a review of available costing tools for forecasting spending on pharmaceutical benefits coverage. The goal was to select the best approach to costing pharmaceutical benefits packages and detail how such estimations could be used to support UHC policy discussions. After appraising the costing tools and studies, MTaPS recommended applying the OneHealth Tool to support benefit package costing, pharmaceutical package costing, and forecasting.
The OneHealth Tool is a software tool designed to strengthen health system analysis, planning, costing and financing scenarios at the national level. The broad purpose of the tool is to assess public health investment needs in low and middle-income countries and inform the development of medium-term strategic plans for health sector planning. It incorporates epidemiological impact models to determine achievable health gains; combines both disease program-specific and health system-wide planning; and supports planning, costing, budgeting, impact analysis and financial space analysis all in one tool. It has incorporated several robust planning and costing tools widely in use by countries, including Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (MBB), the Child Health Cost Estimation tool, and the FamPlan and the UNFPA Reproductive Health costing tool. OneHealth is publicly available through the IHP+ website (http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/en/tools/one-health-tool/ ).
OneHealth can also be used to estimate the costs of a pharmaceutical benefits package. To support this application of the tool, the MTaPS program team will be offering a remote (virtual) training for selected participants in Kyrgyzstan. The training aims to i) build capacity in the use of the OneHealth costing tool for pharmaceutical benefit costing among selected Ministry of Health (MOH) staff, partner agencies, and identified potential consultants; ii) develop a pool of resource persons who will support countries in the region to use the OneHealth costing tool to plan and cost their pharmaceutical benefits package as part of overall national health sector strategic planning.
MTaPS is seeking a consultant to support local logistics for the OneHealth virtual training in Kyrgyzstan.
2. Scope of work
The scope of work for the consultant includes:
Assist MTaPS in identifying suitable participants for the training and convening participants for the live sessions throughout the training.
Assist MTaPS to adapt and finalize the training materials and exercises using Kyrgyz Republic-specific data on (for instance) HIV, TB, or maternal and newborn health
Assist MTaPS in facilitating the training, including synchronous meetings and group exercises on the basics of using the OneHealth Tool. The consultant will also MTaPS in facilitating the communication if there is need for translation/interpretation.
3. Period of Performance, expected Level of Effort (LOE), reporting
Period of Performance and LOE: The consultant’s period of performance will begin from May 24 and be completed by June 30, 2021. Payment will be based on invoices reflecting hours/days worked. Total number of days needed for this assignment should not exceed 15 days.
Reporting To: The consultant will directly report to the activity lead, Andre Zida.
4. Deliverables
Planning report/minutes (training preparation meeting with MTaPS team)
Breakout group exercises use health programs/national insurance data (to be discussed with MTaPS)
Primary facilitation of the breakout group discussions
Support facilitation of plenary sessions.
5. Qualifications and Requirements
In order to perform the job well, the consultant will be required to have the following minimum qualifications:
· Master’s degree in Economics, Public Health, Business, Public Policy.
· Preferred: Experience designing, managing, and implementing costing activities using tools, preferably the OneHealth tool.
· Experience working in Kyrgyzstan health system.
· Fluency in English and Russian is required.
· Due to COVID-19 travel requirements, the person must currently reside in the country
6. Information materials
Background materials on OneHealth and on the workshop arrangements will be shared with participants prior to the workshop. Participants should come equipped with laptop, computers with Windows for which they have administrative privileges to install software. Participant with ios system will not be able to install the software.
For more information on the OneHealth tool: http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/en/tools/one-health-tool/
For more information on the workshop, contact Andre Zida (azida@r4d.org) or Katie Shepard (kshepard@r4d.org).
How to apply:
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