Health Sector Strategic Plan Costing

1. Area of expertise:

Consultant (International) – Health Sector Strategic Plan Costing

2. Purpose of consultancy

The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in South Sudan to cost the country’s next Health Sector Strategic Plan (2022 – 2026).

3. Background

Health sector strategic planning aims at identifying, sequencing, and timing medium-term interventions for the health sector in a comprehensive way to guide activities and investments necessary for achieving medium-term outcomes and impact. The process of developing Health Sector Strategic Plans is therefore based on a thorough analysis of the current situation, lessons learned from previous plans, expected available resources and chosen priorities, within an overall government-wide policy framework. For South Sudan, the National Development Strategy (2018-2023) and the National Health Policy (2016 – 2026) provide the overall policy frameworks for the development of its Health Sector Strategic Plans.

The current Health Sector Strategic Plan for South Sudan (2017 – 2022), which expires in June 2022, was developed to guide implementation of the first phase of the country’s National Health Policy (2016 – 2026). At the end of 2021, the country conducted a Health Sector Performance Review that assessed the progress made towards achieving the HSSP 2017 – 2022 targets, the challenges faced, and the actions needed to improve health sector performance. These lessons learned, will contribute to the development of the next HSSP.

The country is therefore embarking on the development of the next HSSP (2022 – 2026) to guide implementation of the second phase of its National Health Policy (2016 – 2026), in order to define the strategic approaches, key interventions, resource requirements and implementation framework to guide the Ministry of Health and partners in delivering health services in the country.

There is a need to cost the new HSSP that will be developed to ascertain the resource requirements for its implementation and determine the financial gaps, priorities and investments for the duration of the HSSP.

4. Deliverables and duties

Duties:

• Orient stakeholders and collaborating consultants on use of the one health costing tool
• Review the outcomes and strategic interventions of the HSSP
• Generate the cost estimates for options/scenarios of outcome targets
• Facilitate dialogue on the various costing and funding scenarios for the HSSP
• Determine the funding gaps, estimates, and projections required to implement the HSSP based on the consensus reached during the dialogue process
• Finalize the costing of the HSSP and facilitate dialogue with stakeholders for its validation

Deliverables:

• Deliverable 1: An inception report and detailed work plan / Expected by: 7 June 2022
• Deliverable 2: Final costed HSSP document / Expected by: 30 June 2022

• Deliverable 3: Final consultancy report / Expected by: 30 June 2022

• Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

5. Educational Qualifications:

Essential: Master’s degree in Health Financing, Public Health, Health Policy, Health Services Management, Health Systems; Economics; Financial Management or related fields.

Experience

Essential: Minimum 10 years’ relevant professional work experience in health financing/economics and in costing of health sector strategic plans

Desirable: Experience working in fragile State settings

6. Skills/Knowledge:

• Demonstrated ability to provide sound methodological and technical advice and guidance to Ministry of Health and other stakeholders including donors
• Practical analytical skills necessary to translate data or information into concrete action
• Excellent report writing skills
• Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment

Languages and level required (Basic/Intermediate/Expert):

Expert knowledge of English

7. Location

On site: WHO South Sudan country office, Duty Station – Juba

8. Travel

May be applicable

3. 9. Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):
   1. Remuneration: Payband level - Remuneration currency - Payband level C (USD 10,000 /month)
   2. Living expenses (A living expense is payable to on-site consultants who are internationally recruited Currency (USD); Daily Service Allowance rate USD 128
   3. Expected duration of contract (Maximum contract duration is 11 months per calendar year): 1 month (June 2022)

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