Public Financing for Primary Health Care Consultant
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
Background:
UNICEF is collaborating with the Ministry of Health in Iraq on public financing for primary health care to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity during budgeting and financing of the maternal and child public health interventions.
To facilitate this process, UNICEF seeks the services of a national consultant to provide the required technical support to MoH in health financing including for social health insurance scale up, evidence generation for normative cost analysis of the maternal and child healthcare, capacity enhancement pubic finance management with a future prospective of institutionalization, and conduct budget analysis for the primary and secondary maternal and child healthcare to inform equitable allocation of the public health funds at the subnational level.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The main purpose of the assignment is to support the Ministry of Health in Iraq to design the social health insurance scheme and to conduct economic appraisal for the public health sector including the financing, equitable budget allocations, efficient Public Financial Management (PFM).
Scope of Work: Details of Tasks:
- Conduct consultative meetings/interviews with the relevant officials in MoH at the national and subnational levels to document best practices and identify the gaps in budgeting of the Primary Healthcare interventions/programs.
- Support MoH in conducting normative costing study for the maternal and child health interventions, this will include developing the research protocol, developing the research tools, data analysis and writing the final report of the findings.
- Work closely with the MoH to identify and design the benefit package for the social health insurance scheme.
- Develop a policy brief focusing on financing and budgeting the public health sector.
Review and analyze the mechanisms and processes of budget allocation for the primary healthcare interventions at the program/intervention level and subnational level.
Conduct economic appraisal of the public health system, including the cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility of the maternal and child healthcare interventions/programs.
Conduct semi-structured interviews with mid-level managers in the public health system to identify the capacity gaps in healthcare governance, leadership, and financial management of the public health funds.
Work closely with the relevant health officials and the Arab Board for Health Specializations in Iraq to institutionalize public finance management capacity building.
9. Perform other related tasks as may be required and assigned by UNICEF.
Deliverables:
At the end of the consultancy work, the consultant shall deliver the below products/deliverables: Normative costing analysis report.
Defined Benefit Package for the Social Health Insurance. Economic appraisal report including opportunity costs, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost- benefit analyses of the Primary Healthcare Interventions.
Budget and policy briefs. Endorsed training curriculum by MoH and Arab Board for Health Specializations in Iraq.
Task/Milestone
Deliverable/Outcome
Estimated # of Days
- Conduct consultative meetings/interviews with the relevant officials in MoH and MoF at the national and subnational levels to document best practices and identify the gaps in budgeting of the Primary Healthcare interventions/programs.
- Desk-review to analyze the mechanisms and processes of budget allocation for the primary healthcare interventions at the subnational level.
Narrative report that describes the used mechanism of budget allocation in the public health sector for financing the primary healthcare with recommendations for MoH and MoF to improve the equity in financing the programs at the subnational level.
30 Days
Design and support in conducting normative costing study for the maternal and child health interventions.
- Research protocol
- Costing study report
45
Identify and design the benefit package for the social health insurance scheme.
Recommended list of services that can be included in the social health insurance scheme.
20
Develop a policy brief to inform decision makers at MoF and MoH focusing on financing and budgeting the public health sector.
Evidence-based policy brief document and presentation
20 Days
Conduct economic appraisal for the public health system, including the cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility of the maternal and child healthcare interventions/programs.
Evidence-based economic appraisal report
25 Days
Conduct semi-structured interviews with mid-level managers in the public health system to identify the capacity gaps in healthcare leadership, governance, and financial management of the public health funds.
Qualitative report including recommendations for areas of improvement in healthcare leadership and governance, in addition to the financial management
25 Days
Work closely with the relevant health officials and the Arab Board for Health Specializations in Iraq to institutionalize public finance management training package.
Approved training curriculum by MoH and the Academia for the healthcare-related postgraduate programs.
45 Days
TOTAL
210 days
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
- Advanced degree in public health and/or economics disciplines (Masters)
- Minimum5yearsofrelevantworkexperience. - A high diploma in relevant disciplines with 8 years of experience can be considered as equivalent to the master's degree. - Strong background in research and report writing. - Advanced computer skills including data analysis software. - Proficient in written Arabic and English. - Strong and proven documentation and organizational skills - Ability to work independently and respond to feedback in a timely and professional manner. 7. Excellent analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to contribute to a team.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
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