UNDP-Iran Request for Providing National Consultancy for Population Size Estimation (PSE) of Transgenders (TGs) at the national subnational levels

Contract

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Background

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The project titled "Enhancement of National HIV Response with Focus on Target Beneficiary Groups in line with the fifth National Strategic Plan (5th NSP) 2020-2024” is funded by the Global Fund’s New Funding Model (NFM) program for HIV and building resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH).

The United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Iran country office as the Principal Recipient (PR) works with the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and three Sub-recipients (SRs) in implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the project. The SRs are: Centre for Communicable Disease Control of Ministry of Health and Medical Education (CDC), Welfare Organization (WO), Iranian Prisons Organization (PO).

In continuity with the activities conducted in the past years, the main goal of WO in this project is to improve scale up of differentiated HIV testing services and expansion of HIV prevention services for key population (People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs), High Risk Behaviour Women Affected by HIV (HRBW) and Transgender People (TGs) with special focus on optimization of testing, harm reduction services, quality of HIV prevention services in WO centres; improve of its monitoring system; and enhancement of access of TGs (transgender) to HIV services.

Therefore, Welfare Organization as one of the main partners of the HIV GF project is willing to initiate the provision of HIV related services for Transgenders. In this line, WO is aiming to develop an evidence- based Intervention Protocol based on the Standard Operating procedure (SOP) format for Transgenders (TGs) in relation to prevention, control, treatment, and care of HIV/AIDS.

It Therefore, Welfare Organization as one of the main partners of the HIV GF project is willing to initiate the provision of HIV related services for Transgenders. Reliable estimates of the size of populations at high risk for HIV are important for prioritizing target populations, planning HIV prevention services, measuring coverage with these services and monitoring and evaluation of interventions at national and subnational levels.

In this line, WO is aiming to conduct a study to estimate the size of the TG population. Moreover, the findings of this study will provide the basis for monitoring and evaluation of HIV control interventions among TGs at national and subnational levels.

It is expected that this study enhances the programme planning and designing in WO in different areas including prevention, control, treatment and care of HIV/AIDS amongst TGs.

Duties and Responsibilities

To apply for this jobs please refer to http://www.ir.undp.org/content/iran/en/home/procurement.html under the subject:UNDP-Iran Request for Providing National Consultancy for Population Size Estimation (PSE) of Transgenders (TGs) at the national subnational levels

This consultancy assignment aims to do the following objectives:

• To find the best model of TGs size estimation method for Iran.

• To develop protocols for conducting the study

• To estimate the size of TGs groups.

• To develop the TGs profile including HIV-related topics

Competencies

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Required Skills and Experience

To apply for this jobs please refer to http://www.ir.undp.org/content/iran/en/home/procurement.html under the subject:UNDP-Iran Request for Providing National Consultancy for Population Size Estimation (PSE) of Transgenders (TGs) at the national subnational levels

Academic Background:

• The Consultant should hold a PhD in health, social sciences, epidemiology or equivalent degree in medical sciences including MD or MD/MPH and other related areas.

Experience:

• Five years of experience in conducting research in fields of health, social sciences, epidemiology

• Experience in working with TGs is plus

• Experience in conducting the size estimation study

• HIV related research experience is a plus

• Ability to write academic, technical, and official study reports in Farsi and English

• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems

• Good written and spoken Farsi and English.