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Over the last decades, South Asian countries have made notable progress in strengthening the health systems and in improving the health status of children. Despite these achievements, South Asia continues to face complex political, economic, social and health challenges. Repeated health emergencies including the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, political conflicts and socio-economic crises have put the health systems in South Asian countries under stress, leading to disruptions in the provision of essential health care, insufficient service coverage for the most vulnerable populations, and high out of pocket health-related costs. Despite a 60% reduction in child mortality in the past two decades, the region continues to experience high numbers of newborn deaths with over a million children dying each year before their 5th birthday. 53.8 million stunted children live in the region and more than 47,000 maternal deaths occur each year. These high numbers of maternal, under-five and infant mortality are mainly driven by inadequate and unequal access to antenatal and postnatal care. Additionally, the burden of disease in the region has increasingly become complex, with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the rise due to urbanization and lifestyle changes. NCDs contribute to 65% of the overall disease burden in the region. Immunization coverage has recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic; however issues with access and equity remain, with 3.8 million zero-dose children living in South Asia, the region has the second-highest number of zero-dose children globally. These are children who tend to experience multiple deprivations such as poor nutrition, limited access to safe and clean water, in addition to challenges accessing basic primary health care services. With access to basic primary health care and its quality having severely been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, repeated natural disasters and ongoing conflicts in the region, the health and well-being of children and mothers are at risk, with the danger of countries experiencing reversing progress in child survival and development. Therefore, particular attention and investments need to be oriented in making health and nutrition systems more responsive and resilient, with a focus on building stronger health and nutrition service delivery systems, with particular emphasis on community-based primary health care and nutrition services. It is based on this background that UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and UNICEF Country Offices in the region are prioritizing strengthening primary health care and nutrition services at the community level and Community Health and nutrition as a critical agenda for reaching the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) but also for building resilient communities to ensure adequate response and preparedness again future health emergencies. The use of the term “Community Health and Nutrition” (CHN) aims to underscore a broader scope of Health and well-being, emphasizing the burden of nutrition issues on the health and well-being agenda, particularly in South Asia. CHN is defined as a framework that encompasses a comprehensive approach to promoting and protecting the health and well-being of children and community members. The inclusion of nutrition into the concept of community health acknowledges the intricate link between nutrition and health outcomes.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN. |
How can you make a difference?
Key Deliverables: |
Tasks/Milestone | Deliverables/Outputs | Delivery deadline |
Develop inception report | Complete inception report outlining project timeline, deliverables, gaps in data/evidence, and guidance on how to address the gaps. | End November 2024 |
Provide support to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan COs (data collection/analysis, literature review, quality assurance) | 1) Complete initial desk review (data for 3 COs) with relevant literature, evidence and background documentation and stakeholder consultations. | 1) December 2024 |
2) Peer-review the data collection, inputs and analysis carried out by CO consultants. | 2) Rolling support until Sept 2025 | |
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Methodological guidance | Support methodology selection, application and data analysis for CHN countries/region. Develop methodological guidance and template approaches to ensure consistency in the methodological and presentational approaches for costing, financing and fiscal space analyses for their Community Health and Nutrition Roadmaps and/or strategies. | Rolling support until end of consultancy (Sept 2025) |
Brief review of the community health and nutrition costs and analysis in all eight South Asian countries (incl Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) | Undertake a preliminary costing analysis of the available Community health and nutrition elements (of Roadmaps) and present an overall estimated envelope. Compile into a costed CHN “envelope” for the region. | 1st week December 2024 |
Develop a brief regional synthesis publication/report (in Word) | Prepare and draft regional report for publication (in Word), bringing together the evidence generated and published across the region on Community health and nutrition costs and budgets. This will include a region-wide financial gap analysis, based upon the CO deliverables, and a synthesis of the investment cases that demonstrate the urgent need for investment in community health and nutrition in South Asia. | Sep-25 |
Final project report (and all data sets, data analysis and inputs generated during the consultancy period related to this project) | Complete final project report. | 1st October 2025 |
Travel | To provide adequate supervision and support to the three country offices (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan). | The consultant will be expected to travel once to each of the three COs (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan). The consultant will undertake additional data collection, provide hands-on guidance and supervision to the national consultants. |
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For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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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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