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Consultancy for Gender Situational Analysis in Immunization in the context of Primary Health,Maseru, Lesotho (30 days over a interval of 3 months)

Job no: 577786

Position kind: Consultant

Location: Lesotho

Division/Equivalent: Nairobi Regn’l(ESARO)

School/Unit: Lesotho

Department/Office: Maseru, Lesotho

Categories: Gender Development, Health

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Background

Lesotho faces important challenges in reaching equitable immunization protection, notably amongst zero-dose kids. Gender disparities play an important function in entry to immunization and first well being companies.

Gender disparities in immunizing kids and adolescents are influenced by a number of interconnected components that embody however should not restricted to: Negative interactions with well being care suppliers, lowered entry to data or schooling, restricted autonomy in healthcare decision-making notably amongst girls, restricted mobility and management over sources, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) resulting in poor well being looking for behaviour, cultural norms and gender roles that affect accountability for looking for youngster well being companies and the way well being data is shared inside households.

Addressing these limitations requires a multifaceted strategy that features bettering healthcare companies, growing instructional alternatives, empowering girls in family decision-making, and addressing broader societal norms and gender inequalities.

Adolescent and younger moms face numerous challenges that hinder their capacity to vaccinate their kids. According to information from the Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey (2014), 19% of girls aged 15-19 have initiated childbearing.

These adolescent and younger moms are prone to have been raised dealing with important socioeconomic challenges. This younger age group typically faces socio-economic difficulties, together with restricted schooling and monetary sources. These components contribute to an absence of consciousness about the significance of vaccinations and the advisable immunization schedules and on most of the major well being care companies. Additionally, cultural, and social limitations play a job in hindering vaccination uptake amongst adolescent and younger moms. The pattern of vaccine protection in Lesotho haven’t been beneficial. The proportion of kids aged 12-23 months in Lesotho who’ve acquired all primary vaccinations dropped from 68% in 2004 to 62% in 2009, rebounded to 68% in 2014, after which fell once more to 63% in 2023-24 kids aged 12-23 months. Indicating crucial gaps in the supply of a responsive immunization programme. Further, it stays unclear what quantity of zero-dose kids are born to younger moms.

Gender disparities in Lesotho are evident with the progress of COVID-19 Vaccination as a public well being agenda. As of November 2023, nationwide protection amongst folks over 12 years reached 60.5% but protection amongst adolescents aged 12-17 years stood at solely 39.7%. Further, in this age group with 34% protection amongst males in comparison with 45% amongst their feminine counterparts. In 2023 the World Health Organization revised the COVID-19 Vaccination Guidelines that goal to routinize COVID-19 vaccination for high-risk teams similar to People Living with Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (PLHIV), younger folks with co-morbidities and pregnant girls. Amongst folks residing with HIV, the nation efficiency is at 63% totally vaccinated with solely 27% receiving boosters. There is paucity of age-disaggregated information for COVID-19 vaccination amongst kids and adolescents residing with HIV.

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The gender situational evaluation in immunization and first well being particularly in the context of the Sexual Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (SRMNCAH+N) goals to grasp the gender-specific limitations and facilitators affecting immunization protection and first well being outcomes. This evaluation shall be essential for creating gender-sensitive well being insurance policies, programme implementation and monitoring.

UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and GAVI search to undertake a baseline and situational Analysis of gender, social and behavioural limitations, and enablers of immunization in the context of SRMNCAH+N in city, peri-urban, and rural settings.

Goal: To improve gender and social transformative interventions to deal with zero-dose in the context of major well being.

Specific Objectives:

To conduct a complete situational evaluation of gender in the context of immunization and first well being care that may:

• Identify gender-related limitations confronted by caregivers, well being staff and adolescents (together with adolescent and younger moms) to immunization in any respect ages in the context of major well being care (PHC) companies.
• Identify the facilitative or prohibitive socio-cultural, financial, programmatic and coverage components influencing gender disparities utilizing an intersectional gender evaluation framework.

Provide suggestions and develop a gender mainstreaming toolkit to operationalize gender in immunization and first well being companies.

Scope of Work

The guide will undertake the following duties: Literature Review: Review present literature on gender, social and behavioral limitations, and enablers of immunization in the context of SRMNCAH+N in city, peri-urban, and rural settings of Lesotho and comparable contexts.

Data Collection: Conduct qualitative and quantitative information assortment, together with interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys with key stakeholders (e.g., well being staff, group leaders, mother and father, faculty heads, non secular leaders).

Data Analysis: Analyze the collected information to determine key gender-related limitations and facilitators to immunization in the context of SRMNCAH+N in city, peri-urban, and rural settings of Lesotho and comparable contexts.

Report Writing: Prepare a complete report detailing findings, evaluation, and suggestions.

Stakeholder Engagement: Present findings to the Ministry of Health and related stakeholders, incorporating suggestions into the ultimate report.

Presentation and Final Report Provide a presentation slide deck and ultimate report back to the Ministry of Health and related stakeholders, incorporating suggestions into the ultimate report.

Work Assignment Overview/ Expected Deliverable and cost Schedule:

Key Activities

• Onboarding with UNICEF
• Attend a Kick-off assembly – Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (PPT) for an Inception assembly with MOH Family Health Division, GAVI, UNICEF, WHO, CHAI, USAID.
• Development of an inception report detailing proposed methodology, workplan and proposed information assortment instruments to satisfy the consultancy deliverables.
• Undertake a desk assessment of the newest legislations, insurance policies, quantitative information, nationwide and regional literature, and proof on gender, social and behavioral limitations, and enablers of immunization in the context of SRMNCAH+N in city, peri-urban, and rural settings of Lesotho and comparable contexts.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative information assortment, together with interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys with key stakeholders (e.g. kids, adolescents and younger folks, well being staff, group leaders, mother and father – together with adolescent and younger moms and dads, faculty heads, non secular leaders) with precedence in excessive zero-dose settings in Lesotho.
• Analyze the collected information to determine key gender-related limitations and facilitators confronted by caregivers (together with fathers and adolescent mother and father, to immunization with a give attention to zero-dose and underneath vaccinated in the context of SRMNCAH+N in city, peri-urban, and rural settings of Lesotho.
• Draft report detailing findings, evaluation, and suggestions from the literature assessment and discipline evaluation and in alignment with the National Immunization Strategy.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Present findings to the Ministry of Health and related stakeholders, incorporating suggestions into the ultimate report.
• Provide a ultimate technical report for publication and complete presentation slide deck to the Ministry of Health and related stakeholders, incorporating stakeholder suggestions.

Expected Deliverables and Payment Schedule

Deliverable

Duration (# of days)

Timeline/Deadline

Schedule of cost

1. Kick-off assembly with MOH and EPI Core workforce members

1

1st day of Consultancy

2. Inception report detailing proposed methodology, and workplan to ship the consultancy

5

7 days following begin of Consultancy

10%

3. Desk Review on newest insurance policies, literature, regional or world proof on gender limitations and facilitators in the context of SRMNCAH+N

5

14 days following begin of Consultancy

20%

4. Conduct qualitative and quantitative information assortment, together with, focus group discussions, and interviews with key stakeholders (e.g., well being staff, group leaders, mother and father together with adolescent mother and father, faculty heads, non secular leaders) at district stage

10

6 weeks following begin of Consultancy

30%

5. Data evaluation and drafting of report detailing findings, evaluation, and suggestions.

5

10 weeks following begin of Consultancy

20%

6. Stakeholder assessment and validation

1

7. Final report and energy level submission

3

12 weeks following begin of Consultancy

20%

Total

100%

Expected Deliverables

Deliverables #1 and #2 – Inception report detailing proposed methodology, and workplan to ship the consultancy – 7 days. Payment Schedule 10%

Deliverable #3 – Desk Review Report on newest insurance policies, literature, regional or world proof on gender limitations and facilitators in the context of SRMNCAH+N) – 14 days. Payment Schedule 20%

Deliverables #4 – Field mission Report on qualitative and quantitative information assortment, together with interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys with key stakeholders (e.g., well being staff, group leaders, mother and father, faculty heads, non secular leaders) at district stage – 6 weeks.Payment Schedule 30%

Deliverable #5 – Data evaluation and drafting of report detailing findings, evaluation, and suggestions. – 10 weeks. Payment Schedule 20%

Deliverables #6 and #7 Stakeholder assessment and validation and ultimate submission of report – 12 weeks. Payment Schedule 20%

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

Minimum Qualifications required: Masters

Disciplines: Public Health, Research

Education: Advanced college diploma in public well being, social sciences, gender and growth, behavioural sciences.

Work expertise: 5 years information and experience on well being and gender in growth ESA

Qualifications and specialised information:

• Advanced diploma in social sciences, public well being, gender research, or associated fields.
• At least 5 years of expertise in gender evaluation, ideally in the well being sector.

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• Proven expertise in conducting situational analyses and analysis.
• Strong analytical and report-writing expertise.
• Excellent communication and presentation expertise.

Familiarity with the context of Lesotho or comparable settings is a bonus.

Language: Fluency in English

Knowledge of native language is an asset.

Required:

• Expertise in combined strategies of information assortment and evaluation.
• Expertise in writing technical paperwork, making use of analytical expertise in gender.
• Ability to arrange, compile and summarize inputs from completely different writers, present readability utilizing result-based languages.
• Ability to synthesize advanced paperwork into key messages.
• Familiar with kids’s rights and gender points in the context of growth and humanitarian motion.
• Following expertise/experiences are an asset:
  • Understanding of / working expertise with the GAVI and /or UNICEF is an added benefit.
  • Advocacy and presentation expertise are an asset.

• Functional Competencies

  • Analysing (II)
  • Applying Technical Expertise (II)
  • Planning and Organizing (I)
  • Following Instructions and Procedures (II)

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Remarks:

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Advertised: Dec 10 2024 South Africa Standard Time

Application shut: Dec 17 2024 South Africa Standard Time