Job Description:
Short term Senior Technical Advisor: Implementation and Evaluation of Strategic ACSM campaigns to Support TB Control and Prevention in Central Asian countries
Background:
The USAID Quality Health Care Project is a five-year project aimed to improve the health status of Central Asians by incorporating evidence-based international standards into ongoing reforms of health systems and thereby assist Central Asian governments to improve their management, financing, and implementation of health services related to tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health services and cardiovascular disease.
Central Asia faces a TB epidemic, which has been intensified by dramatic increases in multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in recent years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), four of the five Central Asian countries exhibit some of the highest recorded rates of MDR-TB in the world (no data is available for Turkmenistan). Tajikistan, with 231 cases per 100,000 people, has the highest TB incidence rate in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Region.
The Quality Health Care Project proposes a strategic, four stage, planning process for development of a regional TB ‘Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization’ (ACSM) Campaign in line with evidence-based ‘population health’ programmatic approaches. The first stage of the activity will include a desk review of available ACSM research materials from the region (e.g. ACSM Strategies, KAP Surveys, focus group discussion results, review of IEC materials developed by the project) and possibly elicitation research for problem identification, stakeholder engagement, and formative research with program beneficiaries. Stage two could involve message development and pre-testing, and training for community-based activities, including treatment and community advocacy approaches. Stage three will cover implementation, and could involve coordination of activities supported by national, synergized message and materials dissemination. The final stage, evaluation, will provide an academically rigorous post-intervention outcome and impact assessment from which to develop a strong evidence base for ACSM programming across the region .
2. Purpose:
The Senior Technical Adviser will support the development of a regional approach to planning, implementation and evaluation of strategic ACSM campaigns to support TB control and prevention in Central Asian countries. This initiative, identified as a priority by the USAID donor, will also provide a strategic, best practice approach to building engagement, future programming capacity and an academically rigorous evidence base for TB control and prevention in the region. Following the completion of stage one, the approach will allow for a rapid transition to the development and implementation of synergized TB ACSM campaign’s across the region
The TB ACSM Campaigns’ demonstration project will also be evaluated for its behavioral impact. This will provide country stakeholders in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, comprehensive findings on the program’s outcomes and behavioral impact. As such, the M&E approach will provide a standardized methodology and instruments to measure knowledge attitudes and behaviors (KAB) across the region as well as providing comparisons of the programs’ behavioral impact from country to country. If this can be achieved within the Central Asia region, important to note is the significant contribution that this approach can make to the international literature on TB ACSM programming generally, as well as its potential to influence the future direction of TB ACSM control and prevention efforts globally.
3. Expected results:
4. Time Period
60 working days over 10 months, schedule to be agreed upon between the COP and Senior Technical Advisor.
5. Management Arrangements:
The Technical Advisor will report to the Regional TB Manager.
6. Timeframe:
Deliverables Duration
(Est # of days) Deadline
Stage 1: Desk review of existing ACSM strategies and other relevant material and possibly elicitation research for problem identification, stakeholder engagement, and formative research with program beneficiaries.
Stage 2 – Message development and pre-testing, and training for community based activities including treatment and community advocacy approaches.
Stage 3, Implementation - coordination of activities, supported by national, synergized message and materials dissemination.
Stage 4 – Evaluation and impact assessment
TOTAL 60
7. Key competences, technical background, and experience required:
• Minimum of five years’ experience working on ACSM activities with high level national counterparts including national media outlets;
• Ability to elaborate and implement ACSM Campaign;
• Ability to use innovative approaches.
• Understanding and use of Behavior Change Communication technique
• Demonstrated effectiveness in developing media campaigns
• Ability to effectively manage an advocacy campaign
• Demonstrates strong facilitation skills
• Capacity building and community development
• Monitoring and evaluation
f) Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) and working proficiency in at least one second UN Language (Russian desirable)
Working arrangements:
The consultant will work remotely.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Short term Senior Technical Advisor: Implementation and Evaluation of Strategic ACSM campaigns to Support TB Control and Prevention in Central Asian countries
Background:
The USAID Quality Health Care Project is a five-year project aimed to improve the health status of Central Asians by incorporating evidence-based international standards into ongoing reforms of health systems and thereby assist Central Asian governments to improve their management, financing, and implementation of health services related to tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health services and cardiovascular disease.
Central Asia faces a TB epidemic, which has been intensified by dramatic increases in multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in recent years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), four of the five Central Asian countries exhibit some of the highest recorded rates of MDR-TB in the world (no data is available for Turkmenistan). Tajikistan, with 231 cases per 100,000 people, has the highest TB incidence rate in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Region.
The Quality Health Care Project proposes a strategic, four stage, planning process for development of a regional TB ‘Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization’ (ACSM) Campaign in line with evidence-based ‘population health’ programmatic approaches. The first stage of the activity will include a desk review of available ACSM research materials from the region (e.g. ACSM Strategies, KAP Surveys, focus group discussion results, review of IEC materials developed by the project) and possibly elicitation research for problem identification, stakeholder engagement, and formative research with program beneficiaries. Stage two could involve message development and pre-testing, and training for community-based activities, including treatment and community advocacy approaches. Stage three will cover implementation, and could involve coordination of activities supported by national, synergized message and materials dissemination. The final stage, evaluation, will provide an academically rigorous post-intervention outcome and impact assessment from which to develop a strong evidence base for ACSM programming across the region .
2. Purpose:
The Senior Technical Adviser will support the development of a regional approach to planning, implementation and evaluation of strategic ACSM campaigns to support TB control and prevention in Central Asian countries. This initiative, identified as a priority by the USAID donor, will also provide a strategic, best practice approach to building engagement, future programming capacity and an academically rigorous evidence base for TB control and prevention in the region. Following the completion of stage one, the approach will allow for a rapid transition to the development and implementation of synergized TB ACSM campaign’s across the region
The TB ACSM Campaigns’ demonstration project will also be evaluated for its behavioral impact. This will provide country stakeholders in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, comprehensive findings on the program’s outcomes and behavioral impact. As such, the M&E approach will provide a standardized methodology and instruments to measure knowledge attitudes and behaviors (KAB) across the region as well as providing comparisons of the programs’ behavioral impact from country to country. If this can be achieved within the Central Asia region, important to note is the significant contribution that this approach can make to the international literature on TB ACSM programming generally, as well as its potential to influence the future direction of TB ACSM control and prevention efforts globally.
3. Expected results:
4. Time Period
60 working days over 10 months, schedule to be agreed upon between the COP and Senior Technical Advisor.
5. Management Arrangements:
The Technical Advisor will report to the Regional TB Manager.
6. Timeframe:
Deliverables Duration
(Est # of days) Deadline
Stage 1: Desk review of existing ACSM strategies and other relevant material and possibly elicitation research for problem identification, stakeholder engagement, and formative research with program beneficiaries.
Stage 2 – Message development and pre-testing, and training for community based activities including treatment and community advocacy approaches.
Stage 3, Implementation - coordination of activities, supported by national, synergized message and materials dissemination.
Stage 4 – Evaluation and impact assessment
TOTAL 60
7. Key competences, technical background, and experience required:
• Minimum of five years’ experience working on ACSM activities with high level national counterparts including national media outlets;
• Ability to elaborate and implement ACSM Campaign;
• Ability to use innovative approaches.
• Understanding and use of Behavior Change Communication technique
• Demonstrated effectiveness in developing media campaigns
• Ability to effectively manage an advocacy campaign
• Demonstrates strong facilitation skills
• Capacity building and community development
• Monitoring and evaluation
f) Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) and working proficiency in at least one second UN Language (Russian desirable)
Working arrangements:
The consultant will work remotely.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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