Scope of work: Mid-level Analyst / Public Health Consultant

Timeframe: ASAP through September 30, 2023

Level of effort: ~15-20 days

Background: Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services to Scale (MOMENTUM) Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR) is a global U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cooperative agreement designed to strengthen quality voluntary family planning and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCH/FP/RH) service delivery and build health resilience in fragile settings. It is part of USAID’s MOMENTUM suite of awards, which ensures that investments in USAID partner countries along the humanitarian-development nexus are tailored to country contexts and foster sustainability.  

MIHR works with governments, private sector actors, and global and local multi-sectoral partners to strengthen youth, gender, and community responsiveness, reach under-served populations, and develop appropriate and sustainable MNCH/FP/RH programming. The results improve both the health and non-health-related outcomes for women, children, families, and their communities; empower women and girls; and improve interactions between populations, health, and the environment. The project reinforces evidence-based decision-making and ongoing identification of innovations to strengthen health systems in fragile settings.  

MIHR supports population, health, and environment programming in Tanzania in areas with fragile ecosystems. Globally, PHE has proven to be a successful, multi-sectoral approach to meeting the diverse needs of communities impacted by climate change and environmental fragility, which also impact livelihoods, food security, and health outcomes. MIHR has a strong community-oriented PHE effort in Tanzania that taps into non-health-related partnerships (i.e., conservation NGOs) for the implementation of an integrated approach that includes MNCH/FP/RH, conservation, and livelihoods programming. MIHR in Tanzania currently implements a set of PHE activities/programs in environmentally fragile settings throughout the country. While there is solid existing evidence on the benefits of PHE/population, environment, and development (PED) programming, there is less known about how this type of programming can contribute to strengthened resilience capacities at individual, household, and community levels and how those capacities are associated with the maintenance and improvement of health outcomes.

Activity Description: MIHR will analyze existing program data, program surveys, and health service statistics from the Tanzania PHE program to examine and document how the program has strengthened resilience and associations between program efforts, intermediates results and outcomes, such as the utilization of services and healthy household practices. The consultant will be responsible for working with the Core and Tanzania teams to prepare and analyze data and write up and interpret the results. Datasets include:

• Routine service statistics from the health management information system (HMIS), such as family planning client visits, facility-based delivery, immunization, diarrhea treatment, etc
• Community heath worker routine service and monitoring data, such as clients served, referrals, household visits, etc
• Microfinance group monitoring data on membership, finances, etc
• Other monitoring data such as trainings, first time parent (FTP) activities, etc
• Surveys of ~250 female first time parents participants at “intake” and “out-take” on demographics, FP/MNCH knowledge and practices, and participation in FTP activity & CHW interactions
• Survey of 220 members of community conservation microfinance groups (CCMG) (Demographics, CCMG role, HH economy, financial activities for group & individual; activities in CCMG, PHE & environmental messages; income generation activities; support for kids' education; other NRM activities)
• Survey of ~500 households considered “model households/Bomas” participating in project in 2020, 2022, 2023 (data on Demographics; HH WASH; ITN; FP knowledge & use; women's decisions making; Use of health facility; Enterprise' Civic participation; kids in school; Stoves; land management & tenure; natural resource reg/protect; garden; livestock mgmt.)

The table below lists the more specific tasks, deliverables and approximate timeline.

Task/Activity	Deliverables	Period	~# of days
Clean and manage (merging, of datasets, etc) ~ 8-10 existing data sets currently in Excel Conduct descriptive analyses and more complex statistical analyses (as needed) on multiple datasets	At least 6-8 clean datasets for analyses Descriptive analyses of datasets conducted for available data and presented in tables/graphics	August 25-Sept 8	~8-10 days
Assist in the triangulation and interpretation of data and results Write/assist with writing sections of technical brief and/or manuscript	Draft methods and results section written Contributions to the discussion/recommendation section Revisions of the methods and results section based on feedback	Sept 8-Sept 29	~8 days
Attend orientation on scope of work, data, analysis plan, etc. Contribute to plans and prioritization of tasks to complete analysis and write-up Participate in meetings and assist with the coordination of Tanzania and DC-based teams’ work via meetings, emails, etc	n/a	Aug 22 – Sept 29	~2 days

 

 

Desired qualifications and experience

• Master’s degree (or higher) in public health, epidemiology, demography, or similarly relevant discipline
• Experience cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing program monitoring data, service delivery statistics (health management information system-HMIS) and survey datasets
• Experience in developing charts, graphs, and other data visualizations
• Experience in statistical software, such as Stata, R, SPSS
• Experience in public health and development programming in low and middle-income countries
• Ability to write methods and results sections succinctly
• Working knowledge of Microsoft software packages: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, be proactive in completing tasks and problem solve

 

 

Please send CVs and Resumes to ptiwari@momentumihr.org by Sept 6th 11:59pm.

Date Issued: August 15, 2023 12:00 am
Due Date: September 6, 2023 11:59 pm EST

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