Assessment and M&E for quality improvement of the project “Improving the Quality of Hospital Care to Reduce Maternal, Newborn and Child Deaths and Accelerate the Achievement of the SDG Health Targets”

WORK TO BE PERFORMED

An outline protocol developed by an international consultant appointed by WHO HQ and agreed among parties. The assessment team will work in close collaboration with WHO CO, WPRO, WHO HQ and the WHO Collaborating Center for Maternal and Child Health Trieste to produce the following outputs/deliverables:

Outputs

Output 1: Contribute to the co-creation of the assessment methods, and in the preparation for data collection

• • Deliverable 1: Technical inputs provided to finalize assessment protocol, indicators and research tools, including methods for informed consent forms, and how to better align assessment indicators and the intervention components and activities (by 30 October 2022)
• • Deliverable 2: A Training guide for data collection is developed and the assessment team participates in the training and develops adequate skills on using all data collection tools (by 2 November 2022)
• • Deliverable 3: Data collection tools are translated in local language (by 10 November 2022).
• • Deliverable 4: Assessment tools are pilot tested by the assessment team (by 15 November 2022).
• • Deliverable 5: An agenda of the site visits and procedures and timelines of monitoring and evaluation are agreed (by 20 November 2022).

Output 2: Coordinate procedure for ethical clearance

• • Deliverable 6: All documents needed for ethical clearance at country level are developed, and submitted to local ethical committee together with the agreed protocol, translated as needed as for the locally requested procedures (by 25th November 2023 ).
• • Deliverable 7: Any request from the ethical committed is timely addressed and ethical clearance is obtained (by end of November 2023).

Output 3: Collect data as for the assessment methodology and the data quality assurance procedures outlined in the protocol.

A data collection team of at least 4 experts in the areas of maternal, child health and public health should be formed. A trip of three- day data collection in each of the 4 project provinces including Ha Giang, Thanh Hoa, Dak Lak and Soc Trang is expected for each assessment.

• • Deliverable 8: the indicators are collected according to the given methodology including regulations on data privacy and protection, at 3 regular intervals after the baseline, and data are circulated in a timely manner in the predefined template to WHO CO and other experts involved in the assessment, as indicated by WHO CO, for external supervision (by end of September 2023).
  • All sessions of online monitoring and evaluation are regularly attended, responses to queries related to monitoring and evaluation are timely provided (by end of September 2023).
  • Meetings with intervention sites are conducted at the end of each assessment for providing timely recommendations for improvement

Output 4: Analyse data and produce written reports

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

Essential:

The assessment team from an academic organization should cover the following area of expertise:

• • Maternal health
• • Newborn and child health
• • Public health- epidemiology and research major is preferable

Required education for the assessment team is having Postgraduate degrees in relevant areas including maternal health, child and newborn health; and public health;

Experiences

Essential:

• • The assessment team is expected to have at least 10 years experiences in maternal and child health, and in public health including data collection, data analysis, writing report, M&E in maternal and child health area
• • Knowledge of WHO Standards of care in maternal health, child and newborn health
• • Knowledge of principles of good practices in research (privacy, data management)

Desirable:

• • Working experiences in health sector and with international agencies/UN partners is desirable.
• • Working experiences in research in the field of quality of care
• • Working experiences in national and international publication in medicine and/or public health

Technical skills and knowledge:

• • Knowledge and basic skills in planning, monitoring and evaluation of public health interventions and in the development of locally adapted tools and instruments.
• • Ability to interact with health and other professionals at various levels and to work with government officials and nongovernmental organizations.