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MSH, a global health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40 years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. We work to save lives by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Since its founding in 1971, MSH has worked in over ...
Job ID: 13-8609
Location: Abuja
Grade: I
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Reports to: Deputy Project Director
Objectives
The MSH’s LMS Program is a global five-year USAID funded Cooperative Agreement designed to develop leadership and management skills at all levels of health care organizations and programs to effectively address change and improve health outcomes in the areas of family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and maternal and child health. In Nigeria, the LMS Program is implementing the Prevention organizational systems AIDS Care and Treatment Project (LMS ProACT) which is a PEPFAR funded associate award whose goal is to build the capacity of Nigeria’s public, private and community sectors for sustainable HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, control, care and treatment. The ProACT is a follow on to the AIDS Care and treatment (ACT) project which ended in August 2009. In addition to the previous focus on AIDS Care and Treatment, ProACT also focus on Prevention and Organizational Systems Strengthening.
The ProACT project currently supports 5 state governments of Niger, Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara to operate a total of 41 comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers that have enrolled about 28,551 clients into treatment and about 13,018 on care.
Mainstreaming gender into comprehensive HIV and AIDS programming is a critical step in comprehensive HIV response in the light of socio-cultural factors within our communities of intervention. To ensure that our interventions and programs are gender sensitive and respond adequately to gender imbalances, it becomes imperative to build the capacity of MSH technical staff, health facility and community service providers in mainstreaming gender into everyday activities.
Against this background, it becomes imperative to engage two experienced consultants to interact with ProACT team to understudy existing gender activities, technical staff and other service providers capacity to effectively mainstream gender and development of ProACT gender strategy document. The consultants will conduct interview sessions with staff at CO and field offices. This exercise will hold between the 2nd and 10th of November, 2015. Based on the needs identified through this exercise, the consultants will develop and share a training proposal tailored to address the identified gaps. Each consultant will interact with staff and other service providers on separate days.
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