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UNICEF contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria with a mandate to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF’s Nigeria country programme: Aims to accelerate the realization of the rights of all c...
Job Number: 511870
Locations:Taraba & Jigawa
Work Type: Consultancy
Background
Nigeria represents less than 1% of the world's population, yet accounts for 10% of the global burden of infant, child and maternal mortality. Under 5 mortality in the North Zone of Nigeria is very high, with 43 per 1000 live births (LBs) in North central, 33/1000 LBS in the North East and 45/1000 LBS in the North West (MIC 2016).To reduce the childhood illnesses and death from vaccine preventable diseases and strengthen Routine Immunization and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health care in Jigawa and Taraba States, in 2014 the State Governments, Canadian Government and UNICEF went into partnership to address this.
Polio eradication is a corporate priority for UNICEF globally. Nigeria is one of the three remaining countries where polio is still endemic and UNICEF has committed itself in front of partners, donors, and national governments to continue the work on polio eradication until the goal is reached. With the declaration of polio as a public health emergency, UNICEF Nigeria is intensifying its efforts to ensure polio is stopped for good. As part of the ongoing efforts to stop polio, UNICEF and other partners are implementing a project in high risk polio LGAs with particular focus on underserved and hard to reach populations
The project will not only deliver polio vaccines, but expand access to basic primary health care by supporting integrated primary health care mobile outreach activities in about 4,000 hardtoreach settlements in 6 States – Kaduna, Katsina, Niger, Zamfara, Taraba and Jigawa States. In order to achieve this, UNICEF will a) hire, train, equip, supervise and monitor mobile health teams who will deliver integrated primary health care services to these settlements settlements in Niger, Jigawa, Zamfara, Taraba, Kaduna and Katsina States; and b) procure, deliver and track health commodities that form an integrated package of basic primary health care services for hardtoreach settlements in the 6 States. C) link the HTR to Main Primary Health Care Centers  d) Support the Implementation of Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) in hard to reach settlements
The project will rapidly raise poliovirus immunity and help stop poliovirus transmission in Nigeria, while increasing coverage of basic maternal, newborn and child primary health care interventions in the hardtoreach communities. Baseline and end line assessments, with an endofproject evaluation, will show the costbenefits of using a mobileoutreach strategy to provide basic primary health care services to hardto reach communities. The project management and reporting will be embedded in the national and state polio Emergency Operations Centres. All the above are successfully ongoing.
Specific Objectives
Under the direct supervision of the Technical officer in Abuja together with the health specialist in Bauchi field office; to work with the State Primary Health Care Development Agency; Emergency Operation Center (EOC), and other partners:
Major Tasks to be Accomplished
End Product: (e.g. final report, article, document etc):
Minimum Qualifications
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