Individual Consultant for the Final Evaluation of the Project "Moving Maternal Newborn and Child Health Evidence into Policy in West Africa (MEP)” at West African Health Organization (WAHO)

Reference N°N° MEP/TEND/AMI/2020/05/bk
Location: West Africa
Slot: 2 Openings

Introduction

• The West African Health Organisation (WAILO), a specialized Institution of ECO WAS, has received grants from the international Development Research Centre (IDRC) for the implementation of the ‘Moving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Evidence into Policy in West Africa” (MP) and intends to use part of this giant to make payments under the following contract: “Recruitment of two (2) individual consultants for the final evaluation of the project "Moving maternal newborn and child health evidence into policy in West Africa (MEP)”.
• The study will be divided into two zones: Francophone zone composed of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal and Anglophone zone composed of Ghana and Nigeria.

Mission Objective

• The general objective of the evaluation is to study the realization of the role of the Health Policy and Research Organisation of the West African Health Organisation as defined in the IMCHA initiative.

Services to be provided by consultants:

• Analyse the contribution of WAHO to the ownership of Innovating for maternal and child health in Africa (IMCUA) funded projects and their results by the authorities of the implementing countries;
• Identify the capacity building and mutual learning that WAHO has provided to the research teams and document their contributions to the Implementation and dissemination of project results;
• Determine WAHO’s contribution to facilitating knowledge transfer to improve the use of research findings to influence policy in countries.

Duration of the mission:

• This evaluation will be carried out over a period of two (2) months with a maximum intervention time of 22 working day far each of the consultants.

Consultant Profile
The assignment will be carried out by two individual consultants with the following qualifications:

• Hold at least one postgraduate degree (Master's or Doctorate) in Public Health or Social Sciences;
• Have at least 10 years’ experience in public health issues, MNCH in sub-Saharan Africa;
• Have conducted at least three (3) health projects or programme evaluation missions.
• Have developed and published at least one article on the results of a project evaluation;
• Have a good knowledge of French or English speaking countries of West Africa.