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Qualifications

Purpose of consultancy  

The purpose of the consultancy is to update malaria risk area micro-stratification guideline & foci investigation form for Myanmar; provide trainings to the malaria staff from National Malaria Control Programme on  malaria elimination acceleration activities based on standard operating procedures; monitoring management of malaria field operations; and assess the effectiveness of training through monitoring the acceleration activities during implementation

Background  

WHO supports National Malaria Control Programme in developing national strategies, policies, guidelines, and provides technical support on capacity building, and implementation of control and elimination activities, monitoring and evaluation. Myanmar has significantly declined malaria morbidity and mortality during recent decade. The cases increased by 64% in 2022 compared to 2021 (79,001,2021; and 129,614, 2022, respectively). External Programme Review of National Malaria Control Programme conducted in 2022 recommended to revise the timeline but suggested for elimination by intensifying the activities. During 2022, international and national consultants from WHO developed the intensification and acceleration strategies by village under different transmission intensity to accelerate malaria elimination. These strategies are based on malaria risk area microstratification of village. NMCP had developed the microstratification guidelines in 2018 based on API and this needs to be updated in the current context of elimination. The consultant will revise microstratification guideline and TOT to central and state/region malaria cadres and partners in national and subnational levels and finally revise the SOPs as necessary. The consultant will access the effectiveness of training through monitoring of acceleration activities and recommend to revise the strategies. These strategies will expand throughout the country in coming years to achieve the elimination targets of Pf by 2026 and all malaria species by 2030. He/She will work closely with Malaria Programme and WHO Myanmar

Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Updated malaria risk area microstratification guideline in Myanmar and foci investigation form – expected by the end of October 2023

Deliverable 2: Facilitate training of trainers’ at central level and S/R on field implementation of malaria elimination acceleration strategies- expected by end of December 2023

Deliverable 3: Monitor and evaluate the  implementation acceleration/elimination activities in the field and provide the feedback to improve the strategies- expected by mid December 2023

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications: 

Essential: At least Master degree related with Public health or health care administration

Experience  

Essential: At least 20 years’ experience in Malaria control and elimination and experience at programme manager level

Desirable: Experience on management of disease control programmes

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential: Demonstrable skill and experience in national level training on malaria control and elimination and writing technical reports

Languages and level required (Basic/Intermediate/Expert):

Essential: Expert knowledge of Myanmar and English

Location

Off site: Yangon, Myanmar

Travel

There might be travel (to Naypyitaw and some State/Region) for trainings/meetings with the arrangement of WHO.

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

• Remuneration: Daily rate of USD 219 per day  for 30 days at National Consultant Pay Band Level NO-C 
• Expected duration of contract (Maximum contract duration is 11 months per calendar year): 30 days within 1 October 2023 to 15 December 2023 

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