REQUEST FOR CONSULTANT: Act to End NTDs I East (Act I East) Program Terms of Reference for Consultancy Service on Health Financing Support to Strengthen Woreda’s Capacity on Planning and Budgeting and Resource Mobilization for NTD Program in Ethiopia
Results for Development, Ethiopia
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1 Year
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Nov 4, 2023
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Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too.
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance our mission. Diversityof ideas, identities, perspectives and backgroundsis vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other in continuously building a better R4D.
I. BackgroundNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impose a devastating human, social and economic burden on more than 1.7 billion people worldwide, predominantly in tropical and subtropical areas, who are among the most vulnerable and marginalized populations. NTDs are significant cause of morbidity, disability, and lead to death of more than 170,000 people per year. The estimated global burden attributed to NTDs is 47.9 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Over 40% of the global NTD burden is concentrated in Africa. Ethiopia is one of the world’s burdened countries with the highest NTDs burden, with more than 75 million people at risk of at least one NTD.Ethiopia has completed the implementation of two phases of NTD strategic plans in the past decade, and has made remarkable progress in the prevention, control, and elimination of NTDs in the country. Ethiopia is currently implementing the 3rd national NTD strategic plan (2021-2025) which is aligned with the country health sector transformation plan (HSTP II) and the WHO road map (2021-2030). Pillar 4 of the 3rd national NTD strategic plan aims to strengthen resource mobilization, coordination, and communication by improving the capacity of the health system to raise sufficient domestic resources for NTDs. Activities under this pillar include aligning NTD public budget allocation and financial management with woreda-based health sector annual core plans. The NTD Strategic Plan includes performance indicators and commitments for domestic resource allocation for NTD activities, and track allocations to implementation by the national, regional and woreda governments. The MoH also developed the NTD sustainability plan (2021-2025) which advocates for domestic resource mobilization efforts through inclusion of NTDs into exempted health service and health insurance benefit packages.
As a key NTD partner in Ethiopia, USAID’s Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases | East (Act | East) program (2018-2026) supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) in reaching the NTD control and elimination goals through proven, cost-effective public health interventions. Results for Development (R4D), as one of the Act I East consortium partners, provides technical assistance to strengthens local capacity for NTD program financing, planning, budgeting, and budget execution so that NTD programs develop capacity and systems toward sustainable domestic financing and sustainable NTD response and services. In Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia, the program works with ministries of health and other relevant stakeholders such as ministries of finance and budget decision makers to identify potential options for sustainable financing of NTD program activities in line with broader health financing strategies for domestic resource mobilization (DRM), Primary Health Care (PHC) and/or Universal Health Coverage (UHC). As such, Act | East supports government institutions at the national and sub-national levels to assume greater programmatic and financial responsibility for their NTDs response.
In 2020, Act I East provided technical support to the national NTD control program to develop the NTD program sustainability plan and the costing and development of the 3rd NTD strategic plan. In FY22 and FY23, R4D conducted an NTD financing assessment at Federal Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Finance (MoF), Oromia Regional (Health
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance our mission. Diversityof ideas, identities, perspectives and backgroundsis vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other in continuously building a better R4D.
I. BackgroundNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impose a devastating human, social and economic burden on more than 1.7 billion people worldwide, predominantly in tropical and subtropical areas, who are among the most vulnerable and marginalized populations. NTDs are significant cause of morbidity, disability, and lead to death of more than 170,000 people per year. The estimated global burden attributed to NTDs is 47.9 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Over 40% of the global NTD burden is concentrated in Africa. Ethiopia is one of the world’s burdened countries with the highest NTDs burden, with more than 75 million people at risk of at least one NTD.Ethiopia has completed the implementation of two phases of NTD strategic plans in the past decade, and has made remarkable progress in the prevention, control, and elimination of NTDs in the country. Ethiopia is currently implementing the 3rd national NTD strategic plan (2021-2025) which is aligned with the country health sector transformation plan (HSTP II) and the WHO road map (2021-2030). Pillar 4 of the 3rd national NTD strategic plan aims to strengthen resource mobilization, coordination, and communication by improving the capacity of the health system to raise sufficient domestic resources for NTDs. Activities under this pillar include aligning NTD public budget allocation and financial management with woreda-based health sector annual core plans. The NTD Strategic Plan includes performance indicators and commitments for domestic resource allocation for NTD activities, and track allocations to implementation by the national, regional and woreda governments. The MoH also developed the NTD sustainability plan (2021-2025) which advocates for domestic resource mobilization efforts through inclusion of NTDs into exempted health service and health insurance benefit packages.
As a key NTD partner in Ethiopia, USAID’s Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases | East (Act | East) program (2018-2026) supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) in reaching the NTD control and elimination goals through proven, cost-effective public health interventions. Results for Development (R4D), as one of the Act I East consortium partners, provides technical assistance to strengthens local capacity for NTD program financing, planning, budgeting, and budget execution so that NTD programs develop capacity and systems toward sustainable domestic financing and sustainable NTD response and services. In Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia, the program works with ministries of health and other relevant stakeholders such as ministries of finance and budget decision makers to identify potential options for sustainable financing of NTD program activities in line with broader health financing strategies for domestic resource mobilization (DRM), Primary Health Care (PHC) and/or Universal Health Coverage (UHC). As such, Act | East supports government institutions at the national and sub-national levels to assume greater programmatic and financial responsibility for their NTDs response.
In 2020, Act I East provided technical support to the national NTD control program to develop the NTD program sustainability plan and the costing and development of the 3rd NTD strategic plan. In FY22 and FY23, R4D conducted an NTD financing assessment at Federal Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Finance (MoF), Oromia Regional (Health
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