Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger
Closing date: 20 Jul 2018
UNHCR aims to enable refugees to maximise their health status by supporting them in having equal access to quality primary, emergency and referral health services as nationals. The different settings of UNHCR’s operation however pose challenges due to the wide variety of health care systems, financing of health care and the disease patterns and burdens, in each region, country and even sub-region within a country.
Neonatal deaths, defined as any death that occurs in the first 28 days of life, currently account for approximately 44 percent of all deaths of children under five years of age in low- and middle- income countries. Approximately three-quarters of these deaths are early neonatal deaths that occur during the first week of life, including 36 percent that occur within the first 24 hours after birth.
As part of UNHCR’s efforts to develop strategies to improve newborn health and health services, a maternal, new-born and family planning services baseline assessment has been undertaken in Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
The baseline assessment has established targeted interventions necessary to save maternal and newborn lives in refugee settings. The primary output is rolling out the establishment of a comprehensive maternal and newborn care package in line with UNHCR operational guidance on improving newborn and maternal care in refugee settings. Furthermore, the assessment has also identified a package of training aiming to build up technical capacities of delivery and newborn health care service providers, as well as to improve home visits from the Community Health Workers to promote the health, growth and development of infants.
To this regard, UNHCR plans to conduct training courses to improve the technical capacity of health delivery and newborn care providers, to enable them to manage women with various pregnancy-related risks and complications at different levels of service provision and to manage routine and emergency situations in childbirth and postnatal period.
In addition, Community Health Workers and/or Safe motherhood promoters need to strengthen their capacity to provide home visits for antenatal women and newborns, using a structured program of training, home visit content, and coordination with health facilities, which will be delivered by the health partner reinforcing the community approach.
These training will be conducted in the targeted refugee settings in the three UNHCR country operations.
Based on the maternal and newborn health care assessment, a training course should be designed and delivered in each country, with the aim of strengthening the capacity of the delivery and newborn health care providers to improve maternal and newborn care services and increase the effectiveness of their activities.
The overall goal of training health care providers is to contribute to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. The purpose is to improve best practices and quality health service delivery in Emergency Obstetric Care, maternal and Essential New-born health Care.
Deliverables
a. Training course delivered in refugee settings in Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
b. Training material developed in French
c. Training report 10 pages, in French, and an electronic copy
How to apply:
Applicants, please send CV in P11 format and cover letter to hqphn@unhcr**.**org Marked “Consultancy Training on EmOC and ENC”.
For full terms of reference please contact hqphn@unhcr**.**org.