UNICEF Consultant for the Assessment of the Immunization IPC manual Jobs in Ethiopia

UNICEF Consultant for the Assessment of the Immunization IPC manual Jobs in Ethiopia

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The purpose of the consultancy is to ensure the design and implementation of an assessment of the job aids, including training manuals, intended to improve the Community Health Workers’ IPC skills for Immunization in Ethiopia, with a special attention to the Immunization IPC manual (Immunization desk job aids).

By Community Health Workers are included Health Workers and Health Extension Workers. The results of the assessment will be used by health managers, decision-makers, national and international partners in the area of Immunization and the overall Health Program to guide the strategies and interventions aiming at improving the performance of frontline workers in communicating with caregivers for the ultimate purpose of better coverage of high-impact interventions and adoption of healthy behaviors by the communities.

Scope of the Assessment

The assessment will focus on the effects of IPC skills enhancement job aids – with an emphasis on the Immunization IPC manual – on Health Workers and Health Extension Workers’ performance in communicating with caregivers and the community in Ethiopia.

Regions representing main community subgroups in Ethiopia will be selected for the assessment : agrarian, pastoralist, urban poor, refugees and IDPs and people living in geographically isolated areas.

The assessment will look at job aids, including training manuals, used for CHWs’ IPC skills improvement from 2012 to date in the priority area of immunization and the overall health program as the impact of these different job aids on CHWs’ skills cannot be dissociated.

For this purpose, the consultant will mainly support the EPI program and will work very closely with the Health Extension Program and Primary Health Care Directorate, the other programs under the MNCH Directorate such as Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation and other relevant Directorates.

This assessment will complement the EPI behavioral analysis which is done in the 8 regions (2019) that will evaluate the impact of the communication activities, including the dissemination of the IPC manual, on the knowledge and attitude of the population vis-a-vis Immunization.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is expected to carry out the following: