Short term Consultant on Health Financing

#VN005: Short term consultant on health financing

Background:

WHO has recently developed a Health Financing Progress Matrix, which is a tool to help countries to better monitor progress of their health financing systems. The progress matrix consists of the health financing functions and other major components of the health financing system which may influence UHC intermediate objectives and goals (please see details of the progress matrix with this link: https://www.who.int/health_financing/events/strengthening-health-systems... [1]). Application of the progress matrix aims to assess the development of the country’s health financing system and help identify potential areas for intervention to improve health financing policy and its implementation.

The health financing progress matrices build on the WHO health system framework for UHC  with the final UHC goals as part of the SDG agenda.  The progress matrices now form the standard approach by WHO to assess country level progress in health financing policy and supplement the quantitative SDG indicators 3.8.1 and 3.8.2. As Viet Nam undergoes major health sector and health financing reforms, completion of the progress matrix serves as a baseline assessment to then monitor further developments over time.

Work to be performed

Output/s

Under the overall supervision of UHC-HLE Team Leader, the consultant will work directly with relevant government stakeholders on the following outputs:

• Output 1: Effective support provided to complete Step 1 of the Health Financing Progress Matrix Is
  
  • Deliverable 1 – Summary overview of health financing situation in Viet Nam (by 8 May 2020)

• Output 2: Effective support to complete Step 2 of the Health Financing Progress Matrix
  
  • Deliverable 2 – Completed draft of the Health Financing Progress Matrix for review and feedback with support to organizing the consultation process with relevant government partners and other stakeholders (by 5  June 2020)
  • Deliverable 3 – Final completed Health Financing Progress Matrix (by 12 June 2020)

Planned timelines (subject to confirmation)

• Start date: 20 April 2020
• End date:  12 June 2020

The consultancy contract is for 20 days (5 days for Step 1 and 15 days for Step 2).

Required documents for application:

• Resume
• Educational certificates

Terms of reference [2]

Address for Applications:
Administrative Officer
World Health Organization
UN Building, 304 Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Or by email at: [email protected] [3]

Application deadline: 10 April 2020