1. Overview of project: Learning and Monitoring Programme – Somalia
The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is funding the Learning and Monitoring Programme in Somalia (LAMPS). LAMPS provides expertise for DFID to monitor and improve its programming, providing credible data for effective decision-making and to articulate best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations from across DFID Somalia’s portfolio. LAMPS will provide third-party monitoring and M&E technical assistance services to DFID implementing partners, in addition to developing a digital platform and a learning framework for DFID-Somalia.
2. General scope of work
The Health Sector Monitoring Expert will provide short-term technical assistance to the Third Party Monitoring (TPM) subcomponent of the DFID-funded LAMPS. He/she should be familiar with international standards for monitoring health development interventions, as well as the methodologies used to collect and analyse such data. The Expert will be expected to review all donor and partner-related documentation for DFID health programming in Somalia (i.e. Somalia Health and Nutrition Programme). Working closely with the LAMPS TPM Lead, the Expert will be expected to provide practical technical guidance and inputs to develop and finalise a health-specific verification tool(s) and accompanying implementation protocol(s). This tool, or set of tools, should focus on and capture data around the most common technical areas of health interventions, such as the Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS), vaccination campaigns, or demand creation campaigns. Finally, the Health Monitoring Expert will design a training (inclusive of training materials) and lead a Training of Trainers (TOTs), which will cascade down to LAMPS monitors based in Somalia.
3. Responsibilities and activities
· Review all donor and partner documentation (e.g. Business Case, Contract or Administrative Agreements, Proposals, Workplans, Approach papers or concept notes, M&E documents, etc.) for all DFID health programming in Somalia.
· Meet with the DFID Advisors and key staff of the implementing partners (or consortium management units) and receive briefings on programme priorities, planning, challenges, and life cycle of programme and components, as well as supply chain and partner-specific scopes of work.
· Liaise with LAMPS TPM team to become familiar with LAMPS TPM strategy, approach, methodologies and tools, as well as the TPM Analytical Framework and Activity Performance Index (API).
· Working in close coordination with the TPM Lead, develop: DFID Health verification tool(s), accompanying implementation protocol tools, and guidance on data analysis and judgments.
· Validate these tools and approach with relevant DFID staff and key implementing partner staff, revise as required. · Design and conduct a TOT on Health verification tools and protocols for TPM team members (i.e. Senior Monitors).
4. Expected outputs and deliverables
· One or more Health-specific verification tools and accompanying implementation and analysis protocols
· A training design and materials on these tools and protocols · A completed TOT on the implementation of these verification tools and insights into potential findings from data analysis
5. Reporting
Although the Health Expert will work closely with the TPM Lead and his team, the Expert’s LOE and deliverables will be managed and quality assured by the LAMPS Team Lead.
6. Estimated days
Between now and 30 April 2017
Approximately 20-22 days of Level of Effort (LOE)
