Background

In Ethiopia, FMOH has recognized the role of routine health information in advancing national efforts to deliver quality healthcare to all populations across every region of the country. The HSTPI and Information Revolution Roadmap provides a foundation and practical steps for improving the use of evidence and realizing the government’s vision for universal health care for its people. The Information Revolution calls for the establishment of an “information culture” as the ultimate driver of the use of information for decision-making. Under an information culture, information is valued at all levels by senior managers as well as care providers and communities for improving health outcomes. Despite the extensive investment in the national health information system (HIS), Ethiopia still faces various HIS challenges in the structure, management capacity and performance of the HIS in Ethiopia. 

PPMED, the directorate at FMOH who is responsible for Routine Health Information system and planning is in require technical support  who can implement conduct analysis of the data and avail timely coverage and service information for decision making, coordinate the implementation of Health Informa Systems Strategic plan including Birth and death notifications.   

Hence, UNICEF would like to hire technical assistance at the capacity Health Information System (HIS)-National consultant seconded at Federal Ministry of Health, Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate. 

Justification:

In line with FMOH Information revolution agenda and UNICEF Global HSS strategy, Ethiopia CO health strategy has prioritized, under its HSS output, strengthening health information use as a key strategic intervention to improve health of  mothers and children through evidence based planning and decision making This is clearly reflected in the current (2016-020) and upcoming country program cycle (2020-24). Currently, As ECO is expanding its engagement to support FMOH-PPMED/HITD in the scale up of UNICEF led data use applications such as Scorecard, Bottleneck Analysis and Action Tracker, the need for additional temporary technical support becomes critical.

Moreover, efforts are underway to ensure continuity of essential services is maintained throughout COVID-19 pandemic and the health systems creates an equitable access to essential service delivery throughout the emergency period. One of the indications is the development of implementation guide for RMNCHAH-N services provide direction on the need of timely data for decision making on maintain essential curative, preventive, promotive services and adherence to the guiding principles in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia. For this to be realized, strengthening regular and high frequency monitoring and analytics critical.

In addition, UNICEF is a pioneering partner to the government to the strengthening of linkage of Health information system and CVRS i.e. UNICEF has played key role in institutionalization of CRVS in the country and demonstrated the interoperability of MNCH services and HIS with CRVS as one of the best and effective  approaches to promote it. Therefore, the gains need to be sustained and further expanded together with Ministry of Health plans and priorities on HIS.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the oversight and supervision of the section health specialist (PM); he/ she will  support the full implementation of Health Information Systems Strategic Plan particularly the Strategic Direction in;

• Improve culture of information use 
• Provide high quality technical capacity building to MNCH directorate and FMOH and lower levels on enhanced data analysis and visualization to track key Maternal, New-born and Child Health intervention including monitoring including the impact of COVID-19 on the essential services 
• Support the full scale up and implementation of Child health and Nutrition module of Electronic Community Based Health Information System (e-CHIS) to regions
• Strengthen CVRS particularly Birth and death registration through institutionalizing effective events (Birth and death) notification system. 
• Due to the nature of the work, the consultant will be spent eighty percent of his time at FMOH but will be under regular oversight of the Health specialist (PM) 

Qualified and interested applicants who fulfil the above requirements can apply by clicking on the apply now tab on top of the page.