Financing Consultant for Local Health Systems Integration
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Project Overview and Role:
USAID’s
ProtectHealth project, led by Palladium and in collaboration with other USAID
implementing partners, is supporting the Government of the Philippines (GPH) to
enhance access and financing to meet key family planning (FP), tuberculosis
(TB) and HIV/AIDS outcomes while realizing its goal of achieving universal
health care (UHC). USAID’s ProtectHealth is specifically supporting the GPH’s
implementation of the UHC Law by addressing policy and institutional
bottlenecks within the health financing system.
The
project provides technical assistance (TA) to enable the GPH to rapidly and
effectively enact reforms envisioned under the new legislation on UHC.
Specifically, USAID’s ProtectHealth helps to enable the implementation of key
reforms to sustain financing of TB, FP and HIV services, improve the
utilization of such benefits and increase financial protection by providing the
best available evidence and convening decision-makers at critical points in the
policy process.
In
addition to assisting in the development of national financing policies in
support of UHC implementation, USAID’s ProtectHealth will also provide support
to various US Government (USG)-assisted sites and other UHC Implementation
Sites (UIS) in integrating local health systems (LHS) to improve the
performance of health programs, especially TB, HIV and FP. For some sites, this
support will be provided mainly through the UHC Collaborating, Learning and
Adapting (CLA) Network, where USAID’s ProtectHealth can share experiences in
identifying and solving operational problems, monitoring and tracking
performance, and documenting best practices. During FY 2021, in up to four
highly urbanized cities (HUC), the project will have a more direct and
substantive involvement to generate lessons on various integration concerns,
especially financial integration. USAID’s ProtectHealth will work closely with
the Department of Health (DOH),
PhilHealth, Local Government Units (LGUs), Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Commission on
Audit (COA) and other USAID Implementing Partners (IPs).
With the broadening portfolio
of support being provided by the project, there is a need for expertise in addressing
local financial management concerns, especially those related to the
establishment and operation of the Special Health Fund (SHF).
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The Financing Consultant will
support the project by providing expert advice and guidance in local health
financing, especially in terms of the establishment and operation of the SHF .
The Financing Consultant
will directly report to the Technical Advisor for Health Financing and Systems
Strengthening (HFSS) and will be engaged to perform the following tasks and
functions, subject to the actual technical assistance needs at the time of
engagement:
Estimated Level of Effort: 40
days
Required Qualifications:
Please include your desired daily rate in your application. Only shortlisted applicants will be acknowledged.