Consultant for PROPEL Health Kenya at Palladium International

Project Overview and Role:

• In Kenya, Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded PROPEL Health project to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH) with a lens to enable economic empowerment, positive youth development. Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• The Global fund application process is all-inclusive, transparent, and involves different stakeholders and is guided by the joint TB/HIV ICC and KCM. The KCM, through the Ministry of Health has requested for support to cost and prepare sustainability framework in support of the application process.

Scope of Work:

• PROPEL Health Kenya is seeking to recruit a consultant to support the Global fund application process. The consultant will work closely with the PROPEL Health Kenya and the MOH team. The consultant must have professional and specific experience related to costing.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Costing of the funding requests for HIV, TB, Malaria and RSSH as per the following tasks;
  • Development of cost assumptions from identified activities and interventions
  • Determination of unit costs
  • Costing of activities, interventions and modules and generation of a master costing sheet
  • Cost benefit analysis in support of prioritization
  • Guide on criteria for determining funding splits
  • Preparation of budgets
  • Allocation and PAAR detailed budgets
• Updating of the financial systems data/information on the Essential Data Table
• Population of funding landscape tables (HIV, TB, Malaria, RSSH) and description of funding landscape narratives
• Gap analysis and prioritization of interventions for financial management systems under RSSH, including domestic resource mobilization
• Preparation and gathering of reference documents in support of the costing and the funding request narrative (Innovative Financing Documentation, Co-Financing Documentation, Sustainability and Transition Supporting Documentation)

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in health economics and policy or related field is required.  
• Bachelor’s degree in economics or related field is required.
• 5yrs or more experience in costing work in a low- and middle-income country is required.
• Experience in at least 2cycles of the Global Fund application process in Africa
• Proven track record of 10yrs or more in health economics, health care financing and/or health policy analysis is required.

Evaluation Criteria:

Applications will be evaluated based on below evaluation criteria:

• Technical (50%)
  • 5yrs or more experience in costing work in a low- and middle-income country is required.
  • Experience in at least 2cycles of the Global Fund application process in Africa
  • At least 10 yrs or more in health economics, health care financing and/or health policy analysis.
• Education and Skills (30%)
  • Master’s degree in health economics and policy and related field is required is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree Economics or related field is required.
• Costs (20%)
  • Proposed daily rate or deliverable costs reasonable and realistic.