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Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.
Project Overview and Role
Palladium develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Since 1971, we have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing, and evaluating programs in HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender. Palladium has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.
Project Profile
Palladium has recently been awarded a cooperative agreement to implement the USAID County Measurement, Learning and Accountability Program (CMLAP) in Kenya. The purpose of this activity is to support ongoing activities by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development and decision making. This activity will focus its support in the following HIV, malaria and MNCH focal counties of Homabay, Migori, Kisii, Kakamega, Busia, Vihiga, Bungoma, and Kisumu.
The Palladium led CMLAP team includes Plan International and the Kenyan School of Government. Together we bring a deep knowledge of the country context?in particular, experience working on strengthening HIS in devolved counties. We have a collective track record in governance, health M&E and data systems, ICT and analytics, data demand and use, and capacity building strategies at all levels of the health system. Team partners are currently working in 7 of the 8 focus counties which favors a rapid start-up. Through our existing projects, the partners have established collaborative working relationships with local nongovernmental, community-based, and faith-based organizations (NGO/CBO/FBO) and the County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) that will facilitate work planning and the achievement of project results.
The Project Has Two Sub-purposes
A 26-person team has been recruited to work in Kisumu to achieve the project results. The team is led by a Chief of Party also based in Kisumu. Palladium staff in Nairobi and our international offices will provide routine technical and administrative support and assistance.
Position Summary
The Senior RMNCAH Specialist will be responsible for providing thought leadership and technical guidance on RMNCAH programming within the county Measurement Learning and Accountability project now Tupime Kaunti for sub purposes 1 and 2 (See above). S/he will provide TA to strengthen the M&E systems for reproductive health in Kenya working through the C/SHMT, the county RH coordinators, stakeholders including other United States Government (USG) entities working in RMNCAH programming in the 8 CMLAP counties to strengthen coordination, integration of approaches and coverage, quality and use of reproductive health information
S/he should be skilled in using the DHIS2 data system, mining data from the various data systems; at the county level, to analyze RMNCAH data into information for evidence-informed programming. S/he will work closely with the M&E Advisor as well as the Senior Data Systems Specialist and Senior DDU and Learning Specialist to support RMNCAH outcome measurement activities and ensure that data analyses support information needed by CHMTs to answer key family health questions and support decision making, and for quality improvement.
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