Consultant MNCH-FP-N Technical Expert (Local) for Evaluation of USAID/Bangladesh Health Activity

Position Description

EnCompass LLC is seeking a consultant to serve as the MNCH-FP-N Technical Expert (Local) for Evaluation of USAID/Bangladesh Health Activity.

Background

EnCompass is implementing the four-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bangladesh Upoma Activity, providing a range of analytical and advisory services in support of USAID’s design, performance monitoring, evaluation, and operational learning and adapting efforts. Under Upoma, EnCompass has been tasked to conduct a Performance Evaluation of the USAID-financed Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Health Development (MISHD) activity in Bangladesh.

Implemented by Social Marketing Company (SMC), MIHSD has the overall goal to contribute to sustained improvements in the health status of women, children, and families across 19 rural districts and 5 peri-urban districts in Bangladesh. Specifically, the objectives of the MISHD Activity are: (1) to expand access to public health products related to maternal and child health, family planning, reproductive health, and nutrition in Bangladesh; (2) to promote the effective use of these products and encouraging healthy behaviors through behavior change communication (BCC) efforts; (3) to enhance the ability of private sector healthcare providers to deliver proactive, high-quality services and referrals, while fostering strong partnerships to secure support from both public and private sector collaborators.

To achieve the program goal and objectives, interventions under MISHD are grouped into the following Intermediate Results for the life of the program:

• Intermediate Result 1: Increased access to affordable healthcare products and services.

• Intermediate Result 2: Increased adoption of healthy behavior and practices by families and communities.
• Intermediate Result 3: Enhanced engagement of private sector partner for delivery of quality health care/services.

To support the evaluation team as a local subject matter specialists, EnCompass LLC seeks an MNCH-FP-N Technical Expert with a master's or an advanced degree in Public Health, Evaluation, or Research.

The Learning Questions (LQs) of the evaluation are:

1. Is MISHD on track to achieve the objectives outlined in the Program Description/scope in terms of:
   1. Increasing adoption of healthy practices
   2. Improving family planning services
   3. Improving maternal and child health services (e.g. antenatal and postnatal care services)
   4. Improving nutrition services (eg. micronutrient supplements for mothers, children and adolescents, growth monitoring for children etc.).

1. What can be done differently to intensify interventions that are equitable and adaptive?
2. What are the key learnings of the social marketing approach and private sector engagement? How does USAID plan to use learnings from the current Global Development Alliance (GDA) to design a future intervention?
3. How successful were the private sector ‘Star’ Providers (Blue and Gold Star Member) in delivering MCH, FP and nutrition services and supporting program activities? How can these star providers be utilized differently to scale their service and be sustainable? What are other private sector options that USAID can tap into?
4. To what extent was MISHD able to strengthen the linkage of the ‘Star’ providers (Blue, Pink, Rose and Green) to the public health system (Sustainability)? What are the learnings and challenges faced while linking ‘Star’ providers into the public system? How can this intervention be done innovatively and differently to make it sustainable?
5. To what extent did MISHD contribute to reducing the equity gap, and to responding to sudden shocks and emergencies (flash flood, landslide, cyclones, COVID 19)?
6. How successfully did SMC optimize the funding support from USAID? What were the resource optimization strategies and efforts taken by SMC over the years? Did these efforts benefit the health system? Can the approach be replicated to gain efficiency throughout the system?

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Essential functions:

• Support Team Leader on the design and implementation of the performance evaluation.
• Provide expert analysis on MNCH-FP-N, informing the inception plan, the development of data collection tools, and the preliminary list of key respondents.
• Collect primary data such as KIIs, FGDs and surveys as instructed by Deputy Team Leader and Team Leader.
• Support the collection, analysis, and synthesis of secondary data to complement pri