Consultant: International Team Leader for Evaluation of the USAID/Bangladesh (MISHD) Health ...

Position Description

EnCompass LLC is seeking an international Consultant to serve as Team Leader for the Evaluation of the USAID Bangladesh Health Activity. 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 conduct the evaluation and lead a team of local subject matter specialists, EnCompass LLC seeks an international Team Leader with an advanced degree in Public Health, Global Marketing, Business Administration, Social Marketing, Development and Economics, or related field.

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:

a/ Increasing adoption of healthy practices

b/ Improving nutrition services (eg. micronutrient supplements for mothers, children and adolescents, growth monitoring for children etc.).

c/ Improving maternal and child health services (e.g. antenatal and postnatal care services)

d/ Improving family planning services

2. What can be done differently to intensify interventions that are equitable and adaptive?

3. 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?

4. 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 servi