The RBM Partnership to End Malaria
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of disease and progressing towards malaria elimination. Since 2000, global malaria deaths have been cut by more than half, saving 7 million lives, primarily among children less than five years of age. Expansions in financing, strong political commitments, novel diagnostic and preventative measures, and multi-sectoral co-ordination have facilitated this progress. Since 1998, RBM Partnership to End Malaria has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing resources and scaling up innovative interventions, putting the world onto a path towards eliminating malaria. The Partnership comprises more than 500 partners committed to end malaria, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions.
The RBM Partnership's Vision is of a world free from the burden of malaria. The RBM Partnership is based in Geneva and hosted by UNOPS.
The RBM Partnership is a global health initiative created to implement coordinated action against malaria. It mobilizes for action and resources and forges consensus among partners. RBM works mainly through Partner Committees (PCs) which formalize, consolidate and amplify the Partnership priorities of advocacy, resource mobilization, and country/regional support. Each Partner Committee is supported by a Partner Committee Manager employed by the RBM Management Team.
The Country/Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC) provides a platform to engage the RBM Partnership community in coordinating support to countries and regions as they execute their malaria control and elimination implementation programmes. Support is tailored to suit the requirements and existing capacity in each country and region.
The consultant shall work for the RBM Country/Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC) to provide technical support to national malaria control programmes in costing different plans and proposals including the national Malaria Strategic Plans, Global Fund funding requests and other proposals for resource mobilization.
The Costing Senior Specialist shall work for the RBM CRSPC to facilitate and support countries in costing different plans and proposals including the national Malaria Strategic Plans, Global Fund funding requests and other proposals for resource mobilization. Costing of plans is a complex matter and requires senior and experienced consultants, able to command the respect of senior government officials and partners.
The Costing Senior Specialist will be expected to visit the country as necessary during the support period. The position is homebased with significant duty travel required.
Assignments could include (but are not limited to) the following, and could be for a particular intervention area or across interventions:
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Conduct a desk review of existing data sources that will inform the costing of the malaria National Strategic Plans (NSP) and or Global fund funding request. This includes reviewing epidemiological and programmatic data, service unit costs, expenditure data, existing budgets and existing commitments, or any other available data that will be required to inform the NSP costing. At this stage data gaps will be clearly identified.
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Work with national stakeholders and technical counterparts to define the most appropriate method and data source to inform an efficient resource allocation. The consultant will facilitate a discussion to identify the most appropriate methodology and tools to be used for the malaria NSP and funding request costing. The method should ensure that the costing is integrated in the different steps of the NSP and or funding request elaboration. It should complement impact modeling exercises and sub-national tailoring exercises and inform scenarios to identify the most efficient allocation of available resources and target setting.
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Lead and/or support the costing of the NSP and funding requests with the following considerations:
- applying the most reliable unit cost or input price data including a reliable future projections, including potential efficiency gains or other assumptions
- providing clear understanding what is the additional resources needed to scale up services as compared with the status quo (i.e. current program)
- Documenting effort made to ensure NSPs are costed in way that it presents strong allocative and technical efficiency at program and system levels should be clearly documented with supporting evidence
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Participate in a national validation session to go through all cost assumptions and results with national stakeholders and finalize the cost projections.
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Lead high-level discussions with senior management, partner representatives and other key stakeholders to broker consensus
Monitoring and Progress Controls
Key Deliverables:
- Costed malaria National Strategic Plans or
- Costed funding requests or
- Costed proposals for resource mobilization
- End of mission reports analyzing support provided including recommendations for improving future support to countries.
How to apply
The position is open for qualified English or French fluent applicants.
- For English fluent applicants, please visit : https://jobs.unops.org/Pages/ViewVacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=25709#1
- For French fluent applicants, please visit : https://jobs.unops.org/Pages/ViewVacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=25739#1
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