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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world’s most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. Since the Global Fund was founded in 2002, it has changed the way the world is working to defeat the three diseases. The Global Fund has supported large scale prevention, treatment and care programmes against the three diseases. The Global Fund attracts, manages and disburses resources in a public-private partnership that will make sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of mortality and morbidity caused by the three major diseases and contributing to the achievement of millennium development goals. To date, 3 million people are receiving antiretroviral treatment, 7.7 million new cases of infectious tuberculosis detected and treated, and 160 million insecticide-treated nets were distributed to protect families from transmission. UNDP is a key partner to the Global Fund and is the UN Agency assuming the role of Principal Recipient (PR) of Global Fund grants in South Sudan. As PR for the Global Fund grants, assisting the country to meet its main goals in reducing mortality and morbidity from HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNDP South Sudan is responsible for the financial and programmatic management of the Global Fund grants as well as for the procurement of health and non health products. In all areas of implementation, it provides capacity development services to relevant national institutions, Sub-Recipients (SRs) and implementing partners. Currently, UNDP as PR bears full responsibility for the operational and financial management of six grants: Round 2 Malaria, Round 2 Tuberculosis, Round 7 Tuberculosis, Round 4 HIV/AIDS, Round 5 TB/HIV, and Round 9 HSS. UNDP South Sudan is currently managing the Global Fund funded portfolio of USD124,214,079 for all six grants. UNDP South Sudan is therefore planning to recruit two (2) Clinical Mentors to support the ART services across South Sudan. The ART services have been established through the Global Fund Round 4 HIV/AIDS and Round 5 TB/HIV grants. The Round 4 HIV/AIDS grant aims to strengthen a coordinated South Sudan response to HIV/AIDS by building capacity at the GoSS, State and County levels, and supporting the scale up of comprehensive HIV/AIDS services (BCC/IEC, programmes for specific groups, VCT, ART, OIs, PMTCT, STIs case management, Blood Safety and Universal Precautions, and Surveillance). The project started on 1 August 2006 and will end on 31 July 2011. The Round 5 TB/HIV grant aims at establishing mechanisms for collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programmes, decreasing the burden of TB in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and decreasing the burden of HIV/AIDS in TB patients. The key components of the project include the establishment of TB/HIV joint Technical Coordinating Units in the MoH-GoSS, organize national level TB/HIV planning meetings to review and evaluate progress, establish an Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) Unit, monitoring and evaluation of collaborative TB/HIV activities, increased TB case findings among PLWHA, provision of treatment for latent TB infection for HIV positive patients, and the provision of infection control services in health care settings and or congregate settings. The project started on 1 October 2006 and shall end on 30 September 2011.
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Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Ministry of Health Directorate for Community and Public Health, HIV/AIDS/STIs Unit and National TB Programme, WHO, UNDP TB/HIV Project Manager and M&E Specialist, the Clinical Mentors will provide direct technical support to national, state, county, and health facilities within South Sudan. The consultants will work closely with all partners working in HIV/AIDS South Sudan. They will be posted to field sites across the 10 States of South Sudan for specific periods of time and are expected to collaborate positively with partners in the field, government counterparts, local associations of People Living with HIV/AIDS and local communities. Specifically, he/she will:
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Application Procedure: Marked with: “Proposal for Clinical Mentors for HIV and TB/HIV”. Your package should contain two envelopes: one marked “Technical Proposal” and containing your PII and CV as described below in Section 4 and second envelop your “Financial Proposal”. Any request for clarification on TORs must be sent in writing by email to the Project Manager on Karin.nasheya@undp.org. She will respond in writing by email and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants. DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS. Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications: 1. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references 2. A complete Personal History Form (P11), which can be downloaded from the following link; http://sas.undp.org/documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc FINANCIAL PROPOSAL
Contracts based on daily fee - Payments shall be made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked at the agreed daily fee. The financial proposal should specify the daily fee, which includes all other costs like airfare, per diems, etc. For evaluation purpose, the financial offer should provide breakdown of all costs. While preparing your proposal, kindly note that the standard for air travel authorized by UNDP for individual subscribers is economy class. All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the methodology: Lowest price and technically compliant offer. The award of a contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as both:
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% of required total points under technical evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Criteria A : Relevant educational background Criteria B : Practical experience relevant to the announced TOR Criteria C : A solid experience in managing clinical mentorship in remote/rural settings with low professional capacity or in a post conflict environment | |
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
Clinical Mentors for HIV and TB/HIV – International Consultancies
Clinical Mentors for HIV and TB/HIV – International Consultancies
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