BACKGROUND
The IRC, in a project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is implementing a Community Case Management (CCM) project with the goal of reducing under-five mortality. CCM, an essential part of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), focuses on malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia, the most prevalent deadly childhood diseases, and is a strategy by which sick children under five years of age are treated at the community level by community-based distributors (CBDs). The project started in December 2005 in Panyijar County of Unity State and in September 2007 in Aweil East County of Northern Bahr el Gazal State, but in October 2009 the project received substantial funding from the Global Fund, through Population Services International (PSI) for a large scale up of activities.
The CBDs have been trained by adapting WHO guidelines on IMCI to the South Sudan context. The process was led by IRC field staff, as programmatic experience was gathered, and the training manual was adopted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in 2007, however, the training manual should consider the latest WHO guidelines from April 2009 on community IMCI, and could benefit from incorporating adult learning methodologies and be more oriented to low-literacy providers. Many NGOs are using the MoH-adopted training manual, or variations of it, and about 8000 CBDs in the country have already received training. In the light of the level of CCM scale up the IRC anticipates in the coming year, there is a critical need to update the training manual, so that all CCM implementing actors in South Sudan use a more standardized and efficient process of knowledge transfer and skill acquisition.
SCOPE OF WORK
To review and update the current training manual for CBDs and prepare a training manual for trainers of CBDs in consultation with the CCM team, CCM partners, and the Ministry of Health. This will require updating, field testing and then revising the training manuals as appropriate.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Update the MoH-adopted training manual for CBDs. The consultant will assist one cycle of training of seven days and identify, in close consultation with the County Health Department, CCM Coordinator, CCM Managers and the CCM Officers all needed improvements in the trainer’s guide to increase acquisition of competency skills by CBDs. The updated training manual will go through a second round of testing, after which, further improvements will be identified and incorporated. The final product will be an easy to use guide for trainers of CBDs, tested to obtain high success rate in CBDs’ acquisition of skills, adapted to the trainers and participants capacity, and based on the latest WHO guidelines for community IMCI. • Develop a training manual for CBD trainers. There is no manual for trainers of CBDs. The consultant will develop a training manual for CBD trainers and will field test it at least once.
DELIVERABLES
• A general training curriculum for CBDs. • A working draft of a training manual for CBDs with a proposed set of handouts and job aids to be further developed by an illustration company. • A manual for CBD trainers. REQUIREMENTS
A health OR curriculum development professional with experience in development of instructional materials for low to no literacy health providers.
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