DEADLINE: 11TH FEBRUARY, 2024
GAVI ALLIANCE (GAVI)
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION FOR CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITY FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO SUPPORT NIGERIA IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME
1. Background and Introduction
Gavi Alliance’s (“Gavi”) mission is to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.
Gavi is a unique organisation that aligns public and private resources in a global effort to create greater access to the benefits of immunisation. It does this with precision and in creative, innovative ways to ensure that donor contributions efficiently save lives and help build self-sufficiency in the world’s poorest communities and regions.
For more information, please visit the Gavi website: http://www.gavi.org/about/mission
2. Background of the team and purpose of the role
Gavi Country Programmes Delivery (CPD) – Nigeria Country Team (CT) has identified the need for a temporary and embedded consultant to support the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) through the National Emergency Routine Immunization Coordination Centre (NERICC) on a set of key priorities in 2024 including; management support for zero dose reduction operational plans in 100 priority LGAs, support in the development of HPV rollout and routinisation strategies, and support for the design and implementation of survey methodologies to measure performance of routine immunisation. Gavi supports the NERICC through financial and technical mechanisms to implement strategies to strengthen routine immunisation, introduce new vaccines, and reduce the number of zero dose children.
The NERICC consultant is supposed to support NPHCDA NERICC under leadership of the Director, Disease Control and Immunisation to plan for, implement, monitor/supervise, and document prioritised activities in Nigeria. The consultant should monitor progress towards country targets for routine immunisation and zero dose children and advise NPHCDA and partners on related technical and programmatic components to improve performance.
3. Description of Services:
The consultant will be embedded within NPHCDA working though the NERICC and other relevant working groups to plan, support implementation and monitoring of routine immunisation strengthening, vaccine introduction, and zero dose programme priorities. The consultant will work with partners at national and state level, and through NPHCDA, also work with States to follow up on key activities agreed upon by Government and Gavi.
4. Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Specific duties include:
- Provide capacity building support and skills transfer to strengthen routine immunisation performance management, under the direction of Director, Disease Control and Immunisation
- Development of strategies to support the rollout of interventions for zero-dose/under-immunized burden reduction in Nigeria
- Development of templates for tracking implementation of designed activities and ensuring quality and value of intervention.
- Review of milestones for zero dose reduction operational plans and provision of feedback to the sub-national level
- Review and finalization of HPV vaccine introduction plans (for Phase 2 states) and support design of routine HPV programme
- Working with NPHCDA and partners to develop of documents, including presentations to support introduction and roll out of HPV vaccine in Phase 2 states, taking lessons from Phase 1 introductions.
- Support coordination of malaria vaccine introduction preparations including support to proposed scale-up plans.
- Collaborate with National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to finalize the concept note for conduct of survey for measuring immunisation performance and zero dose children
- Coordinate with other Gavi consultants including those supporting FPP, State HSS, Zero Dose etc to ensure seamless collaboration and harmonization
Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.
If you wish to apply, please visit our Careers webpage and apply by sending your application to procurement@gavi.org with the title 005-2024-GAVI-RFQ – ” TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO SUPPORT NIGERIA IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME ” before the closing date of 11 February 2024.
