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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) East and Southern Africa Regional Office, Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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Background Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) is an established sound and robust system for reviewing maternal deaths and establishing nationwide enquiries into deaths during pregnancy labour and puerperium. MPDSR is a system that measures and tracks all maternal deaths in real time, helps to understand the underlying factors contributing to the deaths, and stimulates and guides actions to prevent future deaths. It is a form of continuous surveillance that links the health information system and quality improvement processes from local to national levels, and permits the routine identification, notification, quantification and determination of causes and maternal deaths, as well as the use of this information to respond with actions that will prevent future deaths. Institutionalizing MPDSR is one of the priorities of the African Union Commission (AUC) action plan towards ending preventable maternal, newborn and child mortality in Africa. Maternal Death Surveillance and Response is also one of the key areas for implementation of the Commission on Information and Accountability (CoIA) framework for the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. CoIA aims to encourage countries and their partners to be more accountable for women’s and children's health. Real-time monitoring is therefore needed to enhance accountability at the country level for accelerating the pace of progress to reduce maternal deaths. The joint UN ESA (WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF) regional offices have been supporting countries and facilitating south-south learning to strengthen MPDSR in ESA region. Up until now, the joint ESA UN team has produced MPDSR regional status report for 2016 and 2018, and disseminated the findings of these reports to enhance the quality and use of MPDSR. This exercise will increase the regional MPDSR knowledge base by documenting the progress made since 2018. The purpose of this consultancy is to collect data and write a report on the status of MPDSR in 23 countries in ESA region. The specific purpose of this consultancy are:
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The assignment will be 26 days spread from commencement of the assignment to 15th of December 2021. The following time frame is applied in calculating the total days.
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Place where services are to be delivered: | The consultant will be working remotely from home. |
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Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline: | The progress will be monitored by the ISRH Unit and quality assurance oversight by joint UN ESA (WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF). |
Supervisory arrangements | The consultant will report to the Health System Specialist. The Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health (ISRHR) Team and the joint WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF ESA regional offices will provide advice on content, format, and dissemination of this exercise. |
Expected travel: | The consultancy is not expected to travel |
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Other relevant information or special conditions, if any: | N/A |
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