Job Description: | CONTEXT: The Government of Senegal launched its ambitious Universal Health Insurance (Couverture Maladie Universelle, CMU) program in 2013 and created an autonomous agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Action to manage this program in January 2015 (National Agency for Universal Health Insurance [Agence Nationale pour la Couverture Maladie Universelle, ANACMU]) . The key objectives of this program are to strengthen financial protection of participants and to reduce the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures leading to impoverishment. In the same effort, Senegal has developed an Investment Case on reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH‐N) with support from the Global Financing Facility (GFF), based on a thorough analysis of the system bottlenecks and evidence‐based high impact interventions to build a strong consensus on the priorities the country should focus on to significantly improve RMNCAH‐N outcomes.
Overall, as a result of the introduction of the CMU, Senegal demonstrated a significant increase in financial health protection coverage of the population from 20 percent in 2010 to 49.6 percent in 2018. However, critical challenges for the CMU program needed to be addressed for impact and sustainability of the approach. In this context, the World Bank and the GFF co‐financed project called ISMEA
To elevate the impact of the ISMEA Project, essential health services activities, and accelerate results in the health sector, the World Bank, through the Primary Health Care Trust Fund (PHC TF), and the GFF are in the process of setting up a programmatic Advisory Services and Analytics (pASA). The goal of the pASA is to generate evidence and provide technical support to the Government JOB DESCRIPTION: The WB and the GFF are seeking to hire a short‐term consultant (STC) as Health Economist to support the program of work, and to channel the analytical work under the pASA and ISMEA project. Interested persons are invited to submit a CV and a cover letter, by Tuesday May 24, 2022, to the following email address: ncisse@worldbank.org. |
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Pillar 2 – Improving QoC at PHC level through Service Delivery and Digital
Pillar 3 – Enhancing Governance and Advocacy:
b. Deliverables/Specific outputs expected from STC
c. Supervision and Reporting QUALIFICATIONS
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Location: | Dakar, Senegal |
Post Date: | Tuesday, May 24, 2022 |
Application Deadline: | Tuesday, May 24, 2022 |
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Job Description: | Grade: GG Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Hire Type: Non-Managerial Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): French, Spanish, Portuguese Description Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org. The Human Development (HD) Practice Group (PG) The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries to develop country-tailored solutions for human development (HD) under the themes of education, health, social protection, jobs and gender. The HD PG coordinates with other Practice Groups to ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to development challenges, and through the World Bank Regional Units is expected to deliver the strongest and most pertinent support to our client countries. The Human Development Vice Presidency (HDVP) at the World Bank Group is made up of the Global Practices for education; health, nutrition, and population; and social protection and jobs; additionally, the HDVP houses the gender group. As such, HD is central to the World Bank Group’s goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and raise shared prosperity. Over the past few years the World Bank’s Human development sector has been delivering a scaled-up program with an active portfolio over $71.3B with engagements in 121 countries. New commitments in FY21 are expected to reach a total $21.2B by FY end. Human capital development, and in particular, the health sector program, has taken a central role for the WBG, as a result of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. The primary challenges of health development relate to health, nutrition, and demographic transitions that are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic both, through an agile short-term response, and a sustainable and inclusive longer-term response that tackles inequitable opportunities and outcomes in the health sector globally, regionally and within countries. The fundamental challenge is to preempt, prevent and mitigate the developmental impact of these challenges now and into the future. Specific challenges include: providing equitable, efficient, accountable and sustainable financing of health coverage; providing equitable, quality, appropriate and scaled-up delivery of priority public health services according to need; mobilizing the appropriate quantity and quality of key health systems inputs related to health workers, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare technology and facilities; and strengthening models of governance for the health sector that recognize core functions for government, responsibilities/accountability of key actors and enhance competencies for governance across levels (local, national, regional and global) and sectors (public/private/civil society, as well as government sectors such as education, transport, social protection, etc.). Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice The World Bank Group (WBG) supports countries’ efforts towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and to provide quality, affordable health services to everyone —regardless of their ability to pay — by strengthening primary health care systems and reducing the financial risks associated with ill health and increasing equity. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health Global Financing Facility Context The GFF has pioneered a shift from traditional development approaches to a more sustainable way forward where governments lead and bring global partners together to support a prioritized, costed national plan. Through this partnership, the GFF aims to mobilize additional funding through the combination of grants from a dedicated multi-donor trust fund (the GFF Trust Fund), financing from International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the crowding in of additional domestic and external resources. This approach has catalyzed high-impact investments for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition in the world’s most vulnerable countries. More information is available at: www.globalfinancingfacility.org Duties and Accountabilities 1. Provides advice to country clients, World Bank task teams and the GFF secretariat team on evidence-based and scale-able approaches to address issues related to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH); Translate technical evidence and best practice into high quality investment case and program development in the context of a health systems approach to RMNCH-N. rm appointment. |
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World Bank Group Core Competencies The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Note: If the selected candidate is a current World Bank Group Staff Member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. If the selected candidate is a current World Bank Group Staff Member with a Term appointment that expires later than the end date of this appointment, s/he will retain the duration of his/her current Te |
Location: | Washington DC |
Post Date: | Friday, March 4, 2022 |
Application Deadline: | Friday, March 18, 2022 |
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Job Description: | I – Background and context The Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) is a country driven partnership that aims to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths and improve the health and quality of life of women, adolescents and children, and thereby prevent up to 3.8 million maternal deaths, 101 million child deaths, and 21 million stillbirths in high burden countries by 2030. The GFF seeks to support countries with an integrated health system approach that looks for the best solutions for better RMNCAH outcomes. The GFF acts as a pathfinder in a new era of financing for development by pioneering a model that shifts away from focusing solely on official development assistance to an approach that combines external support, domestic financing, and innovative solutions for resource mobilization and delivery (including the private sector) in a synergistic way. To do this, the GFF aims to reduce inefficiency in health spending through smarter financing. Furthermore, the GFF aims to mobilize additional funding through the combination of grants from a dedicated multi-donor trust fund (the GFF Trust Fund), financing from International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the crowding-in of additional domestic and external resources. The GFF also leverages the private sector expertise of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, to attract private sector resources to priority investment areas. The GFF Secretariat is responsible for supporting countries, managing the GFF Trust Fund, supporting the GFF Investors Group, and the governance mechanism for the GFF. The Secretariat is based at the World Bank, situated in the HNP Global Practice. The GFF health financing team is responsible for supporting countries mobilize additional resources for health and improve the use of those resources to improve health outcomes and progress towards the health-related SDGs. A core aspect of the GFF’s health financing team is supporting countries in resource (budget) mapping (RM) and expenditure tracking (ET) of investment cases (or the country’s national health plan). The RM and ET exercise provides a comprehensive picture of funding gaps, and alignment of donor and government funding with the aim of supporting the health sector of low- and middle-income countries to mobilize additional resources, improve allocative efficiency, and better coordinate planning efforts. GFF countries fall under different categories in their capacity for, and experience in conducting RMET. Countries in the first category (or early stage) have recently started or are in the process of starting their RM/ET; they will need extensive external technical assistance in conducting RMET. As countries move towards the third category (final stage), ministries of health and relevant institutions will have sufficient expertise to lead the process. The nature of technical support for such countries will be lighter touch, focused on improving use of data and analysis from RMET for decision-making. As part of the GFF expansion phase, support is needed to help countries with RMET. The focus will be on early stage countries requiring heavy support but will also extend to other countries. The GFF is in the process of building a pool of short-term consultants who can be deployed to provide TA to ministries of health on RMET and contribute to enhance in-country technical skills in this area. III –Responsibilities
The timing, duration and terms of contracts will be based on the needs and the experience and availability of consultants. |
Skills: | IV – Qualifications To be considered, candidates must have:
Candidates with the following qualifications will have an advantage:
V – Application Instructions Interested applicants are invited to send their CV and cover letter to sandhya@worldbank.org with the subject: Re: RMET Consultant CV Submission |
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Post Date: | Monday, June 28, 2021 |
Application Deadline: | Tuesday, June 28, 2022 |
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Job Description: | I – Background and context The Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) is a country driven partnership that aims to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths and improve the health and quality of life of women, adolescents and children, and thereby prevent up to 3.8 million maternal deaths, 101 million child deaths, and 21 million stillbirths in high burden countries by 2030. The GFF seeks to support countries with an integrated health system approach that looks for the best solutions for better RMNCAH outcomes. The GFF acts as a pathfinder in a new era of financing for development by pioneering a model that shifts away from focusing solely on official development assistance to an approach that combines external support, domestic financing, and innovative sources for resource mobilization and delivery (including the private sector) in a synergistic way. To do this, the GFF aims to reduce inefficiency in health spending through smarter financing. Furthermore, the GFF aims to mobilize additional funding through the combination of grants from a dedicated multi-donor trust fund (the GFF Trust Fund), financing from International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the crowding-in of additional domestic and external resources. The GFF also leverages the private sector expertise of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, to attract private sector resources to priority investment areas. The GFF Secretariat is responsible for supporting countries, managing the GFF Trust Fund, supporting the GFF Investors Group, and the governance mechanism for the GFF. The Secretariat is based at the World Bank, situated in the HNP Global Practice. The GFF health financing team is responsible for supporting countries mobilize additional resources for health and improve the use of those resources to improve health outcomes and progress towards the health-related SDGs. This consultancy is to support the work of the GFF health financing team. II – Responsibilities Specific duties of each consultancy will vary depending on the candidate profile and anticipated technical need. In general, consultant(s) may expect to work on activities such as:
The timing, duration and terms of contracts will be based on the needs and the experience and availability of consultants. |
Skills: | IV – Qualifications To be considered, candidates must have:
Candidates with the following qualifications will have an advantage:
V – Application Instructions Interested applicants are invited to send their CV and cover letter to sandhya@worldbank.org with the subject: Re: HF Consultant CV Submission |
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Post Date: | Monday, June 28, 2021 |
Application Deadline: | Tuesday, June 28, 2022 |
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