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RFP - Contracting a Technical agency/NGO to Support Capacity building of Primary Health care Providers in Clinical Management of COVID Related
Organization: EngenderHealth
Apply By: 20 Sep 2021
About the Organization
EngenderHealth is a leading sexual and reproductive health and rights organization working in 15 countries around the world to achieve gender equality in and through sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Our programs ensure equity and compensate for historical and social disadvantages that have prevented women and girls from operating on a level playing field. We work through gender-equitable approaches to ensure women and girls can access quality sexual and reproductive health information and services. Ensuring equitable access means often means encouraging self-reflection among EngenderHealth staff members, facility-based health providers, community health workers, and the communities in which women and girls live to challenge their own stereotypes and biases and contribute to gender-transformative change. Through our programs, we ensure that the structures and systems that women and girls routinely interact with (health, education, legal, community) are conducive to the empowerment of women and girl.
Working in India since 1988, EngenderHealth has contributed to the improvement of public health through strong evidence-based, technical public health policy and programming to expand and improve reproductive, maternal, new-born, child, and adolescent health (RMNCHA) services in many regions of the country. EngenderHealth’s India program has made important contributions to RMNCHA health care, including family planning, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, youth engagement, and gender at the national, state, and district levels.
About the Proposal
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented challenge to public health systems across the world. In India, total cases crossed over 32 million, most of them happening during the second deadly wave which pushed the country to the second spot for having the highest no. of COVID cases in the world. Almost 0.4 million have lost their lives due to COVID. This has caused tremendous social disruption with huge number of women being subjected to violence, abuse and apathy, straining the health system further. Moreover, health care workers (HCW) are experiencing burnout, thereby greatly increasing chances of medical errors, affecting well-being of providers and safety of clients. Data also shows that disease epidemiology is constantly evolving and the young population particularly women of reproductive age group, adolescents and new born are at greater risk of contracting with infection a current vaccine are not licensed for people under 18 years of age. The primary health care system is best placed to address any increased surge in this specific age group.
Therefore, to strengthen the capacity of primary health care response and address the gendered impact of the COVID pandemic, we propose to implement interventions to promote and prevent psychological problems in health care workers (HCW) and the primary health care system to respond to anticipated surge in COVID related emergencies among adolescents, newborns and women of reproductive age with a strong gender, youth, and social inclusion lens.
Project Approach:
- Complement and strengthen GBV prevention, screening, counselling, treatment and referral mechanism through engaging health providers, CHW and various community stakeholders.
- Promote and prevent psychological problems in health care workers (HCW) to maintain system efficiency for pandemic response
- Prepare primary health care system to respond to expected surge in COVID related emergencies among adolescents and new born and women of reproductive age group.
Project Geographies:
- 4 districts from each of the following states will be selected – Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Districts will be selected in consultation with state governments based on set criteria and needs of respective states.
Scope of work for the technical agency:
The agency will be required to Develop/adapt training packages along with identification and training of master trainers for Capacity building of the primary health care providers in clinical management of COVID related emergency cases among adolescents, new born and women of reproductive age group:
- Adapt the existing Government of India (GoI) digital curriculum developed for management of COVID affected cases according to the needs of primary health care system of selected geography.
- Identification, mapping and engagement of area specific medical colleges/centre of excellence and district hospitals providing training for emergency management of COVID affected adolescent new born and women of reproductive age group.
- To identify and train the master trainers at the identified district hospitals and medical colleges using digital curriculum.
- Create a tool for supportive supervision for assessing response of primary health care system in managing COVID emergencies among adolescents, new born and women in reproductive age group
- The field implementing agency will further roll out the training programs to all health care providers providing necessary in-patient care through the master trainers developed by the technical agency. However, the technical agency will continue to provide supportive supervision and conduct periodic Quality Assessment through field observations and introduce mid-course correction if needed.
- Integration/migration to NIC/govt. server for its long term sustainability.
- Create reports and presentation consolidating the learnings from the project.
Key Deliverables:
- Finalize and co-create the work plan - Within 2 weeks
- Rapid assessment of the training needs of the health care providers with special focus on in- patient care - Within 1 month
- Adaptation of the GOI Digital curriculum developed for management of COVID affected cases. - Within 2 month
- Identification of area specific medical colleges and district hospitals providing training for emergency management of COVID affected adolescent new born and women of reproductive age group - Within 2 month
- Orientation of identified master trainers of implementing agency and district resource teams - Within 6 months
- Continuous mentoring and technical support - Ongoing during the project period
- Periodic reports. - Ongoing during the project period
- Mid- term review of the project for exploring its integration/migration to NIC/govt. server for its long term sustainability. - Within 12 months
- Presentation consolidating the learnings from the project. - End of the project
Other requirements:
We also request the agencies to attach the following along with the proposal.
Evidence of registration
FCRA registration
Goods & Service Tax Registration, if any
PAN Card & TAN letter copy
Total Annual turnover in last 3 years
Evaluation of the proposal:
Once the capacity statements are received by the due date and time, EngenderHealth team will review all capacity statements and evaluate them based on technical and financial aspects. The evaluation criteria is as follows:
Organization technical capacity of providing similar technical support - 50%
Technical capacity and CV of key persons and their available time- 20%
Financial bid- 30%
Proposal that fail to meet the terms set out in the instructions will be rejected. Selected agencies may be asked to submit their approach and work plan. EngenderHealth may reject any bid that (1) is not signed and dated by authorized employee (2) is not substantially responsive to the terms and conditions of the RFP, (3) is incomplete, including and without limitation, does not have requested supporting documents, (4) and, is otherwise not generally in order. Such proposals shall be deemed inadmissible.
EngenderHealth reserves the right:
- To accept or reject any and all proposals and/or to annul the RFP process prior to award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected respondents or any obligation to inform the affected respondents of the grounds for EH's actions prior to contract award
- To negotiate with Respondent(s) invited to negotiate - the proposed technical approach and methodology, and the proposed price based on the respondent’s proposals.
- Amend this RFP at any time.
Deadline
20 Sep 2021
Job Email id: VAgrawal(at)engenderhealth.org
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