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The FCDO ‘Delivering Accelerated Family Planning in Pakistan (DAFPAK): Lot 2 Public Sector Service Delivery’ is a part of the DAFPAK programme funded by the Foreign, Common Wealth and Development Office (FCDO). The 3.5-year programme aims to increase access to family planning services; and improve quality of client-centred services such that more women, including adolescents can safely plan their pregnancies and improve their sexual reproductive health. The expected outcome for the programme is 11.9 million CYPs generated by expanded access to FP services; 55,000 additional users of family planning and  an increase in modern CPR from 26.1 at the baseline to 33.9.

Palladium and its consortium partners, Pathfinder, the Family Planning Association of Pakistan (FPAP), IPAS and Aahung will strengthen the quality of service provision in the public sector (across 30+ districts in three provinces Punjab, Sindh and KPK) by:

Increasing access to FP services:

  • Building capacities of government health/FP facility staff on integration of services, improving clinical quality and expanding the range of contraceptives offered.
  • Training community workers (LHWs) to expand the FP services that they offer.
  • Establishing new procedures in health facilities to better integrate services.

Improved quality of client-centered FP services:

  • Building capacities of the government health/FP facility staff on client-centered/unbiased counselling.
  • Building capacities of community workers on better, client-centered/unbiased counselling.
  • Building capacities of government health/FP facility staff on improving clinical quality.
  • Improving quality assurance systems involving district health management teams, including clinical waste management.

Beyond building capacities of district health teams, health facility staff and community-based workers. The project will focus on sustainably changing behaviours of providers, systemic changes and commitments through engagement with and TA to district and provincial level governments, health management teams, providers and communities.

The STTA should have experience in behaviour change communication, community mobilization, M&E, qualitative research, qualitative data analysis, and report writing.

Duration of Assignment:

Duration is approximately 30 working days, spread over 2-3 months.

Start date (tentative): 10th March 2021.

Reporting:

The STTA will work under supervision of CE Advisor, with support from Team Leader.

Specific Tasks and Deliverables:

The following will be the main responsibilities of the STTA:

  1. Participation in field activities of the pilot study, including training of counsellors and the pilot counselling sessions.
  2. Review of the data from the participants’ and counsellors’ feedback forms and deciding upon a strategy for data aggregation and analysis.
  3. Designing and conducting focus group discussions with selected counsellors and participants.
  4. Data aggregation and analysis.
  5. Report writing under guidance from CE Adviser and Team Leader.

Selection Criteria:

  1. Master of Public Health or other equivalent degree in social sciences
  2. 10+ years’ experience in research (including qualitative research), M&E, and BCC
  3. Good inter-personal skills
  4. A good understanding of and working experience in KP