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Engagement of a consultant to collect financial and activity data from key
family planning stakeholders in Nigeria.
The objective of this assignment is to provide technical support to Nigeria to
develop a national Blueprint gap analysis.
February 2016 to May 2016
Abuja, Nigeria
Sada Danmusa
Background
Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses,
societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments,
corporations and non-profit organisations. We create positive impact through more than 100 current
projects with more than 2000 employees operating in over 90 counties.
On 11 July 2012, the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with UNFPA and
other partners, hosted a groundbreaking summit in London. The London Summit on Family Planning
(FP2020) generated global commitments to make high quality, voluntary family planning services,
information and supplies more available, acceptable and affordable for an additional 120 million
women and girls in the world’s poorest countries by 2020. FP2020 aligns with related global
frameworks and commitments including the UN Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and
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Children's Health, “Every Woman, Every Child,” the Ouagadougou Partnership and the Alliance for
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Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health.
Palladium, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been working to support the
Nigerian government in reaching their FP2020 goals. In this regard, a Blueprint was created and
launched by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in Abuja in 2014. To facilitate the implementation
of the Blueprint, Palladium will support the FMOH in assessing the financial and activity gaps aligned
with each activity. This gap analysis helps to:
1. Plan budgets and determine key activities for funding by providing financial coverage
information for the remaining six years of Nigeria’s Family Planning Blueprint (2014–2020).
For budget planning purposes, the gap analysis provides insight into the actual activity
implementation situation of the country’s agreed-on priorities.
2. Encourage discussions between development partners and the governments because it
contains information on financial and activity gaps for the consensus-driven priority areas by
year. Priority financial and activity gap information can help facilitate the discussion and reevaluation of planned funding for future years.
3. Advocate for increased funding by detailing activity-specific gaps, allowing the government
and partners to know what activities are fully implemented, and which are partially
implemented, making it easier to conduct specific resource-mobilization efforts for priority
activities identified in the plan.
4. Increase visibility and accountability. As part of the gap analysis, requests are sent to each
FP stakeholder to define their planned activity commitments for FP. This not only creates
space for each organization to reflect on its planned activities against the government plan, it
also gives the MOH specific details on partners’ activities and when they are planned to
happen.
Rationale for the consultancy assignment
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http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/
Francophone West Africa on the Move: A Call to Action. 2011.
http://advancefamilyplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/ouagadougou-partnership_en.pdf
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http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/family-planning/alliance-reproductive-maternal-newborn-health
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Nigeria has seen little decline in its total fertility rate over the past 23 years, with the estimated current
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rate at 5.5 children born per woman . Already the most populous country in Africa, the steady total
fertility rate means that Nigeria will continue to grow at an exponentially fast rate. Population
increases could have negative effects on the limited available resources in the country, and require
significant job creation to employ the growing population. Further, Nigeria has a low contraceptive
prevalence rate at 15.1 percent, and out of those 15.1 percent of women who are using
contraceptives, only 9.8 percent are using modern methods (NDHS 2013). Family planning is one of
the most cost-effective ways of preventing maternal, infant, and child mortality.
In 2013, the Nigerian government created a National Blueprint for family planning to help the
government achieve their FP2020 goal of reaching a contraceptive prevalence rate of 36%. To help
the government work to achieve their FP2020 goals, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Nigeria
Family Planning TSU grant works to help the government assess the financial gaps associated with
the National Blueprint. The grant works to ensure that the government of Nigeria and stakeholders are
aware of where further funding is needed.
This investment is designed to strengthen the capacity of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) FP
unit to lead the implementation of the blueprint and ensure that Nigeria achieves its blueprint goals.
As this is the first national Blueprint gap analysis to be conducted the ministry will require additional
assistance to develop the gap tool that will be used, and to collect and analyse the data.
Palladium and the Gates Foundation seek the services of a consultant to support the Government of
Nigeria in applying Nigeria’s gap analysis tool including collecting financial data from in-country FP
stakeholders.
Method, key duties and tasks
The consultant will assist Palladium staff in determining the funding available to support the Blueprint
by collecting financial and activity data from key family planning stakeholders in Nigeria. Palladium
has support the FMOH to develop an activity matrix that lists all of the activities and inputs of the
National Blueprint. For the gap analysis, planned financial and activity data will be collected from
implementing partners, and government officials, entered into an excel-based tool that the consultant
will be provided and compared to the activities and costs from the Blueprint. The data will help to
provide a landscape for what future activities are currently planned, and which activities from the
Blueprint will still need financial support from in-country stakeholders to be implemented.
The data collection will require that the consultant meet with individual implementing partners and
government officials to collect data for each activity outlined within the Nigeria Family Planning
Blueprint Action Plan. Collected data will be consolidated into one tool and analyzed to better
understand where gaps are by:
1. Activity
2. Year
3. Thematic area
Following completion of data collection the consultant will draft and revise a gap analysis brief and a
PowerPoint that will be used as important advocacy and planning documents by the Federal Ministry
of health, based on specific examples from another country or templates that will be provided.
Content of both documents will include: problem statement; description of the methodology;
description of the results; and a discussion with proposed solutions/actions.
Deliverables and reporting
The consultant will need to submit:
1. Completed Excel templates from each activity assessment meeting with implementing
partners and government officials. The Excel template to be provided by headquarters staff.
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PMA 2020. PMA2014/Lagos. 2014. http://www.pma2020.org/sites/default/files/NGR1-LAGOSFPBrief-2015-03-03.pdf
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a. Draft excel submitted after each meeting – Final meeting documentation due
February 4th
b. Final and complete excels for input into summary Excel sheet – Due March 11th
2. Documentation of each activity in the Blueprint action plan with implementation plans and
financial data filled in from partners. The document should be produced in the projects
Microsoft Excel template to be provided by headquarters staff.
a. Draft document – due March 18th
b. Final document – due March 23rd
3. PowerPoint of gap analysis with analysed information per activity, per thematic area and per
year. The document should be produced in Microsoft PowerPoint.
a. First Draft – due March 28th
b. Final draft for internal review – due April 1st
c. Final draft for FMOH – due April 4th
4. Gap analysis brief with clear results highlighting information per activity, per thematic area
and per year.
a. First draft – due April 8th
b. Final draft – due April 15th
Time schedule
This assignment will be conducted from February 2016 to May 2016.
Profile/requirement of the consultant
The consultant should meet the following essential selection criteria.
1. Graduate level degree (MA, MPH) in International Health and Development or related
program (coursework in Family Planning/ Reproductive Health/ Population Studies is
preferred)
2. Experience working in health and development in general, and experience with activity-based
costing preferred
3. Excellent judgment, conceptual and analytical thinking ability
4. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
5. Strong skills in MS Word, and complex MS Excel documents
6. Based in Nigeria and significant working experience in FP/RH in Nigeria
Guidelines for Submission of Proposal
Interested consultants should submit their proposal which should consist of a technical and financial
proposal, along their CV, to Elise Lang at Elise.Lang@thepalladiumgroup.com.
The technical proposal should elaborate on how the scope of work will be addressed and
demonstrate that the individual meets the essential selection criteria.
The financial proposal should provide an extensive breakdown of all costs involved in implementing
the scope of work, indicating also the daily fee rate per person.
Palladium is an EEO/AA employer and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities,
minorities, and veterans.
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All applications must be sent by 17:00 (Washington, DC time) on Wednesday, the 20 of January
2016. Only successful applicants will be contacted.
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