Overview
Consultant to develop national norms and standards for maternal care, updating existing guidelines to align with current evidence and national needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct benchmarking and gap analysis of existing maternal care norms and standards.
- Compare existing norms and standards against international best practices and review local guidelines.
- Draft national maternal care norms for field and institutional settings.
- Draft tiered standards for antenatal, intranatal, and postnatal care protocols.
- Design an implementation plan, including activities, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Develop communication and dissemination strategies.
- Design a clinical algorithm compendium for frontline staff.
- Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework, including key performance indicators and a results framework.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years of work experience.
- Strong understanding of the maternal healthcare system in Sri Lanka.
- Deep understanding of the continuum of care concept, specifically the link between community-based and hospital based maternal health services.
