Overview
National consultancy to cost the National Health Sector Development Plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze PDSS draft, national health policies, budget frameworks, and donor commitments
- Develop a costing framework aligned with WHO/UNICEF guidelines and national budget classifications
- Identify key actors (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, INSTAT, civil society, donors)
- Facilitate inclusive consultation workshops at national and regional levels
- Ensure technical units and development partners contribute to cost estimates
- Document and incorporate stakeholders’ input into costing models
- Use MICS data, National Health Accounts, and budget execution reports to inform costing
- Compare regional and global cost standards for similar interventions
- Develop low, medium, and high investment scenarios
- Conduct sensitivity and specificity analyses of costing models
- Produce detailed costing tables, financing gaps, and resource mobilization strategies, as well as costing briefs
- Organize and present findings to stakeholders for costing report endorsement and dissemination
- Deliver a comprehensive report with recommendations for financing and implementation
- Organize capacity building sessions of Ministry of Health staff on costing tools and methodologies
Required Experience
- At least 10 years of professional experience in health economics/financing, public health planning, or national development in low or middle-income countries.
- 3-5 years of direct costing experience (costing national health strategies/strategic plans).
- Having relevant experience as a lead in the costing exercise of health strategic plans or any other strategic public document with a major component of health.
- Working experience with government ministries of Health, Ministries of Finance, UN agencies, the World Bank or other development partners’ organizations.
Qualifications
MA Public Health, Health Economics, Applied Economics, Health Financing, Data Science, Development Studies, Epidemiology, Statistics
