Overview
Consultant to support countries in costing their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) strategies and packages using the WHO SRHR costing tool.
Key Responsibilities
- Review proposed health services packages and strategic plans.
- Identify and review country data on unit costs, facility-level inputs, human resource costs, commodity prices, and overhead costs.
- Adapt and populate the SRHR costing tool with country-specific data.
- Run the SRHR costing tool to generate cost estimates.
- Conduct sensitivity analyses.
- Facilitate workshop with key stakeholders to validate results.
- Prepare a country costing report.
- Develop a concise policy brief.
- Develop a slide deck for stakeholder dissemination.
Required Experience
- Minimum of seven years of professional experience in health systems, health economics, health financing, in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with health intervention costing methodologies.
- Prior experience in facilitating costing of health benefit package, or essential health service package design.
- Proven experience in health benefit package analysis, including the evidence requirements and policy processes involved in EHSP/HBP review.
- Prior experience in reproductive and maternal health policy analysis and/or reviews.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master’s) in health economics, public health, health policy or planning, or a related field.
- PhD in health economics, public health, health policy or planning would be an asset.
