- The overall objective of this consultancy is to assess key bottlenecks to improve capacity and commitment of key ministries (MoEST, PORALG and MoHCDGEC) to facilitate access to HIV services among school going adolescents living with HIV.
- To assess the capacities of MoEST, PORALG and MoHCDGEC to facilitate access to HIV services among school going adolescents living with HIV.
- To identify capacity bottlenecks among key ministries affecting the provision of quality HIV services among adolescent living with HIV in school setting.
- To underscore policy gaps related to HIV services among adolescents living with HIV in school settings
- To determine the role of key ministries at sub national level to execute national policies, plans and guidelines at that level in improving access to HIV services among ALHIV
- To develop policy recommendations that will be used to address the identified challenges related to integrated HIV services among adolescents and young people in school settings
Objectives/Main Task | Methods | Deliverable |
1.To assess the MoEST, PORALG and MoHCDGEC capacity to facilitate access to HIV services among school going adolescents
| Familiarize with national HIV response guidelines and or policies targeting adolescents and young people living with HIV, review policy recommendations and implications from the study “Living with HIV and in school: Factors impacting HIV testing and treatment of adolescents in Tanzania to understand, 1. Key findings of the study from adolescents to inform decision. 2. Develop the assessment tools to undertake the capacity assessment of the three ministries (MoEST, PORALG and MoHCDGEC) |
1.Inception report detailing the overall consultancy framework including capacity assessment tools and approach
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2.To identify key ministerial capacity bottlenecks affecting the provision of HIV services in school settings among Adolescents living with HIV.
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Desk review of national HIV response guidelines and or policies targeting adolescents and young people living with HIV. 2. Qualitative in-depth interview with key officials within the three ministries (MoEST, PORALG and MoHCDGEC), NACP and TACAIDS to identify the key capacity bottlenecks of their departments in responding to HIV issues among adolescents living with HIV. 3. Interviews with other stakeholders like regional education and health managers, district medical, education officers and school health program coordinators, headteachers, matrons/patrons and ALHIV themselves/other students 4. Develop comprehensive analysis report of the overall bottlenecks and capacity of the ministries as well as missing gaps in the current HIV guidelines targeting adolescents |
Reports with key findings of the ministries (from national to school level) bottlenecks capacity to deliver high quality HIV services among adolescents living with HIV in school settings and missing gaps in current national guidelines
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3.To develop policy recommendations that will inform national policy guidelines and operational plans to address the identified challenges related to integrated HIV services among adolescents and young people in school setting
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Consultation with UNESCO a UN leading agency on the review of national education sector development plan and other key stakeholders to solicit inputs to design the approaches to address the identified challenges. 2. Develop key policy and program recommendations to inform review of key policies and guidelines on HIV among school going adolescents living HIV 3. Present the key findings to ministries and other key stakeholders. 4. Based on the analysis of the bottlenecks above, propose feasible recommendations with implication and options in their implementation including critical enablers where needed, state clearly who is supposed to execute the proposed suggestions and timeframe. | final report with: 1. The technical report with key policy and program recommendations to inform review of key policies and guidelines on HIV among school going adolescents living HIV 2. Set of recommendations embedded in consultancy technical report
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4.To disseminate key findings with recommendations to policy makers from key ministries |
5.Present the key findings to ministries and other key stakeholders. |
6.A presentation of key findings to ministries and other key stakeholders. |
PAYMENTS SCHEDULE
Payment installments | Detailed breakdown of deliverable and time | % of total cost |
Preparatory | A presentation of the inception report detailing the overall consultancy framework including capacity assessment tools, approach, and other key stakeholders to be involved.
| 20% |
Phase 1 | A presentation of the concise and comprehensive first and second draft report with key findings of the ministries capacity to deliver high quality HIV services among adolescents living with HIV in school settings.
| 20% |
Phase 2 | A presentation of a second draft addressing comments received from the first meeting with ministries, TACAIDS, NACP, UNICEF, and other UN agencies as well as reviewed national operational plan of the proposed approaches.
| 20% |
Phase 3 | final capacity assessment report with standardized national guideline, and operational plan for integrated HIV services among school going adolescents living with HIV. This involve the dissemination presentation to ministries and key stakeholders.
| 40% |
Total |
| 100% |
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