In Somalia, According to WHO report , during civil war, the severest effect on health care system was the human resource for health, where overwhelming majority of the qualified health professionals departed from the country while other huge number of those health workers were killed during the civil war. In addition, human resource development activities were disrupted. Over the past years INGOs and UN agenciesundertake funding of in-service training and CPDs of the health workers to meet the emergency needs of the population.
In-service trainings provided to health workers are mainly supported by INGOs and UN agencies with a poor planning and coordination. Some of these trainings are neither need based nor provide appropriate skills and knowledge to trainees. This makes the quality of most of such trainings questionable.
Although the Somaliland Ministry of health and health partners spent a huge amount of money on in-service trainings for health workers at all levels (health facility staff, regional and central ministry staff), nevertheless, there were always poor coordination and limited quality assurance of the trainings provided to the health workers which leads that the expected impact has not been achieved yet. Furthermore, accurate and up to date on the number and types of trainees across MoH staff is not comprehensively recorded and regulated to allow any kind of CPD accreditation. In fact, this is due to absent of clear in-service training policy, strategic plans and accreditation guidelines in the health sector.
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested individual consultants/ group of consultants should submit a Cover letter, CVs of consultants, detailed and comprehensive technical proposal with concise methodology and detailed work plan not exceeding 70 calendar days and financial proposal (in USD $) with mention negotiable or fix rates toSomaliland@thet.org not later than January 27th 2015, 2:00Pm EAT
