The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the pledge to leave no one behind reflect the interconnectedness of health and sustainable development issues such as the widening economic and social inequalities, the climate crisis, rapid urbanization, the continuing burden of HIV and other infectious diseases (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis, COVID.19), the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and the emergence of health threats. The scope and scale of delivering health and well-being for all demands innovative partnerships and financing.

UNDP’s partnership with the Global Fund (GF), in line with, UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2022-2025: Connecting the Dots, makes a vital contribution to UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the pledge to leave no one behind.   When requested, UNDP acts as interim Principal Recipient (PR), working with national partners and the Global Fund to ensure management, implementation and oversight of GF grants, while simultaneously strengthening health institutions and systems for national entities to assume the PR role over time.

In Bissau, the Ministry of Health and UNDP have had a long-standing, strategic partnership for health service delivery through Global Fund grants. UNDP is the designated Principal Recipient for the Malaria Grant for the period 2024-2026, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and its national malaria programme, other Government and UN agencies, and in collaboration with bilateral donors and International Financing Institutions.

To help the UNDP Health Team deliver health activities in a timely and quality-assured manner, while complying with UNDP and Global Fund rules and regulations, UNDP Bissau is recruiting a Project Analyst, Community Health  to join the Program and M&E unit.

Support the implementation of the community health activities, such as training, supervision, payment of Community health workers, working closely with the Ministry of Health and other partners.

Strategic and policy work:

• Provide specific technical expertise on National Community Health policies and strategies and other issues including gender and equity initiatives; contribute to strategy updates with the Ministry of Health and other partners.
• Support the implementation of the Community Health national strategy, including promoting better gender-balance among community health workers, and increasing the uptake of health services at community level, especially for malaria testing and treatment.

Supervision and partnerships :

• Conduct regular field visits to monitor quality of services and interventions;
• Establish active and participatory partnerships with partners from government, UN agencies, NGOs, multi lateral agencies.

Monitoring:

• Monitor the implementation of the activities planned and budget, address any bottle necks to ensure timely implementation. Ensure that community health workers are paid on time and receive the trainings and equipment they need to perform their work.
• Ensure quality and timely data related to community health are available, contribute to reporting requirements to donors.
• Document and disseminate lessons learned.
• Explore opportunities and propose ideas to set up a community led monitoring system of health services.

Other responsibilities:

• Assist supervisor and other colleagues in the search for quick solutions to problems identified in the implementation of the National Community Health Strategy.
• Participate in meetings as demanded, both internal and external.
• Be available for travel up to 50% of the time, for field supervision.
• Provide administrative support to the unit, as required by the workload, particularly related to daily incoming communication from partners.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Key Results:

• Timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritization, planning, development and results-based management for scaling-up specific Community Health interventions.
• Technical and operational guidance provided to supervisor, contributing to Project policy and strategy set up of decentralized interventions.
• Effective knowledge reporting, through documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and implementation of appropriate capacity building activities, as per the supervisor guidance.
• Effective communication and networking with related government and non-government partners.

4.   Institutional Arrangement: 

The  Project Analyst Community Health  works under the supervision of the Community Health and Health System Strengthening Specialist, in the Program and M&E unit of the Health Team.