81309907-Social Protection and Health Experts Pool Cambodia

ISPH II requires the services of a contractor who can provide short-term social protection and health experts to support the GIZ project team (Experts Pool). The support provided by the international short-term experts will contribute to the implementation of project activities and will help to achieve the outputs, objectives and target indicators described in the Terms of Reference. The contractor will be responsible for selecting, preparing, training and steering the short-term experts assigned to carry out the advisory services related to 3 work packages (see below). Collaboration with the GIZ technical team is essential for carrying out the assignment. Work package 1 (Experts Pool 1): Universal Social Protection (USP) (part of output 1 or 2 of the project) ISPH II requires experts to support the advisory services related to following thematic areas: - Adaptive social protection: The starting point for this work stream is the Social Protection sector"s Shock Responsive Social Protection (SRSP) Framework which was adopted by the Government in late 2023. ISPH II will be helping the relevant actors implement the SRSP framework, while looking into ways of further expanding the coordination and cooperation between relevant actors. Concretely, technical assistance will be provided to build in climate sensitive elements into existing programmes and to further develop a Cash-for-Work program where one of the targets may be to help attain climate change goals by including work such as constructing irrigation and dykes, climate change awareness raising, maintaining biodiversity, and reforestation. - Gender-responsive social protection: Gender in social protection advocacy work is planned with social protection implementers. The project intends to explore how women´s voices and needs could be better captured and addressed by the social protection programs and various stakeholder of the social protection system. A situational analysis which also provides recommendations for improvement is being finalized. Policy development and implementation support will be provided by the project to advance the recommendations outlined in this report. Work package 2 (Experts Pool 2): Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (part of output 3 or 4 of the project) ISPH II requires experts to support the advisory services related to following areas: - In the overall health sector reform agenda, the National Payment and Certification Agency (NPCA) is a central actor as it is tasked with claims processing for the 2 national social health protection schemes. The project provides policy advice to NPCA on its key processes, i.e. claims management and the verification of quality assessments of health care providers. In addition, the project will support NPCA in its task to explore and propose strategic purchasing related improvements based on intelligence gained from its claims processing business and data. - The project also supports MoH on improving the quality of health services provision through strengthening human resources development for health. Concretely, the project provides technical assistance to MoH on the development of a national accreditation system for newly updated health training programmes. At the training service provider level, the project supports three training institutions to further institutionalise competency-based training. The supported activities include faculty development, implementation of clinical based teaching tools, etc. Work package 3 (Experts Pool 3): Digitalisation, Research, and Organisational Development (part of output 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the project) Work Package 3 entails three cross-cutting topics which are relevant for both USP and UHC. - Digitalisation efforts of ISPH II are grounded on the Digital Social Protection Strategy 2024 - 2028 which was adopted by the NSPC in March 2024. ISPH II supports the GS-NSPC as the policy coordinator to drive the strategy"s implementation. Focus will be primarily on capacity development, strengthening policy and legal frameworks and strengthening stakeholder coordination. Activities envisioned include trainings, facilitating networking, backstopping to enhance IT departments" capacity, technical support to draft and implement IT policies, and facilitating joint efforts between various social protection actors and development partners. - Organisation development efforts entail supporting various social protection actors to look into how their organisational set up can be upgraded to better fit their purpose. Activities include drafting organisational development strategies, updating unit and individual roles and responsibilities, developing human resources policies, and training on foundational skills such as leadership, management, monitoring and evaluation, etc. - In USP and UHC research, the project requires external expertise to support the efforts and further build the capacity of the GS-NSPC research unit within the work context briefly described in work package 1 and 2.