Consultant: Health and Peacebuilding Tender, Switzerland - 33203664

Procurement Summary

Country : Switzerland

Summary : Consultant: Health and Peacebuilding

Deadline : 29 May 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 33203664

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Health Organization (WHO)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS) World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27 Fax: +41 22 791 4807
Switzerland
Email :foodsafety@who.int
URL :https://www.who.int

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Switzerland: Consultant: Health and Peacebuilding.

Terms of Reference

15 June 2019 - 15 July 2018

Health Diplomacy and Sustaining Peace through Health

APW: Develop a corporate framework outlining and defining how WHO can contribute to peacebuilding outcomes in fragile and conflict affected settings through its interventions.

Background:

On 27 April 2016, UN General Assembly and UN Security Council unanimously adopted identical resolutions on “sustaining peace” (A/RES/70/262 and S/RES/2282), requesting all UN entities and the World Bank to mobilize their capacities for mediation and conflict resolution to prevent the “outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict”. UN Agencies, Funds, and Programmes have been given a mandate by UN Member States to develop strategies that respond to the sustaining peace resolutions. WHO is already mandated by the World Health Assembly to perform this work, through WHA Resolution 34.38 (1981) reaffirming “the role of physicians and other health workers in the preservation and promotion of peace as the most significant factor for the attainment of health for all”. Health as a Bridge for Peace was later adopted -at the 1998 World Health Assembly (WHA 51/A5) as part of the “Health for all in the 21th century”

WHO already undertakes activities in fragile contexts that are supportive of the sustaining peace agenda (UHC in FCV, Polio, IHR reporting/surveillance, mental health and psychosocial support, reintegration of medical personnel of former militias), with 80% of WHO-s humanitarian caseload and 70% of diseases outbreaks in conflict settings, it is all the more important for WHO to develop a global Health and Peace programme and articulates its contribution to social cohesion, mediation reconciliation and post-conflict peacebuilding) clearly.

In June 2019, WHO-s Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) will convene a Technical Meeting to:

Develop a shared understanding and agree on key principles of how health contributes to peace and peacebuilding and its significance to the implementation of WHO-s 13th Global Programme of Work.
Develop a corporate framework defining how WHO intends to contribute to peacebuilding outcomes in fragile and conflict-affected settings through its interventions.
Objectives of the Project:

In line with the recommendations from a technical meeting organized in WHO in June 2019, the consultant will produce a draft corporate framework that defines how WHO can contribute to peacebuilding outcomes in fragile and conflict affected settings through its interventions.

The main objective is to produce a document that will guide WHO in carrying-out its mandate in its areas of competence and comparative advantage (as outlined in the Global Programme of Work 13) towards a more deliberate impact on violence reduction, social cohesion and ultimately peace.

Description of Duties:

Under the supervision of the Head of the unit Humanitarian Policy & Guidance and Technical officer in charge of this area of work, the following tasks will be undertaken:

Desk review (estimated at 5 working days equivalent) of existing documentation on the topic. Develop a supporting document summarizing past experiences where health workers and health organizations have been active in efforts to foster peace through their interventions by 20 June 2019;

Consultations with key Stakeholders (estimated at 10 working days equivalent):

Help preparing and attending the two-day Technical Meeting to be held in Geneva in late June. This includes producing the summary record and action points stemming from the meeting and following up with one-on-one interviews with meeting participants.

Phone, Skype and email consultations with WHO regional offices, selected WHO country offices, and inter-agency stakeholders by 05 July 2019;

Drafting the Global Framework (estimated at 10 working days equivalent): produce a draft corporate framework that defines how WHO can contribute to peacebuilding outcomes in fragile and conflict affected settings by 15 July 2019.

Main Outputs/ Deliverables:

Document 1: Summary Record of the Technical Meeting.
Document 2: Global Framework for WHO Health and Peace activities.
Document 3: Compendium of past experiences in the area of health and peacebuilding.
Duration: 25 working days

Start date: 15 June 2019 - 15 July 2019

Level: P4 (expert- 8 years of relevant professional experience) for 25 days @ 450 per day = 11, 250 USD

Qualifications: Masters level Degree in Social Sciences, Public Health or International Relation

Experience Required:

Experience in policy development and/or working in peacebuilding programmes
Demonstrated experience in producing corporate frameworks and other strategic documents
Demonstrated capacity to bring together diverse perspectives and disparate point of views
Strong project management skills and experience working with other agencies
Experience in Knowledge Management processes, and capturing of best practices
Field experience in fragile, conflict affected and vulnerable countries
Languages:

English is essential. French will be considered an advantage.

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