Expertise France has developed the project named « Harnessing Effective Approaches on Leadership, coordination and Training - H.E.A.L.T.H. », aiming to strengthen the Ministry of Health coordination and oversight role at national level, the leadership, management, and governance skills at sub-national levels and improve quality of training offered in nursing and midwives’ schools in the three counties of Montserrado, Margibi, and Nimba. The project will complement the interventions package proposed by ACF Liberia and both EF and ACF will coordinate the implementation of their activities.

The following specific objectives will contribute to the achievement of the project goal:
-    SO1: Strengthen the leadership, management, and governance (LMG) skills in health administration of 25 facility managers, six district managers and three CHO of Montserrado, Nimba and Margibi counties.
-    SO2: Strengthen MOH national coordination and oversight role.  
-    SO3: Improve the quality of training in five pilot nursing and midwives’ schools in the three counties.

Objectives and tasks

The mission of the short term expertise is part of the implementation of specific objective 3: Improve the quality of training in five pilot nursing and midwives’ schools in the three counties.

General objectives of the mission are to:
-    adapt/revise the 2019 training curriculum for midwives.
-    pilot a capacity enhancement package of interventions in five nursing/midwives training institutions to improve the quality of pre-service training. 

The Expert will have to implement the following tasks:

-    Consultation and assessment: 
o    Conduct a training needs assessment (TNA) in the 5 selected training institutions (HR, curriculum, infrastructures, equipment, anatomic models, data, etc.) 

-    Update/revision of policy papers: 
o    Adapt/revise the 2019 training curriculum for midwives in close collaboration with the Liberia Board of Nursing and Midwifery.

-    Training: 
o    Train faculty of nursing/midwives’ schools on the new curriculum and assessment tools as well as maintenance of simulation equipment.
o    Train administrators on effective management of training institutions and teaching labs.  

Additionally, the expert will:

o    Work in close collaboration with the Project Manager and the Project Officer to implement activities and liaise with national stakeholders to contribute to project ownership
o    Liaise closely with the Liberia Board of Nursing and Midwifery
o    Liaise with ACF team to ensure the complementarity of activities  
o    Produce expected deliverables on time.