Ref.
2024/EEDFPLRDCDSDM/11695
Job offer type
Experts
Type of contract
Service contract
Activity sectors
Climate and Energy ; Sustainable development ; Prevention, reduction and adaptation to natural, accidental and malicious risks ; Health systems
Sub-theme
Climate change ; Water and sanitation ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Disaster preparedness and response ; Health services delivery ; Primary health care
Deadline date
2024/08/23 17:39
Duration of the assignment
Short term
Contract
Freelancer
Duration
40 jours
Département Santé - DEPSAN > Pôle Renforcement des systèmes de santé
Published on : 2024/08/06
This service is part of the preparatory study for the project to rebuild the Melsisi health centre and provide support for its reopening. For Axis 4 "Feasibility study for rehabilitation of the Melsisi health centre, ensuring its climate resilience ", the expected deliverables are described below:
1. Deliverable 1: Methodological proposal, detailing the working approach, tools, planned methodology and detailed work schedule.
2. Deliverable 2: The detailed functional and technical programme and its appendices, which must include the following elements:
a. Scenario 1: Completion of the renovation of the health centre and possible small extension to it, including the following elements:
- Confirm the extent of the work required to complete and secure the work previously carried out;
- Consider a limited extension to the building, as required;
- Determine the associated equipment plan required;
- Propose a consolidated costing, a detailed technical programme and a carbon footprint;
- Draw up the contract documents needed to recruit the project management team: call for expressions of interest, call for proposals in accordance with AFD guidelines.
b. Scenario 2: Construction of a new infrastructure, including the following elements:
- Determine the associated equipment plan required;
- Propose a detailed technical programme (including the functional programme) for the infrastructure based on the selected scenario (with a consolidated costing), including a carbon footprint;
- Draw up the contract documents required to recruit the project management team: call for expressions of interest, call for proposals in accordance with AFD guidelines.
3. Deliverable 3: Project cost estimates: on the basis of the studies carried out, the service provider will have to propose a quantified and stabilised estimate of the total cost of the operation excluding taxes, including VAT and end-of-site value, for all the structural works (roads, networks, technical premises, incinerator) and by type of premises. More specifically, the estimate will reflect:
In April 2020, the passage of Cyclone Harold over the northern islands of Vanuatu destroyed half of the school buildings and medical infrastructure, including the buildings of the Melsisi health centre, located on the island of Pentecost, exacerbating the vulnerability of communities in remote areas. During the French President's visit to Vanuatu in July 2023, a commitment was made to rebuild the improved Melsisi health centre.
The Melsisi health centre, on the island of Pentecost, is run by a Catholic mission which has an operating agreement with the Ministry of Health. The estimated population of the Melsisi health area is less than 10,000. The health centre is under the administrative and technical supervision of the Penama Provincial Health Department, which in principle provides and pays for the staff, comprising a prescribing nurse, a midwife, two nurses, a community health worker and a driver. It is planned to rebuild an "improved" health centre, which will require the presence of a doctor, although the mobilisation and training of health human resources in Melsisi will be one of the key challenges of the project.
In this context, the project aims to improve access to quality healthcare in Vanuatu, through :
1. Rebuilding the Melsisi health centre;
2. Support for its opening and commissioning;
3. Support, where necessary, to strengthen nursing training.
The project will also try to take account of gender issues specific to the sector and will incorporate climate challenges by improving the resilience of the infrastructure built. One of the challenges of the study's initial diagnosis will also be to analyse access to healthcare for the people of Melsisi.
The aim of this service is therefore to carry out the preparatory study for the project to rebuild the Melsisi health centre, and to provide support for its reopening. In this context, Expertise France is seeking to mobilise French and regional public and/or private and/or Vanuatu-based expertise (preferably already based in Vanuatu or in the Pacific region) to respond to the areas of intervention of this study (see below):
i. Diagnostic components:
ii. Formulation priorities :
- Component 4: feasibility of rehabilitating the health centre while ensuring its climatic resilience ;
- Component 5: development of a support programme for the opening;
- Component 6 (optional): Support for the training of health human resources
The proposed technical assistance will have to take into account the requests made by the Vanuatu counterparts during the initial discussions to be held in the summer of 2024, as well as any strategic documents that may be shared.
In particular, the service provider will have to mobilise the following required skills:
Experience of working in Vanuatu or the surrounding region would be highly recommended.
The experts' application must include :
- CV of the team of experts, including references ;
- Profile of the applicant organisation;
- A signed and scanned technical proposal presenting the understanding of these terms of reference, a description of the envisaged methodology, a risk analysis, a description of the division of labour between the experts, a provisional timetable and a budget.
A technical proposal and a financial proposal must be submitted by the deadline by email to the following address: nicolas.andrade@expertisefrance.fr
The selection process for candidates will be based on the following criteria :
Deadline for application : 2024/08/23 17:39
Expertise France is the public agency for designing and implementing international technical cooperation projects. The agency operates around four key priorities :
In these areas, Expertise France conducts capacity-building initiatives and manages project implementation, leveraging technical expertise and acting as a project coordinator. This involves combining public sector expertise with private sector skills to drive impactful results.