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Rapid ProDHIS2 National Consultant Job Vacancy at UNICEF
• UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
• Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
• And we never give up.

For every child, deliver.
National Digital Health Strategy 2019-2024
• Timely and accurate data collection is vital to guide appropriate policy and programmatic decision-making. Tanzania has been a front-runner country in digitalized health management information systems and their application into national programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The National digital health strategy 2019-2024 in Tanzania was launched with strong leadership from the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) with a commitment to accelerate the transformation of the Tanzanian healthcare system through innovative, data-driven, client-centric, efficient, effective, and integrated digital health solutions. The strategy outlines strategic goals and priorities that include improving efficiency, accessibility, quality, and continuity of care through the digitalization of health service delivery in a holistic way. UNICEF is committed to supporting the implementation of this strategy, including contributing to the development of new approaches to data generation and use.
• Digital client feedback mechanisms and the Mama na Mwana platform
• Routinised digital client feedback has the potential to inform service improvement and increase social accountability. In 2017-2020, UNICEF piloted the implementation of the Mama na Mwana (MnM) SMS-based client feedback platform in Njombe and Mbeya regions. The objective was to improve service quality and uptake through capturing mothers’ feedback on the health services they received during pregnancy and childbirth. The feedback was provided through SMS and collated into scorecards and discussed during “Social Dialogues” between health care workers and community members. The theory of change was that increased levels of accountability would increase service utilization and improve quality of care and the program evaluation also reported positive results. In 2021, MnM was redesigned for implementation at scale in partnership with President Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG) and Ministry of Health (MoH). The service has now been integrated into the government integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System(iMES) for scorecard development and use.
• The Government of Tanzania has also shown interest in allowing MnM to be integrated with District Health Information System2/Health Management Information System (DHIS2/HMIS) with the vision to accommodate also other areas of primary health care, beyond maternal and New-born care. MnM is overseen by a Steering Committee with representatives. from the government and UNICEF acting as a secretariat. In July 2022, MnM was re-launched in four regions: Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Kigoma and Dodoma in partnership with BMF, CRS and Afya Pamoja.
• As the MnM platform is centralized and running under the GoT approved RapidPro platform, it is now ready to be integrated with other health information systems including the GoT approved comprehensive community health system with the brand name “Unified Community Solution (UCS)”.




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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL TANZANIAN MULTIMEDIA FIRM TO SUPPORT USAID PUBLIC SECTOR SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING PLUS (PS3+) COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVITIES
In effort of supporting the GOT public sector systems strengthening, effective communication between staff and partners, and with USAID, GOT, Development Partner projects, and other stakeholders is critical to the success of PS3+. In view of this, PS3+ is planning to engage a Tanzanian locally registered Multimedia firm to support the communication unit activities including but not limited to development of short videos, high quality photos, social media materials, graphic designs for reports and presentations, designed to reach wider range of audiences with information on project and its impact in realizing quality public services at the local level particularly for underserved populations. The engagement of a local firm aims to contribute to effective implementation, work closely with PS3+ Communications Team to ensure expected quality of output, provide better local knowledge and enhancing sustainability.

This local firm is expected to have hands on experiences in multimedia assignments across various sectors preferably in health, education, public finance, social welfare, agriculture, and nutrition, among others.