Foreign economic-aid-related services

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The Department for International Development (DFID) are seeking a service provider to provide technical assistance under a new programme — Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia (SAPHE). DFID is seeking a technical service provider to work with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) of Ethiopia and its directorates and agencies, in particular with the Office of the Health Minister (HM); Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA); the Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency (EHIA); Financing and Resource Mobilization Directorate and all 11 Regional Health Bureaus, for delivering key transformational agendas of the Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP, 2015-2020) for sustaining and accelerating primary health in Ethiopia. The technical service provider will provide technical and managerial assistance to — the Ministerial Transformation Unit (MiTU) to oversee implementation of the HSTP's Health Transformation Agenda; — the Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) of Ethiopia for promoting and protecting public health by ensuring safety and quality of health products and services; — the Financing and Resource Mobilization Directorate of the FMoH for effective implementation of the National Health Financing Strategy (NHFS, 2015-2020) for improving financing, particularly domestic financing, for health; — the Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency (EHIA), including its federal and regional offices, to refine and scale up community and social health insurance schemes for improving financial protection against unplanned health expenditure; — the proposed/newly established Health Economics-Finance Analysis team and Policy and Planning Directorate at FMoH and DFID Ethiopia to undertake economic (such as cost-benefit and value-for-money) analyses and periodic reviews (including half yearly and annual joint review missions) and effective dissemination of these analyses/reviews to inform strategic direction and investment decisions, and to generate efficiency savings; and, — DFID Ethiopia for assessing its health investment in Ethiopia, in particular the Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia (SAPHE) programme. Interested parties should register on the DFID Portal and search for procurement reference ‘PO 7528’ to view all related documents, and should use the ‘Dialogue/ Clarification’ function on the DFID Portal to raise any initial questions.