Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has appointed a supplier to provide technical assistance under the Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia (SAPHE) programme. The supplier will provide those technical assistance services as set out in the procurement documents to the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) of Ethiopia and its directorates and agencies. The objective of the technical assistance is to help deliver key transformational agendas of the Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP, 2015-2020) for sustaining and accelerating primary health in Ethiopia. The supplier 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.