Deadline: 21-Apr-25
UNICEF is seeking expressions of interest to collaborate with a civil society organization (CSO) or a medical teaching center of excellence with proven expertise and existing programs in capacity building for healthcare workers on intensive and routine neonatal/pediatric care, oxygen therapy for hypoxemia management, and infection prevention and control (IPC), through hands-on skills training, assessments, and on-site coaching to improve newborn care and management.
Sectors and Areas of Specialization
- Health
- Maternal and newborn health, including emergency obstetric care
Funding Information
- Indicative Budget
- 16000.00000
Expected Outcomes
- The selected partner will contribute to the achievement of the following outcome and output as part of the UNICEF’s 5-year country programme with the Royal Government of Cambodia, particularly under the Health & Nutrition section’s workplan:
- Outcome: Women, young children, adolescents and caregivers, especially the disadvantaged, increasingly live in a healthier and safer environment, utilize quality RMNCAH&N; services and consistently practice nurturing care, by 2028.
- Output 2: The health system at sub-national levels in targeted provinces have increased management, coordination, and technical capacities to provide and scale-up inclusive, quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH&N;) services across the life cycle as part of Primary Health Care by 2028
Key Results
- Key results are expected from the selected partner under this partnership are as follow:
- Hospital staff from Choam Ksant Referral Hospital of Preah Vihear have improved knowledges, skills and practices in providing essential newborn care at birth, using intensive care equipment and tools to deliver quality neonatal and pediatric care (including oxygen therapy) for small, and sick newborns from on-site coaching at the selected CSO facility with combined hands on clinical and theoretical training in neonatal and pediatric care.
- Hospital staff of four target district referral hospitals (Snoul Referral Hospital in Kratie province; Borkeo Referral Hospital in Ratanakiri province; Kirivong Referral Hospital in Takeo province; and Choam Ksant Referral Hospital in Preah Vihear province), received coaching at their respective hospitals as part of the post-training supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation.
Key Indicators
- Key minimum monitoring indicators for CSO partner:
- Number of health staff from targeted facilities who successfully complete the on-site training program at selected CSO facility, disaggregated by sex
- Percentage of hospital staff demonstrating improved knowledge, skills, and practices, as measured by pre- and post-training assessments.
- Number of on-site coaching to target hospital staff post training / intervention
- Number of hospital staff who demonstrate the ability to apply newly acquired knowledge, skills, and practices in their respective hospitals after completing the training program, as measured by post-training evaluations.
Geographical Location
- Cambodia
- Preah Vihear
- Preah Vihear
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.