Deadline: 05-Jul-2024
The Scottish Government (SG) wishes to commission an organisation (the grant holder) with international development expertise in non-communicable diseases, to undertake the scoping, design, delivery and ongoing management of a new palliative care focused programme on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Rwanda, as part of the International Development Fund (IDF), for a 3-year programme with option of a further year pending programming success.
This Health focused International Development Programme in Rwanda is a new programme under the IDF. The overall aim of the NCD Health Programme is to increase financial and political engagement and commitment for the prevention, diagnosis and management of NCDs. In Rwanda the aim is to deliver a programme to improve community palliative care services by building on the PEN and PEN Plus platforms. The NCD Health Programme will take a participatory approach to increasing access to locally led quality NCD care in SG partner countries (Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia), in a way that reduces health inequalities and builds institutional resilience in the African partner country health systems, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (UN SDG3) on good health and wellbeing.
Aims & Objectives
- The Scottish Governments International Health Development Programme aims to:
- Increase financial and political commitment into prevention, diagnosis and management of NCDs.
- Improve access to nationally led quality NCD care.
Funding Information
- The overall Grant available will be up to £400,000 per annum for a period of three years with the option of a further year pending programming success. This is subject to the annual enactment of the Budget (Scotland) Bill for each of those financial years.
Impact
- The NCD Health Programme in Rwanda will contribute to SDG 3, to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages in line with the target of universal health coverage by increasing access to nationally led quality NCD care.
Outcome
- To improve access to palliative care at community level for those living with end stage NCDs including cancer.
Outputs
- The successful bidder will detail outputs, but likely to include:
- Strengthened capacity of community healthcare workforce to deliver palliative care services.
- Increased provision of basic palliative care services at community level.
- Development of appropriate referral pathways.
- Development of evidence to support integration of community palliative care into PEN / Pen Plus.
Responsibilities
- The grant holder will be required to:
- Undertake the scoping, design, development, delivery of the International Health Development Program on community based palliative care in Rwanda.
- Delivery of a community based palliative care approach, which has a significant and measurable impact for patients who require end of life care in Rwanda.
- Evaluation scoping, delivery, analysis and dissemination of results regardless of outcome. This includes understanding and navigating local ethical approval processes, ensuring any programme conducted is in line with national protocols. Following selection of the grant recipient at concept note stage, the grant recipient will be expected to conduct scoping analysis and design of the programme, submitting findings in an inception report.
- Collate and analyse data and share and disseminate results. This includes review of the Theory of Change making recommendations for changes needed in order to achieve the outlined ambitions.
- Ensure comprehensive gender analysis has been conducted for the programme, at all levels, design, delivery, analysis, ensuring alignment with SG’s ambitions on gender mainstreaming (see Annex D)
- Ensure that appropriate conflict sensitivity analysis is conducted and ensure incorporation of findings into the programme.
- Use a participatory approach by involving relevant health professionals, and experts in Scotland and Rwanda in the designing, delivery, analysis and monitoring of the programme and in the publication of results emerging from the evaluation.
- Ensure a robust procurement strategy is in place for the procurement of goods and services that incorporates measures to minimise fiduciary risk. This includes for the procurement of medicines and other commodities. Due diligence needs to be carried out on any downstream recipient of funding and the responsibility for this will sit with the grant holder.
- Design and delivery of an effective monitoring framework for the programme to enable reporting to SG against progress of the programme. An MEL framework should be designed in agreement with the SG’s International Development Team and officials in Rwanda.
- Full reporting to SG as agreed, including written reports on an annual basis which take a strategic view as to the overall progress and success of the grant, and recommendations to enhance impact going forward.
- Demonstrate value for money of SG funds and promote the programme progress on the ground in Scotland and in the PCs, through a communications plan.
Eligibility Criteria
- Legal Personality
- Applicant Organisations must have a legal personality.
- Applications submitted by a consortium must include a lead organisation. There must be a named Project Manager who will liaise with the Scottish Government, as and when required.
- Target Countries
- The support provided by Scotland is also expected to reflect the health development priorities identified by Rwanda, and to complement the work of the Scottish Government and other international development programmes.
- Knowledge & Experience
- Applicants will propose a team containing an appropriate level of subject knowledge and expertise in NCDs, International Development, gender mainstreaming, conflict sensitivity and participatory grant models.
- Applicants will require at least broad familiarity with wider Scottish International Development Strategy.
- Applicants will be able to support and advise on technical elements/methods of delivering development outcomes and interventions in Rwanda.
- Applicants must have experience of operating in Rwanda and relevant networks to enable successful delivery. Applicants must be able to demonstrate clear safeguarding polices.
- Appropriately skilled staff with dedicated time to manage the evidence/ policy interface and capacity to project-manage all meetings and other interactions with SG (virtually) and with stakeholders (in person or virtually) as required.
- Applicants will be able to demonstrate their own expertise in the following areas:
- proven experience in the design and delivery of palliative care, preferably with delivery experience in Rwanda.
- proven experience in gender mainstreaming and participatory grant making and MEL methods
- ability to produce accessible and effective communications, in all formats and to a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
- financial controls and budget management.
- Safeguarding and taking a participatory approach to working with and engaging marginalised communities – Local partners and any sub-grant holders must have required safeguarding credentials to work within communities and with marginalised groups. The grant holder will have overarching responsibility to ensure safeguarding throughout the programme.
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