Background

On 08 November 2013, when category 5 Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, made landfall in the eastern Visayas, it caused extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure across nine of the Philippine’s poorest provinces. It is the most powerful storm ever recorded. Rain fell at rates of up to 30 mm per hour, winds reached upwards of 315 km/h and massive storm surges up to 5-6 meters high hit coastal areas. The islands of Leyte and Samar were hardest hit: 90 percent of the infrastructure of Leyte’s largest urban center, Tacloban City, was destroyed.

Typhoon Haiyan flattened villages, towns and cities. Over one million houses, government administrative and social service facilities have been totally or partially destroyed, creating massive amounts of debris, with nearly one million tons in Tacloban alone. Removing the debris, extraction and management of recyclables, management of municipal solid waste and hazardous waste in a sustainable manner is a necessary condition to start or facilitate immediate, medium- and long term recovery and development.

UNDP's Waste Management Component (WMC) is designed to address significant public health concerns and environmental impacts associated with the recovery/ disposal of typhoon and other waste during the early recovery phase through:

• Interim/ emergency rehabilitation of critical waste management infrastructure; and
• Strengthening the capacity of Local Government Units in waste management.

UNDP's WMC team consists of four international waste management/water and sanitation (WASH) engineers and scientists, with experience in the private sector and prior disasters notably the Aceh Tsunami, Haiti and Typhoon Pablo, supported by national staff. Their tasks consist partially in the transformation of uncontrolled dumpsites into controlled dumpsites, construction of new sanitary landfills and management of existing sanitary landfills.

Part of the WMC's strategy is to build capacity of the LGUs and the the public service institutions to allow them to provide a higher level of service to the local population. The WMC is operating within the UNDP’s larger framework of disaster response, which includes a livelihood program, designed to both create new livelihoods and improve existing livelihoods in the typhoon affected areas.

Under this livelihoods program, UNDP is training a number of unemployed individuals through a specialised healthcare housekeeping TESDA training course. The course itself will provide them with a certificate of competency leading to NCII, however the overarching project goes further than that. UNDP has also partnered with two local hospitals, namely Mother of Mercy Hospital and Tacloban Doctor’s Hospital who will act as host organisations, where on-the-job training will take place. These host organisations will also then hire the trainees upon successful and satisfactory completion of the course.

The Healthcare Housekeeping Service livelihoods project described above will yield many social dividends, including but not limited to improved healthcare waste management at a local level. In this context, the WMC will be providing support to the livelihoods program in the form of support towards sustainability of the project. The WMC is therefore hiring a national consultant to act as a course sustainability advisor. The consultant’s main role will be to diligently observe the roll-out of the course, and to actively interact with all internal and external project stakeholders. The consultant’s main output will be a detailed report which would identify the most likely agency for long term take-over of the project, and detail any design improvements to be brought to the project which would be most effective at allowing for sustainability.

Please go to the link below to access the detailed Terms of Reference (TOR); template of the financial proposal; and the UNDP General Conditions of the Contract.

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=17699.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will be expected to attend the training course as an observer for approximately one day per week. During that observation, the consultant will be expected to identify gaps or weaknesses in the training curriculum. These gaps may include subjects that are not covered, or themes which are overemphasised.

As well as the observations in the classrooms, the consultant will be expected to meet with a wide array of stakeholders. These stakeholders would include, but not be limited to the Department of Health, the World Health Organisation, the regional, provincial and local health departments, the health cluster, employee associations using interesting models which may be replicable. The main objective of these meetings would be to identify an agency who might be able to take over this program and replicate it in the longer term.

After these observations and meetings, the consultant would be expected to finalise a report which would detail:

• Most eligible take-over agency for sustainability of program; and
• Design improvements to allow for most efficient handover and sustainable transfer of the project.

These could include but would not be limited to:

• Adjustment  in duration of the training through detailed curriculum revisions;
• Improvement of curriculum quality based on keen understanding of host organisations’ requirements;
• Improvement in the over-all approach or methodology;
• Identification of a greater range of host organisations, across different sectors (public hospitals, private housekeeping agencies, geographically distant hosts, etc); and
• Lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities.

To develop this report, the consultant would be expected to take input from a wide range of stakeholders, including but not limited to: the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Department of Health (DoH), TESDA, schools capable of administering the training, hospitals and housekeeping agencies capable of acting as host organisations, UNDP livelihoods programmatic in-charges. The UNDP would be facilitating some of these meetings, but the consultant would be expected to leverage access to others through their own means.

Competencies

Corporate competencies

• Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

 Functional and technical competencies

• Strong knowledge of the latest theories and concepts in urban development and sustainable cities in the Philippines and broader region;
• Strong analytical and research skills;
• Familiarity with current actors working on urban development challenges in the Philippines;
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate with different stakeholders;
• Excellent in oral and written communication; have skills to write independent reports, documents, maintain systems and procedures in administering programs.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: 

• Any relevant degree in hospital management, nursing, healthcare administration or other discipline.

Experience:

• At least three years of experience directly in a hospital setting, preferably as a front-line healthcare provider;
• Experience in training provision, curriculum design and workshop facilitation required;
• Experience of design and roll-out of development projects within a UN agency or INGO/NGO an asset; and
• Very good knowledge of healthcare terminology.

Language Requirements:

• Fluent in English language, spoken and written;
• Fluent in Tagalog;
• Ability to speak Warai-Warai, Cebuano and other local languages a distinct advantage.