Consultant: Evidence-based Healthcare

**Contractual Arrangement**: External consultant

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 10 months

**Job Posting**: Dec 16, 2024, 5:25:00 AM

**Closing Date**: Dec 30, 2024, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Egypt-Cairo

**Organization**: EM/SID Science, Information and Dissemination

**Schedule**: Full-time

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**1.** **Purpose of consultancy**

**2.** **Background**

In December 2017, Egypt passed a Universal Health Insurance (UHI) law to accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The new UHI law is regarded as a comprehensive “Health Act” that entails major health sector transformation with fundamental institutional, functional, and regulatory restructuring separating financing from provision of health services.

As stipulated in the law, a new “Universal Health Insurance Agency (UHIA)” has been established to serve as the “purchaser” of health services, a “Egyptian Healthcare Authority (EHA)” established as the public “provider” of health services and, a “General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation (GAHAR)” established as the “accreditor and technical regulator”. This has consequently led to substantial change in the mandates, authorities, responsibilities, and governance framework of the ministry of health and population as well. According to the new aw, insurance coverage for all Egyptians will be rolled-out all over the country in 6 phases over 10-years period. WHO is very keen that the ambitious project will be working towards achieving the health pillar of the sustainable development goals.

Putting Egyptians’ health and quality of life the final goal. UHC will ensure that all Egyptians have the access to early intervention, and prevention coverage, with reasonable acceptable quality. Towards developing the system of UHC with its core of upgrading the quality of provided services, while ensuring the availability of proper benchmarking for its functions and to build on them afterwards to adopt a convenient strategy for the provided health care services in Egypt

WHO Egypt is committed to supporting the government of Egypt in its pursuit to achieve UHC, by addressing current and upcoming challenges through its wealth of technical expertise. WHO Egypt worked with the GoE to operationalize this concept and make UHC a reality. WHO support is based on the priorities needed for health systems strengthening and health security, ranging from Health governance and leadership upgrade, Health workforce development, health services quality enhancement, implementing equitable health financing reforms, medical products and devices support.

In addition to all this, informed by best available evidence from verifiable knowledge, research and reliable information. The programme’s mission is to strengthen the capacity of Member States to improve availability, quality and use of evidence from reliable information, research and other sources of knowledge, and to enhance effective innovations toward Universal Health Coverage and health related Sustainable Development Goals.

**3.** **Work to be performed**

Strengthen the clinical governance and patient safety system at the system level, through promoting good governance and universal health coverage, at the institutional level, through emphasizing the importance of board governance and at the micro level, and through adopting national guidelines to ensure quality and safe healthcare. Also, to support implementation of the multi concept approach for evidence-informed policy-making in the region.

Thus, WHO Egypt will be hiring a consultant to be responsible for the overall completion of the work and expected deliverables:
**Output 1**: Building national capacity on implementation of a clinical governance framework.**

**_ Deliverable 1.1_** Support establishment of a learning platform for the clinical governance course, as a sustainable measure for learning and providing actual training for key concerned providers.

**_ Deliverable 1.2_** Conduct field visits to governorates and hospitals to conduct on-site training based on needs of nationals.

**_ Deliverable 1.3_** Sustain buy-in of national stakeholders, to build national capacity of the highest levels of the insurance organizations and to orchestrate the governance framework required for implementation.

**_Deliverable 1.4_** Support establishing a monitoring framework to follow up on the progress in enrolled health facilities and provide support when required.

**_Deliverable 1.5_** Participate in focused field training activities on key and priority clinical governance pillars in Universal Health Insurance (UHI) governorates

**_ Deliverable 1.6_** Participate in launching of a clinical governance framework in newly enrolled UHI governorates.

**_ Deliverable 1.7_** Document and report on all conducted workshops and field visits, including:

- Production of a policy brief on clinical governance framework implementation in Egypt.
- Development of a peer-reviewed publicat