National Consultant - Desk Review and Update of Essential Package of Health Services in Nigeria for EPHFs

Conducts a national desk review and update of Nigeria’s essential health-service package, integrating Essential Public Health Functions into service delivery. The consultancy develops an assessment framework, analyses gaps and comparable practice, convenes stakeholder validation and delivers recommendations, reports and a final package to strengthen health security and universal health coverage.

• Conduct an inception meeting with relevant stakeholders
• Develop an inception report and workplan
• Review national, regional and international documents systematically
• Develop an EPHF assessment and mapping framework
• Undertake gap analysis of existing service packages
• Document best practices from comparable countries
• Draft recommendations for integrating EPHFs into service packages
• Facilitate stakeholder review and validation of the updated essential health-services package

• Advanced university degree in public health, health policy and planning, epidemiology, health systems, health economics, medicine or a related field
• At least 5–7 years of relevant public-health or health-systems-strengthening experience
• Experience in health policy analysis and health-service-package development
• Understanding of Nigeria’s health system and the WHO Essential Public Health Functions framework
• Experience conducting desk reviews, policy analyses and technical report writing
• Expert knowledge of English

• Health Policy Analysis
• Health Systems Strengthening
• Desk Review
• Technical Report Writing
• Stakeholder Facilitation
• Gap Analysis

• Travel for stakeholder consultations and meetings outside Abuja is expected
• Monthly consultancy fee is linked to the National Professional Officer NO-C salary scale for Abuja
• Official source conflict: the structured contract duration states 2 months while the narrative states 6 to 8 weeks