Consultant national: Composante Santé publique / santé-environnement / épidémiologie / adaptation du secteur de la santé au changement climatique
Organizational Context
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Burkina Faso is addressing the growing threat of climate change to public health. Despite national commitments, key strategic documents on climate change adaptation in the health sector are outdated. The Ministry of Health, with WHO support, seeks to update these by conducting a vulnerability and adaptation assessment and developing a new National Adaptation Plan for the health sector.
Job Purpose
This consultancy aims to lead the public health and strategic planning component of Burkina Faso's national health sector vulnerability and adaptation assessment to climate change. The role involves coordinating the development of the new National Adaptation Plan for the health sector, working collaboratively with another national consultant. The objective is to identify climate-related health risks, assess current health system capacities, and define priority adaptation measures to enhance the health sector's resilience to climate change impacts, ensuring alignment with global and national climate change strategies.
Responsibilities
Develop detailed methodology, work plan, timeline, and implementation tools in collaboration with Consultant 2. Conduct a review of the 2017 health sector Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (EVA) and the 2014-2015 National Adaptation Plan (PNA) for the health sector, focusing on health, institutional, strategic, and resilience dimensions. Gather and analyze stakeholder concerns regarding health sector vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Contribute to the launch meeting and facilitate national workshops for scoping, data validation, finalization, and adoption of reports. Lead the analysis of health vulnerability, adaptation capacities, and health system resilience, integrating climate-health data. Primarily draft the provisional and final EVA report for the health sector. Primarily draft the initial and final versions of the new two-year National Adaptation Plan (PNA) for the health sector. Develop the logical framework, monitoring and evaluation framework, and investment planning elements for the new PNA. Incorporate amendments from workshops and ensure final document coherence with Consultant 2.
Work Experience
Essential: Minimum five years of relevant professional experience in environmental health and/or epidemiology. Minimum two years of experience in conducting climate risk assessments for the health sector and in environmental programs. Proven experience in developing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the UNFCCC. Desirable: Experience and expertise in climate change. Experience in a similar role with the UN system, health sector partners, WHO, or other international partners.
Skills
Functional Skills: Excellent command of the 'One Health' approach, strategic planning (logical frameworks, budgets), Burkina Faso health policies, and facilitating high-level workshops. Excellent knowledge of UNFCCC and the PNA process. Proficiency in vulnerability and resilience analysis methods. Ability to develop logical frameworks, monitoring and evaluation plans, and investment plans. Ability to work with multiple stakeholders in a multi-sectoral environment. WHO Core Competencies: Communicate credibly and effectively, Respect and promote individual and cultural differences, Foster integration and teamwork, Produce results. Languages: Essential: Excellent knowledge of French. Desirable: Working knowledge of English.