Transcript Health Resource Facility

AusAID Health Resource
Facility
An introduction
The Health Resource Facility is an Australian Government, AusAID-funded initiative managed by HLSP in association with IDSS
The HRF: an overview
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Basic facts
Background
The team
What we offer
Our services & expertise
Recent assignments
Registering as a consultant
Process
Find out more
Basic facts
• Client: AusAID
• January 2009 to 2014
• All partner countries with AusAID health and HIV
programme
– major focus Asia Pacific
– but also Africa & the Middle East.
• Office in Canberra (15 Barry Drive)
Background to the HRF
• Our goal:
– “To contribute to improvements in the performance of Australia’s
international development activities in the health sector in partner
countries, including through contributions to health policy and strategic
planning processes, and health programming activities; and thereby
contributing to improving the health of citizens in Australia’s partner
countries”.
• Our objective:
– “to support AusAID’s health and HIV policy and program development
to drive a more efficient return on investment and improve the
performance of Austrlia’s development activities in the health sector,
including through policy support, program support and capacity
development”.
The team
Jackie Mundy
Director
Rebecca Dodd
Health Specialist
Lucy Palmer
Health Specialist
Jody Tate
Junior Health Specialist
Charley Barber
Operations Manager
Kathryn Pachnatz
Operations Officer
Siobhan Tier
Operations Officer
Ingrid Carlier
Operations Officer
Ken Grant
Technical Director
What we offer
• Our clients have prompt access to:
– a diverse and broad range of health and HIV
expertise from Australia and internationally
– high-quality analysis/ synthesis reports and policy
advice on a wide range of health and HIV topics as
required.
• In the first three years of operation we provided
AusAID staff with over 5450 days of consultancy
through 129 separate service orders.
HRF services
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Source, quality assure and manage technical
assistance
Technical advice and information / knowledge
services
Professional development services in health
and HIV for AusAID staff
All our services are accessible through the HRF Help Desk
Our expertise
• Significant developing country
experience
• Understanding of aid
architecture for health,
including sector approaches
and working with government
systems
• Experience of the Paris
Principles for aid effectiveness
Our expertise (2)
• Key areas of expertise include:
– Health service delivery
– Health sector planning
– Health systems, including human resources and
financing
– Health sector performance assessment, M&E
– HIV, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and
child health
– Communicable and non communicable diseases
– Disability
Recent assignments
• Development of a concept document for the
AusAID contribution to the Health Sector in
Solomon Islands
• A short brief to AusAID on rheumatic heart
disease in Tuvalu and the Pacific
• Guidance to AusAID on Sector Wide
Approaches
• Support with the recruitment of a Maternal and
Child Health Advisor- Ethiopia
• A situation analysis of under-nutrition in Sri
Lanka
Recent assignments (2)
• High level policy advice to AusAID on noncommunicable diseases
• Finance support to the Ministry of Health Vanuatu
• Appraisal of Burma’s Three Diseases Fund and
support to the design of its successor
• Joint Strategic Assessment of Artemisinin Resistant
Malaria Response within the Greater Mekong
Subregion
• Joint strategic assessment of the options for
addressing HIV in South East Asia
• A summary of evidence on the impact of the global
economic crisis on health ODA.
Registering as a consultant
• Via the website –
www.ausaidhrf.com.au
• Download a CV
template
• Upload to register
• Selected CVs added to
the database
• CV database searched
for relevant
assignments
What’s the process?
1. AusAID tasks the HRF to source consultants
2. HRF agrees TORs with AusAID
3. HRF sources and quality assures best
available consultants
4. Up to 3 CVs put forward for each position with
fee rate
5. AusAID makes selection
6. HRF informs consultants
Find out more…
• For more information
about the HRF please
visit us at:
www.ausaidhrf.com.au
• Or email the Help
Desk at:
[email protected]
om.au.
www.ausaidhrf.com.au
The Health Resource Facility is an Australian Government, AusAID-funded initiative managed by HLSP in association with IDSS