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** Note: Candidates are required to be Vietnamese citizens residing in Vietnam ** Social Impact (SI) is a global development management consulting firm which provides monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. In Vietnam, SI is implementing the USAID/Vietnam Learns program to support USAID staff and partners to implement more efficient, effective, and transparent programs. Today, SI seeks qualified consultants to lead a new research assignment in support the Government of Vietnam’s National Tuberculosis Control Program to better ascertain the role and potential of private sector service provider in helping to treat tuberculosis. - The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the scope and quality of private sector engagement in TB in the three areas previous mentioned. The assumption is that answering the questions outlined below will allow international partners with information they need to build of private sector involvement and reallocate resources in a way that meets specific needs on the ground. - This is a mapping activity that covers issues of quality and coverage for private sector providers. It may lead to a follow-on activity to provide NTP guidance on how to work effective with the private sector.

Function

Consultant, Monitoring and Evaluation

Responsibilities

- SI is seeking a competent consultant to lead a research team consisting of two other researchers to conduct this study. The team leader will concurrently perform the task of an data analyst in Hanoi. - The goal of the study is to identify and answer five questions that will allow international partners with information they need to build of private TB services and public non-NTP involvement and reallocate resources in a way that meets specific needs on the ground. - Over the long-term, the Government of Vietnam hopes to use these answers to improve private sector interventions, which will in the long term provide better patient services by helping NTP to link with private sector providers and support them to provide better services, specifically: diagnosis, referral, and treatment. - The initial questions that will provide tools needs to meet the above objective are currently in draft form. The consultants will be asked to finalize the study questions in consultation with NTP, USAID and USAID/Learns prior to the official launch of research. -Some specific activities that will serve to answer the above questions include: - Finalize /refine study questions. - Team lead work with NTP, USAID, and Learns to develop a plan to collect relevant data. - Develop research tools (both qualitative and quantitative) - Design and disseminate surveys - Key informant interviews with service providers - Regional events to share and validate initial findings - Final report Note: Social-distancing limitations may require the research team to develop/adapt new innovated approaches to apply remote field-based data-collection methods (e.g., patient interviews and observations), which may also be supported by - An external Virtual Research Expert whom the research team will need to coordinate with, and be trained by, to apply innovative remote research approaches depending on the circumstances on the ground at the time the research is being conducted; and/or - A local research partner who may offer on-site support to conduct on-site interview with both staff and patients, or conduct some basic onsite observations. - The research plan may require work to be conducted in two phases or may possibly result in some timelines/deliverable dates adjustments to address: - Phase I – Activities and associated deliverables which can be conducted regardless of possible social-distancing access limitations. - Phase II – Activities which may be impacted by social-distancing access limitations, which may or may not happen concurrently depending on confirmed access and identified solutions.

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