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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Consultant to conduct a rapid assessment of climate vulnerability and adaptation for Malawi
Location: Malawi
Application Deadline: September 16, 2024
Applicants Welcome: Local research institutions and NGOs
Languages Required: English
Duration of Initial Contract: 18 months
Expected Duration of Assignment: September 2024 – March 2026
Background
Seed Global Health (Seed) envisions a world in which every country is strengthened by a robust health workforce that can meet the health needs of its population. We partner to train nurses, midwives, and physicians, building health teams that can provide high-quality care and save lives. We do this by strengthening clinical care delivery, improving health workforce education, and supporting policies that enable health professionals to succeed. Seed is dedicated to creating lasting change in the health systems of our partner countries: Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia.
Working side-by-side with our partners, we have experienced first-hand how long-term, locally driven investments in the health workforce can and do improve health outcomes in any setting-from urban Zambia to rural Sierra Leone, mid-Ebola outbreak Uganda, and post-cyclone Malawi. The solution is long-term, but the problem is immediate. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the intensifying health effects of climate change, the gap in healthcare standards has been widening in recent years, not narrowing. We must act now to reverse this trend.
Seed Global Health has been operating in Malawi since 2013, collaborating with the Ministry of Health, academic institutions, and regulatory partners to develop sustainable investments in the country’s health system. Seed Malawi’s unique approach focuses on educating and training physicians, nurses, and midwives in both academic and clinical environments for improved healthcare delivery. This approach aims to create a future where Malawi has a robust health workforce that can meet the needs of its population.
Over the past five years (2019-2024), Seed Malawi has been working on three key areas: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH), Mental Health, and Primary Care (Community Health). For the 2024-2030 strategy, Seed has included climate change and health as a growing area of focus.
Seed is contracting an organization to help conduct a rapid Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (rVAA) on behalf of the MoH Malawi.
Details on the assignment are below.
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