Scope of Work and Deliverables
Purpose: Two consultants will provide HCD advising and oversight of a gender barrier learning study in Indonesia
Place of Performance: Jakarta, Indonesia
Period of Performance: September 2024 (contingent on start date)– February 2025
Activity Manager: Brittany Iskarpatyoti
Activity Internal Project #: 30142.0004.0001
A. Background
The HPV Vaccine Acceleration Program Partners Initiative (HAPPI) Consortium, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 3-year project designed to accelerate HPV vaccination in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Vaccination against HPV is recommended for adolescent young women prior to sexual debut to reduce cervical cancer related mortality and morbidity. It is critical to understand the barriers to accessing and accepting HPV vaccination among adolescent girls and their caregivers so that implementers can develop more effective interventions that address these barriers and increase to uptake in population groups less likely to receive the HPV vaccine. This activity will examine barriers and potential solutions to those gender-related HPV vaccination barriers at the individual, household, community, and health systems levels in Indonesia and Nigeria. The HCD approach will be used to put the adolescents and stakeholders at the center of the problem-solving by engaging them in a collaborative process to understand, think about, create, test, and implement solutions together for impactful and sustainable positive change.
B. Objectives
The primary objective is to better understand the gender-related related barriers to HPV immunization delivery and uptake and identify potential solutions to those barriers among adolescent young women, caregivers, and vaccine program stakeholders. This study will be conducted in Nigeria and Indonesia.
C. Activities
Two individual consultants/ one firm will complete the following activities:
· Support the IRB submission process of this protocol in Indonesia.
· Prepare for, convene and facilitate four workshops with adolescent girls (ages 10-14), and young women (ages 15-18) (AGYW collectively) and their caregivers to explore gender-related barriers confronted throughout the process of seeking and receiving an HPV vaccination.
o Use persona and journey mapping tools with adolescent girls and their caregivers during the workshop to collect data on enablers and barriers to HPV vaccination.
o Facilitate small group ideation exercises to propose, prototype, and test solutions to overcome barriers.
· Prepare for, convene, and facilitate a dissemination and refinement workshop with immunization stakeholders (e.g., district / regional Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) officers, Ministry of Health (MoH) personnel, Ministry of Education personnel, and Ministry of Gender personnel) to review low-fidelity intervention prototypes generated during co-design sessions with adolescent girls and young women.
· Lead qualitative analysis of data from workshops.
· Manage the development of learning and research products of findings.
D. Deliverables and Schedule
The Contractor is responsible for the timely submission of the following deliverables, as part of the SOW:
Del. No. | Deliverable Name | Deliverable Description | Due Date* |
1 | IRB protocol submitted | The protocol for this study is submitted and approved by Indonesia's local IRB. | August 2024 |
2 | Co-creation workshop agenda(s) and necessary tool revisions | Review and adjustment of the indicative workshop agenda that was drafted for the research protocol. This will be done in consultation with the rest of the relevant research activity team. The consultant will also review and adjust the specific tools to be used in the workshops. | August 2024 |
3 | Content design and delivery of four AGYW workshops and their respective caregivers | Development of the session flow and slides for the AGYW and caregiver workshops. Successful delivery of the same workshops with eight AGYW and respectively, eight caregivers in stipulated regions | October 2024 |
4 | Documentation from co-creation workshops (e.g., notes, photos of tools, etc.) | Documentation of organized and synthesized notes from the workshops accompanied by the relevant tools completed by AGYW and caregivers | November 2024 |
5 | Summary report on workshop process and outputs | Development of summary report from all four co-creation workshops and outputs developed by participants. This includes resolving feedback on the report from the relevant research team | December 2024 |
6 | Dissemination and refinement workshop agenda and necessary tool revisions | Review and adjustment of the indicative workshop agenda that was drafted for the research protocol. This will be done in consultation with the rest of the relevant research activity team. The consultant will also review and adjust the tools developed during the co-creation workshop. | January 2025 |
7 | Content design and delivery of dissemination and refinement workshop | Development of the session flow and slides for the dissemination and refinement workshop. Successful delivery of the same workshop with district / regional EPI officers, Ministry of Health personnel, Ministry of Education personnel, and Ministry of Gender personnel) | February 2025 |
8 | Summary report on dissemination and refinement workshop and outcomes | Development of summary report from dissemination and refinement workshop and outputs developed by participants. This includes resolving feedback on the report from the relevant research team | February 2025 |
*Due dates subject to change subject to approval from the Activity Manager named in this scope
The total LOE is approximately equivalent to 40 days.
All required deliverables and reports shall be submitted to the JSI Activity Manager.
E. Consultant Qualifications
General HCD mindsets and skills:
· Values the quality of stakeholder experiences throughout the design and engagement process, consistently keeping in mind participant care and power dynamics, and creating communications and interactions that respect different contexts, strengths, and capabilities.
· Curious and empathetic, listens to understand (vs test), and able to identify unarticulated needs, beliefs, and areas of opportunity (vs specific solutions)
· Balances confidence, humility, and cross-cultural/-structural awareness in order to respectfully explore, question, and articulate assumptions, perspectives, reasoning, norms, biases, and blind spots — in self/individuals, organizations, systems
· Past experience applying HCD process and/or tools preferred.
Skills that are specific to this engagement:
· Experience engaging and working with subject matter / technical experts to quickly grasp a field of practice and understand where HCD approaches can contribute. Preferred familiarity with gender equitable and/ transformative research methods, concepts, and approaches
· Experience designing and implementing outreach and engagement strategies
· Experience facilitating workshops, preference for facilitation experience with young adolescents
· Excellent plain language writing and editing skills
· Familiarity with adult learning theories and their application into learning design and workshops
· Familiarity with qualitative research methods.
· Experience submitting to IRB in Indonesia.
Application Deadline: August 9, 2024
Potential Start Date: September 1, 2024
How to apply:
This posting is open to both individual consultants and consultancy firms. Interested candidates/firms who meet the qualifications should submit a resume (individual) or capability statement (firm) to chisu-indonesia@id.jsi.com and reference the job title: HCD Advisor Consultant. Due to the anticipated volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates and firms will be contacted. We appreciate your understanding and the time taken to apply.
Salary commensurate with experience.
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