Consultancy for Sub-national Health System Readiness for Climate Change Adaptation

• Assess the current capacity of the sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province, including health workforce, health facilities, leadership and governance, locally led volunteers, community structures, climate change induced health risks, and service delivery capacity to support communities to cope with climate change-related diseases and health risks.
• Identify the gaps in strengthening the sub-national health system to better address climate change matters, including climate-sensitive disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, health promotion, community engagement, and facility readiness.
• Facilitate discussions among relevant stakeholders to reach consensus on next actions for strengthening sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from climate-related health risks, with clearly defined roles, priorities, and practical recommendations for implementation.
• Review key documents related to climate change, health, disaster risk management, and adaptation, including national and provincial policies, Preah Vihear health plans and reports, climate risk and vulnerability data, disease surveillance reports on climate-sensitive diseases, available health facility readiness assessments, and relevant grey literature from organizations working on climate-related health risks.
• Conduct Stakeholder Consultations with relevant stakeholders at provincial, district, facility, and community levels, including PHD, OD, RH, HCs, local authorities, village health support groups, NGOs and development partners working in health, climate change, disaster risk reduction, or community resilience.
• Assess the health system readiness in Preah Vihear Province to address climate-related health risks, identifying current capacity and gaps.

Interested consultant(s) and/or consultancy firms are requested to submit the proposal in English contain the following information to email provided in the contact details with the subject“Consultancy for Sub-national health system readiness”