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Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme
CLOSEDLagos, Nigeria
Closing: May 24, 2024
5 days remainingPublished: May 15, 2024 (4 days ago)
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The MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity (The project) project applies best practices and explores innovations to increase equitable immunization coverage in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) partner countries. Aligning with global strategies such as the Immunization Agenda 2030 and Gavi 5.0, the project builds the capacity of countries to identify and overcome barriers to reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children and older populations with life-saving vaccines and other integrated health services.
John Snow Incorporated (JSI) is a U.S.- based not- for- profit organization that supports Nigeria to strengthen health systems. The project is part of a suite of innovative awards funded by USAID to holistically improve family planning and maternal and child health in partner countries around the world. M-RITE has improved immunization coverage across five states in Nigeria; Bayelsa, Edo, Imo, Jigawa and Lagos State.
Immunization programs have long overlooked gender-related barriers to immunization. Notably, household surveys in most countries reveal no real difference in vaccination coverage between boys and girls. The key is understanding the impact that gender-related barriers have on women as caregivers. M-RITE recognizes that these barriers lie on the critical pathway to improving equity and must be addressed so that all children are protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
A review by the Equity Reference Group for Immunization identified several key gender-related barriers affecting women that, in turn, affect vaccination of all children. In addition to the physical, financial, and cultural barriers and time constraints that often limit women’s access to services for themselves, many women have lower status than men within their communities and families, restricting their control over family resources and decisions on care for their children. In many instances, women also have lower levels of education and health literacy than men yet commonly are relied upon as the primary caregivers for their families. As such, they are responsible for taking their children to receive care, often experiencing poor quality services but having little input as to where, when, or how those services are provided.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these inequities and increased barriers to access and use of vaccination services. With global immunization coverage stalled for the past decade at 85 percent (with much lower coverage in urban slums, rural remote areas, and conflict and fragile settings), an urgent need exists to identify and address these obstacles. The project is teaming up with WHO; UNICEF; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and other key players to implement the strategies reflected in the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) and Gavi’s gender policy adopted in 2020.
IA2030 calls for tailored strategies to understand and overcome gender-related barriers faced by caregivers and health workers to immunization service access. Similarly, Gavi’s multi-faceted gender policy calls for: building in-country capacity to recognize and analyse gender-related barriers; advocating for action; promoting an integrated, gender-sensitive approach to reach zero-dose and under-immunized children and communities; learning from emerging experience; and expanding partnerships beyond the health sector.
Building on this groundswell of attention and support, the project is collaborating with partners at global, regional, country, subnational, and community levels to promote practical steps to:
Assess:
Advocate and communicate:
Engage:
Increase female representation in co-creating interventions, applying a gender lens to design activities to reduce zero-dose and under-immunized children. Two ways of doing so are to:
Increase male support:
Learn and share:
Measure:
Enhance protection:
Purpose of the Gender Analysis
The purpose of this gender analysis is to inform the integration of gender equality considerations in our design, planning, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Per USAID Automated Directives System (ADS) 205, USAID implementing partners are responsible for integrating gender in programming.
This gender analysis will examine key gender dynamics and considerations that will influence and inform M-RITE activities and how gender is integrated throughout the life of the project. The analysis will identify gender-based constraints to equitable participation and access of men and women in immunization programs and services in Bayelsa, Edo, Imo, Jigawa and Lagos states and:
The goal of the gender analysis is to provideresult in practical recommendations for how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment across the program. Based on the gender analysis, the project will develop a gender integration strategy with recommendations that support what the project is already doing including:
Recommendations that consider:
Analytical Framework for the Gender Analysis
Gender Analysis Domains: The analysis will gather data to examine gender dynamics across the five gender analysis domains, per USAID ADS 205:
Intermediary Result 1:
Intermediary Result 2:
Focus Areas of Analysis
The gender analysis will consider how characteristics like age, education, and geographic location affect how participants and beneficiaries interact with the Project:
Methodology
The analysis will utilize a mixed-method approach. Quantitative and/or Qualitative data will be accessed and analysed through:
Task & Deliverables:
The consultant will:
Level of Effort
Proposed Activities to be Undertaken | Days |
Preliminary meetings and fine-tuning of gender analysis proposal | 5 |
Main work described in approved proposal, including desk review, tools development, staff training and data collection | 10 |
Preparation and submission of Draft gender analysis report | 3 |
Presentation of gender analysis findings to relevant stakeholders | 1 |
Facilitate Gender and Inclusion Action plan/Strategy development | 2 |
Submission of Final Report | 1 |
Total | 22 |
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