International Consultant: SRHR Funding Landscape Analysis, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Overview

Undertake a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the changing SRHR funding landscape in Sierra Leone and provide strategic recommendations to inform future programming, advocacy and resource mobilization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an inception report, including an assessment framework, data collection tools, and a stakeholder engagement plan.
• Analyze health expenditure trends, donor contribution shifts, and programmatic reports from 2020 to present.
• Conduct structured key informant interviews with officials from the Ministry of Health, UN agencies, Development partners, international NGOs, civil society leaders, and health facility managers.
• Engage key actors through qualitative interviews and focus group discussions across selected urban and rural districts.
• Analyze facility-level and community-level access disruptions, stock-outs, service rollbacks, or quality declines linked to funding changes.
• Evaluate how local feminist networks, youth-led organizations, and health-focused CSOs are adapting to changing funding streams.
• Draft actionable strategies focused on domestic resource integration, joint funding pools, scenario projections, sustainable financing, and priority setting.
• Assess the alignment between donor resource allocation and national frameworks.
• Present preliminary findings during a national validation workshop and incorporate feedback into the final report.
• Draft final narrative report, a power-point presentation summarizing the findings and recommendations, policy brief, and infographics for high-level advocacy.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience in health system financing, SRHR policy, or development sector evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Sierra Leone context preferred).
• Experience in working with the UN, Ministry of Health, NGOs and/or development partner institutions.

Qualifications

Advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Public Health, Medicine, Health Economics, Health Financing, Global Health Policy, or a closely related social science field.

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