Consultant to Develop an Electronic Health Database for Campus Health Facilities in Zimbabwe

job Description

In 2021, UNESCO launched the Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3 PLUS), a project that seeks to ensure that young people in higher and tertiary education institutions (HTEIs) in the Eastern and Southern Africa region realize positive health, education, and gender equality outcomes through sustained reductions in new HIV infections, unintended pregnancy, and gender-based violence. The project will thus enable them to reach their full educational potential and contribute more effectively to the development of their countries and regions as graduates, professionals, and young leaders. Working closely with relevant regional structures, national ministries, HTEIs, and key partners, UNESCO supports innovation in access to life skills-based sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services for HTEI students while advocating for policy and practice changes to make campuses safe and inclusive learning environments for students and staff. In doing so, the project will institutionalize health and well-being programs for students while engaging leadership for long-term commitment and sustainability. In its core interventions, the O3 PLUS project focuses on 4 pillars which are:

Institutional strengthening for sustainability
Student health and well-being
Safe and inclusive campus environments
Evidence-building and knowledge-sharing

Summary
UNESCO seeks the services of a consultant to develop an electronic health database for campus health facilities in Zimbabwe. The consultant will build on the current national District Health Information Software (DHIS) 2 tool which is used to capture health-related information including SRH and develop an electronic version of this database. The database will be critical in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the O3 PLUS project within the country and provide accurate data on key indicators for the project which is disaggregated accordingly. In addition, the consultant will also support the digitalization of campus health facility data capturing and recording systems that will feed into the newly developed electronic health database.

The consultancy
The overall purpose of the consultancy is to develop an electronic health database that is informed by the DHIS 2 tool and can be used to record SRH data for students in HTEIs in Zimbabwe. UNESCO is partnering with ZNFPC to digitalize data capturing and reporting in institutions of higher learning hence, another component of the consultancy will be digitalizing the campus health facility data recording system where data will be captured initially and reflected in the national electronic health database. Taking into account limited internet connectivity the proposed digital database should allow health care providers to record data offline and the system should be able to upload data once internet connectivity has been restored. The database will be hosted by ZNFPC.

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