The development of a National Community Health Strategy started over five years ago in Uganda. With the support of partners, the Ministry of Health has finally managed to develop a National Community Health Strategy, which promises to deliver on the Ministry of Health’s strategic shift from focusing on curative health to health promotion and prevention. Post Astana PHC Conference, agencies like UNICEF and USAID have recommitted and are investing in promoting Primary Health Care and Community Health as a key strategy to achieving Universal Health Coverage as well as the UN (United Nations) Sustainable Development Goals. MoH drives on the support from UNICEF which specifically commits to providing technical and financial support to the Community Health and Planning Departments to support the development of policies strategies and guidelines. In addition, there is need to unpack how the different strategic directions will be operationalized from district, subcounty, parish, village level down to the households to achieve the desired goal.

Main Objectives:
The main objective of this Consultancy is to support the Government of Uganda to support the development of training manuals for the NCHS to streamline operationalization at different levels of care from national to household level. Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Commissioner Community Health, the Consultant will work closely with the Community Health Department and collaborate with stakeholders to prove technical guidance and expertise in develing this training manual.

Specific objectives:
• Review global and national strategic documents related to training manuals and tools to operationalize NCHS implementation guidelines. Documents to be reviewed should include and may not necessarily be limited to the following:
• National community health strategy & NCHS implementation guidelines
• RMNCAH Sharpened Plan & VHT strategy
• VHT and CHEWs training manuals
• ICCM implementation guidelines
• Program specific community health packages and implementation guidelines (Nutrition, TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria etc.)
• Develop training manual & curriculum
• Develop mentorship tools & checklist
• Develop HCW and CHW Job-aids
• Develop training materials including standard training slide for the different level

The Community Health Department of the Ministry of Health will be the counterpart and the consultant will work closely with the focal point from the department in the execution of this assignment:
• Liaise with MoH and key stakeholders
• Organize stakeholder consultations
• Provide the minutes of any meetings
• Discuss the outputs and outcomes with relevant MoH TWG members