Consultant, Support for AMP Technical Assistance Provision, Quality Control of Deliverables, and Optimizing ITN Access in Africa Project Activities

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 191 member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.” The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.

The IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The work of the IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. At Geneva level, the Health and Care Department’s (HCD) New Strategic Direction 2023 focuses on Health Systems Strengthening and WASH Systems Strengthening through four pillars: Global Health Security, Global Health Protection (UHC), Global WASH Services and Transformative Partnership.

The Global Health Protection (UHC) pillar houses and chairs the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP), a global partnership including government, private sector, faith-based and humanitarian organizations, focused on three main activities: (1) coordination of partners involved in insecticide-treated net (ITN) campaign and continuous distribution activities; (2) development of operational guidance for planning and implementing of ITN distribution based on an iterative process; and (3) providing technical assistance to national malaria programmes and partners based on requests. AMP’s activities support achievement of the WHO Global Technical Strategy (GTS) targets for high coverage and use of ITNs. AMP is a workstream within the RBM Partnership to End Malaria’s Country Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC). Harnessing the global leadership and management systems of IFRC, AMP is uniquely positioned to support and advance country-level efforts to optimize ITN distribution and ensure that the right nets reach the right people at the right time through both campaign and continuous distribution channels.

In 2023, IFRC/AMP was awarded a three-year grant by the Gates Foundation focused on optimizing ITN access in Africa. In this grant, AMP will focus on implementing activities across five workstreams designed to address identified gaps. The primary objectives are to enhance data utilization for informed decision-making and to leverage digital tools for optimization of ITN campaigns. These workstreams ultimately aim to reduce the malaria burden through effective malaria prevention with ITNs.

The overall objective of this consultancy is to support the AMP Partnership with the implementation of activities and deliverables outlined in the Gates-funded Optimizing ITN Access in Africa (OPITACA) project, particularly under Workstream 3 (improving use of data for decision-making for ITNs), and Workstream 5 (supplemental capacity building, mentoring, and technical assistance), as detailed below.

Please find here the deliverables overview.

Alignment to the IFRC’s objectives and strategy:

The Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP)’s mandate aligns to the Federation’s Strategy 2030 as it supports the achievement of strategic aims:

1) Save lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises

2) Enable healthy and safe living.

Objective and outcomes:

Objective #1: Scaling up and maintaining universal coverage targets of malaria prevention with ITNs through all available channels including mass distribution campaigns and continuous distribution channels.

Desired outcomes: To address some of the most critical challenges countries, partners, and TA providers face with planning and implementing mass ITN campaigns and to identify cost-effective and efficient strategies with a specific focus on SBC.

Support to be provided to the consultant:

The consultant will be supported by the Lead – Malaria Programmes, Senior Officer – Optimizing ITN Access in Africa project, and the Officer, AMP Country Support.

Time allocation, for budget purposes:

This budget is based on an estimate of 30 billable days plus two duty travel missions.

The consultancy timeframe will be from 20^th October 2025 to 15^th October 2026.

Notes:

• The consultant will be contracted by the IFRC, and the standard contractual terms will apply.
• This consultancy contract includes travel.

Required

• Experience developing qualitative tools for data collection.
• Strong experience developing guidance documents and case studies related to public health topics.
• Technical assistance and backstopping experience for public health interventions.

Required

• Fluency in English and French.
• Strong expertise in Social and Behavior Change (SBC) within the public health sector.

Preferred

• Strong understanding of SBC activities for malaria prevention.

Application Instruction

Please submit your application in English only.