CON 2025 060 | Advisory and Technical Assistance Services on Public Health Emergency Management and Operations

The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s health program in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) aims at strengthening the resilience and responsiveness of the region’s health system and improving access to healthcare, as part of the organization’s strategy to alleviate the driver of unwanted migration and to reduce health-related risks during displacements and migration cycle. IOM has implemented various health-related projects that contributed to better health outcomes in the BARMM.  

IOM’s project “Building Resilience through Inclusive Governance Healthcare Transformation in BARMM (BRIGHT-BARMM), funded by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), aims to enhance the local capacity of Ministry of Health (MOH) and its provinces and cities/municipalities, to pursue key and cross-cutting reforms in health systems. It will strengthen Health Systems (HS), particularly in areas of health governance and leadership, financing, and data and information, to provide a more conducive setting for implementing Safe Motherhood (SM), Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH), and Global Health Security (GHS) programs.  

One of the focuses of the GHS component is to strengthen the BARMM’s regional and provincial health emergency and disaster response, coordination, and management. IOM will equip and enhance Emergency Operations Center (OpCEN); provide technical assistance and training to frontline workers on maintaining and running OpCEN; and, assist in embedding OpCEN establishment and management to local disaster response and management plans, reinforcing harmonized approach to health-related emergencies in line with global and national standards. IOM will hence engage an expert on Public Health Emergency Operations to conduct a technical needs assessment that will inform these initiatives.    

Under the overall guidance of the Head of Sub-Office in Cotabato City, direct supervision of the National Health Programme Coordinator, and in collaboration with the technical leads, the successful candidate will produce analysis paper, including the assessment results and recommendations to enhance health emergency and disaster response, coordination, and management, and provide technical guidance to the BRIGHT-BARMM project. 

The objective of this consultancy is to map out resources and assess the current capacity of health emergency operations in BARMM at the regional and local levels. This includes reviewing operational plans and procedures, physical structure, ICT infrastructure, information systems and data standards, and other features of OpCEN. It will also evaluate the availability of human resources and their competency to maintain and execute essential functions of OpCEN, including efficient and timely coordination with agencies, response, information sharing, reporting, logistics, admin, and finance. 

 First deliverable – Regional and Provincial Assessment report, including the infrastructure and capacity gaps analysis and recommended infrastructure and training approaches and methodologies to address the gaps, developed based on coordination and consultations with key partners at the regional, provincial, and municipal level, review on existing data, and assessment activities - Deliverable by email by 30 November 2025 (40% of overall contract value) 

Second deliverable – OpCEN design, procedures, equipment specifications, operations, staffing models and information system recommendation report explicitly developed for the MOH and Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi context with consultations from MOH and other key partners - Deliverable by email by 15 December 2025 (30% of overall contract value) 

Final deliverable – Guidance session design and tools for government counterparts and technical guidance note for IOM staff to guide on DRRM-H and OpCEN support and activities; Final Report submission– Third and Final instalment payment - Deliverable by email by 09 January 2026 (30% of overall contract value) 

• Quality and comprehensive: 

Comprehensive technical assessment and analysis of DRRM-H, OpCEN, or Public Health Emergency Capacity of BARMM and Sulu, including diagnostic baseline of systems, staffing structure, infrastructure, ICT, information flows, roles, coordination, logistics, finance/administration. 

OpCEN infrastructure design for structural upgrades, including space programming for storage, logistics bay, monitoring room, briefing room, and workflow zoning, ICT architecture and equipment specifications, power and utilities, accessibility and safety, in compliance with international and national standards. 

Technical guidance notes and tools on Public Health Emergency for IOM Staff 

Training/ Guidance session report, including strategy recommendations, action points, data analysis and interpretation. 

Final report 

• Number and quality of training materials, tools, or policy/ guidelines evaluation reports of the reviewed strategies and processes/guidelines. 

• Number and quality of community engagement efforts, knowledge products, mentoring sessions and interactions with IOM staff and key stakeholders at the National, Regional, and Provincial levels. 

• Feedback from stakeholders on the quality of work and reports. 

• Contribution to achieving project goals and objectives in BARMM, such as strengthened operational and institutional capacity and guidelines or policies, BARMM application of new knowledge, and effective service delivery. 

• Tagalog is required, and any local dialects is desirable.

• Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
• Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
• Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
• Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Delivering results: Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
• Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
• Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
• Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.