TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES OF ICCM WITH CMAM GUIDELINES INTO SOMALI. – Mogadishu, Somalia

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES OF ICCM WITH CMAM GUIDELINES INTO SOMALI.

BACKGROUND 

Save the Children has worked in Somalia for over 60 years, and has been implementing health interventions for over a decade. Our long history in Somalia has endowed Save the Children with a comprehensive understanding of the local context, experienced and skilled local staff, and established systems and procedures to effectively implement projects, often in an insecure or unpredictable operating environment.

Integrated community case management (ICCM) is a proven evidence-based strategy that trains, equips and supports various cadres of low literacy community health providers (CHWs) to deliver high-impact treatment interventions in the community for children <5 years. In Somalia, the iCCM Program is implemented by a network of Female Health Workers (FHWs) selected by the community following a structured competence based training and deployed to their respective communities to serve as households’ first point to seek health service and a bridge to facilitate linkage with the affiliated health facilities. FHWs receive regular adequate tracer commodities, supplies and the right equipment and job aids to aid them manage childhood illnesses effectively. The sick children with life threatening conditions are referred to a facility that is able to provide these cases with high level of care. By integrating CMAM with iCCM, CMAM coverage could be significantly increased, lead to substantial cost savings benefiting potentially both iCCM and CMAM outcomes.   While there is evidence from a number of countries of the effectiveness of CMAM and iCCM integration with literate health workers, there is little evidence of feasibility and effectiveness with low literacy health workers, as part of a government led service delivery.

The global pandemic of COVID-19, a disease caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, requires precautionary measures and adaptations to health service delivery worldwide.  As trusted members of the community, Female Health Workers (CHWs) have an important role to play ensuring equitable access and providing lifesaving treatments for the major causes of illness and death in children, namely malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and acute malnutrition.

In the context of Somalia FHW will likely to be called upon to provide other valuable services at community level to reduce and stop transmission of COVID-19 referral of suspected COVID-19 cases (following national protocols), provision of key messages to communities and families regarding care seeking, infection, prevention and control, and home management for mild cases of COVID-19. In response to COVID-19 FHW in the absences of standard nutritional assessment/Surveys to minimize contact with community they can play a vital role nutrition surveillance of the community by collecting nutrition and health information at household level regularly to help in monitoring and early response for any deterioration specially in the context of Somalia where the status already poor. This need developing training of FHWs on the case definitions of the diseases and also simplification of training material for low literacy community workers using similar user-cent red design approaches.  In addition to case management, FHWs are responsible for promoting desired behavior and practices that protect and prevent children from acquiring common diseases including COVID-19. Key role of FHWs/CHWs’ work includes supporting caregivers and families to make decisions on appropriate and timely care-seeking, adhering to public health advice on COVID 19 prevention and limiting direct and indirect mortality.

Objective

The objective of this TOR is to translate the iCCM with CMAM guidelines that have been developed by Save the children into Somali. At the start of the Global Malnutrition project (GMI) Save the Children conducted a feasibility study for integrating CMAM with iCCM for Somalia, and drafted simplified training materials and tools for FHWs to treat children with uncomplicated SAM and MAM at the community near their home. The drafted tools and training materials need finalization after thorough review and feedback from the different stakeholders including MOH. The tools and training materials have been consolidated into a guideline for iCCM with CMAM. The work of Female health workers need regular and adequate supportive supervision to keep them motivated, retain skill and knowledge in providing adequate treatment for sick children in the community. This means improving the capacity of iCCM supervisors and providing easy to use tools that enable them to provide quality supportive supervision required by FHWs to maintain and improve their capacity to provide care for the sick children. A key component of increasing FHW capacity is having guidelines that are written in Somali language. To ensure that FHW are able to effectively implement iCCM with CMAM a guideline was developed in English by SCI. This guideline needs to be translated into Somali to ensure FHW are supported to successfully provide health care services to communities.

Rationale

• Translation of the iCCM with CMAM guideline provides a clear understanding of female health workers from the community
• Most of female health workers don’t know external languages as they are the back bone of the community
• Its mandatory to have somali translation guidelines to our female health workers while they are providing health education messages
• It is written for the somali curriculum

Output:

• Translate approximately 69 pages of  integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) with CMAM guidelines from English into Somali

Qualifications and experience Required

• Be a holder of university degree or equivalent,
• Minimum two (2) years of progressive translation work from English to somali language
• Sound understanding of technical terms and terminology particularly in global health and nutrition
• Be fluent in English, have adult learning skills, Presentation skills and high organizational skills
• Experience in interpretation of official government/UN meetings

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The minimum required documents;

• Technical proposal clearly capturing the approach and methodology
• Financial proposal
• Past similar experience ( Translation services)- please attach previous stamped contract
• Relevant CVS of the lead consultants
• Firm/ individual profile

Interested applicants should submit the minimum required documents with email; CSS.LOGISTICS@savethechildren.org with the subject line of the email body, “TRANSLATION SERVICES OF ICCM WITH CMAM GUIDELINES INTO SOMALI.”

Applications will close by 10:00AM on 30^th  August-2020 at 12:00 Noon.