The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in South Sudan to cost the country’s next Health Sector Strategic Plan (2022 – 2026).

Health sector strategic planning aims at identifying, sequencing, and timing medium-term interventions for the health sector in a comprehensive way to guide activities and investments necessary for achieving medium-term outcomes and impact. The process of developing Health Sector Strategic Plans is therefore based on a thorough analysis of the current situation, lessons learned from previous plans, expected available resources and chosen priorities, within an overall government-wide policy framework. For South Sudan, the National Development Strategy (2018-2023) and the National Health Policy (2016 – 2026) provide the overall policy frameworks for the development of its Health Sector Strategic Plans.

The current Health Sector Strategic Plan for South Sudan (2017 – 2022), which expires in June 2022, was developed to guide implementation of the first phase of the country’s National Health Policy (2016 – 2026). At the end of 2021, the country conducted a Health Sector Performance Review that assessed the progress made towards achieving the HSSP 2017 – 2022 targets, the challenges faced, and the actions needed to improve health sector performance. These lessons learned, will contribute to the development of the next HSSP.

The country is therefore embarking on the development of the next HSSP (2022 – 2026) to guide implementation of the second phase of its National Health Policy (2016 – 2026), in order to define the strategic approaches, key interventions, resource requirements and implementation framework to guide the Ministry of Health and partners in delivering health services in the country.

Duties:

• Orient stakeholders and collaborating consultants on use of the one health costing tool
• Review the outcomes and strategic interventions of the HSSP
• Generate the cost estimates for options/scenarios of outcome targets
• Facilitate dialogue on the various costing and funding scenarios for the HSSP
• Determine the funding gaps, estimates, and projections required to implement the HSSP based on the consensus reached during the dialogue process
• Finalize the costing of the HSSP and facilitate dialogue with stakeholders for its validation