Health Resource Facility for Australia’s Aid Program

1. Health Resource Facility for Australia’s Aid Program An introduction

2. The HRF: an overview • Basic facts • Background • The team • What we offer • Our services & expertise • Recent assignments • Registering as a consultant • Process • Find out more

3. Basic facts • Client: AusAID • January 2009 to 2014 • All partner countries with AusAID health and HIV programme • major focus Asia Pacific • but also Africa & the Middle East.  • Office in Canberra (15 Barry Drive)

4. Background to the HRF • Our goal: • “To contribute to improvements in the performance of Australia’s international development activities in the health sector in partner countries, including through contributions to health policy and strategic planning processes, and health programming activities; and thereby contributing to improving the health of citizens in Australia’s partner countries”. • Our objective: • “to support AusAID’s health and HIV policy and program development to drive a more efficient return on investment and improve the performance of Austrlia’s development activities in the health sector, including through policy support, program support and capacity development”.

5. The team

6. What we offer • Our clients have prompt access to: • a diverse and broad range of health and HIV expertise from Australia and internationally • high-quality analysis/ synthesis reports and policy advice on a wide range of health and HIV topics as required. • In the first three years of operation we provided AusAID staff with over 5450 days of consultancy through 129 separate service orders.

7. HRF services • Source, quality assure and manage technical assistance • Technical advice and information / knowledge services • Professional development services in health and HIV for AusAID staff All our services are accessible through the HRF Help Desk

8. Our expertise • Significant developing country experience • Understanding of aid architecture for health, including sector approaches and working with government systems • Experience of the Paris Principles for aid effectiveness

9. Our expertise (2) • Key areas of expertise include: • Health service delivery • Health sector planning • Health systems, including human resources and financing • Health sector performance assessment, M&E • HIV, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health • Communicable and non communicable diseases • Disability

10. Recent assignments • Development of a concept document for the AusAID contribution to the Health Sector in Solomon Islands • A short brief to AusAID on rheumatic heart disease in Tuvalu and the Pacific • Guidance to AusAID on Sector Wide Approaches • Support with the recruitment of a Maternal and Child Health Advisor- Ethiopia • A situation analysis of under-nutrition in Sri Lanka

11. Recent assignments (2) • High level policy advice to AusAID on non-communicable diseases • Finance support to the Ministry of Health Vanuatu • Appraisal of Burma’s Three Diseases Fund and support to the design of its successor • Joint Strategic Assessment of Artemisinin Resistant Malaria Response within the Greater Mekong Subregion • Joint strategic assessment of the options for addressing HIV in South East Asia • A summary of evidence on the impact of the global economic crisis on health ODA.

12. Registering as a consultant • Via the website – www.australianaidhrf.com.au • Download a CV template • Upload to register • Selected CVs added to the database • CV database searched for relevant assignments

13. What’s the process? • AusAID tasks the HRF to source consultants • HRF agrees TORs with AusAID • HRF sources and quality assures best available consultants • Up to 3 CVs put forward for each position with fee rate • AusAID makes selection • HRF informs consultants

14. Find out more… • For more information about the HRF please visit us at: www.australianaidhrf.com.au • Or email the Help Desk at: helpdesk@australianaidhrf.com.au.

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