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Consultant for the assessment, training and development of media to raise awareness among villagers on illness reduction.

Stateless/Ethnic Minority Health and Integration Project (SHIP), Chiang Rai Province, Thailand  

ADRA Thailand

1. Background

ADRA Thailand is a humanitarian organization delivering relief and assistance to people in need across Thailand. With a physical presence in six provinces, our work focuses on areas such as human trafficking, human rights, education, livelihoods and health. ADRA works with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible actions.

The Stateless/Ethnic Minority Health and Integration Project (SHIP) is designed to respond to the needs of remote target villages which are home to a sizeable stateless population within a wider minority tribal population. Adolescent girls have a high rate of pregnancy. Impoverished grandparents take on childcare responsibilities along with low-paying livelihoods, while youth migrate to the cities. This complex situation leads to a high probability for poverty/trafficking vulnerability. Poverty is exacerbated by remoteness which limits access to health services and increases the expense for medical or preventive health related transport. Village residents rely on limited services, often medicating themselves with inappropriate and expensive pharmaceuticals and forgo important basic and preventive Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services and care. Building on the gains from the work of the Protection Against Trafficking in Hill tribe Communities (PATH) particularly in the villages of Mae Kham Noi, Pong Hi and Hua Kra which are among the target communities, the project focuses primarily on improving childcare and increased basic health care services as well as sensitization on child rights, trafficking and statelessness.

The project is made possible with funding through the foundations Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung and Stiftung Kinderzukunft and joint collaboration with the Sub-District Administration Office and the Health Promotion Centers.

2. Project Objective

SHIP’s overall objective is to contribute to improved resilience of poor ethnic minorities in rural Chiang Rai Province to child/human trafficking through improved health conditions. The project specific objective is to improve the health conditions of poor ethnic minority villager from six marginalized hill tribe communities in Chiang Rai Province. The project is operating a mobile clinic in those 6 villages. It has been observed that many of the ailments that are being treated can be avoided.

3. Purpose of the assignment

The consultant will be assigned to assess further the above mentioned observations of the avoidable ailments, to develop appropriate materials for training and sensitization as well as deliver a training for increasing awareness of illness reduction in 6 target villages incorporating lessons learned from the mobile clinic.

4. Results of Service

• Conduct an assessment on practices that address many of the illnesses that could be avoided through behaviour change of the villagers in their daily routine and give recommendations.

• Prepare an assessment report on the findings to be reviewed and accepted before deliver of training.

• Develop/Create IEC materials for distribution.

• Develop materials and conduct a training creating awareness on practices that address many of the illnesses that most of the mobile clinic user’s manifest and on behaviour change as a path to a lifestyle that avoids these. For community leader and village health volunteer from 6 villages 42 people (7 people per village) 1 time

• Provide a written final report (including the report on the training) in Thai and English.

5. Timeline

The Consultant is required to submit said deliverables by September 23, 2022.

6. Qualification and experience of the consultant

The consultant should have the following qualification and experience:

• Experience in health-related assessments

• Experience in developing and conducting trainings

• Experience in design IEC materials/training-materials

• Previous experience in health work with ethnic groups. 

7. How to Apply

Interested individuals or firms will be required to send in their written proposal via e-mail. In the subject line of the e-mail, please write “Consultant for the development of media to raise awareness among villagers on illness reduction”. Please include

• Consultant's CV including past achievements

• Letter of introduction with a brief overview of the assignment as understood by the applicant

• Detailed cost estimate and price justification

• Detailed itemized work plan with time frame for completion of all work

Please submit your proposal to hr@adrathailand.org by 5:00 pm Thailand time on 9 August 2022. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.