These consultancy services aimed to support the formulation of health sector strategy and ensure government ownership of the Strategy and the process.
The CGC team (sub-contracted by YozuMannanion Limited/UK) was responsible to:
- Ensure development and agreement of the Strategy’s mission, goals, and objectives based on the health system’s values in Tajikistan and clear sector priorities.
- Ensure coordination with the wider national development processes and comply with the existing sub-sector strategies and other project reviews, studies, and evidence.
- Ensure the development and agreement of an action plan for Strategy implementation.
- Ensure close collaboration and coordination with the MTEF project team, preparing the ground for a future full-fledged strategy costing.
- Ensure the development and agreement of a monitoring framework for assessing the implementation of the Strategy by identifying critical assumptions and risks and appraising the change needed to achieve the objectives in each area.
- Ensure the development and agreement of a monitoring framework for developing the health sector strategy composed of a relatively compact set of indicators to assess progress against set results.
- Regularly inform the Steering Committee on work progress and convene relevant sector stakeholders to agree further on the findings, priorities, and steps in each sector/sub-sector.
- Advocate for the Strategy and coordinate all related activities, including the consultation and dissemination process.
- Consolidate, compile and summarize the work done by the Working Groups into a single high-quality document. The final strategy document was expected to describe the process consistently, the situation analysis, priorities based on the system values, and the action/operational plan.