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# Digital Square: PMI Digital Community Health Initiative
Francophone/Lusophone Africa Regional Digital Health Advisors Scope of Work

## Background:

Through the Digital Square mechanism, PMI is funding a rapid ecosystem
assessment of community and malaria digital health systems and their enabling
environment in 27 PMI priority countries. They are also funding a
prioritization of needs and opportunities.

The Francophone/Lusophone Africa Regional Digital Health Advisors will have a
range of responsibilities to advance and complete the rapid ecosystem
assessment, prioritization, and potential follow on activities. The
Francophone/Lusophone Africa Regional Digital Health Advisors will work in
tandem with the Country Systems Advisors, other Regional Digital Health
Advisors, as well as the Digital Square research team.

## Timeline

The overall timeline for this body of work is June – September 2020. The
efforts will be concentrated from June through August 2020. Wave 1 countries
should commence by mid-June. Wave 2 countries should commence at the end of
June. There may be additional work to be carried out in country (see Objective
3). The Advisors are anticipated to contribute approximately 25% LOE.

Wave 1: Activities begin early-mid June*> | Wave 2: Activities begin mid-
late June*>
---|---
Burkina Faso | Angola
Burma | Guinea
Cambodia | DRC
Ethiopia? | Mozambique
Kenya? | Senegal
Rwanda | Thailand
Tanzania | Uganda
Zambia | Zimbabwe

##

## Activities and SOW

Objective 1: Rapid ecosystem assessment

The questions to be considered are included below in Appendix A. This country-
level, mixed methods assessment will involve secondary and primary research in
the countries in the list above. The grey literature review, methodology, and
survey instruments referenced below will be provided by Digital Square.

Critical activities for the to be conducted for this workstream by the
Francophone/Lusophone Africa Regional Digital Health Advisors will include:

> Reviewing the community digital health for malaria grey literature review for the advisor’s relevant countries; determining gaps, identifying and providing an analysis of additional sources, and ensuring completeness.
> Contribute to the design of survey instruments, facilitation guides, and methodologies. Contribute to translation where applicable.
> Working with Digital Square research team to validate stakeholder profiles; review identified country key stakeholders for surveys, focus groups, and key informant interviews in the selected countries, ensuring relevant digital health stakeholders are represented.
> Using survey data and the grey literature review, contribute to the documentation and validation of the country digital health landscape.
> Conducting focus groups for validation of the digital health landscape in partnership with Country Systems Advisors.
> When needed, documenting the digital health architecture of selected countries in partnership with Country Systems Advisors.
> Conducting key informant interviews to validate the digital health landscape in the selected countries in partnership with Country Systems Advisors.
> Delivering of all data from surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions in a legible report as well as all source data – including but not limited to interview recordings, paper/digital surveys, recorded focus group discussions, and notes.
> Contributing to the synthesis of findings from survey, focus groups, and key informant interviews.

Objective 2: Digital Health Needs/Opportunities Prioritization

This country-level prioritization will involve focus groups and workshops to
identify key stakeholders’ priorities for enabling digital community health
for malaria. Using a pre-determined methodology (provided by Digital Square),
it will use the outputs from Objective 1 in the critical activities.

Critical activities will be conducted in partnership with the Digital Square
team and will include:

> Serving as a key reviewer of the ideal-state enabling architecture (to be developed)

Critical activities will be conducted in partnership with the Country Systems
Advisors and will include:

> Working with PMI in-country staff and National Malaria Control Programs to identify key stakeholders for prioritization workshops.
> Contributing to the planning the workshop in collaboration with key stakeholders and Digital Square.
> Co-facilitating virtual workshop(s) to facilitate the articulation of needs, opportunities, and priorities against an ideal-state malaria-enabling digital health architecture and define critical routine malaria data and service delivery priorities where enabling digital tools and supporting systems might be pursued to increase impact
> Documenting needs and opportunities.
> Conducting key informant interviews for validation and further probing of information elucidated by the workshop.
> Delivery of all data from surveys, KIIs, focus group discussions in a legible report as well as all source data – including but not limited to interview recordings, paper/digital surveys, recorded focus group discussions, and notes.

Objective 3: Developing a basket of potential services for in-country
support

Dependent on the more general activities above and available funds, below are
illustrative examples of services and activities that could be prioritized in
collaboration with country stakeholders. The staffing of such activities will
be dependent on the scope.

> Community digital health capacity building including in leadership and governance, and institutional and workforce capacity in digital tools and systems to collect, analyze, and use routine malaria health data, e.g.:
> Detailed assessment of the enabling digital ecosystem
> Development and implementation of digital capacity building plan for service providers and other key personnel, taking into account training models to ensure sustainability
> Digital data leadership, management, and governance training for NMCP and healthcare leaders

> Digital health architecture analysis, e.g.:
> Identification of opportunities for the NMCP to leverage or align with the current architecture supporting service delivery and data collection at the community levels to expand its digital capabilities to include malaria
> Integrate existing malaria specific programs and data collection approaches into the current architecture (e.g., HMIS) and DHIS 2
> Strengthen NMCP data systems, architecture and capacity to ensure interoperability with broader health data systems and architecture
> Build out of key reusable architectural components (e.g. registries, interoperability layers, etc)

> Implementation support for expanding digital approaches where countries are near engagement or already engaged on expanding digitally-supported approaches at the peripheral levels, the following activities might be pursued where resources permit, e.g.:
> Complete a landscaping and prioritization of global goods that align with the in-country architecture and NMCP priorities to support case management and utilization of data
> Build upon existing platforms/tools to adapt for NMCP-driven needs and priorities (e.g. incorporate malaria reporting into RapidSMS)
> Identify in-country strategic use cases where a digital tool could provide value
> Develop Target Product Profiles, if appropriate, and create RFPs or other strategies for subsequent product development
> Define and establish novel partnerships with private-sector digital companies and/or universities to pursue development objectives aimed at improving case management and data use
> Develop scale-up strategies for existing, proven digital platforms the NMCP is interested in, including sustainable business models
> Support evaluation and testing of prioritized digital platforms/solutions in the community and at appropriate levels of the healthcare system
> Support connecting or enhancing interoperability of existing systems

> Strong background, knowledge, and experience in digital health, eHealth architecture, and the digital health enabling environment
> Experience in gathering/user research with stakeholders across all levels of the health system.
> Familiarity and experience with OpenHIE a plus
> Experience in stakeholder management in a multinational environment and with a diverse range of partners at the national, regional and global levels
> Experience in focus group facilitation, key informant interviews, and/or other qualitative research methods and/or collaborative requirements development processes
> Strong data and knowledge management skills
> Ability to be self-directed and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
> Ability to conduct work in written and verbal French and English for Francophone position; ability to conduct work in written and verbal Portuguese and English for Lusophone position

##

## Francophone/Lusophone Africa Regional Digital Health Advisors desired
skills and qualifications

## Appendix A: Digital health rapid ecosystem assessment questions to be
considered

Context:

> What is State of malaria program at community level
> Impact of COVID-19 on malaria program service provision

Ecosystem assessment

> Current donor and investment landscape in digital health
> Current role digital plays in support of malaria service delivery and case management at community level
> Opportunities and considerations for integration of malaria systems with systems for other health verticals
> Current role digital plays in data-driven decision-making at multiple levels
> Current role digitalized data plays in informing national policies and decisions
> Current state of user readiness at community level for digital intervention adoption
> Overview of eHealth governance structures and digital strategies
> Current HMIS skeleton, paper and digital, as it relates to malaria and CHW data
> Visualization of national eHealth architecture and where malaria data currently sits within that architecture, at national and subnational level, where applicable
> Current state of digitally enabling infrastructure and market, including scale and breadth of mobile and web connectivity, penetration, electricity, etc



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