Research Consultancy for 'Tracking Routine Immunisation with Biometrics in Maternal and Child Health Services Project at Simprints Ghana

Description

• Simprints is seeking a research and evaluation partner to explore the efficiency and effectiveness of the intervention, with a clear focus on gender-related drivers and barriers; the learnings from which are intended to be used in the design of the next phase of implementation.

The research will involve two components:
Research Objective 1: Comparative analysis of workflows

• Component 1 of the research is a comparative analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of 3 parallel workflows that community health workers use to collect patient and vaccine data. The research should answer the following questions:
• Where are the actual and perceived effectiveness and efficiency gains/ losses within and across each workflow specifically investigating factors such as
• total time required to enrol and process clients?
• total time required to identify or verify clients previously enrolled CHWs?
• impact on CHW workload?
• impact on data accuracy?
• Overall impact on service delivery including time lost in duplicate activities?
• What are the incentives/ disincentives to reliance on digital rather than paper-based system (including a exploration of policies, working norms, digital literacy etc)?
• To what extent does the use of biometrics encourage/ enforce the accurate use of the e-tracker and support the Government’s strategy to digitalise the health system?

Research Objective 2: Integrated gender analysis

• Component 2 of the research should include a gender analysis to explore how the differences in male and female CHW and client’s conditions, roles, responsibilities, access to resources, and decision-making power affect the uptake of digital system to deliver and verify vaccinations

Specific areas to explore should include:

• How do the gender identities of male and female CHW and their supervisors impact the uptake of digital/ biometric system in the delivery of vaccines?
• How do gender identities of parents and their children affect the willingness of clients to accept the collection of their biometric data?