MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES TENDER JULY 2025
| REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL |
REGIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION FOCAL POINT FOR EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (M/F/X) – NAIROBI – MSF BELGIUM
Closing date: 12 Aug 2025
The medical department of MSF Belgium (OCB – Operational Center Brussels) plays a strategic role in defining how MSF’s medical strategy is implemented, ensuring both coherence and quality. Strategic support is provided throughout the project cycle. It has a normative role and a technical support function regarding implementation and follow-up of projects. The department also ensures knowledge transfer to the medical workforce and stimulates research and innovation by challenging current medical practices and scanning of new approaches. Composed of multiple specialists based across a network of units worldwide (Belgium, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Luxembourg, and South Africa), the medical department works in close collaboration with operations, other OCB departments and the MSF movement. We also support MSF WACA (West and Central Africa) projects.
The current Health Promotion (HP) support base setup comprises of one referent in Brussels and four regional focal points, who respond to the demand for technical support for all Health Promotion and Community Engagement (HPCE) implementations in West Africa, Central Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. Integrating health promotion within projects has proven to be a vital part of supporting MSF’s medical interventions, employing strategies that engage the community throughout the humanitarian designed created to assist them.
Requests to the HP support team can range from helping to revise HP strategies and providing or developing specific tools, to conducting project visits and actively supporting new approaches such as Digital HP or organizing context-adapted HP training. The support team also briefs and debriefs new HP staff, as well as PMRs, project coordinators and other colleagues. Furthermore, good HP practices and lessons learned are capitalized on and disseminated, while guidance and tools to support the development of a minimum HP standard are continuously developed.
This new Regional HP support position is foreseen for South and Eastern Africa and will provide support to the projects in its portfolio: Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Example topics that the Regional HP may be responsible for as a first-line support for HP activities within projects may include Integrated Child Case Management (ICCM), blood donation, malnutrition, malaria, Sexual Violence, HIV, Tuberculosis and chronic disease, and health of excluded and vulnerable key populations, adolescents, and migrants.
The Regional HP objective is to provide quality and context-adapted Health Promotion and Community Engagement support to HP and project teams (with HP-CE-Anthropology being seen as transversal and Patient Support Education and Counselling being integrated into HP). They are also responsible for mentoring and coaching junior HP supervisors or managers and Health Promotion/Patient Support Education and Counselling (HP/PSEC) staff, but they do not supervise anyone.
As Regional HP focal point you report to the OCB HP referent in Brussels and works in close collaboration with the SAMU referents on the fields of HIV/Tuberculosis/Non-Communicable Diseases care.
Deadline for applications: 12th of August, 2025
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