- The project’s direct beneficiaries include 77,405 women of reproductive age, 44,231 adolescents (comprising 21,444 girls and 22,787 boys), and 9,126 neonates. These individuals represent both refugees (90%) and host (10%) populations.
- To ensure the effective delivery of services, the project also focuses on strengthening the capacity of 31 healthcare providers including nurses, clinical officers, midwives, nutritionists, and laboratory technicians as well as 60 Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and 2 Community Health Assistants (CHAs).
- Indirectly, the initiative aims to reach over 280,000 individuals through community-based messaging, outreach activities, and media campaigns. This includes 131,133 women and 155,720 men, as well as 33,076 female and 32,032 male household and community members. Special attention will be given to hard-to-reach and vulnerable groups, such as persons with disabilities (2,623 women and 3,144 men) and the broader refugee population (129,421 women and 146,532 men), ensuring inclusive and equitable access to essential RMNCAH services.
- Review of project documents, including the proposal, logframe, indicator reference sheets, and M&E framework.
- Develop a detailed Inception Report outlining the methodology, data collection tools, sampling strategy, ethical considerations, and work plan.
- Present the inception plan for validation by IRC Health and MEAL teams before fieldwork begins.
- Recruit and train enumerators, ensuring gender balance and inclusion of both refugee and host community members.
- Collect data using digital platforms (CommCare) to enhance data quality and timeliness.
- Conduct household interviews, facility assessments, and qualitative discussions with community health promoters (CHPs), health staff, adolescent groups, male partners, and community leaders.
- Implement strict data quality assurance and ethical standards during fieldwork.
- Analyze quantitative data using SPSS or STATA and qualitative data through thematic content analysis.
- Compare findings with county and national RMNCAH benchmarks (e.g., KHIS, KDHS, and UNHCR HIS).
- Develop and present a draft baseline report summarizing methodology, findings, and recommendations.
- Submit the raw data with the IRC
- Facilitate a validation workshop with IRC, MoH, and key stakeholders to review findings.
- Finalize the baseline report incorporating feedback from the validation session.
- Study Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.
- Sampling: Stratified random sampling for households and purposive sampling for key informants and focus groups.
- Respondent Groups:
- Women of reproductive age (15–49 years)
- Adolescent girls and boys (10–19 years)
- Pregnant and lactating mothers
- Health workers (midwives, nurses, clinical officers)
- CHPs, community/religious interest leaders, and male partners
- Sexual partners of adolescent girls and young women
- Data Disaggregation: By sex, age, refugee/host status, and geographic location.
- Tools: Structured questionnaires, FGD and KII guides digitized on CommCare
- Data Analysis: Statistical and thematic analysis aligned with RMNCAH project indicators.
- Master’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, Demography, Biostatistics
- Minimum 10 years of experience in conducting baseline or evaluation studies in RMNCAH, health systems, or humanitarian settings.
- Experience conducting assessments funded by USAID, EU, and UN donors, and familiarity with their indicators and definitions, is an added advantage.
- Experience in working with marginalized and vulnerable populations in multidisciplinary setting i.e. the government and development partners.
- Strong understanding of Kenya Health Information Systems (KHIS) and UNHCR Health Information System.
- Experience in data collection using digital tools (CommCare)
- Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Excellent analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
- Provide relevant project documents, indicator frameworks, and access to existing data.
- Facilitate coordination with community leaders, CHPs, and health facility staff.
- Support enumerator recruitment and logistical arrangements.
- Review and approve tools, inception, and final reports.
- Provide technical oversight through the MEAL and Health Technical Units.