Pediatrician Consultant for young couples training

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Terms of Reference

Local Consultant for training for young couples on the intrauterine development of the fetus, Normal child development & Vaccination and regular check up

Project:
Improving access of Persons with Disabilities and in particular Children with Cerebral Palsy and Children with multiple disabilities of the Gaza Strip to services adapted to their needs, funded by ECHO

Background:

Handicap International (HI) has been operating in Palestine since 1996 and has developed relationship with several disability stakeholders. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics there are around 4,048,403 million Palestinian living in the OPT (2,513,283 million in West Bank and 1,535,120 million in Gaza strip), 40.8% of them (15-19) years of age, 29.4% of them (15-29) years of age and 59.2% of them (20-29) years of age. According to general estimations by WHO, between 7-10% of a given population would have some kind of disability; in the Palestinian Territories, this implies that the figure would be around 284,000 – 404,000 people.

According to the last records, the prevalence of disability in the OPT was about 7% (relaxed definition) with similar prevalence in each of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. While the prevalence of disability using the narrow definition was 2.7% distributed as 2.9% in the West Bank and 2.4% in Gaza Strip; while it was 2.9% for Males and 2.5% for females[1]. Taken together, this implies that the total number of persons with disability in opts is around 113,000-287,000.

Scope of Work

HI is running a project to improve the services provided for children with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities. In Gaza early detection system is not yet organized in systematic way. It needs comprehensive intervention including the medical staff, pediatrician, other health professionals, families & young couples engaged or recently married.

We aim at increasing the awareness of recently married or still engaged couples about the reproductive health & delivery, intrauterine development of the fetus, normal development of the child, vaccination & gender roles and influence of psychodynamic within the family on the psychosocial development of the child. Young couples should have the basic knowledge about the previously mentioned topics in order to assist in the early detection of the disabilities and being oriented to seek appropriate diagnosis & treatment.

Many young couples are not aware about these topics staying out of needed early detection & intervention process, education and acquiring skills needed to ensure healthy growing of their children and the spirit of respect for the differences and tolerance.
Description of Duties

To consider 15 preparatory hours for designing the training package of three modules in both English & Arabic in coordination with HI team on:

1-The intrauterine development of the fetus (trimesters or stages of development, risk factors affect on the uterine stages)
2-Normal child development, (principles of development, development of weight and height, development of social skills, cognitive skills, language skills, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, self care skills, hearing, and vision).
3-Vaccination and regular check up ( types of vaccinations and timing of vaccinations)

-To send the training material to HI for revision, feedback and validation.
-Design the daily training evaluation form and send it to HI for revision and validation
-To implement the training for 2 family groups (15 participants each) in each of the five governorates in Gaza Strip (2 family groups in North Gaza, 2 family groups in Gaza, 2 family groups in Middle area, 2 family groups in Khan Younis, and 2 family groups in Rafah ). Each module will last for two training hours and each module is to be conducted in half training day by the applicants.
-To ensure attendance sheet and the daily evaluation form are disseminated and filled in properly by the trainees and send the daily report to HI
-To prepare the final training Report including evaluation conclusions / recommendations in English language and submit to HI in no later than two days after implementing each training day modules.

Profile of the consultant
-Degree in pediatric medicine.
-Previous experience in working in the field of early detection & intervention and in the training & education. To prepare the final training Report including evaluation conclusions / recommendations in English language and submit to HI in no later than two days after implementing each training day modules.
-Fluent in English and Arabic
-Good skills in MS Office software (MS Excel, Access and MS PowerPoint)

Time Frame and Work Plan:

The consultant will work for full 15 training days with 2 hours duration for each topic. the total number of hours is 75 hours (including 15 preparatory hours) over the period 2nd January -31st January 2012, detailed as follow:

Day & Date

Topic

Group

Place

Wednesday

04/01/2012

The intrauterine development of the fetus

SPHP Rafah

Vaccination and regular check up

Sunday

08/01/2012

Normal child development