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1. Purpose of consultancy
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive technical and participatory review of the draft National Health Strategy and produce a refined, consensus-based final version that reflects stakeholder inputs and aligns with national and global commitments.
2. Background
The High Health Council (HHC) is in the process of drafting a National Health Strategy (NHS) to guide health sector priorities, investments, and reforms over the coming years. To ensure the strategy is comprehensive, inclusive, aligned with national development priorities, and responsive to population health needs, the HHC seeks to engage a qualified consultant to review and refine the initial NHS draft through a structured participatory process.
The review will ensure alignment with:
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) principles
Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach
Primary Health Care (PHC) orientation
Emergency preparedness and health security
Public-private partnerships
Social determinants of health
Equity, gender, and vulnerable populations
3. Work to be performed
Objective 1: Review, refine and align the draft NHS with the WHO frameworks, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (especially SDG 3), regional best practices, relevant national policies mainly the Economic Modernization Vision.
Deliverable 1.1: To ensure NHS draft address:
Strategic coherence and logical framework consistency
Alignment between vision, mission, goals, objectives, and indicators
Inclusion of UHC, financial protection, and service coverage
Integration of PHC and life-course approaches
Inclusion of emergency preparedness and response
Public-private partnership frameworks
Governance and accountability mechanisms
Health financing sustainability
Health In All policies
Health workforce (HRH) planning
Ensure meaningful inclusion of:
Gender considerations
Vulnerable and marginalized groups
Refugee and host community perspectives (if relevant)
Objective 2: Adopt a participatory consultation process to integrate feedback from relevant stakeholders in the final draft
Deliverable 2.1: Develop and implement a stakeholder engagement plan including:
Government institutions
High Health Council representatives
Professional councils and syndicates
Private sector
Civil society organizations
Academia
Development partners
Community/lay person representation
Deliverable 2.2: Facilitate stakeholder consultation, focus group discussions, bilateral interviews with key decision-makers, and validation meeting for final draft
Deliverable 2.3: Integrating stakeholder feedback into a revised draft NHS.
Objective 3: Develop results framework and indicators
Deliverable 3.1: Develop implementation roadmap, monitoring and evaluation framework, costing considerations (if applicable), governance and accountability mechanisms
Objective 4: Review, refine and finalize NHS document
Deliverable 4.1: Edit the NHS document, add the executive summary (policy brief version)
Deliverable 4.2: Develop a presentation deck for leadership endorsement
Deliverables
Inception report (methodology & stakeholder mapping)
A brief summary of resolutions, policies and strategies that elicit Jordan’s commitment to achieve SDGs including UHC in alignment with human rights, equity and gender principles.
Stakeholder consultation report
Final NHS in Arabic, executive summary in Arabic and English and presentation in Arabic and English
4. Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications:
Essential: Master’s degree in public health, health policy, planning and management or related fields.
Experience Required:
7 years of relevant professional experience in health policy and planning
Previous experience in strategies development
Robust high-level communication skills.
Skills/Technical skills and knowledge:
Ability to interact with and provide advice to senior level national health authorities;
Proven analytical capacity with particular expertise in policy analysis and planning;
High level communicating skills;
Excellent (proven) report writing skills in English and Arabic.
Languages and level required:
Expert level in English and Arabic.
5. Location
Amman – Jordan (On-site).
6. Planned timelines (Subject to confirmation)
30 working days
Start date: 24 May 2026
End date: 30 March 2027
7. Medical clearance
The selected Consultant will be expected to provide a medical certificate of fitness for work.
8. Travel
The Consultant is not expected to travel.
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