MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSCIAL SUPPORT (MHPSS) INTERVENTIONS META ANALYSIS AND TOOLKIT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY SERVICE

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Organization War Child Holland in South Sudan

Consultancy service title

MHPSS interventions/approaches mapping, meta-analysis and toolkit development

Introduction

War Child is a child focused organisation that continuously enhances its services to children affected by war and conflict. This includes striving to work with a range of different stakeholders and able to mobilise and provide services and technical assistance within and outside the organisation, as well as across its programme teams in various programme locations in the country.

The main objective of the consultancy service is to provide technical assistance in the development and implementation of a meta-analysis and mapping of MHPSS interventions and approaches in South Sudan.

Following the completion of the meta-analysis, the consultant will lead the development of a MHPSS toolkit. The compiled MHPSS toolkit is envisaged to be adopted as a resource by communities, humanitarian actors and MHPSS stakeholders with the view of increasing accessibility of such services to children, caregivers and community at large.

The technical support also includes development of promotional content which can enable us to reach humanitarian actors, government and other stakeholders with targeted information about the use of the toolkit.

To ensure the MHPSS toolkit is owned, accessed and utilized by a critical mass of agencies, joint advocacy with other humanitarian actors will be done targeting key duty bearers that include donors, government and the humanitarian actors to enhance the utilization of the toolkit to improve mental wellbeing outcomes in South Sudan.

Meta-analysis process

a) Operational Definition of Meta-Analysis

‘Examination of data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends’ (Oxford dictionary).

Meta-analysis summarizes the analysis and reviews of various aspects of interventions, methodologies and structured activities aimed at addressing the mental health and psychosocial (MHPSS) wellbeing of those affected by conflict, including children (various categories), young people (various categories) and adults. Meta-analysis is potentially powerful in assisting transparent decision-making as it combines results from many different interventions, methodologies and structured activities that are proclaiming to be similar in its intended objectives.

b) Approach

This meta-analysis process will review the availability, implementation, and effectiveness of MHPSS interventions, methodologies and/or structured activities in South Sudan through a structured document review that is guided by agreed criteria such as the process of development, theoretical underpinning, duration of implementation and the availability of external or internal review reports and impact assessments reports. Additionally, this process will collect the views of individuals and groups who participated in the interventions, methodologies and/or structured activities about their experience, impact and recommendations. If outcome data is available also add the results to indicate impact on the individual mental health and psychosocial wellbeing

c) Suggested steps:

Mapping MHPSS stakeholders operating in South Sudan
Request from them full details of interventions, methodologies and/or structured activities implemented as part of MHPSS response
Collaborate with a group of MHPSS actors to develop agreed criteria for reviewing the interventions, methodologies and/or structured activities.
Review the submitted documentation based on the agreed criteria
Collect the views of individuals and groups who participated in the interventions, methodologies and/or structured activities about their experience, impact and recommendations.
Developing a database to capture the information obtained through the review and qualitative interview process
Conduct an analysis of the database
Compile results and conclusions based on the strengthens and limitations of the data

Development of the toolkit

Objectives of the consultancy service

To conduct meta-analysis and mapping of MHPSS tools and interventions that are being implemented in South Sudan
To assess strengths and limitations of identified MHPSS approaches
To compile and develop MHPSS toolkit for South Sudan based on the meta-analysis and compilation of approaches
To develop MHPSS toolkit promotional content
To link the findings and recommendations of meta-analysis to the MHPSS challenge mapping exercise that is carried out at the initial design phase

Specific results and deliverables

Meta-analysis and MHPSS tools and interventions mapping report
MHPSS toolkit based on the meta-analysis and compilation of approaches
MHPSS toolkit promotional content
Final report linking meta-analysis and tool kit development to the MHPSS challenge mapping exercise that is carried out at the initial design phase

Location

Juba, Republic of South Sudan with required travels to Upper Nile, Western Baher Elgazel and Unity State.

Duration of the consultancy service

The consultancy service will be for 50 working days between September 15th and December 31st, 2024.

Requirements

Essential

Demonstrable experience and knowledge conducting reviews, assessments using qualitative and quantitative data gathering methods
Demonstrable knowledge and experience of analysing qualitative and quantitative data sets
Masters level degree in psychology, mental health or related field

Desirable

Minimum of 8 years professional experience preferably in similar contexts
Familiarity with South Sudan context and MHPSS sector
Strong experience on community engagement including in development of field data collection tools, data analysis and report writing
Strong facilitation and report writing skills.
Consultant has attended a personal security training before

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to send CV, technical proposal covering the above ToR and daily professional fee rate before September 15th, 2024, through War Child South Sudan email address: info.ssdco@warchild.net. WCH will cover local flight costs, perdiem and accommodation costs as applicable.

Safeguarding

War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.

Equal opportunity

War Child has a dream that every child lives in peace - no matter who or where they are. That’s why we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity and belonging in everything we do and select our potential new colleagues without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Application process

To ensure that we spend as much of our resources on the support of children and youth, War Child needs to operate as efficiently as possible. This means we can only process job applications received through our websites.

If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, the vacancy will be removed from our websites. In this case, any responses received after removal will not be processed. Sometimes the closing date of a vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.

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