• The consultant will be responsible for completing the following tasks during the assignment period: • Technical Support for Standardized Community-Case Definitions development • Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in developing/reviewing and updating standardized community-case definitions for identifying and reporting signs and symptoms of potential diseases, health risks, and public health events. • Assist MoH in updating community-case definitions for key notifiable diseases, incorporating a One Health approach through consultations with relevant stakeholders and departments. • Support MoH in updating existing paper-based tools, securing endorsement and adoption for national-scale implementation. • Development of a Structured Case Notification and Reporting Protocol • Conduct a gap analysis to assess existing case notification and reporting protocols, covering both paper-based and eCHIS-integrated reporting mechanisms. • Provide technical support in updating reporting protocols, ensuring seamless case notification from community level to health facilities and district health offices. • Strengthen the feedback loop process by integrating a mechanism that triggers investigations by Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) or healthcare workers, linking to the facility-based notification system (6767) for timely response and action, including integration into eCHIS with an embedded alert system to flag notifications that remain un-responded to within 72 hours. • Integration of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Indicators into eCHIS • Collaboratively work with Living goods towards technical support provision to the MoH Division of Health Information (DHI) on integration of CBS indicators into eCHIS, ensuring real-time data capture and reporting. • Lead capacity efforts on use and reporting of community-based surveillance indicators within Mukono, Wakiso, and Kampala through eCHIS. • Actively participate in MoH Technical Working Groups (TWGs), including EPI, Community Health (CH), and eCHIS, contributing technical insights and documenting best practices and lessons learned from the CBS integration process. • Capacity-Building for District, Facility, and Community Healthcare Workers • Lead capacity-building initiatives for 3,870 Village Health Teams (VHTs) across Mukono, Kampala, and Wakiso, equipping them with the updated CBS tools. • Document key learnings from the capacity-building process to assess effectiveness, challenges, and additional capacity needs, ensuring continuous improvements and optimization of CBS efforts. • Major Tasks • Development of inception report detailing understanding of the assignment and implementation plan. • Technical Support for Standardized Community-Case Definitions development including structured Case Notification, Reporting protocol and Integration of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Indicators into eCHIS • Capacity-Building for District, Facility, and Community Healthcare Workers and overall activity report highlighting best practices, challenges, and recommendations. • Deliverables: • Inception report detailing approach to the assignment including anticipated collaborations (MoH, Sub-national level). • Report on Standardized Community Case Definitions, Reporting Tools, and Case Notification Protocol, including Successful Integration into eCHIS. • Capacity Building Report on the Optimization of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) Efforts, including Comprehensive Documentation on CBS/eCHIS Integration and Implementation.

• To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… • Education background: Advanced university degree in Public Health, Social/political sciences, Statistics or other relevant fields. • Work-experience: Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional work experience at national and international level in analysis and/or research and/or communication/advocacy in public health, primary health care, digital health, emergency response, community health programming • Extensive experience producing timely and high-quality reports for UN systems • Experience working with international development organizations and/or government institutions is an asset. • Technical knowledge Health Informatics and digital health systems including the electronic community health information system • Experience in scoping, user testing, and training in digital health projects. • Experience in development and deployment of low bandwidth solutions in challenging and/or low resource settings. • Ability to align technical and strategic goals in multi-partner engagements Community health systems in Uganda & Region • Primary health care and Health System Strengthening • Language skills: Excellent written and verbal communication in English is required. • Knowledge of the local language is considered as an asset.