Country: Kenya
Closing date: 07 Apr 2016
Background
HelpAge International is a network of not-for-profit organization with a mission to work with and for disadvantaged older people worldwide to achieve a lasting improvement in the quality of their lives.
In Africa, HelpAge is implementing the “Better Health for Older People in Africa Programme” (BHOPA), a three year DFID funded project which runs from July 2014 – June 2017. The programme is implemented in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
The goal of the programme is to improve access to health and care services for poor older women and men and their households, making them less vulnerable to illness and worsening poverty.
By the end of the programme, it is envisaged that older people will have access to age-appropriate health, HIV and care services, and to social entitlements that will better enable them to meet their health needs.
The programme will also improve accountability of service providers and policy makers locally and nationally.
The programme has the following outcome and outputs:
Outcome: 387,763 older people (60% female, 40% male) in the 4 countries in Africa have age-appropriate health and HIV services
i. Output 1: Training curricula/manuals developed and 1,718 Health Staff trained on age-appropriate health and HIV services
ii. Output 2: 1,425 Care workers are trained and older people receive community and home-based care
iii. Output 3: Technical and policy support for greater access to social protection and health entitlements
iv. Output 4: Older People trained to monitor and advocate locally for access to health, HIV and care services and entitlements
v. Output 5: HIV and SP policies/strategies in the four countries and within the region include recommendations made by the programme
This ToR relates to research to be undertaken under Output 3 of the project.
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study is to learn about and provide evidence on the links between social protection, particularly social cash transfers, and access to health services in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
The objectives of the study are:
i. To provide a clear articulation of the ways in which social protection has the potential to facilitate better health.
ii. To establish the direct and indirect costs associated with older people accessing health services in these four countries.
iii. To assess the extent to which existing social cash transfers received by older people actually improve access to healthcare.
How to apply:
Please visit http://www.helpage.org//researchconsultancy for full terms of reference and instructions on how to apply. Do take note of important information at the end of the ToR.