UOT202417222 - Monitoring and Evaluation of Africa Health Collaborative (AHC)

Notice of Intended Procurement

NAME OF PROCURING ENTITY
The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (the “University”)

CONTACT PERSON AND CONTRACT PERSON COORDINATES

Raymond Siguenza
150 College Street, 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON M5S 3E2
raymond.siguenza@utoronto.ca

PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTS
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DESCRIPTION OF PROCUREMENT

The University is conducting an RFP for Monitoring and Evaluation of Africa Health Collaborative.

This RFP process and project will contribute to the core objectives of the African Health Collaborative which are to:

• Enhance capacity in Africa to train skilled workers for primary health care to meet growing demand, and to contribute to the extension of systems that employ and retain this primary care workforce.
• Optimize entrepreneurial ecosystems in and through universities in Africa to launch and scale health start-ups to create jobs and develop innovative solutions to systems challenges.
• Enable students and professionals in Africa to acquire advanced skills across a broad range of disciplines critical for sustainable health sector growth and transformation, from those disciplines not conventionally taught in universities to post-doctoral research and development.
• Create dignified and fulfilling jobs across health ecosystems through a dynamic, sustainable, long-term network of leading African universities, alumni, government agencies, health care start-ups, and private sector partners

• The AHC Secretariat is seeking an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Successful Proponent to complement our role of building and facilitating the foundational network and partnerships across pillars and across institutions.
• The services of Successful Proponent will be procured by the AHC Secretariat to support the MELA activities across all AHC partner institutions. Finer details will be discussed and agreed upon with the Successful Proponent.
• The role of the Successful Proponent will be that of Learning Aggregator with the focus on supporting the MELA related activities of the AHC including leading the operationalization of MELA; tool development, analysis, interpretation, and sense-making of data and generating credible evidence of partners’ achievements in line with the program performance measurement framework and evaluation and learning framework.
• The overall MELA structure is yet to be finalized, but at this stage it is envisaged that each of the University Partners will work with a local MELA Lead who will oversee and support the institutional MELA journey (ONLY for programs offered within the AHC program catalogue that are funded by the Mastercard Foundation grant. The MELA Lead is hired by each institutional partner to guide and undertake MELA-related activities.
• The Successful Proponent will work closely with MELA Leads in executing the activities of this contract. The Successful Proponent will provide advisory support on MELA frameworks (frequency to be determined) and will not include the development of new MELA frameworks. Each partner will be responsible for revising their own framework as needed with guidance from the Mastercard Foundation. The Successful Proponent will ensure there is a shared understanding of any changes made to the existing shared measures and MELA frameworks across all partners.
• Besides conducting periodic program process evaluations, the Successful Proponent will adopt a more embedded role in the program, supporting active learning and playing the role of ‘critical friend’ to the MELA Leads at partner universities. In doing so, the Successful Proponent will help all university partners to better understand how a Health Collaborative as such is able to contribute towards its vision.

• Inform cross-collaborative measures
• Assess impact across the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works Strategy
• Improve the effectiveness of the strategies and interventions deployed across the pillars and cross-pillar activities to inform future programming
• Help facilitate of adaptive management conversations at each partner institutions, by providing guidance for adjusting interventions in ways that maximize the likelihood of achieving their desired impacts
• Improve understanding of what works in terms of Primary Health Care System Strengthening, addressing the learning questions.
• The process will be a critical part of this task, as it will help partners to strengthen their evaluation and learning cultures, and adaptive management.
• The Successful Proponent will work with the Secretariat to shape and influence the final agreed scope of work.
• The Successful Proponent will work together with MELA Leads to ensure that the data collected is aligned with the shared measures framework and the overall TOC framework.

• The Canadian Free Trade Agreement, Chapter Five
• The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, Chapter 19
• The Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement, Chapter 9