*Updated* Call for Tender - Methodology and production for an Action Tracker.

AFGH has commissioned a study on the volume of health ODA given by all EU Member States (the five countries with AFGH partners were already included in this years policy report). The results of this study should be added to assessments of the quality of this health ODA in two important contexts: firstly the implementation of the Aid Effectiveness agenda by the donor as reported by OECD DAC and the EC, as well as an assessment of the implementation by the EU collectively of the “EU Guidelines on Accra”. And secondly on whether the Donor is actively supporting financing country health strategies agreed in the IHP+. Additional to these assessments of the Member States performance as donors, a scoring should also be given on the full implementation of the EU programme for action on the Critical shortage of health workers in Developing countries and the related new WHO Code of Conduct in the domestic health policies of the Donors.

The Methodology would thereby assign a score out of ten for each of these elements: 1. Health ODA volume 2. Implementation of aid effectiveness by the donor as scored by OECD DAC and EC, as well as the EU Guidelines on Accra. 3. Funding of IHP+ national health plans 4. Domestic health sector implementation of WHO Code

The next step in producing this “Action Tracker” is firstly to identify the precise data set from published European Commission and OECD DAC sources for the last three of these elements and secondly the elaboration of a rating system to grade the performance of Member States out of a maximum of 10 for each of the four elements analogous to the “Commitment to Development Index”.

This methodology should then be applied to the latest data available so as to allow the first “Action Tracker” to be published on the AFGH Web site. The methodology developed and the Action tracker will be the property of Action for Global Health.

Time line:

 Tender for consultant: End of June 2010
 Contract with consultant finalized: 10 July 2010
 Work carried out: 10 July – 10 September 2010
 Action tracker posted: 15 September 2010 (This moment is strategically chosen right before the MDG Review Summit in New York)

Interested applicants should send their tender to brussels@actionforglobalhealth.eu.

***Notice*** Deadline for this call for tender has been extended untill 14 July 2010.