81314192-Advice on organisational development of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

The epidemiological context in Africa is characterised by ongoing outbreaks of new and recurrent infectious diseases with epidemic potential. The ongoing Mpox and Marburg virus disease outbreaks are playing a major role in exacerbating the epidemiological situation in the African Union (AU) member states. As a relatively young institution still in the process of fully developing its systems and processes, Africa CDC as the autonomous health institution of the AU is faced with high expectations in combatting ongoing and emerging health threats on the continent. Therefore, coordinating partners and effectively implementing measures to combat outbreaks are essential. In 2021, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the project "Strengthening Crisis and Pandemic Response in Africa" (SCPRA). The project's goal is to enhance the resilience of the Africa CDC by strengthening its institutional and programmatic capabilities. This includes bolstering its coordination role with global, regional and national health institutions; strengthening public health institutions, fostering community engagement, particularly young people; and strengthening digital health capacities on the continent. The project supports Africa CDC to sustainably institutionalise selected organisational functions across Finance and Administration, Human Resource, Procurement, and Partnership Management through standardisation of work processes. Skills development measures, including coaching and in-service advice, help make Africa CDC more resilient. The implementing partner of the project is the Africa CDC. The project also assists other continental health institutions such as the African Medicines Agency (AMA) and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF). The SCPRA project has four outputs Output 1 strengthens institutional capacities at Africa CDC in relation to selected organisational functions. This tender is focusing on Output 1 only. Output 2 strengthens Africa CDC"s coordination role on public health matters on the African continent. Output 3 strengthens the institutional capacities of AMA and APTF through selected organisational development measures. Output 4 improves the conditions for strengthening human and institutional capacities for digital health in the Africa CDC and AU member states. Despite previous support by the project to strengthen organisational development through the mapping of workflows and the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and guidelines to standardise work processes, the Africa CDC further requires its enhancement of its institutional and individual capacities to fully fulfil its mandate. Equally, institutional learning and innovation are not sustainably mainstreamed yet. As a result, the institutional resilience of the Africa CDC still requires further technical support to upscale. The tendered project intends to improve the organisational development capacity at Africa CDC. Summary of work packages to be performed under this contract: - Developing SOPs, workflows, guidelines and policies across various Finance and Administration Business Functions - Technical advisory service on partnership management - Technical advisory service on end-to end automation of business processes - Designing capacity development and training measures Target group of the assignment The target group is the entire population of the AU, comprising around 1.3 billion people. The intermediaries at regional level are the Africa CDC staff who work as experts and managers, including at the RCCs, through whom the target group is reached. At national level, the intermediaries are experts and managers at the health ministries and public health institutes in the 55 Member States of the African Union.