Peer Review Health Sector

One of the monitoring tools of the Basic Services Fund is a peer review. The first peer review was conducted in November 2008 by all grant recipients with a health component. The peer review was considered as a very useful tool through which all grant recipients can learn from each other. It has therefore been decided to use the tool also to the education sector and to bring the peer review in the health sector to ‘a higher level’. Therefore the BSF secretariat asked a consultant to assist in among others the following tasks:

o Combine and consolidate the eight individual peer review reports into one report.

o Organize and facilitate a (half day) debriefing workshop with all BSF Grant recipients in Primary Health on the results of this Peer Review and how to improve the next one to include exit strategies that are coherent with MoH policies as budgeted (salaries, staffing, operational budgets, drug supply etc).

o Develop format for the next peer review (inspection protocols). Assure close cooperation with MoH’s MDTF Basic Health Package program that started in 2009/09 in 4 of the 10 States (Upper Niles, Jonglei, Eastern Equatoria and Central Equatorial).

o Assist in planning the next primary Health Peer review that is provisionally planned for June 2009.

o Assist in aggregating the results, conclusions and recommendations of the 2nd BSF Primary Health Peer Review into one consolidated report which includes issues for exit strategies that are coherent with MoH policies as budgeted (salaries, staffing, operational budgets, drug supply etc).

Paolo Operti will start on the first of June and will be through the BSF project period be the health advisor for the BSF secretariat.