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mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across\u00a0eight sub-Saharan African\u00a0countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower HIV-positive women to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these \u2018Mentor Mothers\u2019 deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families.<\/p>\n

Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its\u00a0strengths and now provides\u00a0family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It\u00a0also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact. To date, m2m has reached over 11M women and children under two, and created more than 10,000 jobs for African women living with HIV. \u00a0For more, visit\u00a0www.m2m.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Job Title: Consultant<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong> South Africa (Pretoria)<\/p>\n

Background: m2m\u2019s Integrated ECD\/RMNCH Model<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a growing body of evidence on the importance of the provision of quality healthcare, proper nutrition, and psychosocial and emotional stimulation during early childhood as the foundation for success in future life. Children deprived of these influences due to poverty and associated risk factors including under-nutrition and inadequate stimulation, are likely to have lower educational attainment, lower adult income and poor parenting skills, thus perpetuating a cycle of intergenerational poverty and early childhood deprivation. The evidence posits that early and appropriate interventions, both in utero and during early childhood, can lead to positive outcomes, including raised cognitive, physical and social development, improved school performance, and enhanced future employment and earning potential. This social and economic return is beneficial for the individual, family, community and wider society as a whole.<\/p>\n

Children who are exposed to HIV or who are HIV-positive themselves are particularly vulnerable to risk factors and this cycle of deprivation. They are likely to be subject to multiple shocks (adverse events) and stressors (parental illness and death, parental stress and mental health reactions, reduced stimulation and child care quality) which can be extremely detrimental to their wellbeing and development. Data from a number of studies suggests that these children are likely to suffer adverse effects on their mortality, health, cognitive development and emotional adjustment.<\/p>\n

Based on this growing body of evidence, m2m builds on the success of our PMTCT\/RMNCH peer education and support programme, with the incorporation of ECD interventions to improve the health and development outcomes of our clients (pregnant women, mothers and children aged 0-3 years), enabling them to have not only healthy lives, but also to thrive later in life.<\/p>\n

m2m\u2019s South Africa (Gauteng) Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

m2m has been implementing our Mentor Mother Model at health facilities in Gauteng province for some years. Most recently, with funding from the National Department of Health (NDOH), Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and other donors, there has been a focus on PMTCT\/RMNCH and adolescent health\/pregnancy in a number of facilities and surrounding communities, with the addition of some elements of ECD programming. The latter has largely been an extension of interventions implemented as part of m2m\u2019s Early Childhood Household Stimulation (ECHS) programme in Mpumalanga province (2015-19). Sites will continue to be supported by NDOH and, in early 2020, with funding from British Airways, m2m plans to remodel our programme at two locations in Gauteng (Dark City and Soshanguve), to align with the integrated ECD\/RMNCH model already implemented by m2m in Malawi, Kenya and Ghana, which is aligned with the global Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development.
\nThese two sites are important showcases of m2m\u2019s work in South Africa for government, funders, and partners, and this is an opportunity to strengthen the programme implemented there, to create model sites. In addition, we wish to build on existing programmatic strengths and take advantage of and respond to unique contextual factors in South Africa. These include focusing on the needs of adolescent pregnant and postnatal mothers and aligning work with the South African National Integrated ECD Policy.<\/p>\n

Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n

mothers2mothers (m2m) seeks a programme design\/materials development consultant to assist its Department of Programmes & Technical Support (DPTS) and South Africa country programme to review, revise, and develop a comprehensive plan for implementing the ECD component of m2m\u2019s programme in two locations in Gauteng province (including related tools and training materials), to align it effectively with m2m\u2019s ECD\/RMNCH model in other countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi).<\/p>\n

Methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n

The consultant will work closely with the Senior Technical Advisor \u2013 ECD\/OVC and the SA Lead Consultant to:<\/strong><\/p>\n