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National consultant to conduct legal environment assessment of Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) practices in Ukraine.

home-based

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: home-based
  • Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Public Health and Health Service
    • Legal - Broad
    • Environment
    • Biology and Chemistry
    • HIV, Health and Development
    • Waste Management
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life, as envisaged by 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The UNDP is on the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions, to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and a wide range of partners that can bring about results.

To promote compliance with environmental and social standards, the Sustainable Procurement in the Health sector initiative (SPHS) was officially established in May 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This initiative is implemented by an Informal Interagency Task Team coordinated by UNDP through the SPHS secretariat and has ten members—seven are UN Agencies (UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOPS, WHO) and three are Multilateral Health Financing Institutions (GAVI, GFATM and UNITAID). With the financial support from the Swedish Government, UNDP working with Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) initiated the Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP). The project is implemented in 9 countries of Brazil, China, India, Moldova, South Africa, Tanzania, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zambia. UNDP is responsible for programming in Moldova, Tanzania, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zambia while the rest are under HCWH. UNDP and Health Care without Harm (HCWH) have identified Public procurement as a key entry point for promoting more sustainable production and consumption patterns (SDG12).

Recognizing UNDP’s unique capacity as a health development partner and its proven track record in supporting public health institutions, the UNDP Health and Transparency Programme (H&T Programme) is currently partnered with the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Ukraine to support the procurement of medicine and medical products on behalf of the Ukrainian State Medicines Programme. Besides from procurement support services, the UNDP H&T Programme also consists of three major components directly linked to providing procurement services to the Ministry of Health. The UNDP Ukraine H&T Programme would like to move forward to support Ukraine to transition towards the sustainable manufacture, consumption and disposal of medicines and health commodities.

As each purchasing decision has an impact on the environment, economy, and society, the purchase of responsible goods and services can help drive markets in the direction of innovation and sustainability and enable the transition towards a more sustainable economy. According to the WHO, with the accumulated waste generated by health-care activities, about 85% is considered as general, non-hazardous waste and 15% contains hazardous materials that may be infectious, chemical or radioactive.[1] In most healthcare facilities, Healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) is considered as a best practice in healthcare operations management, as the improper disposal of waste generated in healthcare facilities can cause a direct and/or indirect impact on public health. Therefore, the introduction and promotion of proper health care waste management practices (HCWM) within the national supply chains could significantly reduce harmful waste generated in health-care facilities.

Sustainable supply chains in healthcare embody a cyclical approach to manufacturing that considers both the recovery and reuse of materials. The reverse logistics of a sustainable healthcare supply chain strive to continuously sustain itself by returning materials to the land in either a safe molecular form or by continually reusing those materials for future products. Future developments of supply chains should consider sustainability for every contributor at every step – from design to manufacture, transportation, and storage to eventual end-of-life with a goal of re-use, recycling, or low impact disposal. This forward-thinking perspective is aimed to reduce healthcare waste, promote ethical and socially beneficial manufacturing practices, minimize or eliminate adverse health impacts, and enable compliance with increasingly stringent healthcare waste regulations. The starting point for implementing these desiderates should be focused on developing an adequate healthcare waste management system that completes the supply chain system where a modern legal framework is mandatory for on boarding sustainable waste management practices.

With the absence of a baseline data on the legal environment on HCWM practices in Ukraine and rapidly changing environment imposed by the COVID pandemic which affected the entire health system of Ukraine, UNDP initiatives to plan and promote country-specific responsible practices in the healthcare waste management sector. Therefore, with the current knowledge gap, this limits the actions to address unsustainable healthcare waste management practices, and in turn jeopardizes both human and environmental health for patients and medical staff in Ukraine, especially those involved in the national COVID response. With this purpose, UNDP is looking for a consultant to assess the legal environment assessment of the HCWM in Ukraine and provide recommendations for alignment with European Union acquis.

Duties and Responsibilities

2. Main objective of the assignment

This assignment aims to assess the current Healthcare Waste Management legislation (HCWM) in Ukraine through a desk review of the national waste management legislation and policies. In addition, the assessment will include the review of the existing waste management regulations in EU (at least 2 member states), including COVID-19 contaminated/infectious waste and specificities of waste management related to vaccinations (including potential COVID19 vaccine). 

 

3. Scope of work:

The consultant will be responsible for conducting the following activities:

  • Review current literature on international guidelines and operational practices in medical waste management, including COVID19 contaminated waste.
  • Review national legal framework and policies and guidelines on waste management (focusing on the healthcare sector and COVID19 contaminated waste) in Ukraine.
  • Conduct an online focus group with members of government, civil society, private sector and healthcare institutions to assess current HCWM legal environment;
  • Prepare a report with legislation adjustment recommendations (app 50 pages) based on the review of international (at least 2 EU countries) and national legal framework, guidelines and policies on healthcare waste management practices (including post-vaccination waste);
  • Validate the draft report with national and international experts;
  • Conduct validation meeting of the findings and recommendations with relevant stakeholders (e.g. government, civil society, private sector, healthcare facilities).
  • Provide a presentation on findings and recommendations for UNDP on the current waste management practices in Ukrainian.

 

4. Deliverables:

The research Company is expected to perform activities within the scope of work:

Deliverable #

Task description

Timeframe

1

Prepared and submitted a detailed assessment methodology and list of documents to be reviewed related to healthcare waste management in Ukraine and a draft structure of the report.

(Ukrainian)

No later than 10 working days after signing the contract

2

Prepared and submitted a detailed assessment methodology and list of documents to be reviewed related to healthcare waste management in at least 2 EU countries (including management of post-vaccination and COVID contaminated waste)

(Ukrainian)

No later than 20 working days after signing the contract

3

Prepared and submitted a draft legal environment assessment that contains a literature review, including an executive summary and appendices in Ukrainian and English

No later than 30 working days after signing the contract

4

Prepared and submitted list of laws, bylaws or other legal acts requiring amendment and recommendations to improve the healthcare waste management legislation in Ukraine (including management of post-vaccination and COVID contaminated waste) (Ukrainian)

Validation meeting of the findings and recommendations conducted

No later than 30 working days after signing the contract

5

Addressed comments and submitted a final version of the assessment report including an Executive summary in Ukrainian and English (up to 5 pages)

No later than 35 working days after signing the contract

6

Prepared and conducted a presentation of the assessment results (max 50 of pages in Ukrainian and English languages) for UNDP Ukraine and proposed recommendations submission to UNDP should include final slide deck.

No later than 40 working days after signing the contract

 

5. Copyright

 

The title rights, copyrights and all other rights whatsoever nature in any material produced under the provisions of this TOR will be vested exclusively in UNDP.

 

6. MONITORING/REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Work-progress reporting/monitoring meetings will be held with the National Consultant on a regular basis. UNDP will be responsible for all quality control and evaluation of work-progress of the performance of the National Consultant. No reports or documents should be published or distributed to any third party without prior approval of the UNDP.

 

7. PROPOSED PAYMENT METHOD

Payments will be made in 2 tranches according to the following payment schedule:

First payment - upon satisfactory submission of deliverables # 1 -3 - 50%

Second payment- upon satisfactory submission of deliverables # 4 -6 - 50%

 

8. MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

The consultant shall be responsible for managing the process of the work implementation, its resources, logistics and expenditures related to the tasks in a timely and accurate manner. The consultant will be reporting to the Health Programme Specialist with cross-functional reporting responsibilities to the Chief Technical Advisor.

Competencies

  • Demonstrate/safeguard ethics and integrity;  
  • Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
  • Self-development, initiative-taking;
  • Act as a team player;
  • Encourage and participate in open communication in the team, communicate effectively;
  • Create synergies through self-control;
  • Manage conflict;
  • Informed and transparent decision-making.

Required Skills and Experience

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

Minimum qualifications and experience:

Education:

  • Advanced university degree in Law, Public Health, Ecology or another relevant area

Experience: 

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in of research and analytical work
  • Previous experience of analytical work relevant to waste management is an asset;
  • Knowledge of international and national policies, guidelines and relevant reports regarding healthcare waste management in Ukraine;
  • Fluency in Ukrainian, Russian, working knowledge of English

 

10. DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS

Applicants shall submit the following documents:

Required

 

 

 

Letter of interest/proposal, explaining why the applicant considers him- or herself the most suitable for the work.

 

Personal CV in the form of P11, including information about past experience in similar projects / assignments and contact details for referees.

 

 

Financial proposal

11. EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

  • Advanced university degree in Jurisprudence, Public Health, Ecology or another relevant area -Bachelor`s degree - 15 pts, Master`s degree - 17 pts, PhD degree - 20 pts);
  •  At least 5 years of relevant experience in of research and analytical work- (5-6 years - 24 pts, 7 years and more - 30 pts);
  • Previous experience of analytical work relevant to waste management - 5 pts;
  • Knowledge of international and national policies, guidelines and relevant reports regarding healthcare waste management in Ukraine - 5 pts;
  • Fluency in Ukrainian, Russian, working knowledge of English - 10 pts

 

12. Evaluation method:

Cumulative analysis

?Contract award shall be made to the incumbent whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

b) having received the cumulative highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

* Technical Criteria weight: 70%

* Financial Criteria weight: 30%

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% from the maximum available technical score (49 points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal and will equal to 30. All other price proposals will be evaluated and assigned points, as per below formula:

30 points [max points available for financial part] x [lowest of all evaluated offered prices among responsive offers] / [evaluated price].

The proposal obtaining the overall cumulatively highest score after adding the score of the technical proposal and the financial proposal will be considered as the most compliant offer and will be awarded a contract.

Travel

In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

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