National Consultant : Domestic and Sustainable Financing for TPSR, SRHR & DD

### Job description Purpose of consultancy: The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert technical leadership to drive the implementation of the Sustainable Financing Roadmap for Uganda (2026–2030), specifically linked to the Demographic Dividend domestic financing requirements. The consultant will lead evidence generation, strategic policy dialogue aligned with Uganda’s budget calendar, public financial management (PFM) assessments, and institutional capacity development to enable the Government of Uganda to: 1. Spend More: Increase domestic budget allocations and leverage predictable resources for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), adolescent health, and TPSR implementation through targeted advocacy in Uganda's budget cycle. 2. Spend Better: Diagnose Public Financial Management (PFM) bottlenecks, improve expenditure execution, equity, and efficiency across national and district local government levels. 3. Diversify Financing Sources: Explore innovative financing, results-based mechanisms, private sector engagement, and alignment with International Financial Institutions (IFIs). 4. Institutionalize Systems: Embed financing tools, analytics, and tracking mechanisms directly into government PFM processes to support the transition from aid funding to sustainable domestic financing. Scope of work: 1. Background Sustainable financing is not achieved by isolated fundraising activities. It emerges when robust evidence, effective policy dialogue, stronger public financial management and diversified partnerships reinforce each other to influence government financing decisions. This consultancy will support UNFPA to strengthen Uganda's sustainable financing ecosystem for population and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The consultant will support the generation and use of strategic evidence, strengthen institutional capacity, and foster policy dialogue to translate evidence on financing into sustainable public investment and long-term financing reforms. 2. Overall Objective To lead the execution of the UNFPA CPD10 Sustainable Financing Roadmap, integrating financing analytics and driving evidence-informed policy dialogue aligned with the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) 2015 budget calendar, and Programme-Based Budgeting (PBB) architecture, specifically under the Human Capital Development Programme Working Groups. 3. Specific Objectives & Strategic Pillars Pillar 1: Build the Evidence & Analytics - Cost of Inaction & Investment Cases:building on the existing evidence, update, adapt, and generate economic evidence/policy briefs on the cost of inaction regarding teenage pregnancy, SRHR and DD. - Budget Notes & Factsheets:Develop targeted budget notes, financing factsheets, and policy briefs to quantify financing gaps and demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) to key fiscal decision-makers. - Fiscal Space & Efficiency Analysis:Identify potential fiscal space opportunities like earmarked health revenues and taxes, and model efficiency gains in current health/social sector spending. Pillar 2: Influence Public Financing – "Spend More" Primary Goal: Drive evidence-informed advocacy across critical decision points in the Ugandan budget calendar to protect, create, and scale domestic budget allocations for DD, SRHR, teenage pregnancy prevention, and TPSR implementation at national and District Local Government (DLG) levels. - Q1 Touchpoint (Sept – Dec) | Budget Strategy & Budget Framework Papers (BFPs): - 1st Budget Call Circular (BCC1) Engagement (Sept–Oct):Work with the Ministry of Health (Adolescent & School Health Division) and the Human Capital Development (HCD) Programme Working Group (PWG) to ensure adolescent SRHR and TPSR priorities are integrated into the Programme Budget Framework Paper (PBFP) ceilings. - District Local Government (DLG) BFP Technical Support (Oct–Nov):Support key pilot/scale-up districts during regional LG budget consultations to ensure UNFPA CPD10 indicative planning figures, TPSR surveillance, and SRHR/DD indicators are captured in DLG BFPs. - Cabinet & MoFPED Submissions (Dec 31):Prepare concise Budget Advocacy Briefs for MoFPED ahead of the final National Budget Framework Paper (NBFP) submission to Parliament. - UNFPA CPD10 cofinancing MOUs with NPA and DLG (Dec 31):provide technical support to draft and negotiate the co-financing MOUs with MoFPED and MoLG, for the implementation of the UNFPA Country Programme 10. - Q2 Touchpoint (Jan – Feb) | Parliamentary Scrutiny of the NBFP: - Parliamentary "Budget Champions" Engagement (Jan):Facilitate targeted advocacy roundtables with the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Committee on Gender, Committee on Budget, and the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) using Cost of Inaction and Investment Case findings. - NBFP Recommendations Push (Feb 15):Provide technical inputs and draft memo language to MPs to ensure Parliamentary recommendations on the NBFP mandate higher funding allocations for adolescent health supplies (family planning/contraceptives), SGBV response, and school-based health tracking. - Q3 Touchpoint (March – May) | Ministerial Policy Statements (MPS) & Appropriation: - 2nd Budget Call Circular (BCC2) & MPS Finalization (March 15):Assist MoH and relevant MDAs in populating the Program Budgeting System (PBS) to ensure specific DD/SRHR/TPSR activity codes and budget lines are retained in the Ministerial Policy Statements. - Sectoral Committee Hearings (April 1 – April 20):Equip civil society coalitions, youth champions, and MoH technical teams with analytical briefing kits to defend DD/SRHR lines during MPS sectoral committee reviews. - Appropriation Bill Enactment (May 31):Track and verify that final parliamentary appropriations retain approved DD, SRHR and TPSR allocations prior to presidential assent. Pillar 3: Improve Spending Efficiency – "Spend Better" Primary Goal: Diagnose Public Financial Management (PFM) bottlenecks, optimize budget execution rates, and ensure public investments in DD, SRHR and TPSR yield high value-for-money and equitable outcomes across national and local government levels. - Budget Execution & Release Tracking (Q1–Q4 Quarterly Cycles): - Quarterly Fund Release Audits:Analyze MoFPED quarterly warranting and release performance for health and social development votes to identify delays in operational fund disbursement to central divisions and DLGs. - Absorption & Execution Rate Reviews:Assess execution bottlenecks (procurement delays, late IFMS releases, cash flow constraints) affecting adolescent SRHR commodity procurement (NMS/JMS) and district TPSR operations. - PFM System Diagnostics & Efficiency Analyses: - Public Expenditure & Bottleneck Analysis (PEBA):Conduct a targeted PFM review of how domestic resources flow from MoFPED to MoH, MoES, MoGLSD, MoLG and downstream to District Health Teams (DHTs), health facilities,  schools and other committees. - Value-for-Money (VfM) & Equity Mapping:Evaluate unit costs and equity distribution of health/social sector spending to ensure funds reach high-burden, vulnerable adolescent populations (applying Leave No One Behind criteria). - Efficiency Reallocation Recommendations:Identify operational double-counting or programmatic inefficiencies, providing actionable options to reallocate savings directly into core SRHR/DD/TPSR surveillance and response activities. Pillar 4: Diversify Financing Sources Primary Goal: Broaden the SRHR and adolescent health financing architecture beyond traditional public budgets by leveraging International Financial Institutions (IFIs), results-based mechanisms, and innovative private sector partnerships. - IFI Portfolio Alignment (World Bank, AfDB, Global Fund, GFF): - Human Capital Development Project Integration:Map ongoing and pipeline IFI loan/grant operations in Uganda (e.g., World Bank health/education projects, UgIFT, UACE) and develop technical briefs to embed TPSR and adolescent health disbursement-lin