Consultant - Public Financial Management / IFMIS and Health Expenditure Tracking Expert, Brazzaville, Congo

Consultant - Public Financial Management / IFMIS and Health Expenditure Tracking Expert, Brazzaville, Congo Organization: WHO - World Health Organization Country: Congo

Localisation

Office: WHO Brazzaville, Congo Consultant Public Financial Management / IFMIS and Health Expenditure Tracking Expert ( 2602648 ) Contractual Arrangement : External consultant Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days) : The consultancy contract duration varies from 1 to 11 months, depending on the need. Job Posting : Jul 1, 2026, 2:32:38 PM

• 1. Background The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) supports Member States in strengthening health systems to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and other health-related Sustainable Development Goals. Within AFRO, the Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Department provides strategic and technical leadership to improve the performance, equity, and resilience of health systems across the Region. The Health Financing and Governance (HFG) unit, under the HSS Department, leads to work in areas including health financing policy, public financial management for health, health governance, accountability, economic analysis and system-wide health financing reforms. The WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is implementing a three-year initiative entitled “Financing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Spending Data, Financial Accountability, and Regional Learning.” The initiative aims to strengthen the availability, quality, and use of SRHR expenditure data to support policy dialogue, accountability, and sustainable financing for SRHR in the African Region.

Formation / Diplômes

Under Objective 2 of the project, WHO seeks to strengthen cross-sectoral tracking of health and SRHR expenditures by leveraging Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) and public financial management (PFM) systems. The project will develop and pilot a mechanism to identify, extract, and map health- and SRHR-related expenditures across sectors into the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) framework. This work requires specialized expertise in public financial management systems, IFMIS structures, budget classifications, and health expenditure tracking methodologies. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical leadership and conceptual guidance to develop a framework linking IFMIS and SRHR expenditure-tracking systems in selected countries in the WHO African Region. Objectives The specific objectives of the consultancy are to: Analyze national public financial management and IFMIS structures in selected pilot countries to identify opportunities for tracking health- and SRHR-related expenditures across sectors. Develop a conceptual and methodological framework for mapping public expenditure data from IFMIS systems to the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) classifications. Design a practical expenditure tagging framework that enables the identification and classification of health and SRHR expenditures within government budget and expenditure systems. Support the development and piloting of an automated expenditure extraction and mapping tool in collaboration with the IT consultant and country stakeholders. Develop technical guidance and documentation that can support future scale-up and institutionalization of cross-sectoral SRHR expenditure tracking in the African Region. Scope of Work Under the overall guidance of the team leader, and the technical supervision of the technical officer in charge of resource tracking, the consultant will undertake the following tasks: Conduct analytical review and conceptualization Review the structure and functioning of IFMIS and public financial management systems in selected pilot countries. Analyze national charts of accounts, budget classifications, programme classifications, and relevant accounting guidance. Identify opportunities and constraints for tracking SRHR expenditure across sectors. Develop a conceptual framework for linking IFMIS data to SHA 2011 classifications. Lead development of expenditure tagging framework Design a practical multi-level tagging system to identify health- and SRHR-related expenditures across sectors. Ensure the tagging structure balances operational feasibility and analytical usefulness. Define major SRHR expenditure categories and mapping logic to SHA classifications. Support tool design and piloting Work closely with the IT consultant to define functional specifications for the extraction tool. Support the design of workflows for automated extraction and classification of expenditures. Participate in pilot testing in selected countries. Document institutional arrangements and data governance considerations required for implementation. Documentation and technical guidance Lead the drafting of the technical guidance paper on estimating health and SRHR expenditures across sectors.

Présentation du poste

Prepare technical notes, presentations, and recommendations emerging from pilot implementation. Support dissemination and technical discussions with countries and partners

• 2. Deliverables Inception report and workplan. Analytical review of IFMIS and charts of accounts in pilot countries. Conceptual framework for IFMIS-SHA linkage. Practical tagging framework for SRHR expenditures. Functional specifications for the extraction tool. Technical inputs to pilot implementation and testing reports. Technical guidance paper on estimating cross-sectoral health and SRHR expenditures

Profil recherché

• 3. Qualifications, experience, skills and languages Educational Qualifications Essential : Advanced university degree (Master's level or above) in public finance, health economics, economics, accounting, public administration, development studies, information systems, or another relevant field. Desirable : Specialized training or certification in public financial management, IFMIS administration, government accounting, or health financing. Additional training in National Health Accounts or SHA 2011 methodologies is an asset.

Expérience

Essential : Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in public financial management, budgeting systems, government accounting, IFMIS, or expenditure tracking. Demonstrated experience working with ministries of finance and/or ministries of health on budget analysis, expenditure tracking, or financial reporting systems. Experience conducting analytical reviews of charts of accounts, programme classifications, or public expenditure systems. Proven experience working in low- and middle-income countries, preferably in Africa. Desirable : Experience with National Health Accounts (NHA) and/or System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011). Experience linking public financial management systems to sectoral expenditure analysis. Previous experience working with