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Background and Purpose
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH), Ministry of Water and Environment (MoWE) and Ministry of Education (MoES) and Sports to develop and operationalize the WASH Management Information System (WASH-MIS). The previous system used by government required expansion to capture data across the WASH sector against Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators, along with additional features for improved access and interpretation of WASH data, and to ensure seamless, efficient, and effective data capture from various administrative levels up to the national level. The new reporting system is designed to strengthen horizontal coordination and reporting (reporting across sectors) as opposed to vertical reporting within the respective ministries. This is to reinforce integrated WASH reporting and promote effective decision making across the different ministries that are mandated to implement and report on SDG 6.
A comprehensive monitoring framework has been developed and used to define the system, which has been finalized and is being hosted by the National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U). However, the operationalization of the system has met with some challenges. MoH, MoWE and MoES have existing systems and reporting mechanisms to track progress of sanitation in their respective mandates. However, the systems are not yet effectively integrated into the WASH-MIS. There is need to support integration of the separate systems to respond to user needs and improve progress monitoring and reporting at all administrative levels. There is also limited capacity across the administrative levels to use the system.
It is against this background that UNICEF is seeking to support the engagement of a technical person consultant to assist the process of operationalizing the WASH-MIS, support to build capacity of the central teams and have the system rolled out to local governments to facilitate data collection and overall management.

Justification
The consultant will provide technical assistance to MoH, MoWE and MoES to ensure timely operationalization of the WASH-MIS. Particularly, the consultant will complete the development of the system, support its integration and interface with other systems and applications, carry out regular refresher trainings for system administrators and managers and provide support during the initial training of district local government as part of the operationalization of the WASH-MIS.