Background

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion, or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, peacebuilding.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Cambodia currently implements programming across health and disaster risk reduction sectors and is expanding its strategic engagement in Climate Change Adaptation (CCA).

Climate change is increasing health risks in Cambodia, including heat-related illness, dengue and other vector-borne diseases, water-borne diseases, malnutrition, injuries from floods and storms, and mental health impacts. These risks place additional pressure on sub-national health systems, especially in provinces where health facilities, workforce, local leadership, and community-based volunteers may have limited resources to prepare for and respond to climate-related health threats. Climate change as a health risk multiplier highlights the need to strengthen health systems through better surveillance and early warning systems, climate-resilient health facilities, improved service delivery, and stronger health workforce capacity.

To operationalize this, CRS is looking for a consultant to assess the readiness of the sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province to address climate change-related health risks and to identify practical actions for strengthening provincial, district, facility, and community-level capacity.

Objectives

• Assess the current capacity of the sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province, including health workforce, health facilities, leadership and governance, locally led volunteers, community structures, climate change induced health risks, and service delivery capacity to support communities to cope with climate change-related diseases and health risks.
• Identify the gaps in strengthening the sub-national health system to better address climate change matters, including climate-sensitive disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, health promotion, community engagement, and facility readiness.
• Facilitate discussions among relevant stakeholders to reach consensus on next actions for strengthening sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from climate-related health risks, with clearly defined roles, priorities, and practical recommendations for implementation.

Scope of Work

The consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Review key documents related to climate change, health, disaster risk management, and adaptation, including national and provincial policies, Preah Vihear health plans and reports, climate risk and vulnerability data, disease surveillance reports on climate-sensitive diseases, available health facility readiness assessments, and relevant grey literature from organizations working on climate-related health risks.
• Conduct Stakeholder Consultations with relevant stakeholders at provincial, district, facility, and community levels, including PHD, OD, RH, HCs, local authorities, village health support groups, NGOs and development partners working in health, climate change, disaster risk reduction, or community resilience
• Assess the health system readiness in Preah Vihear Province to address climate-related health risks, identifying current capacity and gaps..
• Facilitate a validation workshop to consult and collect feedback on the assessment findings and recommendations and to develop an action plan with agreed-on actions and approaches, responsible actors, timeline, and possible resources to strengthen sub-national health system readiness for climate change in Preah Vihear Province.

Expected Deliverables

The consultant will produce the following deliverables:

• Inception Report, including the assessment protocol, outlining overall approach, methodology, data collection tools and process, stakeholder engagement strategy, and analytical framework for assessing the capacity of the sub-national health system in Preah Vihear Province to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from climate-related impacts.
• Draft assessment report including preliminary findings on key climate change risks, sub-national health system capacity, gaps, and recommendations for strengthening.
• Completed validation and action planning workshop.
• Final consultancy report including:
  • Executive summary
  • Background and methodology
  • Climate-related health risks in Preah Vihear
  • Findings by health system building blocks
  • Capacity gaps and needs
  • Recommendations
  • Agreed-upon action plan for sub-national health system strengthening with clear roles and responsibilities and monitoring plan

*** Please refer to the attached Term of Reference (TOR) for detailed information.

Timeline

This consultancy will take place from late July and mid-September 2026 (total 25 working days), with an approximate breakdown as follows:

• Develop the Inception Report, including the assessment protocol, methodology, data collection tools, stakeholder engagement plan, and analytical framework - 3 days.
• Conduct the sub-national health system assessment fieldwork, including document review, stakeholder consultations, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and data collection in Preah Vihear Province –-9 Days
• Conduct data analyses and prepare preliminary findings of the assessment- 4 days
• Design for the validation workshop methodology, facilitation strategy, and agenda-2 days
• Engage with CRS Cambodia program leadership to assess needs and align on priorities through collaborative sessions- 1 day
• Facilitate validation workshop and development of an agreed action plan - 2 days
• Draft the final assessment report- 2 days
• Revise the assessment report to address final feedback and finalizing deliverables-2 days

Payment

Payment will be made upon the successful completion and acceptance of all deliverables and key activities by CRS. For individual consultants, CRS will withhold a 15% withholding tax from the
agreed consultancy fee in accordance with Cambodian tax regulations.

Consultants must submit their proposed consultancy fee as a gross daily rate. CRS will reimburse fieldwork- related expenses in accordance with CRS policies and rates,

• Per diem: USD 20 per day (breakfast: $5, Lunch: $7 and dinner: $8)
• Accommodation: USD 20 per night

All transportation and accommodation expenses must be supported by original receipts in order to qualify for reimbursement by CRS.

Submission

Interested consultant(s) and/or consultancy firms are requested to submit the proposal in English contain the following information to kh.procurement@crs.org with the subject “Consultancy for Sub-national health system readiness”

• Letter of Expression of Interest
• Cover Letter describing knowledge and experience relevant to the role
• CVs of key personnel (no more than 3 pages)
• Example of previous experiences for similar assignments.
• Minimum 2 references.

Please note that responses received without the information above will not be considered.

This call for Expression of Interest constitutes a solicitation. We require administrative information, technical
proposals and prices at this stage. We will not issue any confirmation of receiving proposals except only when
there is any clarification, and/ or notification of successful proposals.

CRS reserves the right to change or cancel the requirement at any time during the EOI and/or solicitation
process.

CRS Contact Information

Attention to: CRS Cambodia
Address: Building No. 64, Preah Norodom Blvd Corner Street 178, Phnom Penh
Telephone # +855 23 211 165
Email address: kh.procurement@crs.org