Position: Consultant – State Consultant (WASH in AWCs and HCFs)
Employing Agency (Employer): Inductus Limited
Duration of the contract: Initial contract will be issued till 31st March 2027, and may be further extended, subject to project requirements, satisfactory performance and funding availability.
Remuneration: Gross compensation budgeted for the position is very attractive. Please note that the offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary history. Applicants to mention their current professional fee & expected professional fee on www.inductusjobs.com/un
No. of Vacancy: 1 Position (One).
Duty Station: Guwahati, Assam
Reporting Line:
(1) Administrative Supervision- Inductus Limited
(2) Technical Supervision: WASH Specialist, Assam field office, UN ORGANISATION
Last Date for Application: 20 September 2026 (Mid-Night)
CONTENT OF TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
1. Background:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are critical for improving health, nutrition, early childhood development, learning outcomes, dignity, and overall well-being. The Government of India has strengthened the WASH sector through flagship initiatives such as the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)-Grameen and Urban, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), Swachh Swasth Sarvatra (SSS), Poshan Abhiyan, and the National Health Mission (NHM), with a focus on universal access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and environmental cleanliness. These programmes recognize the important role of institutional WASH in improving health and development outcomes for children, women, and vulnerable populations.
Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) are critical platforms for delivering early childhood care, nutrition, health, and pre-school education services under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme. The availability of safe drinking water, functional and child-friendly toilets, handwashing facilities with soap, and a hygienic environment in AWCs is essential for protecting children from disease, promoting healthy behaviours, and supporting improved nutrition and early childhood development outcomes. Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is an important component of WASH in AWCs, ensuring that adolescent girls, women workers, and caregivers have access to adequate facilities, information, and safe disposal options that promote health, dignity, and gender equality.
Similarly, WASH in Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) is fundamental to quality healthcare delivery and infection prevention. The Government of India has prioritized WASH in HCFs through initiatives such as NHM, Kayakalp, LaQshya, NQAS, and SBM, which promote safe water supply, sanitation, hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, biomedical waste management, and infection prevention and control (IPC). Strengthening WASH in HCFs is particularly important for improving maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes, reducing healthcare-associated infections, and enhancing service quality.
Despite significant progress, challenges remain in ensuring sustainable and quality WASH services in AWCs and HCFs. Key gaps include inadequate convergence across sectors, limited data use for planning and monitoring, insufficient technical capacities, and inadequate financing for operation and maintenance of existing facilities. While considerable investments have been made in infrastructure creation, functionality, maintenance, behaviour change, and sustainability continue to require attention. In addition, recurrent floods and other climate-related risks in Assam pose challenges to the continuity and resilience of institutional WASH services.
UN ORGANISATION Assam has been supporting the Government of Assam through strategic partnerships with the Department of Women and Child Development, National Health Mission, and other key stakeholders to strengthen WASH integration in AWCs and HCFs. This includes technical support on safe water, sanitation, hand hygiene, MHM, infection prevention and control, assessments, capacity building, and institutional improvement planning aligned with national standards and guidelines.
However, there remains a need for a systematic review of the status of WASH in AWCs and HCFs, with a particular focus on functionality, quality, operation and maintenance of facilities, Menstrual Hygiene Management, climate resilience, financing, and convergence mechanisms. Such a review will help identify key bottlenecks and opportunities to strengthen institutional WASH systems and inform future policy, planning, and investments.
As part of its upstream engagement, UN ORGANISATION Assam aims to support integrated and climate-resilient WASH programming in aspirational, flood-prone, hard-to-reach, and tribal-dominated districts, including those in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). The review will generate evidence to strengthen WASH and MHM in AWCs, improve WASH services in HCFs, support SBM and JJM implementation, and advance equitable access to safe, sustainable, and resilient WASH services for children, women, adolescent girls, and vulnerable communities across Assam.
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