International Consultancy to develop Strategy and Guidelines on Micronutrient Supplementation

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, nutrition

The proposed consultancy aims to support UNICEF in creating an enabling political environment with strong in-country leadership and a shared Multi-Stakeholder Platform on Nutrition and Food Security to take a joint responsibility to enhance micronutrients policy and strategy leading to effective legislations with monitoring and evaluation systems.

How can you make a difference?

Specific objectives:

1. To support Government and UNICEF to develop the national, costed Micronutrient Supplementation Strategy and Guidelines for Micronutrient Supplementation, which would include:
   1. Proposed high impact evidence-based nutrition intervention to reduce micronutrient deficiency and ways to scale up among target population including food fortification and micronutrient supplementation.
   2. Proposed implementation arrangements and institutional mechanisms for both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive sectoral strategies including promotion of the consumption of micronutrient-rich foods and food diversification.

Scope of Work:

The selected consultant will be required to:

1. Conduct a desk-review of available global evidence, review of nutrition system barriers in Kyrgyzstan and globally, successes and promising practices, as well as identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the micronutrient interventions.
2. Conduct a desk review of existing national legislation, policies, procedures and strategies on nutrition and micronutrient deficiency reduction issued during the last 5 years in order to reveal gaps and propose consolidated document linked with national health plans and global goals and targets;
3. Conduct round table discussions for working group of lead specialists of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture and other line ministries on the findings of the desk review and agree on way forward including strategic goals, objectives, suggested interventions and expected results;
4. Develop draft Strategy on micronutrient supplementation with proposed strategic interventions, implementation arrangements and the detailed annual work plan; monitoring and evaluation framework for all MN interventions;
5. Cost the proposed interventions and proposed ways for financing and budgeting;
6. Develop Guidelines on micronutrient supplementation to outline measures on how to achieve the micronutrient supplementation objectives, including institutional mechanisms;

One travel to Bishkek is required for 22 days.

The overall duration of the contract is 3 months (66 working days).

For more details, please find TOR here ToR supplements.docx and provide your financial proposal here Financial Proposal nutrition.xlsx along with your application

Work assignment and tasks:

Deliverables/Outputs:

Timeline

Estimate Budget

Desk reviews accepted by UNICEF

3 weeks (15 working days)

20%

Draft Strategy on micronutrient supplementation

2 months (36 working days)

45%

Final draft of the costed Strategy is validated by the UNICEF and stakeholders

By 30 September

10%

Guideline

3 weeks (15 working days)

25%

Total 3 months, 66 working days

100%

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Nutrition, Public Health, Medicine *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience of working in nutrition with experience of designing national micronutrient strategy, costing and legislation in food fortification
• Work experience and an understanding of the Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan specific context (political, social – cultural and economic) are desirable
• Proven ability in coordination of research, dialogue, and synthesis of complex information in strategic reports and documents
• Strong writing skills in English, sample of designed strategies/policies will be required
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Russian is an asset.
• In addition, following skills are required: strategic planning and analytical skills.
• For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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