Re-advertised: National Contractor to provide onsite Technical Assistance to the Nutrition Section of Family Welfare Division of Department of Health Services. (Nepalese Nationals Only)

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Nepal is one of the lead countries to implement Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan (MSNP) since 2013. With UNICEF technical and financial assistance, the first phase of MSNP was implemented from 2013-2017 and the implementation of the second phase of MSNP has been ongoing from 2018 until 2022. Nutrition specific, nutrition sensitive and enabling environment for nutrition interventions are the key components of MSNP. The Ministry of Health and Population is the lead Ministry for nutrition specific interventions throughout the country. As per the UNICEF CPAP (2018-2022), out of four outputs for overall nutrition interventions, all 4 outputs except nutrition sensitive interventions such as Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, Management of childhood wasting, prevention and control of micro-nutrient deficiencies and disaster risk reduction and emergency management on nutrition are the outputs led by health sector with UNICEF assistance. Currently, Nutrition specific interventions have been implemented throughout the country with UNICEF technical and financial assistance to MoHP. Ministries in nutrition sensitive actions under MSNP.

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Output 2.1:

1. Support Nutrition Section/FWD to prepare the Annual Work Plan and Budget by incorporating the major activities of MIYCN based on the Action Plan of National Nutrition Strategy 2077.
2. Support Nutrition Section/FWD for Scaling Up and strengthen/maintain MIYCN related Interventions

• Support Nutrition Section/Family Welfare Division of DoHS/MOHP for Scaling Up of MBFHI, establishment of Breastfeeding corners in the public places/workplaces, behaviour change communication interventions (3D animation videos on IYCF) and strengthen/maintain MIYCN counselling and GMP interventions through health workers and FCHVs in all the 753 local levels.
• Build the capacity of Nutrition Section/FWD to scale up and maintain the quality of the CNSI training package for health workers and FCHVs.

3. Coordinate and Support FWD/DoHS/MoHP for the revision of the BMS Act and establishment/functionality of Comprehensive Lactation Management Center (CLMC) at Paropkar Maternity and Women’s Hospital.
4. Support FWD to develop/strengthen the reporting mechanism of the implemented activities (health workers and FCHVs trained on CNSI, # of Breastfeeding corners established/functional) from local levels and provinces; analyse the DHIS-2 data monthly and provide support to FWD for required actions.
5. Coordinate with NPC/MoFAGA/other nutrition partners and UNICEF Field offices for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the MIYCN related interventions.

Output 2.2:

6. Support Nutrition Section of FWD to incorporate following activities in Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWPB) of the fiscal year 2078/79 (2022/2023):

• Strengthen and expand OTCs by Local level and NRH by the federal and provincial level hospitals.
• Procurement, storage, and transportation of RUTF, F100, F75 and ReSoMal as per national needs
• Strengthen Family MUAC approach pilot programme of 4 districts
• Capacity building of health workers and FCHVs by using treatment protocol of simplified approach
• Continuation and expand the incentive (NPR 700) for FCHVs, health facilities and health section of the local level from 32,000 SAM children to atleast 40,000 SAM children

Develop a framework for action to accelerate progress in preventing and managing child wasting and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals based on the “Global Action Plan on Child Wasting”.

7. Support nutrition section of Family Welfare Division of DoHS/MoHP to strengthen the treatment services of severe and moderate acute malnutrition as:

• Scaling Up of IMAM programme to all 753 Local Levels within the framework of MSNP-II as well as expand OTCs to all health facilities at local levels.
• Strengthen OTCs to provide effective treatment of 6-59 months children with severe and moderate acute malnutrition by following the treatment protocol of simplified approach
• Strengthen existing 24 NRH to provide facility-based treatment of moderate and severe acute malnutrition and expand NRH in the federal and provincial level hospitals where paediatric treatment services are available.
• Support to prepare and endorse of NRH operational protocol

8. Support Nutrition Section of FWD to develop a mechanism for information generation, analysis, monitoring and reporting of IMAM services as.

• Generate MAM and SAM treatment status (screening, admission, discharge, recovery, defaulter, death and non-responded) of OTCs and NRH from the DHIS2 and NRH reporting monthly basis, analyse the status and discuss with the team of nutrition section of FWD and Provincial Health Service Directorates for the improvement of treatment services.
• Revise supervision and monitoring checklists of IMAM programme incorporating simplified as well as family MUAC approaches.
• Support to prepare annual report on comprehensive Nutrition specific intervention to feed into the annual report of Department of Health Services considering key nutrition programme indicators mentioned in the HMIS.
• Generate supply status of nutrition commodities (RUTF, F100, F75, ReSoMal, anthropometric equipment and other necessary logistics) from the LMIS and discuss with the team of nutrition section and provincial health directorates, logistic management section of management division and provincial logistic management centers jointly with the team of nutrition section.
• Develop a mechanism to collect the progress reports from Palikas and provinces to know the implementation status of the activities mentioned in the AWPB.
• Revise/update existing monitoring and supervision checklist of IMAM services and make orientation to the local government authorities.

Output 2.3:

1. Build the capacity of Nutrition Section of Family Welfare Division on barriers and bottleneck analysis of the programme around prevention and control of micronutrient deficiencies with special focus to multiple micronutrient powder interventions.

• Support Nutrition section of FWD to develop a concept note and barrier and bottlenecks analysis tool for micro-nutrient programme focusing to MNP coverage and compliance jointly with the nutrition with UNICEF focal point.
• Support nutrition section of FWD to apply the developed barrier and bottlenecks analysis tool for the formative study of micro-nutrient programme focusing to MNP coverage and compliance.
• In coordination with UNICEF, support nutrition section of FWD to compile and analyse the data generated from the application of the barrier and bottleneck analysis tool.
• Support Nutrition section of Family Welfare Division to disseminate the key findings from formative study on barrier and bottleneck analysis around prevention and control of micronutrient deficiency programme with special focus to MNP distribution.

10. Support for to develop training material, teaching learning aid and education curriculum for school aged children/adolescents on nutrition using the life cycle approach.

• Capacity mapping of health and education section of MoEST and Nutrition section of MoHP on developing training materials, teaching learning aids, curriculum development around school aged children/ adolescent nutrition and recommend the person for capacity building activities.
• Facilitate to develop training modules for the human resources who leads/ contributes to developing pre-service curriculum and school curriculum on nutrition with special focus to school aged children/ adolescent nutrition.

11. Support Nutrition Section of Family Welfare Division and National Health Education and Communication Center on developing Social Behavioural Change Communication Strategy (SBCC) focusing to right holders and duty bearers to achieve positive changes in the behaviour of both groups to provide services and utilize it in its optimum level as;

• Guide to collect and compile key behavioural issues among service providers and right holders that creating bottleneck in progression towards behavioural change to promote nutrition among children, adolescent girls and boys and pregnant & lactating women.
• Support to initiate identification of high impact behavioural issues and tools that requires to change among the service providers and right holders.
• Assist to present these high impact behavioural issues and tools to address it among key experts in the field of nutrition.
• Support to finalize the SBCC strategy through the series of consultative meetings and follow up action in its approval process within the Ministry of Health and Population.

Output 2.4:

1. Support for effective nutrition cluster coordination mechanism for nutrition in emergency preparedness and response effectively as.

• Support to the contingency planning working group of nutrition cluster to revise nutrition cluster operating guideline incorporating the nutrition in emergency preparedness, response and recovery mechanism following humanitarian principles and procedures.
• As per the decision of lead and co-lead, support nutrition section of FWD to invite participants to attend nutrition cluster meeting jointly with provincial nutrition clusters if needed
• Support to draft and submit nutrition cluster meeting minutes to lead and co-lead for review finalization.
• Support to plan, organize and conduct training and orientation activities for government personnel and partners in nutrition in emergencies and disaster risk reduction whenever necessary.
• Assess and update the information of nutrition commodities required for emergency management.
• Support to the Information Management TWG of the nutrition cluster for updating nutrition cluster contact list, emergency supplies, trained human resources, nutrition cluster activity mapping including 4W (what, where, when whom) mapping.
• Capacity building of stakeholders on nutrition in emergency preparedness and response mechanism.

Duration of the contract: The duration for this consultancy will be for 11.5 months tentatively starting from mid- August 2022.

Deliverables

First Deliverables:

• Draft AWPB including nutrition specific interventions
• FY 2022/2023 implementation plan
• CNSI training monitoring report template
• Dashboard of nutrition programme monitoring indicators extracted from DHIS2 developed
• Submission of draft report of NRH operational plan
• Capacity development plan for FWD Nutrition Section and HMIS unit on use of routine health and nutrition data generated by DHIS2
• Procurement and supply plan (for the FY 2022/2023) of nutrition commodities using Government’s funds
• Submission of revised supervision and monitoring checklists of IMAM programme incorporating simplified as well as family MUAC approaches

Second Deliverables:

• Submission of final report of NRH operational plan
• Submission of final AWPB reflecting national nutrition specific programmes
• Training module for Logistic Section/ Management Division and Nutrition Section/ Family Welfare Division on nutrition commodity procurement planning and delivery
• Capacity development plan for Provincial Health Directorates on how to use and interpret routine HMIS data for nutrition programme monitoring.
• Submission of revised operating guideline of nutrition cluster

Third Deliverables:

• Submission of the micronutrient supplementation programme barrier and bottleneck analysis report
• Report on capacity mapping of nutrition curriculum development in both health and education sectors.
• Draft social and behaviour change communication strategy.
• Submission of a framework for action to accelerate progress in preventing and managing child wasting based on the “Global Action Plan on Child Wasting”.

Fourth Deliverables:

• Progress information of IMAM, IYCF, GMP, MNP and other micro-nutrient programme to feed the annual reporting
• Status of monitoring and supervision outcomes of nutrition specific interventions.

Fifth Deliverables:

• Submission of social behaviour change communication strategy waiting for further approval from DoHS/ MoHP.
• Nutrition commodities procurement status by using Government’s funds based on the AWPB of MoHP.

Sixth Deliverables:

• Submission of Final Commodity and Supply Report for 2022/2023 of nutrition programmes
• Final consolidated report

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

Education: Advanced University Degree in nutrition, public health nutrition, food and nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, nutrition policy and/or management, or other nutrition related science field is required.

Work Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in nutrition policy, public health nutrition, nutrition planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care. Experience in health/nutrition program/project development in UN system agency or organization is an asset. Similarly, preference will be given to those who have outstanding working relation with health sectors and relevant partners including Nutrition Section of Family Welfare Division of Ministry of Health and Population, Development partner and CSOs.

Special skills: Familiarity with the child nutrition, adolescent and maternal health and nutrition issues in Nepal, skills in program planning and documentation, supervision and monitoring and technical backstopping in the program planning and health/nutrition policy, familiarity with the nutrition related training in health and nutrition sector, excellent skills to develop annual workplan and budgets (AWPB) of Government of Nepal, excellent communication and coordination skills, analyzing, negotiating, communication and advocacy skills, Good data analysis and database management skills, Good documentation and report writing skills and Fluency in English and Nepali

List any special skills and/or knowledge required: In-depth knowledge of the Multi Sector Nutrition Plan (MSNP), Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, MIYCN, GMP, MBFHI, maternal and child micronutrient programming nutrition in development contexts, familiar with the key component of Health Information Management System (HMIS), good skills in coordinating health and nutrition program at the central level, knowledge of standard operating procedures of the Ministry of Health and Population and other Ministries of Nepal relevant to MSNP.

Remarks:

Please submit your financial quotation for this assignment in local currency (NPR) along with your application. The quotation should be based on deliverables for this assignment.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply

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.

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.

Note: Qualified female candidates and candidates from the under-represented ethnic groups in Nepal are strongly encouraged to apply.

Candidates who had applied before do not need to re-apply because their earlier applications are well received.