Consultancy to support the 2024 Nutrition Survey using SMART methodology in Guinea Bissau.

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1. Background

Guinea-Bissau has a small however younger and quickly rising inhabitants. Its human improvement classification is “Low” and is characterised by fragility resulting from low entry to important providers and important vulnerability to political and environmental shocks. In line with the Kids’s Local weather Danger Index revealed by UNICEF in 2021, Guinea-Bissau ranks fourth, indicating that youngsters within the nation are among the many most susceptible to environmental stresses and excessive climate occasions (UNICEF, 2021). The nation is ranked 177 out of 191 nations on the Human Growth Index (HDI) and faces extreme improvement challenges (UNDP, 2022).

UNICEF Guinea-Bissau has been operational for over 40 years, with packages spanning Baby Safety, Schooling, Well being, HIV, Diet, and WASH. The present Nation Programme, developed in 2021-22, will assist all implementations till December 2026. Underneath this Nation Programme Doc, the UNICEF Diet Program will pursue multi-sectoral interventions with a deal with the primary 1,000 days and preventive actions.

The speed of continual malnutrition stays excessive amongst youngsters aged between 6 and 59 months. In line with the newest A number of Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), 28 % of kids beneath 5 years of age are stunted (have low peak for age), and 5 % are acutely malnourished or wasted (have low weight-for-height) (UNICEF, 2019). The final SMART diet survey carried out in 2019 reported a prevalence of 29.9 % for stunted youngsters and seven.3 % for kids affected by acute malnutrition.

The present pattern is inadequate to achieve the World Well being Meeting goal of a 40 % discount by 2025. Contemplating the current world meals disaster and the impression of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected all spheres, resulting in successive will increase within the costs of gasoline and different important items, the power of households to satisfy their primary wants and assure meals and dietary safety has been compromised.

Malnutrition considerably contributes to baby morbidity and mortality. To proceed monitoring the meals and diet safety scenario, it’s important to have high quality, related, and well timed info. The Nationwide Diet Service/Ministry of Well being, in collaboration with UNICEF and different stakeholders (coordination group), has proposed to conduct a brand new nationwide diet survey utilizing the Standardized Monitoring and Evaluation of Aid and Transitions (SMART) methodology within the interval from December 2023 to Could 2024 in essentially the most affected areas (Oio, Farim, Bafatá, Gabú, Quinara, Cacheu, Tomabli, and Biombo).

 

2. SMART METHODOLOGY

SMART is an inter-agency initiative launched in 2002 by a community of organizations and humanitarian practitioners. SMART advocates a multi-partner, systematized method to offer important, dependable info for decision-making, and to ascertain shared techniques and sources for host authorities companions and humanitarian organizations.

The SMART Methodology is an improved survey methodology that balances simplicity (for fast evaluation of acute emergencies) and technical soundness. It attracts from the core components of a number of methodologies with steady upgrading knowledgeable by analysis and present finest practices.

The SMART Methodology relies on the 2 most important and primary public well being indicators for the evaluation of the magnitude and severity of a humanitarian disaster:

1. Dietary standing of kids beneath 5.
2. Mortality fee of the inhabitants.
These indicators are useful in prioritizing sources and monitoring the extent to which the aid system is assembly the inhabitants’s wants, and due to this fact the general impression of the aid response.https://smartmethodology.org/about-smart/

ADVANTAGES OF USING SMART
SMART ensures that constant and dependable survey information are collected and analyzed utilizing a standardized methodology. It offers technical capability for decision-making and reporting and complete assist for strategic and sustained capability constructing. A global marketing consultant well-versed in utilizing the SMART methodology will work with a neighborhood establishment, nationwide authorities, and different companions in diet, comparable to WFP, to steer and oversee the work.

3. Scope of Work:

“The SMART diet survey will present information for well timed motion, useful resource mobilization, and program planning, together with informing progress achievements in the direction of the Nation Programme (2022-2026) outcomes, notably for Well being and Diet outcomes, in addition to for long-term monitoring by the federal government, NGOs, and different diet stakeholders.

The marketing consultant, beneath this consultancy, is predicted to:

i) Lead the implementation of the SMART survey methodology, together with the revision and adaptation of instruments and protocols for the survey in collaboration with the Diet Path Service, the nationwide establishment employed to undertake fieldwork, and all different related actors.
ii) Present high-quality technical help to the Nationwide Diet Path Service and the engaged NGO supporting the assorted survey phases.
iii) In collaboration with the chosen NGO, the marketing consultant will plan all phases of the survey, handle and prepare surveyors, and supervise the standard of processes and fieldwork.
iv) Coordinate, lead, and information by offering particular suggestions to the NGO engaged in managing the logistics and monetary facets of the survey.
v) Guarantee the standard of processes and the well timed supply of anticipated outcomes.
vi) Current an inception report reviewing all important steps from planning to presenting outcomes and the ultimate survey report.

4. Particular duties:

Planning section:
a. Elaborate/finalize the survey protocol, timeline of actions, information assortment, ultimate report, and presentation of outcomes.
b. Decide and doc the sampling strategies, implementing the sampling plan in shut collaboration with the Nationwide Statistics Institute utilizing the Nationwide Inhabitants Census of 2009.
c. Be certain that all survey types, telephones, supplies, instruments, and gear are prepared for the survey.
d. Finalize the survey instruments, together with the interview information, questionnaire, standardization of anthropometry instruments kind, calendar of native occasions, and reference for kids with Extreme Acute Malnutrition (SAM) earlier than the coaching.
e. Finalize the specs for survey gear and supplies.
f. In collaboration with NNS and MoH/INASA, guarantee correct group and authorities’ engagement within the chosen survey clusters and on the regional/district stage to safe assist for the survey and availability of the goal inhabitants for the interviews.

Coaching section
a. Conduct the survey coaching protecting all particulars within the interviewer’s guide.
b. The duty pressure and the whole survey group ought to attend the survey coaching.
c. Arrange a discipline take a look at to validate the questionnaire, the workflow, the recording, and information entry in an space that’s not included within the first stage of pattern choice.
d. Arrange the deployment of interviewer groups to the nation’s completely different areas with a plan indicating who will work, the place, and the way reporting by discipline groups shall be executed.

Fieldwork Section:
a. Guarantee sufficient supervision of every survey group throughout the whole information assortment interval.
b. Make periodic supervision visits to the survey groups throughout their work to make sure excessive information high quality.
c. Evaluate the entered information day by day and supply immediate suggestions.
d. Doc the constraints, difficulties, or potential biases recognized in the course of the survey implementation course of.

Knowledge Evaluation and Report Writing:
a. Analyze and interpret the outcomes of the survey with activity pressure members.
b. Full reviews and all different actions promptly as per the agreed schedule.
c. Share the survey outcomes with the duty pressure and the regional workplace for overview.
d. Current the survey methodologies and outcomes in the course of the survey dissemination workshop.
e. Create copies of survey supplies on OneDrive, Pen drive or different media machine for archiving.

5. Work modalities and administrative points:
a. Through the information assortment section, the contract length is 108 days over 5 months, together with 15 days of discipline missions.
b. The chosen candidate is predicted to be primarily based on the UNICEF workplace and have frequent contact with the Ministry of Well being and Nationwide Diet group and different related actorsAnd UNICEF could present workplace area
c. The marketing consultant cost shall be made primarily based on passable deliverables and high quality progress reviews. The ultimate cost shall be primarily based on efficiency and accredited close-out report.
d. candidates ought to submit their software, together with all prices associated to this session. The monetary supply should be all-inclusive (together with charges, worldwide journey prices, day by day subsistence, and every other associated value).

NB: The ultimate choice shall be primarily based on the “finest worth for cash” precept.

Work Project Overview 1:
Planning section:
• Elaborate the survey protocol, and timeline of actions, information assortment, ultimate report, and presentation of outcomes
• Decide and doc the sampling strategies and implement the sampling plan in shut collaboration with the Nationwide Statistics Institute utilizing the Nationwide Inhabitants Census, 2009.
• Be certain that all survey types, telephones, supplies, instruments, and gear are prepared for the survey.
• Finalize the survey instruments: the interview information, questionnaire, and standardization of anthropometry instruments kind, calendar of native occasions, and reference for kids with SAM earlier than the coaching.
• Finalize the specs for survey gear and supplies.
• Collaboration with NNS and MoH/INASA be certain that correct group and authorities’ engagement within the chosen survey clusters and on the regional/district stage to safe assist for the survey and availability of the goal inhabitants for the interviews.

Deliverables/Outputs a: 15 days
1. Inception report with:
a) Desk overview of accessible technical paperwork.
b) Authorized sampling methodology.
c) Survey protocol proposal for standardized survey instruments.

Deliverables/Outputs b: 17 days
2. Authorized gear checklist and work plan for Consultations and Survey implementation.
3. Surveyors and coaching supplies tailored.
4. Draft a communication plan for survey implementation.

Work Project Overview 2:
Coaching section:
• Conduct the survey coaching protecting all particulars within the interviewer’s guide. The duty pressure and the whole survey group ought to attend the survey coaching.
• Arrange a discipline take a look at to validate the questionnaire, the workflow, the recording, and information entry in an space that’s not included within the first stage pattern choice.
• Arrange the deployment of interviewer groups to the completely different areas of the nation with a plan indicating who will work, the place and the way reporting by discipline groups shall be executed
Deliverables/Outputs: 20 Days
1. Report on interviewers’ and supervisors’ coaching
2. Report of discipline testing of survey instruments and supplies and
3. Finalized deployment plan of survey groups together with supervision plan

Work Project Overview 3:
Fieldwork
• Guarantee sufficient supervision of every survey group throughout the whole information assortment interval.
• Make periodic supervision visits to the survey groups throughout their work to make sure excessive information high quality.
• Evaluate the entered information day by day and supply immediate suggestions.
• Doc the constraints, difficulties or potential biases recognized in the course of the survey implementation course of.
Deliverables/Outputs 35 Days:
1. A supervision report is offered unfolding the foremost limitations, difficulties or potential biases recognized in the course of the survey implementation course of in addition to the standard rating of the survey.
2. A preliminary report is ready, and the survey outcomes and findings are shared with the federal government and all different key companions.

Work Project Overview4:
Knowledge Evaluation and Report Writing:
Analyze and interpret the outcomes of the survey with activity pressure members.
• Full reviews and all different actions in a well timed method as per the agreed schedule.
• Share the survey outcomes with the duty pressure and the regional workplace for overview
• Current the survey methodologies and outcomes in the course of the survey dissemination workshop.
• Create copies of survey supplies and share it trought OneDrive, Pen drive or different media machine for archiving.

Deliverables/Outputs: 21 days
SMART survey report submitted and shared on OneDrive, with:
• Cleaned dataset together with anthropometry, IYCF practices, Minimal dietary range for girls and mortality information,
• Government abstract of findings of surveys.

 

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How will you make a distinction? 

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To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

• A sophisticated college diploma  – Masters in Public Well being, diet, epidemiology, or a associated discipline.

Data/Experience/Abilities required *:

• Wonderful facilitation and coaching abilities
• Expertise utilizing smartphones for information entry and evaluation
• Demonstrated abilities in survey or analysis report writing
• Demonstrated presentation abilities
• In-depth understanding of malnutrition from diet/public well being viewpoint
• Certification or coaching in survey methodologies, SMART methodology, or associated areas
• Demonstrated abilities with statistics evaluation software program (EPI-Information, SPSS, SAS, STATA or others…
WORK EXPERIENCE
• SMART strategies (not less than 03 surveys as principal marketing consultant/coordinator or Minimal of 5 years’ expertise in SMART methodology).
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
• Fluent in French or English.
• Portuguese is an asset.

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