NATIONAL CONSULTANCY – MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION, Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA (364 Days) Office Based.

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Maternal and youngster vitamin throughout the first 1,000 days, from conception to age 2 years, is the core to UNICEF programming in each growth and humanitarian contexts. To stop malnutrition in early childhood, infants and younger youngsters want breastmilk; age-appropriate nutritious, protected and inexpensive meals; protected ingesting water; applicable feeding, care, stimulation and hygiene practices; wholesome meals environments; and enough vitamin, well being providers. Nonetheless, youngster feeding practices are deteriorating in Mongolia. The newest survey revealed that unique breastfeeding of kids 0-5 months previous declined from 57% to 50% and the early initiation of breastfeeding inside an hour of delivery from 77.5% to 70.2%. Complementary feeding practices are insufficient with solely 28% of kids aged 6-23 months receiving minimal acceptable diets.

Because of these poor youngster feeding practices, youngsters below 5 have the very best prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies: 27% of those youngsters are categorised as anemic, 21% as iron-deficient, 70% as inadequate in vitamin A, and 90% as inadequate in vitamin D . The prevalence of chubby and weight problems amongst youngsters below 5 remained excessive over final 15 years at 10.5%. Stunting can also be prevalent amongst youngsters below 5 from poor households (13.8%), Kazakh ethnic group (17.6%), and in Western area (17%).

Companies to forestall malnutrition – akin to help for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, micronutrient supplementation, dietary counselling, and maternal vitamin – have to be delivered by well being care employees, who’re the entrance line between the well being system, youngsters and households, play essential position in prevention of kids below 5 years of age. Early detection and remedy of kids with losing, screening for and addressing anemia, micronutrient deficiencies, progress faltering and chubby additionally require well being system expertise and provides.

UNICEF Mongolia goals to help the Authorities in strengthening the well being system’s capability to ship important vitamin providers together with safety and help of optimum breastfeeding practices; scaling-up the IYCF counselling; early detection and administration of acute malnutrition; vitamin interventions in antenatal care; improved high quality and protection of micronutrient supplementation; strengthened vitamin surveillance system with modern applied sciences; and elevated financing for important vitamin providers.

How will you make a distinction? 

The aim of the task is to technically help and guarantee documentation of the progress of the maternal and youngster vitamin programme implementation with explicit concentrate on  enhancing the capability of maternity and new child well being amenities to  present high quality breastfeeding counselling and help providers to newborns, scaling up important vitamin providers in main well being amenities.

Scope of Work:

Present help for implementation, monitoring and documentation of maternal and youngster vitamin programme together with:

1. Help the Ministry of Well being (MoH), the Nationwide Centre for Public Well being (NCPH) and Well being Improvement Centre to boost the capability of maternity and new child well being amenities in UB and chosen provinces to offer high quality breastfeeding counselling and help providers to newborns in keeping with newly adopted ‘Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding’ hospital accreditation programme; strengthening the capability of hospital accreditation inspectors’ capability to observe the implementation.
2. Help the Ministry of Well being (MoH), the Nationwide Centre for Public Well being (NCPH) in scaling up important vitamin providers in main well being amenities: toddler and younger youngster feeding counseling , early detection and remedy of kids with extreme and reasonable acute malnutrition in chosen high-burden areas; sustainable implementation, financing and monitoring of the a number of micronutrient supplementation of kids 6-23 months of age, and pregnant and lactating ladies; in addition to high-dose vitamin A supplementation.
3. Help the MoH and the Company of Honest Competitors and Shopper Safety to revise the regulation on monitoring  the Toddler and Younger Youngster Meals Act implementation.
4. Develop and implement the technique on conduct change and communication marketing campaign for breastfeeding and complementary feeding in collaboration with MoH, NCPH and UNICEF related staffs from the nation and regional workplaces.
5. Monitor, report, doc, and disseminate processes and classes discovered to sustainable scaling-up important vitamin providers in well being system
6. Formulate and conduct capability constructing methods and actions to drive steady coverage and programme enhancements by switch of expertise, coaching, webinars and south-south learnings. 

Programme Space and Particular Venture Concerned: Well being, Early Childhood Improvement, Non-public Sector engagement, Social Behaviour Change  and Communications.

WORK ASSIGNMENT, DELIVERABLES, TIME FRAME AND PAYMENT

Deliverables	Timeline	Cost in (%) of the whole quantity
Finalization of handbooks on ‘Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding’ and help the publication lay-outs.	30 October 2023	10%
Improvement of the workplan/technique to nationwide roll-out of ‘Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding’ in session with key stakeholders. Coaching of hospital accreditation inspectors on the implementation of the ‘Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding’.	30 November 2023	10%
Coaching and follow-up help for well being employees in maternity and new child well being amenities in UB and chosen provinces.	30 March 2024	10%
Comply with-up coaching studies acquired from 21 provinces and 9 districts; Remaining information on IYCF counselling protection for 2023.	15 December 2023	10%
Coaching on early detection and remedy of kids with extreme and reasonable acute malnutrition; SAM youngsters information for 2023.	30 April 2024	10%
Remaining draft of up to date regulation on a number of micronutrient supplementation of kids 6-23 months of age, and pregnant and lactating ladies;	30 Could 2024	10%
Remaining draft rules on monitoring  of the Toddler and Younger Youngster Meals Act implementation by MoH and AFCCP;	30 June 2024	10%
Advocacy conferences on the state funds allocation for important provides for remedy of malnourished youngsters, and on routine information assortment of vitamin indicators.	30 July 2024	10%
Remaining draft 2 human curiosity tales, 3 movies associated to maternal and youngster vitamin programme	30 August 2024	10%
Remaining report	30 September 2024	10%
TOTAL	364 Days	100%

PAYMENT SCHEDULE.
UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold all or portion of fee if efficiency is unsatisfactory, if work/output is incomplete, not delivered or for failure to satisfy deadlines.

ASSESSMENT / SELECTION PROCESS AND METHODS
Evaluations: The applicant ought to submit each technical and monetary proposal (in native forex – MNT) which clearly stipulate how the work shall be performed. The Monetary Proposal ought to embody all prices of this task together with price, journey prices, lodging as UNICEF is not going to pay any DSA. Proposals shall be each technically and financially evaluated.

LOCATION, DURATION & LOGISTIC
The marketing consultant shall be based mostly within the workplace.

The validity of the contract shall be for 364 days. The marketing consultant is likely to be required to journey to different province in Mongolia.

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

• Minimal {qualifications} required: Bachelor or superior diploma in medication, public well being, vitamin or associated area.
• Related working expertise: At the least 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges in vitamin, medication, well being, programme/mission growth, planning, implementation, monitoring, analysis, communication, and knowledge administration.
• Information/experience/ expertise required: Fluency in Mongolian and English (verbal and written). Good written and spoken expertise within the language of the event programme. 

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 Remarks:  

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