SBC Expert – Philippines Based

Location:

Based mostly in Manilla, Philippines, with journey within the Philippines on a necessity foundation

Reporting Supervisor:

Programme Supervisor

Begin date:

As quickly as doable

Length:

To be engaged as wanted till October 2024. Flexibility is required because the mission could also be prolonged past this date.

Sort:

Undertaking based mostly

Remuneration:

Candidates are requested to supply their day fee, with their software.

Software Deadline:

Ongoing till place is crammed

MAGENTA is a number one Social and Behavioural Change (SBC) company that focuses on understanding human decision-making processes with a purpose to design behavioural perception options for constructive change. We implement programmes throughout Asia, the Center East, Africa, and Latin America utilizing the most recent in behavioural science rules and a rigorous strategy to analysis, technique, intervention and marketing campaign design and implementation.

Our shopper base contains UN businesses, INGOs, governments and the personal sector. We purpose to amplify the voices of native actors whereas bringing worldwide experience and methodological rigour. To take action, we companion with civil society, artistic businesses, media, and lecturers to design modern, related and impactful options to among the most difficult issues of our time. Whether or not we’re aiming to shift parenting practices to enhance youngsters’s outcomes or to grasp how social norms underpin corruption, we at all times go the additional mile to make sure we will create a constructive influence for among the most underserved populations on the earth.

Undertaking Overview

Diet serves as a foundational component in fostering sustainable human growth. Enhanced diet ends in improved well-being for infants and moms, fortified immune programs, safer pregnancies and childbirth, and elevated longevity. Optimum diet contributes to raised studying amongst youngsters, as evidenced by the antagonistic results of childhood stunting, together with diminished studying outcomes, tutorial efficiency, productiveness, and grownup wages.

Within the Philippines, malnutrition poses a big risk to its financial development, with excessive charges of childhood stunting, underweight, and losing. Early deficits in foetal and little one development often stem from insufficient maternal diet earlier than and through being pregnant. Roughly 30 % of youngsters underneath 5 are affected by stunting, with 19 % being underweight and 6 % wasted (Expanded Nationwide Diet Survey, 2019). The long-term influence is profound, hindering the complete growth of human capital, leading to antagonistic results on labour market productiveness and financial development on the nationwide stage. The financial burden in 2015 alone was estimated at a minimal of US$4.4 billion, equal to 1.5 % of the Philippines GDP.[1] Therefore, emphasizing diet amongst pregnant ladies shouldn’t be solely essential for maternal and little one well-being but in addition a significant step towards fostering the nation’s financial development.

Emphasising the significance of diet for little one growth, the Philippine authorities, in collaboration with the UN and World Financial institution, has launched the Philippine Multisectoral Diet Undertaking. This initiative employs a multi-sectoral strategy to diet, delivering a complete set of interventions, throughout numerous Native Authorities Models (LGUs). The mission’s goals embrace tackling malnutrition by means of geographic alignment, investing in interventions on each the availability and demand sides, encouraging diet achievements on the LGU stage, and prioritizing fairness to boost the nation’s total diet and well being outcomes. Aligned with Sustainable Growth Targets 2 and three, the mission contributes to ending starvation, addressing all types of malnutrition, and selling good well being and well-being.

In step with this mission, MAGENTA is supporting UNICEF Philippines in creating an impactful SBC marketing campaign, focusing on households with pregnant ladies and youngsters 0-2 years outdated, together with formative analysis, technique design, and marketing campaign asset growth to assist the general Philippines Multisectoral Diet Undertaking in attaining dietary outcomes in focused LGUs to eradicate stunting associated behaviours. The general mission can be damaged down into 3 phases:

• Section 1: Inception – this part contains kicking off the project, conducting a desk overview, and creating and finalising the methodology for the rest of the project.
• Section 2: Formative Analysis and Media Audit – this part contains conducting formative analysis to tell the technique and marketing campaign, in addition to conducting a media audit of the Philippines media panorama.
• Section 3: SBC Technique & Asset Growth – this part contains creating the SBC technique by means of a participatory strategy, creating the marketing campaign branding, and creating and testing marketing campaign content material.

Concerning the Task

MAGENTA is in search of an SBC professional based mostly within the Philippines, to hitch our worldwide group and supply experience and help within the implementation the mission. The SBC professional can be engaged all through the whole thing of the mission; nonetheless, their assist can be primarily centred round Section 3 of the project.

The SBC Specialists function will contain collaborating with MAGENTA to develop and design a complete SBC Technique. This technique will construct on the insights gathered from the inception part in addition to the formative analysis and media audit. The SBC technique will replicate our understanding of the complicated drivers behind the precedence behaviours we need to promote to cut back malnutrition amongst youngsters aged 0-5 within the Philippines. The general technique can be developed in a participatory method with stakeholders by means of in-person co-creation workshops. The technique will embrace:

• The primary obstacles and motivators that have an effect on the uptake of parental behaviours conducive to wholesome youngsters, particularly behaviours that may assist scale back stunting and losing, micronutrient deficiencies and weight problems amongst younger youngsters.
• The goal audiences in addition to potential influencers and enablers.
• Probably the most appropriate communication channels and agree on contextually acceptable SBC interventions and actions.
• A information for LGUs to boost their native SBC planning, costing, and implementation of interventions.
• A monitoring and suggestions system to trace, assess, and modify SBC interventions.
• Above-the-line audio or audio-visual SBC supplies for media.
• A Mom and Baby e-book that companies as each a job support and scorecard.
• A model handbook.

By participating the SBC Skilled, MAGENTA goals to develop an efficient SBC Technique that goals to cut back practices, attitudes, and behaviors, resulting in malnutrition amongst youngsters aged 0-5 within the Philippines.

Obligations

The guide will obtain particular person duties as wanted, and the anticipated time required to finish every process can be mutually agreed upon and function the idea for invoicing and cost. Whereas not exhaustive, the SBC Skilled can have the next key tasks:

• Make sure that behavioral science rules and finest practices in social and behavioral change are integrated successfully all through the event of key mission deliverables. It will contain using evidence-based approaches to drive habits change and maximize the influence of the SBC technique.
• Make sure that the Philippines context is considered all through the event of key mission deliverables.
• Share pertinent sources, literature, and analysis findings that may inform and enrich the event of the SBC technique, and different key deliverables.
• Help in reviewing and analysing information assortment throughout the formative analysis part.
• Help in creating workshop supplies for the technique co-design workshop, together with brainstorming workshop actions for producing human insights.
• Take part within the co-design workshop.
• Contribute actively to drafting the SBC technique doc, and different key annexes such because the M&E framework and the implementation plan.
• Contribute actively to creating the communication supplies, the LGU SBC information and the Mom and Baby e-book, by making use of behavioral science finest observe and context from the Philippines.
• Help the pre-testing of communications supplies.
• Actively take part in common mission conferences with the MAGENTA group, UNICEF group, and different related stakeholders. Have interaction in collaborative discussions, share updates, and contribute insights to facilitate the graceful progress of the mission.

Necessities

• Based mostly within the Philippines.
• Keen to journey in-country to assist the implementation of the mission of wanted.
• Minimal 8 years of expertise in designing, creating, and implementing social and behavior change methods and interventions within the Philippines.
• Expertise working in Diet and Well being is an asset.
• Expertise working with UNICEF, UN businesses, or different INGOs is an asset.
• Expertise working with the Authorities of the Philippines is an asset.
• Written and oral fluency in Tagalog and English is a should.

[1] https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/671151655916778864/pdf/Philippines-Multisectoral-Nutrition-Project.pdf