Procurement Summary
Country : Senegal
Summary : International Consultancy -a Regional Adolescent Focused Analysis on Adolescent Girl's Nutrition and Health and Nutrition
Deadline : 25 Mar 2019
Other Information
Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 31679135
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Competition : ICB
Financier : United Nations Secretariat
Purchaser Ownership : -
Tender Value : Refer Document
Purchaser's Detail
Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND
Mail address : UNICEF Bureau Regional pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
P.O. Box 29720, Yoff
Dakar, Senegal
Visitors' address : UNICEF WCARO
Immeuble Madjiguene
Route de la Pointe des Almadies
derriere l'Hotel Meridien President
Dakar,
Telephone : Country code : 221
City code : - 33 831.02.00
Facsimile : 33 823.4615
Senegal
Email :dakar@unicef.org
Tender Details
Tenders are invited for International Consultancy -a Regional Adolescent Focused Analysis on Adolescent Girl’s Nutrition and Health and Nutrition in WCAR
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.
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Background
Despite positive economic growth since 2000, between 2000 and 2017, the prevalence of stunting among children in West and Central Africa declined very slowly, from 41.1% to 33.5% and the absolute number of stunted children actually increased, from 22.8 to 28.9 million. This is an increase of more than 26%, even as the global number has decreased by 24%.
Addressing the regional situation and trends of undernutrition is a major concern to UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office. Hence, stunting has been prioritized as one of the 8 key results for children (KRCs) in the ROMP 2018-2021. To accelerate stunting reduction and reach the KRC#2 objective, as well as enhance the nutrition and health of adolescent girl, there is an urgent need to sharpen adequate policies/plans on comprehensive adolescent girl nutrition in the region
How can you make a difference?
Objectives
The overall purpose of the assignment is to use a pooled data set of all Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multi Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) that exist for the UNICEF West and Central Africa region to answer a series of questions related to the health and nutrition of adolescent girls.
Scope of work
Human resources in the nutrition section have improved. However, the specificity of priority tasks assigned to the consultant requires that resources are outsourced to help out on the issue of health and nutrition of adolescent girls. The work will consist of in-depth analysis on adolescent girls nutrition and health in the West and Central Africa region. Investigations include the following aspects, including the status of undernutrition and anaemia in adolescent girls in West and central Africa, the socio demographic determinants of adolescent’s undernutrition and anaemia, the determinants, health and nutrition consequences of early marriage and pregnancy, the specific patterns of HIV/AIDS risk among adolescent girls
Tasks
Prevalence and trends of adolescent undernutrition and anemia in West and central Africa
Socio-demographic predictors of adolescent undernutrition and anemia in West- and Central Africa
Analyze data and develop a draft paper on “Patterns and gradient of early marriage and pregnancy”
Analyze data and develop a draft paper on “Determinants of early marriage and pregnancy”
Timing
· Start date: 25 March 2019
· End date: 30 November 2019
· Specific timelines and milestones: Please refer to the above row
Reporting Requirements
· Draft papers submitted
· PowerPoint presentation
Administrative Issues
· Supervisor and certifying officer: Nutrition Advisor
· Home-based, full time assignment
· The consultant will use own IT equipment to support day to day activities
· The supervisor will establish regular touch base meetings to review progress and challenges
§ 50% of the payment will be made upon delivery of 1st deliverable, 50% of the payment will be made at the end of the assignment
§ Payment will only be made for work satisfactorily completed and accepted by UNICEF
Advertised: 18 Mar 2019 Greenwich Standard Time
Applications close: 25 Mar 2019 11:55 PM Greenwich Standard Time
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