Background

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Ethiopia and around the world, it works every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. When crisis strikes and children are most vulnerable, Save the Children is always among the first to respond and the last to leave. The organization ensures children’s unique needs are met, and their voices are heard. Save the Children is known for delivering lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) movement is part of the global initiative for the Scaling up Nutrition movement being hosted by Save the children in Ethiopia. The coalition has been established and was under implementation to increase public and relevant sectors’ awareness on nutrition and ensure improved nutrition governance and raise the profile and political attention given to nutrition in Ethiopia.

ECSC SUN with Food and Nutrition implementing sector ministries and development partners have developed a comprehensive Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP) to guide the delivery of a range of cost-effective nutrition interventions to reduce the high burden of malnutrition. Malnutrition is a national human, social, and economic burden that warrants urgent action. To support this Policy, the 'National Food and Nutrition Strategy 2021–2030' (NFNS) was developed by line ministries under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health with the technical and financial support of ECSC-SUN and SCI-GTN projects through hiring consultants and supporting different strategy review and finalization workshops. The strategy identifies critical interventions that can be implemented at a significant scale within the next ten years to reduce malnutrition's national burden and ending stunting by 2030. The FNS sets objectives and general strategies to expand a core package of food and nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions to dramatically increase services to protect women and children during the 1,000-day window and beyond.

Objective

Rationale

The 13 distinct strategic objectives from the FNS offer detailed interventions to address the immediate nutrition needs of high-risk groups, offer preventative measures to reduce malnutrition and reach broad population segments. Ensuring this ambitious package is truly ‘fast-tracked’ requires a clear picture of the source of budgeting for the costed strategy.

The MOH through the support from ECSC-SUN is planning to hire consultants to conduct resource mapping exercise for estimating the available budget allocated for food and nutrition across sectors and development partners for the coming ten years which will be indicated on the final FNS document. The national consultants will provide face-to-face support to FN Implementing sectors while completing the resource mapping tool, including extensive travel and discussion with respective partners and donors when the support is requested and connection is established by line ministries. This resource mapping will give a good background to understand the available budget across actors and gaps compared with the required amount from the FNS costing so that resource mobilization will be conducted based on the identified gaps. Save the Children and ECSC-SUN are, as usual, the forefront partners of government in realization of the Food and Nutrition Strategy

Specific Tasks

• Review the draft costed Food and Nutrition Strategy and triangulate with sector specific strategic documents.
• Provide a face to face technical support and guidance to Food and Nutrition Strategy implementing sectors during fill and reporting of their resources. Compile and complete resource mapping tool designed to capture sector specific resource data for the period of FNS years (2013-2022 EFY). 
• Travel to partners and donor organization (when requested and connection initiated by line government ministries) to clarify some pending resource mapping data and discus the pending issue with the focal point of partner or donor organization.
• Produce and share draft the summary FNS resource mapping results
• Present the findings on the consultative or validations meeting; incorporate comments
• Share the final summary resource by the 13 strategic objectives

Methodology

Through face to face discussion with the different line-ministries and partners, the consultants are expected to:

• Provide a brief explanation on the objective of FNS resource mapping
• Review appropriate sector specific strategy which can support the resource mapping exercise
• Together with the line ministry focal point complete resource mapping tool
• Make sure budget mapping sheet for the strategy period (10 years) is properly filled and completed
• Review, fill and completed tools with close ownership and participation of the respective sector in particular and with the Nutrition team/MoH counterpart.

Reporting

This position is reporting to the ECSC-SUN Secretariat /SCI and MOH/MCHD/Nutrition case team.

Deliverable 

• Review the costed Food and Nutrition Strategy
• Conduct one to one face to face discussion with Food and Nutrition Strategy Implementing sectors
• Completed resource mapping tool for each of the Food and Nutrition Strategy implementing sectors
• Organize one validation workshop to produce the summary
• Submit a completed resource mapping document with a brief summary of total activities/budget

Summary

Title of the assignment Face to Face Technical support and guidance on the National Food and Nutrition Strategy (FNS) resource mapping across FN Implementing sectors

Location Addis Ababa

Duration Three month

Number of consultants two

Reporting to ECSC-SUN Secretariat /SCI office with functional relationship with MOH/MCHD/Nutrition case team 

Evaluation Scoring

The application proposals will be evaluated with 60% for technical and 40% for financial proposal. The technical proposal assessment will be based on the following criteria.

No Rating Criteria Score

• Understanding of the TOR (5 point) It is clear from the application that the TOR and tasks are clearly understood by the applicant 5
• Experience of the consultants in related work (20 point) 12 Has done at least five similar consulting work (best practice and success story documentation)with international NGOs
• Has expertise /excellence/ on Health Economics /Economics and Food and Nutrition. 8
• Professional team composition accounts. (15 Points) 7
• The consultants experience in similar consultancy work 7 Composition of the team full fill the requirement indicated in the TOR including proven working experience in the context of the program areas 8

Methodology ( 15 Points) Proposed methodology to provide face to face technical support and guidance on the National Food and Nutrition Strategy (FNS) resource mapping across FN Implementing sectors 12

Proposed equipment 4

Time frame-schedule. (5 Points)  Presents clear logical work plan that shows of how proposed activities of the consultancy will meet the consultancy objectives 4

Job Requirements

Expected Background and Minimum Experience

• University Degree (MSC/MBA/MPH) in Health Economics /Economics and Food and Nutrition.
• More than five years of resource tracking, budget analysis and mapping exercise preferably multispectral food and nutrition strategies and programs
• Experience in resource tracking, budget analysis and mapping exercise on government strategic plans and experience in working with different actors 

How to Apply

Application procedures

Qualified and interested candidates are hereby requested to apply (either as a team or individually). The application should contain the following:

• A technical proposal with a brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment, and a detailed clear methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment; a duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability;
• The technical proposal should also contain a CV, indicating education background/professional qualifications, all experience, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
• Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs.

Detailed EOI for the Consultancy work should be Submitted in hard copy to Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office in Addis Ababa, situated around Bisrate Gabriel Church Save the Children Ethiopia Office At the Main Security Gate Dire Complex, Behind Bisrate Gabriel Church P.O Box 387 Tel 011 3 72 84 55-61 or 011 6 53 51 74 Addis Ababa

Interested applicants should submit two separate sealed documents in which one document should include the technical proposal including of the proposed professional(s) with supporting document that shows previous work experience. The second document should include professional fee stated work along with copy of renewed Audit License to the above mentioned address of Save the Children, Ethiopia Country Office before or on March 12,2021 at 4:00 P.M in person.

Closing date for submission of the application package is end of business day on: March 12,2021

Bid shall be submitted in the box ready at reception for this purpose

Save the children reserved the right to cancel all the bid or partially