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Terms of Reference for Research Consultant(s)/Consulting firm to perform and report on a community level WASH situational assessment of Tubewells and Latrines. 1. PROJECT BACKGROUND ICCO Cooperation (www.icco-cooperation.org) is an international organization, whose mission is to end poverty and injustice in the global south, in partnership with enterprising people. We invest in the power and dreams of entrepreneurial people, stimulate their entrepreneurial spirit, and connect them with businesses, governments and social organizations. ICCO Cooperation is playing the lead role to implement EU funded “Sustained Opportunities for Nutrition Governance (SONGO) project” to improve maternal and child nutrition in Kurigram and Gaibandha districts. The SONGO project is 5 years duration with 4 inter-linked outcomes; (1) establishing upazila nutrition governance, (2) improving maternal and child health, nutrition (3) improving WASH practices (4) enhancing availability and access to safe and nutritious food. RDRS Bangladesh has been ICCO's long standing partner in a variety of large poverty alleviation and development projects in Bangladesh, often with food security components. RDRS will implement the project activities such as community mobilization, capacity building, committees formation, meeting organisation, workshops, monitoring, etc at a field level. SONGO emphasizes the importance of sustained governance as a primary outcome and a precondition to achieve other outcomes that are based on NPAN2 and three interlinked pillars or pathways (as per the UNICEF Conceptual Framework on Undernutrition.
While availability and accessibility of nutritious and safe food at HH level is a precondition for improved nutrition it does not automatically lead to improved nutrition among all HH members. Lack of nutrition, health and WASH related knowledge, attitudes and practices as well as intra-HH dynamics often impede nutrition improvement. Evidence has also shown that the extent to which women have access to and control over productive resources, time, knowledge and social support networks largely determine their own nutritional status and the kind of care they provide for their children and for the rest of the HHs. The nutritional status of a woman before and during pregnancy has a direct impact on the development and nutritional status of her baby. In order to address child undernutrition fully, the SONGO project will therefore employ nutrition-specific as well as nutrition-sensitive interventions through a lifecycle approach to deliver the right services and messages to the right person at the right time. The implementation will incorporate a Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategy, using multiple approaches, ranging from interpersonal communication (such as counselling by health workers) to mass media (such as radio campaigns). SONGO will reach out to 120,000 HH final beneficiaries of which 95,000 HH are direct beneficiaries. The approach is based on proven and evolving experiences taking into account the importance of pre-conditions to address e.g. dimensions of availability and access to food as well as the required synergy between interventions and actors at various levels. Interventions will focus on mobilizing and coaching target groups as well as local public, private and development actors to collectively take the necessary actions towards improved nutrition. 2. WORKING AREA OF THE PROJECT Kurigram district:
Gaibandha district:
3. PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTANCY The primary objective of this consultancy are to achieve understanding on the following WASH situational circumstances within SONGO’s working area:
The consultant(s) would be expected at a minimum to perform community water/latrine point and household sampling approaches to gauge conditions of quality and safe WASH facilities in the working area. Where possible, community points would be inclusive of facilities that are placed publically, within clinics and school environments at a minimum. Beyond the identified incidence of each of the above, based on the findings and situational context the consultant(s) would be expected to provide recommendations on possible approaches to address the observed situation. If the above areas of interest for the community and/or macro level can be meaningfully supplemented by performing of qualitative consultations, FGDs or KIIs, the consultant(s) may justify it as a part of the proposal at the time of application. The consultant(s) must also specify at the proposal stage the precise definitions/classifications they expect to use to describe the conditions of water points and latrines 4. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES The consultant(s) will be expected to:
Delivery of the final (soft copy) draft of the findings and soft copy information within 4 days of feedback (estimated finishing date on day 25). 5. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CONSULTANT
6. ICCO DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
7. TIME FRAME This consultancy is expected to be completed within 25 days. The consultant will be expected to start working two (2) days after the signature of the contract and before commencement of the consultancy in the 3rd week of June, 2019. The consultant will submit the first draft by day 20 of the consultancy period. Expected completion and submission of the final draft of the report and other deliverables specified will be by day 25 of the consultancy. 8. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE The Consultant(s)/Firm’s leading research team ideally should have:
9. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL Interested consultant(s) must submit the following documents for appraisal. Proposers who do not submit the below mentioned documents will not be considered for further evaluation.
Prospective consultants should submit a written proposal both hard and soft copy (hard copy by courier and soft copy via email) to; Martin Mondol For queries, please contact Mostafa Nurul Islam at mostafa.islam@icco.nl or for short queries +88(0)1712 501810
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