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Terms of Reference for Consultant(s) to Develop Training Materials to enhance the knowledge and skill of producer groups (extreme poor households) to increase homestead food production and poultry rearing. 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 Outputs of the consultancy will be used to sensitize and train inclusive Homestead Producer Groups, a community based agri-education and empowerment platform formed of vulnerable or extreme poor household members promoting climate resilient production of diversified and nutritious food, primarily for own consumption, through direct and intensive skills and knowledge dissemination. The primary objective of the consultancy is to develop a training module to be delivered to producer group members. The training package will address both agriculture and nutrition aspects as well as resilience. SONGO seeks to promote overall food production, with a specific focus on homestead food production (HFP) and income generating activities among the poorest households through training and facilitating access to necessary inputs. Besides promotion of specific crops attention will be given to poultry rearing. 4. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES The consultant(s) will be expected to:
Submit the final draft of the training module (soft copy) within 4 days after receiving feedback (Bengali version) 5. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CONSULTANT The chosen consultant will liaise with the Operation Lead, SONGO Project and Head of HR and Admin throughout the period of the consultancy. The consultant will be required to supply the expected deliverables listed below by the end of the consultancy.
7. TIME FRAME This consultancy is expected to be completed within 15 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 3nd week of June, 2019. The consultant(s)/firm will be expected to submit the preliminary draft by at latest 3 days before the expected end of the consultancy duration. 8. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE OF CONSULTANT(S)
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 Deadline for submitting proposal 22nd June, 2019 |
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