Action Against Hunger (AAH) works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy. AAH has operated in Nigeria since 2010 in response to high rates of malnutrition in northern Nigeria, providing integrated health programming that focuses on nutrition, social protection for children and pregnant and lactating mothers in Jigawa and Yobe. AAH expanded to include programming in Borno in 2014 to address needs including health, nutrition, WASH, food security, livelihoods and shelter needs.
Health Resilience of Northeast Nigeria (HeRoN) is a three-year accountable grant (01 March 2020-28 February 2023) that elapsed over half of the project duration with significant progress towards achieving the objectives. The project is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). HeRoN is a consortium of three partners International Rescue Committee (IRC), Action Against Hunger (AAH) and Society for Family Health (SFH) with the lead of IRC. The overall goal of the project is to ensure that crisis-affected communities in Borno and Yobe States have meaningful access to quality primary health care and nutrition services in the immediate term, while also contributing to the sustained health systems strengthening at the LGA level. The training is expected to address qualified SMART Managers shortage in nutrition sector sustainably.
The project goal is to build the capacity and provide continuous technical support to the National, Borno and Yobe States Primary Health Care Development Agency and National Bureau Statistics on SMART Survey through provision of SMART Survey Manager training.
Specific Objectives :
- Provide SMART Survey Manager level training and practical survey.
- Strengthen the Nutrition Sector Information Management Technical Working Group (NSIMTWG) to coordinate the SMART surveys at National and State level.
- Build the capacity of National and State TWG to implement SMART survey independently
- Mobilize training participants from at level such as NSPHCDA, SPHCDA, NBS and other partners in the sector.
Profile of the consultant
- A qualified and certified SMART Survey Master trainer for facilitating SMART Nutrition and Mortality Surveys Manager level Training.
- A health professional or Nutritionist with a minimum of Postgraduate degree in Public health, Nutrition, Epidemiology, statistics or any other related discipline.
- Experience in Facilitating SMART Manager level training over 2 times at similar contexts.
How to apply
All interested consultants should send Expression of Interest electronically on or before Monday 14th March 2022 by 12 noon to: [email protected] with subject “PD-ABU-01848-001_ HeRon SMART Survey Consultancy Service” in order to receive the full ToR.
Proposal without request of the full ToR will not be accepted. The prospective consultancy is expected to submit a brief methodology with concept note while responding to this expression of interest (EoI) .
The sending of full ToR will start from March 7th 2022 until the deadline of the submissions to all expressions of interest from prospective consultants and submission of proposals will be on or before March 21, 2022.
