GOAL Consultancy Service to Conduct Formative Study on Maternal and Child Nutrition and Hygiene in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia and Develop SBCC Strategy Jobs in Ethiopia
GOAL Consultancy Service to Conduct Formative Study on Maternal and Child Nutrition and Hygiene in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia and Develop SBCC Strategy Jobs in Ethiopia
General ObjectiveTo identify where change can be affected at a community level through appropriate SBCC work by identifying the most important behavioral and systemic determinants for desired nutrition and WASH outcomes.
Specific Objectives
Explore current practices that will play a role in determining nutritional status of target community.
This should include
Health seeking, social and Maternal and IYCF practices, such as breast feeding, timely introduction of foods, diet diversity, feed frequency, traditional taboos etc.
Availability, access, quality, and therapeutic coverage of health services
Environmental health, water and hygiene-sanitation situation of targeted community.
Food and nutrition security – how people access foods, availability of foods, diversity, cost, stores, seasonality etc.
Identify any existing opportunities and barriers to successful SBCC activities
Behavioral determinants where change can be affected at a community level through appropriate SBCC work.
Rank and prioritize key behaviors that will need to be tackled to improve maternal and child nutritional status
Explore barriers and promoters of key nutrition and hygiene behaviors
Explore HH decision-making and role of key influencers
In collaboration with communities, provide recommendations around appropriate actions that would support positive and sustained behavioral change.
Planning
Literature review of secondary data available online and in print, to understand the study context and to prepare for the formative assessment including the KABP study.
Refine and finalize specific research questions to be explored in discussion with GOAL technical and MEAL team
Develop survey protocol and the tools to be used for collection of data and approval by GOAL.
Prepare an outline of the data collection methods that are required and the relevant survey templates and participatory data collection guides to be used for data collection
Develop a work plan consisting of key milestones required for data collection for logistics to be arranged by GOAL.
Develop sampling methodology for administering the tool.
Hold a short planning meeting with all members of the evaluation team including the MEAL and relevant program teams, to review and amend the
questions as needed for the data collection tools
Liaise with the technical and MEAL team on the training and recruitment of the data collection staff
Hold a brief workshop with GOAL Ethiopia Senior Management Team to communicate study methods, objectives, and outcomes. This will include a short description of the research questions and methods proposed.
Assumption and requirements
The consultant will have access to the targeted community for conducting interviews.
Study activities will be adapted to follow all current Government and partner COVID-19 safety procedures
GOAL will provide relevant security and safeguarding/protection briefings. Security concerns could impact the timing and scope of the study. It is important for the consultant to remain flexible.
The consultant is responsible to obtain the relevant travel permits and visas, however GOAL will furnish letters of invitation required application.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
Individual/Institutional consultant(s): Post-graduate degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Health Sciences, Social sciences including anthropology, global/international health and nutrition, or medicine
At least 7 years of recent documented work experience in conducting nutrition and/or WASH related field research including quantitative and qualitative studies with a focus on maternal and child nutrition and hygiene, including experience in conducting anthropology and barrier analysis studies
Demonstrated recent work experience in formative, operational research, data management and analyses. And developing SBCC strategies.
Substantive knowledge on maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition (MNCHN), early child development and WASH-nutrition linkages
Strong inter-personal, teamwork and organizational skills
Solid understanding of and documented work experience in individual and social behavior
Extensive experience of conducting formative study and experience of designing evaluation methodology/tools, data analysis, etc.
In-depth knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Competent in using statistical packages for quantitative and qualitative analyses
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and excellent presentation skills. Proven experience in producing high-quality documents ready for external dissemination.
Excellent analytical and writing capacity in English.
Good facilitating, negotiating, communication and advocacy skills
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; GOAL Consultancy Service to Conduct Formative Study on Maternal and Child Nutrition and Hygiene in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia and Develop SBCC Strategy Jobs in Ethiopia
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