Call for proposal to conduct coverage surveys of vitamin A Supplementation campaigns in multiple African countries. Helen Keller International coverage surveys of vitamin A Supplementation campaigns
Closing date: 29 Feb 2024
Helen Keller International (Helen Keller Intl) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the sight and lives of the world’s vulnerable by combatting the causes and consequences of blindness, poor health and malnutrition. Helen Keller Intl invites all eligible Bidders to submit proposals to support Helen Keller to implement 2 rounds of post event coverage surveys in July 2024 and December 2024 to measure the coverage of the VAS distribution campaigns.
The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to select a vendor that will provide best value to Helen Keller Intl, when both technical and cost factors are combined.
Scope of work
Helen Keller Intl supports the supplementation with high dose of Vitamin A of up to 40 million children every year in 14 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. When delivered twice a year to at least 80% of children aged 6 to 59 months in countries with high under five mortality and high rates of vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) can contribute to a reduction of child mortality by up to 24%.
VAS is delivered to children twice a year through multiple delivery mechanisms. Some countries are organizing mass distribution campaigns where teams of distributors visit every household to give the vitamin A to children. Others have integrated VAS into their facility-based delivery systems alongside with routine immunization or growth monitoring. A third group of countries are using a hybrid system that combines campaigns and facility-based delivery.
In 9 countries, Helen Keller Intl supports the delivery of VAS in multiple regions through door-to-door campaigns and facility-based delivery model. These campaigns are organized twice a year, around May and November every year, and are implemented by the Ministry of Health with financial and technical support from Helen Keller teams. These countries are Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, DRC, Madagascar.
To assess the number of children reached through these campaigns (coverage), Helen Keller Intl conducts cross-sectional household surveys following the methodology developed by the WHO for measuring the coverage of immunization campaigns.
We are seeking a consultancy agency to assist Helen Keller Intl conduct up to two rounds of these surveys, in July and December, in multiple countries. The award for the second survey will be dependent on the quality of deliverables provided in the first survey.
We are seeking agencies that can conduct these surveys in multiple countries at the same time, although we will consider agencies even if they cannot cover the 9 proposed countries.
In each country, the agency will be responsible for the preparation of the survey, including an adaptation of protocols and tools, submission of protocols and tools to ethical review boards, recruitment, training and supervision of field data collectors, analysis of data and reporting.
Helen Keller International coverage surveys of vitamin A Supplementation campaigns
