UNICEF performs a elementary position in selling well being and diet within the Amazon, with particular consideration to weak communities impacted by drought emergencies and elevated wildfires, which pose important challenges to meals and dietary safety and exacerbate well being points. In partnership with native governments, non-governmental organizations, neighborhood leaders, and the communities themselves, UNICEF helps the implementation of particular insurance policies geared toward combating child malnutrition amongst Indigenous, riverside, and socially weak populations. This work consists of selling wholesome and enough diet and making certain well timed care by the coaching of well being professionals in neighborhood Nutritional Surveillance, addressing prevalent early childhood ailments, and combating waterborne and foodborne ailments.

The group works to make sure equitable entry to well being providers and wholesome, enough diet, strengthening native well being techniques and coaching professionals and neighborhood leaders to face the challenges posed by drought, elevated wildfires, and ensuing air air pollution. The proposed consultancy will play a key position in offering technical help to UNICEF’s emergency response to the drought that started in 2023 and continued in 2024. Over the previous two years (2023 and 2024), all 62 municipalities within the state of Amazonas have confronted an emergency scenario as a result of drought, leading to extreme impacts on water availability and the meals and dietary safety of communities.

The consultancy will cowl the event and implementation of particular methods to mitigate the impacts of drought and wildfires on the well being and diet of riverside and Indigenous populations. This will embody conducting detailed assessments of well being and diet circumstances, selling wholesome and enough dietary practices, and implementing preventive measures towards ailments associated to water and meals shortage. Additionally, will probably be important to coach native well being professionals in dietary surveillance to make sure steady and efficient monitoring of the dietary circumstances of affected populations.

The consultancy will likely be essential to strengthening native response capability, making certain that affected communities obtain the required help to face the challenges of drought in 2024 and 2025. This initiative will contribute to selling local weather resilience and the well-being of youngsters and adolescents within the Amazon area. UNICEF will present important technical help to Special Indigenous Health Districts (DSEIs) and precedence municipalities affected by drought, aiming to develop detailed well being and diet assessments, in addition to to create and implement climate-resilient meals and diet safety plans. These plans will likely be tailored to water shortage circumstances, bearing in mind their impacts on the meals provide of native populations.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The objective of this place is to offer technical help and specialised steering for the implementation of emergency response methods within the Amazon.

WORK ASSIGNMENTS OVERVIEW

1. ASSIGNMENT 1: Development of a Drought Impact Mitigation Plan for Child Health: Develop an in depth plan to mitigate the impacts of drought, tailor-made to the riverside and Indigenous communities of the Amazon, together with resilience methods, preventive actions, and response measures to reduce results on well being and diet, selling sustainability and defending native populations.
   1. Timeline: 2 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 20.0%
   3. Deliverable: Technical help stories and supplies used within the coaching periods.
2. ASSIGNMENT 2: Support for the Training of Health Professionals: Provide technical help in planning, organizing and finishing up six face-to-face and six distance coaching periods for well being professionals, specializing in dietary surveillance practices and emergency response within the context of local weather change.
   1. Timeline: 4 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 18.0%
   3. Deliverable: Technical help stories and supplies used within the coaching periods.
3. ASSIGNMENT 3: Validation of a Nutrition Guide: Conduct the evaluation and validation of the Nutrition Guide for kids underneath 2 years of age, making certain that the rules are sensible, efficient, and tailored to the realities of riverside and Indigenous communities within the context of local weather change.
   1. Timeline: 6 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 17.0%
   3. Deliverable: Validated doc with applicable corrections and suggestions.
4. ASSIGNMENT 4: Health and Nutrition Surveillance Diagnosis for Children: Perform a complete and detailed mapping of the well being and diet standing of youngsters in precedence communities, figuring out vital factors, gaps, and particular wants for focused interventions.
   1. Timeline: 8 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 15.0%
   3. Deliverable: Detailed analytical report containing the mapping outcomes, related knowledge, and strategic suggestions for future actions.
5. ASSIGNMENT 5: Validation of Care Pathways for Malnourished Children: Conduct the evaluation and validation of care pathways for malnourished kids, making certain alignment with the precise wants of riverside and Indigenous communities, with a particular give attention to responding to drought impacts.
   1. Timeline: 10 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 15.0% 
   3. Deliverable: Detailed report with the reviewed and validated care pathways, together with suggestions for enhancements and variations.
6. ASSIGNMENT 6: Final Consolidated Report: Develop a complete last report that synthesizes all actions performed in the course of the consultancy, detailing the outcomes, classes discovered, and greatest practices recognized. The doc ought to embody strategic suggestions for future actions to make sure continuity and improve constructive impacts.
   1. Timeline: 12 months from the date of contract signing.
   2. Budget Estimate: 15.0%
   3. Deliverable: Detailed and consolidated report, delivered in digital format.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Portuguese fluent.

TRAVEL PLAN

• There will likely be 5 5-day journeys to the south of the Amazon and the higher Solimões river, departing from Manaus. The journey plan could embody 3-day boat journeys to the municipalities within the inside of the Amazon, masking all related prices, equivalent to boat rental, hiring an operator, gasoline, private protecting gear, insurance coverage and different associated bills. In addition, transportation to the territories and the Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) will likely be taken into consideration.

Travel will likely be immediately linked to the schedule of product deliveries, with all journey prices duly budgeted and   built-in into the actions of every supply.

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• 1.       Proven expertise in organizing, planning, and facilitating workshops and coaching periods aimed on the capability constructing of multidisciplinary groups.
• 2.       Ability to work in dynamic environments, sustaining a excessive customary of high quality in deliverables and strictly assembly established deadlines.
• 3.       Capacity for vital evaluation and formulation of evidence-based suggestions for enhancements in well being and diet packages.
• 4.       Solid expertise in monitoring and evaluating well being packages with a give attention to measurable outcomes and affect.
• 5.       Proven ability in getting ready detailed technical stories and shows for totally different audiences, together with stakeholders and strategic companions.
• 6.       Comprehensive data of nationwide and worldwide insurance policies and tips associated to child well being, diet, and sustainable improvement.

Financial Proposal

• • A monetary proposal together with the price for the task based mostly on the deliverables and variety of days should be submitted. Consultants are requested to stipulate all-inclusive charges, together with lump sum, administrative price, journey price and subsistence prices, as relevant.

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Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

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