Job no: 575978
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Nutrition
UNICEF Is Hiring a Home-Based Data Capturer Consultant – Apply Now for 2025!
- Duration: April 15 2025 to October 31 2025
- Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
About UNICEF
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.
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BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
In 2023, an estimated 45 million children under five years old still suffer from wasting, of which 13.6 million are estimated to suffer from its most severe form. While treatment coverage has increased with an estimated 9.3 million of children under five treated for severe wasting in 2023 and 9.4 million supplemented for moderate wasting, considerable efforts are still needed to reach the most vulnerable children. WHO recognizes that in order to maximize the number of malnourished children cared for, interventions need to be as feasible and low-cost as possible without compromising the health of children—and these principles were incorporated into the development of the WHO Guideline for the prevention and management of Child wasting (2023).
Scope of Work:
The purpose of this assignment to review and gather lessons learned from countries who have experience in operationalizing these interventions and to document those operational learnings in the form of practical recommendations in order to support future implementation and roll out of recent programmatic shifts related to the new WHO Guideline recommendations.
This review should explore boosters and challenges in the implementation of these interventions and will draw similarities, strengths across contexts in order to provide practical solutions and recommendations on how these interventions can be taken to scale once adapted to the latest WHO Evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations/solutions should focus on the short, medium and long term and should span across different programmatic aspects and levels of the national health system.
Example of questions to explore (non-exhaustive list):
– What does it mean for a CHW to spend significant amount of their time on wasting activities in terms of delivery of other child health actions?
– How do CHWs when both SAM and MAM children are managed under same program?
– Considerations when deciding between CHWs weighing children vs. assessing using MUAC Only
– What would be the requirements to ensure all children with wasting are weighed and height measured in line with the new WHO recommendations?
– How was the decision to reduce dose of RUTF made?
– What tools were the most useful for CHWs and health workers?
– What are the programmatic and logistical challenges when introducing the “reduced” dosage of RUTF when child transitions from SAM to (and where relevant)?
– What are the programmatic and logistical challenges when using one single product (RUTF) for both SAM and MAM with higher risk management?
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Key areas of focus:
– Process of introduction and roll-out of intervention (e.g., how was the decision made to introduce this adaptation?)
– Programmatic elements: supportive supervision; trainings; other operational considerations (e.g., monitoring, logistics/equipment).
– Development of training materials/job aids
– Integration into existing health structure (e.g., planning, budget, national protocols/guidelines)
Methods for collecting information will include a desk review and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with relevant stakeholders in different contexts and countries. Deliverables will include an inception report, 2-3 presentations on findings, a final report and a possible article/abstract for external publication.
The development of this work will be a collaborative approach, and will require close consultation with UNICEF country, regional and HQ offices and implementing partners.
