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The purpose of the assignment is to generate data and information that will guide the formulation of user generated social and behaviour change strategy that are participatory, gender transformative, sensitive to diverse cultural or religious context, inclusive of marginalized groups that foster community ownership for optimal maternal and child health and nutrition practices. Information to be generated should also assist with the design of creative strategies for message and materials development and media engagement.The study will also provide evidence on the barriers and enablers to uptake of maternal supplements, specifically IFA and MMS, and make suggestions on what needs to be done for maternal nutrition programming during the piloting a new maternal supplement and programme scale up.
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Developing Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) interventions require a good understanding of the policy environment, context, social norms, gender and household power dynamics, cultural beliefs and practices and the overall perceptions of the targeted populations to adopt the desired practices. Understanding of a family and community context is critical in promoting adoption of optimal nutrition practices. While efforts have been made in the country through creation of an enabling environment through development of Multisectoral Nutrition Policies and Strategy (2018-2022) and the Scaling Up Nutrition- Nutrition Education and Counselling Strategy II (2024-2029) to promote adoption of key family practices, there are still gaps that exist requiring a deeper understanding of the barriers and norms. Maternal malnutrition is one of the key determinants of poor pregnancy outcomes exacerbated by food insecurity, poverty, barriers to adequate antenatal care and lack of micronutrients which increase during pregnancy. In Malawi, nearly one in three (32.7 per cent) women of reproductive age have anaemia. 7.2 per cent are thin (Malawi Demographic Health Survey -MDHS2015-16), 63 per cent are zinc deficient, 12.9 per cent are deficient of vitamin B12 and 7.6 per cent have folate deficiency (MNS 2015-16). Slightly over 1 in 10 children (11.6 per cent) are born with low birth weight. While the proportion of women who received antenatal care (ANC) is high (95 per cent), only 24 per cent of women attend ANC during the first trimester of pregnancy and only 51 per cent complete four or more visits (MDHS 2015-16). Data also shows that Malawi is off track in meeting the 2025 World Health Assembly target of reducing maternal anaemia by 50 per cent (Development initiatives, Global Nutrition Report 2020).
Following World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations and thresholds for pregnant women, the Malawi Government has been providing iron and folic acid supplements to prevent maternal anaemia, low birth weight and pre-term birth. Findings from the Policy and Programme Landscape on Maternal Nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa Countries of 2019 show that Malawi has a good policy environment on maternal nutrition adopting 11 out of 16 WHO recommendations, with over 75 per cent district coverage of maternal interventions including counselling on healthy eating, daily Iron Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation, malaria treatment and antenatal care models with a minimum of eight contacts.
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Using the social ecological model to behaviour change and human centered designing approach to understanding behaviours, the formative study will seek to understand but not limited to the following:
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Interested Individual Consultant should provide the following:
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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
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