Every year in Nigeria one million children die before reaching their 5th birthday. This translates into the deaths of 2,740 children every day. Over a third of these deaths are linked to malnutrition. Statistics like this make Nigeria, along with six other countries, responsible for 50% of the global deaths of under-fives due to malnutrition. These death rates make it impossible for Nigeria, and Africa, to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 by the target date of 2015.
Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) is funded by UK’s Department for International Development and implemented by UNICEF, Action Against Hunger (ACF) and Save the Children International (SCI), in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria and the State Governments of Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Yobe and Zamfara. The overall objective of the project is to reduce mortality through decreasing the incidence and prevalence of under nutrition in Nigeria with focus on Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Yobe and Zamfara States.
The WINNN programme aims to build the capacity of the state and LGAs to implement nutrition interventions as routine services through existing PHC structures and to use evidence-based advocacy to improve political commitment, to and government funding for nutrition interventions.
WINNN’s goal is to improve nutritional status of children under five in Northern Nigeria with an expected outcome of nutrition interventions been delivered through routine health services, funded by the Government of Nigeria.
The expected results of the project are:
- Sustainability built into programme design such that States and LGAs owned nutrition programme activities with appropriate resources allocation.
- Communities and CSOs sustain support to treatment and prevention of SAM
- Improved GAM, SAM and child mortality rates
- Improved appropriate knowledge, attitude, behaviour and practices towards nutrition, such as exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding, etc.
Scope of Work
- WINNN will host a 4-day workshop in Lagos to capture the learning and best practices from the programme since inception in September 2011.
- The lead rapporteur(s) for this workshop will take note on the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of each state presentation and questions surfaced during the sessions.
- The rapporteur will also prepare a detailed final summary report to be presented to Save the Children.
Deliverables
- Pre-Workshop: Become familiar with outline of the programme, read programme documents and attend the planning meeting
- Attend the pre-event planning meeting with Facilitators to understand the plan or strategy they will use to run the sessions.
- Prepare a summary report indicating name of the facilitators, speakers, title of session, Session reports, State Briefs, State Case studies, State level result chart, State Collaborative Outcome reports, State Compendium of Most significant change, main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Session.
- Attend Debrief session post workshop and include findings in summary report
Consultancy Period with Key Milestones:
- Understand agenda and strategy of workshop
- WINNN Learning Writeshop
- Finalization of Knowledge products from Workshop
- Submission of workshop report and Knowledge products
Key Skills and Experience
- At least 7 years’ experience in similar scope of work
- Proven ability to capture and produce detailed and clearly presented report.
- Good knowledge of northern Nigeria cultural context.
- Able to work effectively as part of a diverse global team
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Great team player
- High attention to detail and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and communications skills in English.
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