Consultant - Maternal Nutrition and Complementary Feeding Cooking Demonstration Videos at Save The Children

Reference Number: 2017IYCFBCC03

Introduction

• The nutritional status of women when becoming pregnant and during pregnancy can have significant influence on both fetal, infant and maternal health outcomes. Micronutrient deficiencies (Hidden Hunger) such as calcium, iron, vitamin A and iodine can lead to poor maternal health outcomes and pregnancy complications which put the mother and baby at risk. Poor maternal weight gain in pregnancy due to an inadequate diet, increases the risk of premature delivery, low birth weight and birth defects.[1]
• Nutrition education and counselling seek to improve nutrition practices before and during pregnancy to improve maternal nutrition and reduce the risk of poor health outcomes in both mothers and their children. Nutrition education and counselling focus on enhancing the quality of the diet, by educating women on which foods and what quantities they need to consume in order to achieve optimal dietary intake. This can also include counselling on the use of micronutrient supplements recommended during pregnancy, such as multiple micronutrient supplements containing iron and folic acid.

Specific Objectives include:

• Objective 1: Support the production of Maternal Nutrition Food demonstration videos
• Development of a video script based on the Maternal Nutrition Package for the food demonstration video recording
• Provide technical assistance in the development of a step by step cooking process for video production which will include but not limited to the steps of process preparation of the recipes combining important WASH elements

Objective 2 - Review and standardization of complimentary feeding manuals for children 6-24 months to include cost of diet
Task:

• Submit an workplan in line with the 2 objectives above
• Development of script for the video production of the recipes and a Step by Step manual for the presenter
• Support the DNPM- WINNN in providing technical back-stop for the production of Maternal Food demonstration videos

Consultancy Deliverables:

• Please refer to Annex 1 for full breakdown of consultancy tasks and deliverables
• Approved work plan submitted within 3 day of signed contract
• Maternal Nutrition Package: Script for Maternal Food demonstrations video production & technical inputs on Step by Step process of food demonstration and cooking process for video production
• Final report of consultancy

Person’s Specification

• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of food security, maternal child health and nutrition
• Graduate qualifications in Nutrition
• Specialist in maternal infant and young child feeding (IYCF), prevention and treatment of malnutrition, and food security in development and emergency context.
• Experience in Support Groups and Peer Facilitator approaches to behaviour change
• Proven experience in curriculum development for health, nutrition and agriculture for community level volunteers
• Excellent writing skills in reports, research briefs, and multi-media communication platforms
• Ability to read and write in Hausa