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TOR to support compiling a BCI strategy

1.0 Introduction

The Nutrition International NI formerly Micronutrient Initiative, is a
global organization dedicated to delivery of proven nutrition interventions
with a focus on pregnant women, new-born, infant, children under 5 years and
adolescents. The vision of NI is a world where everyone, everywhere is free
from malnutrition and able to reach their full potential. NI’s mission is to
be a global leader in finding and scaling-up solutions to malnutrition
through; Coverage delivering low-cost high impact nutrition interventions,
especially for women, adolescent girls and children in Africa and Asia;
Leverage Integrating nutrition across sectors to maximize impact and
ensure there are no missed opportunities; and Influence Utilizing
research, technical assistance, advocacy, and partnerships with national and
global nutrition actors to improve policies, programs, and resources for
nutrition.

2.0 Background and Rationale

NI recognizes that behavior change is an important component for the success
of nutrition interventions. In this regard, NI has continued to implement
strong behavior change interventions informed by research and globally
recognized best practices. NI uses the term BCI to define behavior change
interventions that include distribution of micronutrient commodities and
communications aimed at creating demand for these commodities and relevant
services. BCI is therefore one of the key pillars of NI’s impact pathway
model.

During the implementation of Right Start project April 2017 to March 2020,
NI supported implementation of demand creation strategies working with
selected partners within communities. The strategies were intervention-
specific and were based on formative assessment findings. The communication
objective of the strategies was to improve knowledge, change attitudes and
create self-efficacy among users on barriers to the desired nutrition
behaviors, using the known behavior change theories. The strategies had some
positive impact in creating overall community awareness as well as change in
behaviors among users as evidenced through program progress reports.

Despite the success, some challenges were noted in this approach. First there
was a lack of a standardized NI BCI approach within the different
interventions. Intervention specific BCI strategies created duplication or too
many uncoordinated messages targeting same communities, creating a potential
for confusion among the beneficiaries and communities. For example, promotion
of Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation IFAS for pregnant women and Weekly
Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation WIFAS for adolescent girls led to
communities questioning why pregnant mothers and adolescent girls were given
similarly supplements. Thus, intervention specific strategies lacked synergy
and were not well coordinated to provide comprehensive nutrition knowledge to
the communities. As a response, NI developed a BCI toolkit to provide a
standardized approach on BCI Strategy design and implementation of demand
creation activities based on lessons learnt and best practices.

In current or just started Institution Support Grant ISG program, Nutrition
International’s NI BCI strategies will focus on deepening gender and
Behavior Change Interventions BCI by incorporating new innovative approaches
for mainstreaming gender in programming. BCI objectives will be expanded
beyond the knowledge, attitude and practice KAP domains to include social
mobilization and community dialogue to create demand for commodities and
services, as well as establishing a foundation of societal awareness and
approval of desired behaviors.

To achieve this goal, NI BCI approaches seek to empower all levels of field
staff with BCI skills to identify and resolve behavioral barriers through
timely targeted information sharing and community dialogue among other
approaches. BCI strategies also need to compliment knowledge, changing
attitudes and practice approaches with empowerment of the target audience to
make informed choices, community agenda setting, clarification and
compensation/exchange of strong held cultural values through community
dialogue. This approach will create stronger ownership of the achieved changes
at individual and society levels and create sustainability in the resulting
changes.

To address the challenge of duplication of efforts NI now plans to develop one
comprehensive BCI country strategy covering for all four interventions which
are

1. Universal Salt Iodation USI – through “consolidation approach” formation of producers’ or processors’ associations; NI Tanzania is working in salt producing regions of mainland Tanzania to create an enabled environment that will motivate salt producers and private investors to move towards consolidation in order to facilitate effective enforcement and increased technical and organizational capacity of salt producers in producing adequately iodated salt.
2. Vitamin A Supplementation program VAS – NI Tanzania provides in-kind support of high quality Vitamin A capsules for all children aged 6 to 59 months country wide i.e. Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar through Child Health and Nutrition Month CHNM campaigns and finalizing health system readiness assessment to support the government to safely strengthening VAS services from campaign to routine approach – six-month-contact-point.
3. Adolescents Nutrition Education and Counselling Adolescents Nutrition – NI Tanzania contributes to improved health and nutrition status by strengthening nutrition education and counselling to adolescent boys and girls and provide advice and guidance on Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation to adolescent girls as would be advised by the Ministry of Health.
4. Maternal Newborn Health and Nutrition MNHN – NI Tanzania supports the implementation of proven interventions that improve Maternal, Newborn Health and Nutrition by strengthening provision of nutrition education and services in both community and health facility levels. These include interventions which focus on the first “1000 Days” of a child; Early ANC booking by continuing providing support on availability and improved uptake of Iron and Folic Acid IFA supplementation, improved postnatal care, promoting early initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and improving complementary feeding.
5. Upcoming Food Fortification program, NI Tanzania for the next five years will provide technical and financial support to strengthen national and subnational food fortification coordination, monitoring and enforcement mechanisms; and support capacity building of medium and small-scale maize flour processors to acquire proper skills and certification.

The comprehensive strategy will guide the programs by setting common
approaches so that all communication activities, products and materials work
in harmony to achieve the desired change. A comprehensive strategy will also
enable stakeholders and partners to provide input and agree upon the best way
forward so that actions are unified and contribute to the desired behaviors
across different target audiences. With an agreed-upon communication strategy,
staff and partners will have common reference point to guide the
implementation of demand creation activities.

The strategy will have a common country background dovetailing into specific
interventions on behavioral objectives, as described above, and later
combining the community mobilization and demand creation approaches. In
preparation to move this process forward, NI has conducted literature review
on the different interventions to inform and update the existing baseline
knowledge and behavioral barriers in each of the interventions .The next step
will involve discussions to identify gaps if any in the existing approaches,
communication objectives and gender issues for each intervention and making
recommendations for addition on intervention specific and cross cutting
issues.

3.0 Objective, activity and deliverables

NI is looking for an expert/editor with a good understanding and experience in
behavior change communication strategy design and editing skills to support in
compiling a comprehensive strategy following suggested recommendations and
inputs. At the onset, the selected person will be expected to read through
existing NI reports and strategies to gain an in-depth understanding of the
programs’ background and goals. Then the expert/editor will participate in a
review meeting with NI staff during which each intervention will be analyzed,
and recommendations made. The expert/editor will compile a comprehensive BCI
strategy based on recommendations and present it to NI for first round review
and feedback on areas of improvement. The copy will incorporate diagrams and
photo images of program activities where appropriate. The individual will use
the recommendations and suggestion to improve the draft, then present the
final edited and formatted version for approval. Once approved the individual
will present 3 hard copies and one electronic version of the approved copy

Scope of Work

Activity 1 Familiarize with NI existing BCI strategies and other materials
provided by NI.

Activity 2 Participate in a one day strategy development process with NI
staff

Activity 3 Compile one combined strategy based on agreed objectives and
recommendations

Activity 4 Present the draft strategy to NI for discussions and inputs

Activity 5 Revise, edit and format the final copy

Activity 6 Present the final soft copy to NI for approval

Deliverables

One comprehensive BCI strategy for Tanzania in three spiral bound copies and
one electronic version. The layout and sections will include a review on
current situation by intervention, objectives, communication approaches and
innovations, sample messages crosscutting issues focused on barriers to the
desired behaviors of various target audiences approaches for monitoring. The
format will be agreed upon between NI staff and the expert/editor during the
first meeting.

Proposed timelines


This consultancy is expected to be delivered within 30 person-days.

4.0 Required Competencies and Knowledge

-->Masters level of education
-->Grounded experience with SBCC/BCI
-->Hands on experience in the design of communication strategies/implementation of health communication programs
-->Document compiling and editing skills

Interested and eligible consultant s should submit their expression which
must include the following

-->Up-to-date curriculum vitae CV and copies of their academic and professional certificates
-->Cover letter detailing how applicant fits the profile
-->Technical proposal Not exceeding five 5 pages, describing the consultant’s understanding of the task, and detailed work plan
-->Financial Proposal Budget proposal for the task.



Send your Application to










** Application process **

Complete Proposals should be submitted by email to bids
**TANZANIA@NUTRITIONINTL.ORG**

before close of business on Friday 15 th January 2021. Only complete
applications will be reviewed. Late submissions will not be accepted.

** Clarification on the proposal ** Clarification concerning this proposal
should be sent to **bidsTANZANIA@NUTRITIONINTL.ORG** by 13 th January 2021
by 12 noon.



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