Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
INVITATION FOR SUBMISSION OF SEALED BIDS FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES to document changes in male behaviours, attitudes and practices in Maternal, New born and Child health and Nutrition (MNCH&N) services and establish if changes led to significant trends in improved health outcomes among mothers and children” in Lufwanyama district, Copperbelt PROVINCE
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent non-profit organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives. In Zambia, Save the Children has been implementing programs across Child Rights Governance (CRG), Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Child Poverty and Humanitarian thematic areas since 1983. Save the Children wants all children to survive, learn and be protected, but many are not because of inequality and discrimination. Sponsorship is more squarely addressing what has long been Save the Children’s ambition: transformative change for all children.
Sponsorship’s vision is to mobilize children, communities, partners and other stakeholders as agents of change for children’s rights, empowering them to address unequal and discriminatory structures and power relations. The program works – including advocacy that Sponsorship advances to achieve our Breakthroughs will benefit all children in the community, while driving a social movement for change.
Save the Children through it’s Sponsorship programme has been implementing Maternal, Newborn Child Health and Nutrition (MNCH&N) interventions in selected health facility catchment areas in Lufwanyama since 2014. SCI focused on improving community health structures and systems, and creating demand for MNCH &N services .In order to increase male involvement in MNCH &N services. SCI supported the recruitment of men as community volunteers and this helped to raise awareness on the importance of involving men in health activities at community level. Reduction of maternal deaths in Lufwanyama district has been attributed to involving men as Safe Motherhood Action Groups (SMAG) members who convince their fellow men to escort their wives to seek pre and post-natal services They also educated their fellow men on the importance of institutional deliveries, preparing baby layette (birth preparedness) and importance immunizations as well as good nutrition.
Overview of Study
Men in Lufwanyama District are mostly involved in farming, illegal mining and other economic activities such as selling of charcoal and maize. This posed a challenge in involving men into health activities as they mainly concentrated on raising money for the household and health activities were regarded as women’s activities. With the introduction of the Sponsorship’s MNCHN project, which had the aim of improving community health structures and systems, men were seen to have slowly started gaining interest in health activities. The district recruited men as community volunteers (ICCM, SMAG,CHW, IYCF etc) and this helped to raise awareness on the importance of involving men in health activities in the community.
Being decision makers at household and community level, men are very critical in improving the health seeking behaviour in the community since they are responsible for providing funds for transport and other needs like food should the client be admitted at the hospital. Reduction of maternal deaths in Lufwanyama district has been attributed to involving men as Safe Motherhood Action Groups(SMAG) members who convince their fellow men to escort their wives to seek pre and post-natal services They also educated their fellow men on the importance of institutional deliveries, preparing baby layette (birth preparedness) and importance immunizations as well as good nutrition.
The involvement of men in IYCF activities improved nutrition outcomes in Lufwanyama as it help counter some myths and bad cultural practices that led to bad nutrition practices such as reserving nice relish for the father and leaving vegetables for children. Men learnt how to make their meals nutritious using the locally available foods through the involvement of Men in the IYCF programme.
In the recent past years an increase of men getting involved in health related activities has been noticed. Men have been seen taking part in taking children to the clinic when sick, they have also been seen accompanying their wives at ANC/PNC visits and they have also been seen participating in preparation of nutritious foods at household level. The table below shows Male involvement in health activities from 2012 to 2022 from project data.
The overall objective of the study is to generate evidence on how male involvement in Maternal, Child health and nutrition services improve health and nutrition outcomes among mothers and children as a result of Save’s the Children’s programming model in Lufwanyama district. After completion, the research is also expected to enhance on revealing the impact of male involvement interventions on health and nutrition specifically focusing on Maternal, Child health and nutrition areas. This research is also expected to strengthen on program design and implementation basing on revealing what works in line to the intervention areas being covered as part of the research processes.
Objectives
1. To generate evidence for advocacy and policy making
2. To establish existing gaps in behaviors, attitudes and practices on male involvement in maternal, new born and child health services.
3. To learn on how men are involved in maternal, new born and child health services
4. To establish if there are changes in maternal, new-born and child health outcomes among mothers and children due to male involvement.
Proposed Time Frame
The time-frame for the assignment execution will be agreed upon in line with the suggested work schedule in the detailed terms of reference. It however expected that the overall baseline study from preparation to report submission should not take more than two months.
Qualified applicants who are interested in applying for the above must meet the following requirements:
• Interested and qualified consultants/firms are required to submit a proposal interpreting the Terms of Reference elaborating the proposed methodology. Detailed work plan and budget indicating both the professional rates and costs for logistics/operations in Zambian Kwacha.
• Detailed CV for the lead Consultant including summarized CVs of technical personnel.
• The applicants must also provide a list of previous/current similar assignments or engagements completed, work references and provide links of sample works successfully produced in the last three to four years.
• In addition, applicants should provide requirements as listed below: –
Mandatory Requirements
• That they are not on any Save the Children prohibited parties list or blacklisted by the government.
• Copy of the National Registration Card or copy of the passport
• Copy of Tax Clearance Certificate (TPIN)
• Certificate of incorporation for companies

Required Expertise & Experience
The study is to be done by a consultant/firm with a team composition of 2-3 individuals with a mix of experience in the focus areas described under the objectives section. The consultant/team must possess the following qualifications and competences in order to be eligible for this assignment:
• University degree at minimum in a relevant field (e.g. Public Health, Gender, Health sciences or social sciences).
• Substantial experience (10 years+’ experience conducting baseline studies in large scale projects especially Public health, gender, social sciences) and in monitoring and evaluation, specifically in developing qualitative and quantitative methodologies and, and in collecting and analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Knowledge of Nutrition and Health programming. Strong child rights programming skills (child participation skills an asset)
• Knowledge in gender equality mainstreaming
• Excellent writing skills in English, and effective presentation skills
• Good local language skills (spoken and written) in Lamba/Bemba.
• Knowledge and skills in disability inclusion
• Previous experience of engaging community agents of change, civil society organizations, national partners and key government staff in the development and implementation of assessments/evaluations.
• Evidence of having done similar work (kindly share copies of completed assignments or links) especially in similar set ups as the project area (Rural areas) in the past 3 years.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including experience of working within multi- cultural teams.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Follow link provided here for specific additional information requirements or www.savethechildren.net/terms-reference-document-behaviours-attitudes-and-practices-maternal-new-born-and-child-health-and
Deadline for submission of the Expressions of Interest is Tuesday 1st November 2022, at midnight GMT. Expressions of Interests submitted after the stated closing time and date will not be accepted.
• All inquiries should be directed to: Procurement.Queries@savethechildren.org 
• Applications should be submitted to zambia.tenders@savethechildren.org
Note
• Save the Children will only contact successful applicants
• Save the Children reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal/expression or cancel the procurement process at any time, without assigning any reason, and shall have no liability to any potential consultants for such rejection or cancellation of the procurement.
To apply for this job email your details to zambia.tenders@savethechildren.org

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