Consultancy Recruitment – Nutrition Supply Chain Management (Sudan, Yemen, Djibouti) – MENARO – 80 working days (Remote)
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The MENA region consist of multiple countries in conflict and fragile contexts with high burdens of malnutrition such as Yemen, Sudan and Djibouti. Wasting rates are at emergency level in Yemen, Sudan and Djibouti where more than 1.55 million children are severely malnourished and at higher risk of death and 1 in 3 children are stunted in those countries. 1 in 3 women in the region is anaemic and nutritionally at risk and have higher chances of delivering a low-birth-weight baby and dying during childbirth.
To support the Government with the improvement of nutrition service delivery, UNICEF country offices provides the Government with system support, which include the procurement of nutrition supplies such as therapeutic supplies for the treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) (i.e., ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), F-100, F-75 and ReSoMal), Vitamin A, deworming tablets, iron and folic acid and anthropometric equipment. For provision of SAM treatment supplies, UNICEF is a main partner to the Ministry of Health (MoH), supporting the forecasting, procurement, storage, warehousing support, delivery and monitoring of these supplies. UNICEF country offices are currently running a parallel supply chain for nutrition supplies – i.e., the supplies procured by UNICEF are stored in a UNICEF warehouse and distributed by UNICEF to State/district’s warehouses. In most of the cases, deliveries from State/districts to health facilities are handled by government with UNICEF’s financial support.
On the other hand, there is a national supply chain system for essential medicines managed by National Supply Chain Management system in the country, in which essential medicines are delivered from the ministry warehouses to the decentralized administrative level and then to health facilities on a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the supply and country.
Assessment of the current nutrition supply process would support identify country specific bottlenecks at different level of in country logistic and potentials of delivering nutrition supplies along the essential medical drugs to sustain and strengthen nutrition supply chain.
How can you make a difference?
One of the key objectives in MENARO is to build the capacity of the UNICEF country teams and government systems in nutrition supply chain management to improving the nutritional status of children and women in the region. In line with that, UNICEF is currently looking for a contractor to assess the current supply chain system, identify challenges and required support to strengthen the programme supply chain management and the process quality in three MENA countries (Yemen, Sudan and Djibouti). The contractor will coordinate with the ministry of health and teams on the ground to build their capacity and develop an action plan/roadmap to strengthen the existing supply chain process.
Scope of work:
Under the supervision of the Regional Nutrition Adviser, UNICEF MENARO and Regional Chief of Supply, UNICEF MENARO, and with technical guidance from nutrition and supply teams, the contractor will be responsible for the following:
1. Develop a draft Inception report layout
- The Inception report must articulate the proposed methodology and proposes a detailed timeline and stakeholder consultations.
2. Assessment of the supply chain process through
- Mapping the current supply chain process and key actors in the country
- Identify current gap and operational issues/challenges at different levels of supply chain (delivery, clearance, inspection, warehousing, distribution, repositioning, contingency stock, inventory, information system, monitoring, utilization by end user and reporting)
- Mapping supply chain SOPs and monitoring tools in the countries
3. Develop action plan/road map of strengthening supply chain management
- Identifies gaps and priorities across different areas of supply chains at different administrative levels which would serve as the foundation to develop action plan/roadmap to strengthen supply chains and contribute to a resilient supply system.
- Coordinate with government and key stakeholders in developing the action plan
- Explore opportunities to strengthen nutrition governance and institutionalization of nutrition commodities to be managed along with the essential medicine.
4. Capacity building
- Develop a Training tool for nutrition supply chain management
- Conduct a TOT on Supply chain management to build local capacity
- Facilitate a workshop on supply chain management at country level to sensitize cluster partners
- Develop a regional SOP
5. Prepare and deliver the project summary presentation for regional webinar organised by MENARO Draft report.
- The contractor will prepare and share for comments the draft consultancy report, which will include:
- A detailed assessment of the supply chain in the targeted three countries
- Analytical report focused on the supply chain challenges and operational issues.
- A comprehensive roadmap to strengthen supply chain system.
- A summary note on the training and workshop conducted.
6. Final report
- The contractor will finalize the draft report based on the comments received.
Travel:
Consultant is expected to visit each country twice; first for 5-7 days for the assessment and then 3 days for capacity building.
Deliverables and timelines:
1. Inception report developed/drafted report by May 2023
2. Assessment of the supply chain report provided by June 2023
3. Develop action plan/road map of strengthening supply chain management drafted and discussed with stakeholders by July 2023
4. Capacity development training tool finalized, and a training is conducted by Aug 2023
7. Regional webinar is conducted by Sep 2023
8. Final Report and presentations submitted by Sep 2023
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education :
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An advanced University degree (master’s or PhD) in Public Health, Nutrition, Food Security, Social or Public Policy, with Supply chain and logistic experience in evaluation design.
Experience:
- At least eight years of supply chain assessment, or supply chain system strengthening and proven expertise in conducting evaluations, reviews and/or assessments;
- Experience working with the United Nations, particularly UNICEF, including a strong understanding of UNICEF’s policies and programming is an asset.
- Proven skills in research analysis, including quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques.
- Excellent report writing skills, analytical skills, as well as good computer skills.
- Experience leading teams and team processes.
- Excellent command in written and spoken English and Arabic language is preferable.
Language:
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
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