Nutrition Causal Analysis Lead Analyst – Consultant Level I – Algeria, Tindouf
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Women are strongly encouraged to apply
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ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
WFP has been providing basic food assistance to the Sahrawi refugees based in the Southwestern region of Algeria since 1986 through general food assistance, malnutrition prevention and treatment, school meals, and resilience interventions. The Sahrawi refugees in Algeria live in five refugee camps: Awserd, Boujdour, Dakhla, Laayoun and Smara near the Algerian town of Tindouf, 2,000 km southwest of the host country’s capital, Algiers. The five camps are located in a remote and arid hamada landscape characterized by extreme temperatures and very low rainfall. The largest of the five camps are Smara and Laayoune. These are followed by Awserd, Dakhla and Boujdour.
JOB PURPOSE
For the past 45 years, the population living in these refugee camps has continued to suffer from persistent levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, with high rates of Anaemia, exacerbated by scarcity of fresh and diverse food and limited access to water. Malnutrition among children under 5 years, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls (PBW/G) continues to be a daunting challenge in the camps. The latest nutrition survey 2022 indicated a steadily alarming increase in prevalence of acute malnutrition (10.7%), stunting (28.8%) and Anaemia (54.2%) in refugee children. A similar trend was observed for particularly for Anaemia among women of reproductive age (53.5%). To respond to these challenges, WFP and other nutrition actors including UNHCR have set in place interventions for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, which includes the provision of specialized food products, cash-based transfers (CBT) to facilitate the access to fresh foods and Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and strengthening of Infant and young child feeding (IYCF). WFP has also mainstreamed nutrition considerations into its activities concerning general food distributions, school meals and resilience building interventions.
Despite the robust nature of interventions enlisted above, undernutrition and anaemia continue to persist as earlier highlighted. Therefore, it is against this background that WFP in collaboration with other humanitarian actors proposes to commission a LINK NCA study to explore the possible risk factors and/or causal pathways for undernutrition (wasting, stunting) and Anaemia in Sahrawi refugee camps. The information generated throughout this process will be used for designing context-specific nutrition interventions in the concerned camps with the aim of improving the nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups as well as elaborate a nutrition strategy for the Sahrawi refugee response.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1. Provide technical oversight to Sahrawi refugee camps’ stakeholders on Link NCA methodology.
2. Spearhead basic understanding by the team on key concepts and processes related to Link NCA methodology; to include sharing necessary pre-requisites to be in place right before and during the exercise.
3. Ensure adequate preparation and planning required for the study, including identifying the necessary resources, hiring the link NCA team to implement the study, and determining timelines (road map for the entire NCA exercise).
4. Take lead in the identification of a preliminary, hypothesized set of risk factors and pathways that may explain the under-nutrition and anaemia situation in the local context.
5. Systematic literature review (using the module “pathways to under-nutrition” and locally available grey literature) and initial key informant interviews.
6. Oversee statistical analysis of secondary database to include review, discussions by local experts and stakeholders through a consultative process (workshop and/or meeting, interviews etc).
7. Compilation of the final NCA report by collating the different findings from the respective surveys/studies.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Master in nutrition or public health or other related disciplines such as Global Health, Epidemiology, Economics and Statistics, Anthropology, Social Sciences or equivalent professional experience
Experience:
Minimum 8 years’ field experience in the field of nutrition and food security, social economic research and evaluation.
Professional experience in key Nutrition and Food security research methodologies such as NCA, SMART, SQUEAC/SLEAC, KAP surveys etc…
Experience of work with WFP and/or UNICEF is an asset
Languages:
Fluency in English is mandatory, and French would be a plus
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Sound understanding of the LINK NCA methodology with good expertise in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, Digital data collection skills using mobile technology (ODK), Excellent written and oral communication skills; Good organizational, managerial, planning, and report writing skills; Strongly motivated by humanitarian work; Excellent ability to work under pressure in a potentially climatic harsh environment; Readiness and capacity to work in a multidisciplinary team.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Job Title: Nutrition Causal Lead Analyst
Type of contract: CST Level I
Duration: 5 months
Duty Station: Tindouf, Algeria
Reports to: Head of Programme
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline for applications is June 29th 2023 at 16:59hrs EDT
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