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NRF is mandated to mobilize, allocate and manage financial resources to facilitate research for the advancement of science, technology, and innovation. NRF has established three funding mechanisms: Competitive, Matching, and Institutional funding mechanism.

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This involves funding to individuals or groups of individuals, institutions and firms through Grant Proposals Calls within the National Research Priorities in accordance with defined criteria and rules. Most competitive proposals selected for funding

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NRF collaborates with local and international development partners to fund joint research on areas of mutual interest.

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These are grants provided to institutions for specialized and national strategic research facilities. The grant-making will be subject to a criterion

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Proposal writing support, 1. introduction: background to the study.

We at KENPRO take our clients through the following introductory parts of chapter one of most of research projects undertaken by college and university students:

1.1 Background of the Study

1.2 Statement of the Problem

1.3 Objectives/ Questions/Hypothesis

1.4 Significance of the Study

1.5 Scope of the Study

1.6 Limitation of the Study

1.7 Conceptual OR Theoretical Framework

1.8 Operational Definition of Key Terms

It should be noted that there are a little variations on this outline depending on the individual requirements of various colleges and universities. However, this outline constitutes the key parts of the introduction in essence.

We assist our clients in developing background to the study. We have nuemrous authoritative and scholarly online resources to build the most comprehensive up-to-date background to any education and social sciences research.

There are other critical parts of this introduction that students of research find difficulties. These include  research problem analysis  in order to up with good research questions or objectives to guide the study. Other parts include drawing up a good conceptual framework while taking into account both dependent and independent variables or constructs.  

Research Problem Analysis

The identification of research problem is the first and foremost step that every researcher has to undertake. At times, it becomes rather difficult for an inexperienced researcher or a novice/beginner in research to conceptualize a research problem. In general, a research problem should be understood as some difficulty, unclear situation which a researcher experiences in practical or theoretical context and wants to obtain a tangible explanation, clarification or offer solution to it. For students, this problem may be as a result of theoretical encounter in the area of specialization. As such, before embarking on any research, you should identify the major research area of your interest, mostly the area of your specialization. For instance from: Education, Social sciences, Humanities, Business administration among others.

Once you have the broad area, you narrow down the area by selecting a particular topic. This should be done after going through most of the literature related to the area. The topic should further be narrowed down to a specific researchable problem.

Components of a Research Problem. For a research problem to exist, there are a number of core elements that have to be inherent. There must be:

1. An individual or community or an organization/institution to whom the problem could be attributed.

These occupy a certain geographical area. For instance, teacher/parental factors affecting students performance in private secondary schools in Embu Municipality. In this study, there are individuals (parents, teachers, students), there are institutions (private secondary schools), and there is the area of study (Embu Municipality).

2. Some Objectives for pursuing the problem

There must be some objectives pursuing the problem, otherwise, it would be repugnant to reason and common understanding to undertake the research. For example: To find out teacher/parental factors affecting the students academic performance in private secondary schools in Embu Municipality.

3. Some lines of action to be taken

There must be at least two lines of action to be taken to attain the objective. For example, poor academic performance may be attributed to negative teacher and parental factors. Thus altering negative teacher factors and parental factors become the lines of action to be pursued. Here, the underlying question is “what is the cause of this problem – poor academic performance?” It is in answering this question that you must pursue some lines of action through stating some variables (teacher factors and parental factors).

We at KENPRO help our customers in identifying research topic(s). Once identified, the client is supposed to agree with the supervisor to be allowed to proceed.

2. Literature Review

We support our customers by providing literature resources that may be required for both theoretical and empirical review. We have access to hundreds of online international journals and digital libraries.

A literature review is an evaluative report of information found in the literature related to your selected area of study. The review should describe, summarize, evaluate and clarify this literature. It should give a theoretical base for the research and help you (the researcher) determine the nature of your research. Works, which are irrelevant, should be discarded and those, which are peripheral, should be looked at critically.

In general, the literature review should:

• Provide a context for the research
• Justify the research
• Ensure the research hasn’t been done before
• Show where the research fits into the existing body of knowledge
• Enable the researcher to learn from previous theory on the subject
• Illustrate how the subject has been studied previously
• Highlight flaws in previous research
• Outline gaps in previous research
• Show that the work is adding to the understanding and knowledge of the field of study
• Help refine, refocus or even change the topic

This chapter is generally divided according to the specific research objectives guiding the study. Each research objective / question should be reviewed. Such review helps in identifying knowledge gaps in the previous related studies and in the discussion of the findings.

Literature resources retrieval depends on the topic and the number of resources required. They may vary depending on the clients program of study and educational level. Roughly, we charge as low as Ksh. 250 /- to 1000/- per page.

3. Research Design and Methodology

We assist our clients in coming up with Research Design and methodology.

The most common sections of the methodology include the following:

3.1 Research Design

3.2 Target Population

3.3 Sample and Sampling procedure

3.4 Description of instruments

3.5 Validity of the Research Instruments

3.6 Reliability of the Research Instrument

3.7 Data collection procedure

3.8 Data analysis procedure

3.9 Ethical Considerations

Research Design: The most commonly used research designs in education and social sciences research include survey research design, the case study and naturalistic research designs. As a student of research, be ware of confusion between research designs and research approaches (qualitative and quantitative research approaches or paradigms).

Sample and sampling procedure: This is another tricky part of methodology which can pose a great challenge to a student of research or even a practitioner. There are a number of approaches that are used to arrive at the sample size. Some maintain that at least 10% (Gay, 1996) of the total population is representative; Others 30% (Gall, Borg and Gall, 2003). However, this is disputed. As such, use of Krejcie, and Morgan, table of determining sample size which is formula based is encouraged. One may also opt to use the formula to determine the sample size.

Reliability: Determining reliability of data collection instruments is also tricky. We encourage students to validate and determine the reliability of the instruments. To determine the reliability of research instruments, one must conduct a pilot test using related target population which does not form part of the final sample. Correlations (spearman’s rank correlation, Pearson’s correlation or Cronbach’s apha may be used to determine reliability). IBM SPSS is a valuable tool in computing reliability.

We offer support in drawing up research design and methodology.

Developing Data Collection Instruments

We assist our customers in developing research instruments. This MAINLY include Questionnaires and Interview guides. However, there are other instruments that we assist our clients to develop like observations guides among others depending on varied research designs:

Questionnaire Method

One method which can be used to ask questions is to use a questionnaire. This is a set of written questions on a sheet with spaces provided for respondents to reply to the questions. Questionnaires are frequently self-administered or they may be used during an interview. A questionnaire is most useful when you want to collect a small amount of clearly defined facts from a large number of people. Although very useful, there are two important disadvantages of self-administered questionnaires: Only people who can read and write can answer them (many street children are not literate); Less opportunity exists for street children to explain confusing answers.

Interviewing is one of the commonest method of collecting information from individuals. It is not surprising, then, that interviewing takes several forms:

Structured interviews, in which the wording of the questions and their sequence is the same from one interview to another; the respondents must choose from a limited number of answers that have been written in advance.

Semi-structured interviews, in which the interviewer asks important questions in the same way each time but is free to alter the sequence of the questions and to probe for more information; respondents can answer the questions in any way they choose.

Unstructured interviews, in which interviewers have a list of topics they want respondents to talk about but are free to phrase the questions as they wish; the respondents are free to answer in any way they choose.

Focus Group Discussion

Some important points to remember about the focus group as a means of collecting information:

a) This method is frequently used to explore a new issue in monitoring and evaluation studies and to discover what a group of people or project workers might think or feel about a question or problem.

b) The goal is to provide an opportunity for participants to talk to one another about a specific topic.

c) The facilitator is there to guide the discussion but should avoid intervening in the discussion.

Observation Method

It is, perhaps, the technique most closely related to everyday life. It involves watching and recording the behaviour of individuals or groups, or the events that occur in a particular place. One of the advantages of using this approach is that you may choose when and where to carry out the observation procedure and so ensure that you will have a good chance of seeing the people or the behaviour you wish to observe.

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2024 Call for Proposals

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The Alliance for African Partnership (AAP), a consortium of ten leading African universities, a distinguished research network for African research institute, and Michigan State University, is inviting proposals for its Partnerships for Innovative Research in Africa (PIRA) strategic funding program. As a consortium-wide initiative, PIRA is a tiered funding opportunity designed to cultivate and support multidirectional, collaborative research partnerships at any stage of their development, whether they are initiatives to explore and create new relationships or scale existing ones. One of the unique aspects to these grants is the expectation that organizations will establish and develop fair and equitable partnerships from conception to closeout of the project, involving local stakeholders throughout the project, respecting their knowledge and expertise, and taking an adaptive approach that is responsive to the local context. Proposals should outline processes to establish such partnerships. Fair and equitable partnerships must also be established among members of the consortium if multiple organizations are working on the implementation of the project. Proposed partnership activities may entail cooperative research, capacity building initiatives, outreach and/or other activities that align with AAP’s pillars of building bridges, transforming institutions, and transforming lives. Proposals must address at least one of AAP’s  priority areas : agri-food systems; water, energy and  environment; culture and society; youth empowerment; education; health and nutrition; and, science, technology, and innovation.

Proposals are encouraged from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Submitted proposals must include  principal investigators from both MSU and at least one African AAP member university . The project implementation timeframe will be 18 months.

FUNDING TIERS

The tiered funding structure is designed to support partnerships at different stages of maturity to create and strengthen relationships among institutions and act as a catalyst for research teams in securing external funding that will allow for long-term engagement . Applicants should submit proposals for the funding tier that best fits the level of engagement established among the PIs on the research team.  However, AAP management reserves the right to relegate proposals to a different tier if deemed more appropriate during review. To ensure broad impact, more awards will be given at the planning grant level than the scaling grant level. Proposed activities for each tier may include, but are not limited to:

• Planning Grants (up to $50,000) , inception and early-stage partnership research activities, travel support for co-developing joint proposals (in accordance with all MSU travel guidelines), short-term capacity building trainings, network development, research symposia, or other activities that align with AAP’s priority themes and strategic objectives.
• Scaling Grants (up to $100,000) , continuation of ongoing partnerships that have the potential to significantly scale their research, capacity building, or outreach activities, broader institutional linkages, or other activities that align with AAP’s priority themes and strategic objectives.  

ELIGIBILITY

• The lead investigators for proposals must come from MSU and AAP African member universities. Proposals may also include partners from other institutions globally. Teams are encouraged to include partners from the private sector, governments, civil society organizations, and pan-African/global institutions.
• Individuals who were PIs or co-PIs on grants from the previous round of PIRA grants or AAP’s strategic partnership grants are not eligible to lead proposals under this call but may participate as team members.
• MSU ISP staff are not eligible to lead proposals.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS

All submissions must have a cover sheet and proposal narrative that includes the information listed below, a budget and budget narrative using the provided template, and letters of support. Please submit all application material via the application portal by Wednesday, August 14 at 11:59 PM EST.

• Application with the project's title as well as names, institutional affiliations, titles of all principal investigators, and a brief (about 100 words) project summary
• A proposal narrative, not to exceed 5,000 words with one appendix for references cited, that includes:
• A description of the partnership, containing:
• Capacity statements from each partner institution that outlines their respective strengths in relation to their proposed roles and responsibilities in the partnership
• A brief description of the past or ongoing partnership, if applicable
• The rationale for partnership and evidence that it will create or cultivate equitable, sustainable, and mutually beneficial partnerships
• A problem statement that identifies the shared challenges to be addressed by the program activities, the theory of change, their relevance to AAP’s themes and pillars
• Clearly defined objectives of the proposed partnership
• A description of program activities as well as a logical framework that connects the proposed activities with their intended outputs, outcomes, and programmatic objectives
• A timeline of activities
• A monitoring, evaluating, and learning plan that outlines proposed indicators and collection methods
• Identification of potential sources of additional funding that the partnership will pursue during the program’s period of performance
• A line-item budget and budget narrative using the template provided. Templates and more information on budgetary considerations are below in BUDGET. A letter of support from each partner’s department, institution, or organization; and A CV or resume of each principal investigator (1-page max).
• A letter of support for each PI from their dean or head of department that signifies buy-in from each partner at the institutional level. Please use the provided template

SELECTION CRITERIA

Program goals should align with at least one of AAP’s pillars:

• Building bridges:  Bringing people and organizations together to work toward common goals. Illustrative activities under this objective include: sponsoring thematic symposia or workshops that bring people together across sectors and disciplines or travel for preparation of proposals for larger grant applications. This also includes network development, communications among research groups or networks (e.g. digital innovations and digital forums), dissemination of knowledge through online journals and/or sharing of best practices among partners
• Transforming institutions:  Promoting sustainable and effective partnerships among institutions, enhancing resources, and increasing institutional capacity. Illustrative activities under this objective include: institutional capacity development at universities, NGOs, or in the public sector such as building financial management capacity, improving teaching and learning at universities, and/or increasing proposal development skills, among others.
• Transforming lives:  Supporting research with real-world impact that improves African lives and livelihoods. Illustrative activities under this objective include: putting research into action through evidence-based outreach and engagement, conducting early-stage research that has obvious potential to impact lives and livelihoods, improving dissemination of research outputs to practitioners and policy-makers, and/or designing innovative research-into-practice methodologies. 

Submitted proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Evidence of a collaborative and equitable partnership that strengthens personal, professional, and/or institutional networks in a mutually beneficial and sustainable way. Other AAP principles that need to be demonstrated in the proposal and later in the implementation are mutual trust and respect, sustainability, innovativeness, co-creation, accountability, transparency, flexibility as well as multi-disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity.
• Alignment of proposed activities and program goal(s) to AAP’s 3 strategic objectives and 7 priority areas.
• Potential for program deliverables to significantly contribute to their respective academic, technical, or technological fields.
• Potential to create innovative models of community engagement and development that positively impact people’s lives.
• Potential for principal investigators to attract and or leverage additional external funding to sustain program’s impact.
• A thorough monitoring, evaluating, and learning plan that links program activities to their intended outputs and outcomes and includes a clear description of the MEL tools that will be used, what indicators will be measured, and a timeline for evaluation and reporting.
• Gender equality, equity and inclusion are core values of AAP and are thus central to this call. All projects funded must demonstrate how they follow principles of gender and inclusion and should explain how applicants will integrate gender, equity, and inclusion issues in all stages of the project, including rationale, design, intended results, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and knowledge mobilization processes.

PIRA BUDGET TEMPLATE [.XLSX]

Using the template provided, applicants must submit a line-item budget and budget narrative for the life of the program that details each institution’s requested budget as well as an overall budget summary. Suggested line items are provided as guidelines but are not comprehensive or required. Proposed budgets should be co-created by the partnership teams and reflect an equitable distribution of funds, with each institution completing a separate tab within the budget template to show the anticipated disbursement of resources and cost sharing broken down by yearly expenditures. The budget narrative should clearly explain how the line items are calculated and for what purpose they will be used in achieving the program’s objectives. Please note that the MSU PI and their home department will be responsible for the financial administration of the award. As such, it is required that the MSU PI involve their department’s fiscal officer in the development of the proposed budget to ensure all financial guidelines and reporting requirements are met. Please submit budgets as an Excel file or similar formatted version that allows the reviewers to view the formulas used in the calculations.

Communications and Engagement 10% of the total requested funds must be earmarked for communication and engagement efforts. For example, if a team is requesting a scaling grant for $100,000, at least $10,000 of that must be budgeted for communication and engagement efforts, such as developing creative projects that translate the research, engagement workshops and developing and utilizing dissemination tools such as video production, creation of digital resources, community engagement activities, etc.

10% of the total requested funds must be matched with contributions (monetary and/or in-kind) from all partners. The Co-PIs’ colleges, faculties. and/or departments will be expected to contribute to the costs of the proposed activities to ensure that the commitment to long-term partnering is shared by these units. 

Ineligible Expenses

While funding may be used for a variety of activities, the following expenses are not eligible to be covered with the PIRA grants:

• Regular salary of MSU faculty (summer salary is allowable)
• Indirect costs (IDC)
• Equipment exceeding $5,000
• Construction-related costs 

SELECTION PROCESS

Proposals will initially be reviewed by the AAP management team according to the guidelines and criteria above. Short-listed applications will be assessed by external peer reviewers for quality of technical content. Final selections will be made by the AAP management team in consultation with its internal partners and consortium members.

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If you are interested in finding a potential partner across the AAP consortium, please complete an interest form and be sure to check out AAP Bridge.

Full proposal packages are due on Wednesday, August 14 at 11:59 PM EST  and awards will be announced by early October. AAP management will work with awardees to finalize the plan and budget by November 20, 2024. Programs may begin according to their timeline but not before a final work plan and budget has been approved by AAP management. Programs must begin no later than January 22, 2025 and all program activities must be completed within 18 months of the start date. Progress will be due to AAP management at regular intervals throughout implementation. In addition, AAP will be conducting intermittent surveys of the awardees to evaluate the PIRA grant-making process and how successfully it embodies the AAP’s values of equity, transparency, and accountability.

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Background and context

Low coverage of wasting treatment programme in Kenya

Kenya is among over 70 countries that have adopted the WHO protocols to treat wasting. Nevertheless, the treatment of acute malnutrition was for a long time restricted to facility-based approaches, greatly limiting its coverage and impact. However, in many settings, the implementation of national guidance for the treatment of child wasting faces challenges, owing to limited resources and capacities, which hamper efforts to reach all children in need. The launch of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in the year 2000 was a promise of scale, access and coverage, a promise to make treatment truly universal. Unfortunately, the treatment was still being offered by health professionals, literary setting up pseudo health facilities at community level. In settings where human resources for health is limited like Kenya, it means health workers shall close the static health facility to go and provide treatment closer to home – proverbial digging a whole to fill another. Consequently, 20 years later, only 60 percent and less 30 percent of children with severe wasting receive treatment in Kenya and globally respectively (MOH 2013, Miller et. Al., 2020; UNICEF, 2021). This has changed over the last decade informed by new evidence that large numbers of children with acute malnutrition can be treated in their communities, with weekly or bi weekly visits to primary health facilities, without being admitted to a health facility or a therapeutic feeding centre. Recent evidence from across the world and also in Kenya [1] has shown that ccommunity health promoters can easily identify the children affected by acute malnutrition and if effectively linked with a facility-based therapeutic care for referral could prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children.

[1] Cluster Randomized Control trial (RCT) conducted in Turkana and Isiolo, 2019 (manuscript submitted for peer-review)

Linking Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM).

Faced with the programmatic and ethical question of how to expand access and coverage of management of SAM and MAM in children, especially in the hard-to-reach and underserved areas, nutrition stakeholders have recently started to explore the potential for linking Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM). The hypothetical advantages of linking iCCM and nutrition services seems obvious given that malnutrition and iCCM target conditions of diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia are intertwined in a self-reinforcing cycle and their prevention and management overlap considerably.

An integrated approach to addressing the twin problems of disease and malnutrition would make it possible to break the vicious cycle by addressing the presenting and underlying aspects of a child’s illness, thus contributing to reducing the burden of common childhood illnesses and maximising child survival in vulnerable communities. The big wins of integration of management of acute malnutrition with iCCM is expected to be in counties with sparsely populated Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) where access to facilities is relatively limited with long distance as well as harsh environment to walk. Bringing free and effective treatment close to communities will likely improve access to and utilization of services for management of malnourished children that often takes weeks of follow up. To date, management of malnutrition in the Kenyan context remains confined to the health facilities by the skilled health workers. But a small scale clinical trial was conducted in 2019 using simplified protocols to explore effectiveness of integrating treatment of SAM and MAM by CHPs into ICCM. The findings support the potential of CHVs treatment outcomes being non-inferior to the standard care provided at health facilities by health workers.

The Implementation Research, Phase 2 ICCM/ CMAM Pilot Study

The Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Concern Worldwide and Save the Children have convened several meetings with national and selected counties to co-design a Phase 2 operations research protocol that will be implemented in a larger scale programmatic context to generate implementation experiences, effectiveness of integration, costing the scale up and document success factors for sustainability. Turkana, Marsabit and Mandera have been prioritized for Phase 2 pilot based on the persistent wasting burden and the health systems readiness, security and political goodwill. Additionally, Kenya has been selected as fast-runner country for piloting the WHO 2023 guideline and ICCM TAG members has convened preparatory meetings to review and understand the implications to the current the IMAM program.

Research design

A hybrid 2x2 factorial design Implementation research will be employed to determine which intervention (CMAM only, ICCM+CMAM, ICCM only, or a combination of interventions) maximizes better outcomes in terms of quality of care, coverage and treatment outcomes for children 6-59 months of age with acute malnutrition.

Research Objectives

• To examine the effectiveness of integrating management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition and iCCM (coverage, cure rate, defaulter rate, death rate).
• To determine the enabling factors for effective integration of management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition and iCCM.
• To identify the challenges, constraints and potential pitfalls in integrating management of SAM and iCCM.
• To document lessons and best practices (including data and commodity supply systems) in integrating management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition into iCCM and provide policy and programmatic recommendations.
• To determine multifactor considerations (including cost-effectiveness) for scale up and sustainability of integrating management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition into iCCM.

Purpose of the Consultancy

As part of preparation for the implementation research, a review and adaptation of the existing iCCM-CMAM tools and training materials that were employed during the RCT in Turkana and Isiolo, is needed with subsequent customization to Marsabit and Mandera communities.

Hence, Concern is seeking to procure consultancy services to facilitate the revision and contextualization of the simplified tools for low literate CHPs according to the agreed treatment protocols recently adopted to the WHO Guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years (2023).

The tools will only be deployed to the research sites outlined in the research protocol.

Objectives and Specific Tasks to be undertaken by the Consultant(s)

The consultant (s) will undertake the following;

• Conduct an extensive review of the existing current iCCM national framework, tools and training materials.
• Conduct an extensive review of the existing IMAM guidelines, tools and training materials
• Be familiar with the proposed changes in the current IMAM guideline and the 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of child wasting.
• Conduct an extensive review of the existing Community training packages, tools and training materials including the Kenyan Electronic Community Health Information System (e-CHIS)
• Conduct an extensive review of ICCM and CMAM tools and materials used in other countries with a view of learning best practices to contextualize for the Kenyan audience.
• Revise and update the simplified SAM/MAM treatment protocol, tools, training package and Job Aids for CHVs
• Revise and update the iCCM tools and training materials and integrate the simplified SAM/MAM treatment protocol, tools and training materials harmoniously to enable management of acute malnutrition at community level
• Present the revised tools to relevant groups (ENAC, iCCM TWG or others as guided by MOH) for approval and incorporate feedback
• Closely work with Principal Investigator (PI) to incorporate any changes that may be necessitated by the changes during finalization of the research protocol
• Spearhead the piloting of the produced materials to gauge their objectivity in meeting the intended purpose and making the necessary adjustments
• Train the local designer/ IP staff on the Human-Centered designs and the pre-testing methods.
• A detailed analysis of iCCM and CMAM materials with proposed changes onto the iCCM tools and training materials to be used in the implementation research, including suggestion on ways how KHIS and eCHIS could be amended in the future to reflect integrated reporting from community level.
• Simplified SAM/MAM treatment protocol, training materials and Job Aids for CHVs aligned/integrated with iCCM materials.
• Revised iCCM tools (cart booklet, registers, supervision checklists, and other tools) incorporating management of acute malnutrition at community level
• Revised iCCM training materials incorporating management of acute malnutrition.

Duration and Location:

50 days to support Concern Worldwide in review and adaptation of the existing iCCM-CMAM tools and training materials in Turkana and field testing of updated algorithms among the communities in Marsabit and Mandera counties.

Lines of Communication

The consultant will be accountable administratively to CWW i.e Program Director and Health and Nutrition Coordinator and technically to ICCM TAG – an executive group comprising MOH-NDU, MOH-Child Health, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, Save the children, CWW, IRC on technical deliverables of the tools and training materials.

Essential and Desirable Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in nutrition, public health or related field. Master’s degree nutrition related field is an added advantage.
• Experience in human-centered designing and writing up tools and training materials for health workers and community volunteers.
• Experience in iCCM and / or management of acute malnutrition
• Minimum 7 years relevant experience in child health and nutrition in the Horn of Africa and ideally in northern Kenya.
• Very good written and oral communication skills.
• Competency in word processing, publisher and spreadsheets.
• Experience in government District Health Information Systems

Required documentation with your proposal:

• Company / Consultant profile
• Certificate of Incorporation (firms) or National ID card (individual)
• Valid Tax Compliance Certificate
• PIN Certificate
• Company / Consultant’s Profile
• CVs of key staff
• Certificate/reference information of previous undertakings of similar contracts with NGOs/UN agencies
• Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct etc. or what are the necessary provisions have you put in place to keep everyone safe in the course of your engagement
• Attach copy of Certificate of Good Conduct or proof that you have applied for the same
• A detailed work plan with milestones
• Confirm the gender ratio for the team that you will be engaging in this exercise
• Technical proposal
• Financial proposal
• Evidence of previous related works (e.g. Technical design reports)
• Work plan (Gantt chart) showing specific milestone

Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies.

How to apply

Submission of proposals

Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should submit their proposals by email to;

• [email protected] with the subject line “SR107673 – Consultancy to Support Contextualization of ICCM Study Tools” by 30 April 2024.

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