DEADLINE: 15TH JULY, 2022
PALLADIUM
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
REF NUMBER: T02/217727/CONSULTANCY/FIXED PRICE CONTRACT-2022-0011
TITLE: CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT OF MATERNAL INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD NUTRITION (MIYCN) TRAINING MANUALS IN NIGERIA.

Palladium invites applications from suitably qualified individual consultants to provide technical support to the Nutrition Division of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) for review and development of Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) training manuals in Nigeria.

In this Request for Proposal, Palladium expects offerors to develop a custom solution and proposal to Palladium for consideration. Bidders are required to provide justification for the work proposed or methodology to be adopted. This will be a Best Value procurement.

This consultancy aims to provide technical assistance to FMOH for the review and development of Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) training manuals in Nigeria Guidelines by an experienced consultant. Working closely with FMOH and IHP, the Technical Assistance consultancy will conduct desk review of global and national best practices on Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) and incorporate in the policy as well as lead stakeholders’ review and the development processes to reflectemerging issues in line with the Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Policy and Strategy

The objective of this consultancy is to review the Infant and Young Child Feeding (ICF) training manual and develop an updated training manual to include current trends based on National and Global standards. The consultant will work under the supervision of the Nutrition Division of FMOH, IHP and other implementing partners to:

  • Review the existing Infant and Young Child Feeding training manual in Nigeria to align with the developed MIYCN Policy, Strategy and Guideline and international emerging issues
  • Conduct desk review of global best practices and adapt to the MIYCN training manuals.
  • Facilitate stakeholders’ technical meetings to review the Consultants’ draft on Infant and Young Child Feeding training manual in Nigeria.
  • Collate inputs/comments from the stakeholders’ meetings to produce a zero and first draft and circulate it to stakeholders after the meeting.
  • Facilitate finalization and validation meetings on the draft training manuals.
  • Produce clean copy (print ready) of the revised MIYCN training manuals and job aids, and a PowerPoint presentation of the training manual.

Type of Contract
This is a firm fixed price deliverable-based contract. The consultant is expected to satisfactorily accomplish the deliverables before he/she gets paid for that deliverable. The IHP Chief of Party reserves the right to confirm if a deliverable is delivered adequately or otherwise. No price change is expected after contract is signed. IHP will not pay for cost of any deliverable that is not complete, of quality or on time. For more details concerning this consultancy and other associated application tools, please visit the link below: https://bit.ly/3ua 3gh7

Submission information:
Please follow the instructions as contained in the Request for Proposal (RFP) and submit to: consultancy@ihp-nigeria.com

This consultancy advert closes on July 15, 2022. No late application will be received after the deadline.