DEADLINE: 24TH OCTOBER, 2024
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION (GAIN)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF THE STRENGTHENING NUTRITION IN PRIORITY STAPLES (SNIPS) PROJECT IN NIGERIA (KADUNA, OYO, AND BENUE STATES)
ABOUT GAIN
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people.
At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious and safe food. We work to understand and deliver specific solutions to the daily challenge of food insecurity faced by poor people. By understanding that there is no “one-size-fits-all” model, we develop alliances and build tailored programmes, using a variety of flexible models and approaches.
We build alliances between governments, local and global businesses, and civil society to deliver sustainable improvements at scale. We are part of a global network of partners working together to create sustainable solutions to malnutrition. Through alliances, we provide technical, financial and policy support to key participants in the food system. We use specific learning, evidence of impact, and results of projects and programmes to shape and influence the actions of others.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has representative offices in Denmark, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition, we have country offices in Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Programmes and projects are carried out in a variety of other countries, particularly in Africa and Asia.
BACKGROUND
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is issuing this Request for Proposal (RFP) and will be the administrative lead organisation for this RFP.
The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a Service Provider to design and conduct an evaluation of the Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples (SNiPS) project in Kaduna, Oyo, and Benue states in Nigeria. It will be decided at a later stage whether all three or just two of the states will be covered.
SCOPE OF WORK AND DELIVRABLES
OBJECTIVES
As the project reaches its final year of implementation, GAIN is commissioning an independent evaluation to demonstrate the extent to which it has achieved its impact objectives.
The main objective is to design and conduct an evaluation to estimate the impact of the SNiPS project around consumption, dietary diversity and quality, and demand for biofortified crops, among others.
The scope of the evaluation will focus on Kaduna, Oyo and Benue states where there are overlapping components of the SNiPS project being implemented.
The optimal evaluation design and methodology to address these objectives will be proposed by the evaluation partner. Estimates of project impact by component and on overall impact outcomes need to be estimated at the State level. There are no baseline data, therefore, considerations on design may include a post-test with comparison group (i.e., project LGAs and non-project LGAs), among other possibilities. The proposed approach should be a robust evaluation design to reliably assess any potential causality of the project activities to any impact seen.
The target population will be discussed and agreed upon by GAIN and the evaluation partner but potentially, value chain farmers, household members and businesses in the selected states, LGAs and value chains.
The specific indicators from the results framework that need to be reported are:
- Change in dietary diversity and other diet quality scores [DQQ indicator], and among targeted populations.
- Differences in purchase and/or consumption of biofortified foods [VAM, VAC and OFSP], among targeted population
- Percent (and estimated number) of people who consume biofortified food [VAM, VAC and OFSP] and/or specific targeted foods [vary by state]
- Awareness of and demand for biofortified foods among consumers.
DEADLINE
Completed proposals should be submitted by 27 October 2024, 11.59pm WAT
