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BACKGROUND

GAIN was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. GAIN is a global, Swiss-based foundation that mobilises public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition.

GAIN contributed to fighting malnutrition in Ethiopia through innovative and sustainable models that increase access to affordable nutritious foods among communities vulnerable to malnutrition and is currently implementing a project called Access to Better Dairy Project. This project emanates as part of the Nordic Partnership which brings companies, civil society, academia & the public sector together to focus on developing scalable and inclusive business models to contribute solving the sustainable Development Goals (SDG) challenge to end hunger & malnutrition.

The main objective of this project is to catalyse market development of the dairy value chain in Ethiopia. This is achieved through technical support to (private) dairy sector partners for the development and marketing of fortified dairy product targeting selected communities with the aim of improving nutrition.

For this purpose, GAIN has selected LONI Agro Industry- a local dairy processing company to supply the required dairy products and work on building the capacity of the company through technical support in engaging with the dairy farm, processing, key product development and the demand creation to reach the target consumer. Following this, GAIN and LONI Agro Industry has partnered to develop an affordable fortified yoghurt that is going to be further enhancing to address micronutrient deficiencies. The main aim of the demand creation is to pilot the product to penetrate the market in two sub cites in Addis Ababa through the distribution of the yoghurt via feasible sales channels mainly kiosks that the target group can primary access in the designated markets. In addition, GAIN is also going to support a school feeding program in selected schools in those target areas with 2000 servings per week to tackle the effects of nutrition deficiency in the target children of the community.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this work is to identify the viability of the product performance of the distributed Yoghurt in the sales channels in the target pilot areas by creating a system of reporting to monitor progress. The consultant is expected to establish an operational monitoring system for tracking the sales and distribution activities undertaken by LONI under the supervision of the senior project manager of the project for GAIN. The consultant will be responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the monitoring research, and learning framework of the Project. The consultant will develop a systematic monitoring framework to for the qualitative and quantitative evidence gathering during the project.

REQUIREMENTS

The consultant will also be monitoring the sub project of the school feeding program with monthly update on program activity progress and impact on targeted beneficiaries.

Timeline: Project M&E duration is as follows

Retail channel monitoring for a six-month period
School feeding project monitoring until June 2020 for one school year

Specific objectives of the assignment are to:

To formulate a set of relevant, simple and straightforward indicators to monitor and evaluate the project outputs listed below.

Product sales tracking for the supported outlets were product availability is implemented throughout the period
Monitor product distribution and availability in each of the supported delivery channels as well as stock level
Monitor product price, retail stock frequency and availability of branding materials (POSM)
Monitor target consumer purchase frequency and demand.
Develop an additional monitoring system for the school feeing program with updated progress report to track the acceptability of the product and its outcome on the school attendance and others (to be proposed further).

Study area: The above activities will be conducted in Kirkos and Lideta sub cites covering all areas in each sub city were feasible distribution channels have been selected based on the distribution strategy under selected routes for product delivery. In addition, it will also cover selected schools in those areas for the school feeding program.

Relevant Methods:

Insight gathering from project brief and discussions

Channel monitoring survey tools
Data collection
Data analysis and clean up
Tracking reports on a monthly/quarterly basis

Key responsibilities of the consultant

Develop data collection survey and analysis for channel monitoring

Develop data collection tools for monitoring and get approval from GAIN
Develop the monitoring survey for data collection in selected sales channels in Kirkos and Lideta sub city that harbour the yoghurt in a representative sample of the areas.
Recruit experienced data collectors and other team members of the task
Organize a training for data collectors and collect data based on the M&E tools
Organize and clean up the collected data for analysis
Analyse collected data for real time reporting.

Organize analysed data for a progressive monitoring report.

Produce a report of the data collection results illustrating all key required parameters on product sales performance tracking, price fluctuations, availability, target demand rate and marketing support.
Produce a sub-report on the school feeding program monitoring activity with updates on feeding frequency, target response and product supply on a monthly basis.
Lead the reporting in coordination with GAIN and LONI marketing and sales representatives to have monthly/quarterly meetings to present progress and identify challenges for further support

Deliverable	Timeline
Desk review and briefing
Data collection and reporting survey tools and get approval from GAIN	Within one month of the agreement is signed between GAIN and a consultant
Data collection and monitoring	Regularly
Result, Analysis and recommendations provided and presented to GAIN	Every two months for the product marketing activity and every month for the school feeding program.
Final Monitoring Reporting to GAIN project manager separately for channels monitoring and school feeding monitoring.	Within 6 weeks of end of the six months monitoring period for channels monitoring and end of school feeding distribution for school feeding monitoring

Job Requirements

CONSULTANT QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelors/Master’s Degree in statistics, demographics, developmental studies, marketing & sales or a suitable equivalent is required
Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
Ability to facilitate and serve as project liaison for externally-managed evaluations.
Excellent analytical skills.
Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
Good computer applications skills specially on MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as data analytics tools.
Good organizational skills.
Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.
Ability to build on relevant knowledge within and outside of GAIN as well as actively share her/his experience and expertise with colleagues and partners.
Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines.
Ability to work in diversified environments.
Fluent written and verbal English and a good command of Amharic

How to Apply

Submit updated CV and copy of supporting documents for the experiences related with the post
Submit maximum of 10 pages technical including detail monitoring methodology (including sample size in the case of channel monitoring), report components, detail work plan for a monthly M&E of the project.
Also submit along a financial proposal detailing costing structure based on the proposed M&E framework requirements.
Each page of submitted documents should be stamped or signed by the applicants and technical and financial proposals are sealed separately
All documents should be delivered to GAIN Ethiopia office in hard copy

NB: All consultancy payments are subjected to 2% withholding tax for registered consultancy firms and 30% withholding tax for individual applicants

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION: June 15, 2019

For submission, the Applicants will be required to deliver their submission in person at the GAIN office:

GAIN-Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Telephone: +251 116610088

Bole Sub City, Woreda 13

In front of Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy Moya Foods Building, 2^nd Floor

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition.

Around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished. Each year, malnutrition kills 3.1 million children under the age of five and leaves 159 million stunted, trapping generations in lives of poverty and unfulfilled potential. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is focused on finding solutions to end malnutrition within our lifetimes.

OUR METHODOLOGY /

At GAIN, we believe that no one sector alone can solve the complex problem of malnutrition. We work closely with partners including governments, civil society, businesses, UN agencies, and academic institutions to develop programs that deliver large-scale and locally relevant solutions to malnutrition in more than 30 countries.

In recent years we have expanded our approach to reach those on the margins of society, who are often the most excluded, vulnerable and severely malnourished, such as the Dalit community in India who experience oppression because of their caste; adolescent girls; and families affected by emergencies.

ABOUT GAIN /

Each day, 795 million people — one in nine — go hungry. Close to 2 billion people survive on diets that lack the vital vitamins and nutrients needed to grow properly, live healthy lives, and raise a healthy family. About 1.4 billion people worldwide struggle with overweight and obesity. That’s more than the number of people who are hungry worldwide.

In total, around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization that was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. We act as a catalyst — building alliances between governments, business and civil society — to find and deliver solutions to the complex problem of malnutrition. Today we are on track to reach over a billion people with improved nutrition – a goal for 2015.

We focus our efforts on children, girls and women because we know that helping them have sustainable, nutritious diets is crucial to ending the cycle of malnutrition and poverty. By building alliances that deliver impact at scale, we believe that we can eliminate malnutrition within our lifetimes.

Data sources:

The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF

OUR IMPACT /

GAIN has helped 892 million people to access affordable, nutritious food — about 350 million of whom are women and children. Our work to fortify staple foods and condiments with essential micronutrients reaches more than 30 countries worldwide. Our work includes helping to improve the quality of foods and diets and educating families of the benefits of breastfeeding and good nutrition. Worldwide, our projects are changing lives and contributing to reducing micronutrient deficiencies through large-scale food fortification. For example, we’ve increased the intake of vitamin A in Indonesia by fortifying edible oils and the intake of iron in China by fortifying soy sauce.

By 2017, we aim to increase the intake of essential micronutrients such as vitamins A, D, iron, folic acid and iodine for 1.3 billion people, including 400 million women and adolescent girls, and 200 million children under five.

In countries with the highest rates of malnutrition, multinutrient supplements or ‘home fortification’ help improve nutrition when mixed into food. In Bangladesh, we launched a new micronutrient powder program in collaboration with international development organization BRAC. Since launch, 80,000 community workers have been trained to promote home fortification, and five million sachets were sold in 2014. Monthly sales have more than tripled during the year and the overall market for micronutrient powders grew by 15 percent, with 45 million sachets produced in 2014 alone.

Data source

GAIN 2012–2013 Annual Report

OUR VISION /

GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. We believe that everyone in the world should have access to an affordable, healthy and nutritious diet. We focus on children, girls and women to break the cycle of malnutrition and poverty.

By building alliances that deliver impact at scale, we believe that we can end malnutrition within our lifetimes.

OUR APPROACH /

We believe that everyone in the world should have access to an affordable, healthy and nutritious diet.

A tailored approach to innovation. 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 programs, using a variety of flexible models and approaches.

Scale and ambition. We aim to reach 1 billion people with affordable, nutritious foods by 2015. 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.

What matters most is impact. We focus on early life stages and maternal health when good nutrition has the most impact. We focus our efforts on children, girls and women because we know that providing access to affordable, sustainable, nutritious diets is crucial to ending the cycle of malnutrition and poverty.

OUR VALUES /

Team work

GAIN draws on the different skills of employees to create cohesive teams to deliver our programs in more than 30 countries. We also work closely with public and private partners.

Innovation

Our staff are creative thinkers who develop and test innovative business models to make markets work in a sustainable way for vunerable groups.

Passion

GAIN is made up of dedicated, enthusiastic professionals committed to our mission of making a difference on a large scale.

Professionalism

GAIN ensures professional and scientific rigor, commitment and leadership in our relations with the people and organizations we work with.

ABOUT GAIN /

In total, around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization that was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

Data sources:

The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF

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BACKGROUND

OBJECTIVE

REQUIREMENTS

The consultant will also be monitoring the sub project of the school feeding program with monthly update on program activity progress and impact on targeted beneficiaries.

Timeline: Project M&E duration is as follows

Retail channel monitoring for a six-month period
School feeding project monitoring until June 2020 for one school year

Specific objectives of the assignment are to:

To formulate a set of relevant, simple and straightforward indicators to monitor and evaluate the project outputs listed below.

Product sales tracking for the supported outlets were product availability is implemented throughout the period
Monitor product distribution and availability in each of the supported delivery channels as well as stock level
Monitor product price, retail stock frequency and availability of branding materials (POSM)
Monitor target consumer purchase frequency and demand.
Develop an additional monitoring system for the school feeing program with updated progress report to track the acceptability of the product and its outcome on the school attendance and others (to be proposed further).

Relevant Methods:

Insight gathering from project brief and discussions

Channel monitoring survey tools
Data collection
Data analysis and clean up
Tracking reports on a monthly/quarterly basis

Key responsibilities of the consultant

Develop data collection survey and analysis for channel monitoring

Develop data collection tools for monitoring and get approval from GAIN
Develop the monitoring survey for data collection in selected sales channels in Kirkos and Lideta sub city that harbour the yoghurt in a representative sample of the areas.
Recruit experienced data collectors and other team members of the task
Organize a training for data collectors and collect data based on the M&E tools
Organize and clean up the collected data for analysis
Analyse collected data for real time reporting.

Organize analysed data for a progressive monitoring report.

Produce a report of the data collection results illustrating all key required parameters on product sales performance tracking, price fluctuations, availability, target demand rate and marketing support.
Produce a sub-report on the school feeding program monitoring activity with updates on feeding frequency, target response and product supply on a monthly basis.
Lead the reporting in coordination with GAIN and LONI marketing and sales representatives to have monthly/quarterly meetings to present progress and identify challenges for further support

Deliverable	Timeline
Desk review and briefing
Data collection and reporting survey tools and get approval from GAIN	Within one month of the agreement is signed between GAIN and a consultant
Data collection and monitoring	Regularly
Result, Analysis and recommendations provided and presented to GAIN	Every two months for the product marketing activity and every month for the school feeding program.
Final Monitoring Reporting to GAIN project manager separately for channels monitoring and school feeding monitoring.	Within 6 weeks of end of the six months monitoring period for channels monitoring and end of school feeding distribution for school feeding monitoring

Job Requirements

CONSULTANT QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelors/Master’s Degree in statistics, demographics, developmental studies, marketing & sales or a suitable equivalent is required
Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
Ability to facilitate and serve as project liaison for externally-managed evaluations.
Excellent analytical skills.
Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
Good computer applications skills specially on MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as data analytics tools.
Good organizational skills.
Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.
Ability to build on relevant knowledge within and outside of GAIN as well as actively share her/his experience and expertise with colleagues and partners.
Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines.
Ability to work in diversified environments.
Fluent written and verbal English and a good command of Amharic

How to Apply

Submit updated CV and copy of supporting documents for the experiences related with the post
Submit maximum of 10 pages technical including detail monitoring methodology (including sample size in the case of channel monitoring), report components, detail work plan for a monthly M&E of the project.
Also submit along a financial proposal detailing costing structure based on the proposed M&E framework requirements.
Each page of submitted documents should be stamped or signed by the applicants and technical and financial proposals are sealed separately
All documents should be delivered to GAIN Ethiopia office in hard copy

NB: All consultancy payments are subjected to 2% withholding tax for registered consultancy firms and 30% withholding tax for individual applicants

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION: June 15, 2019

For submission, the Applicants will be required to deliver their submission in person at the GAIN office:

GAIN-Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Telephone: +251 116610088

Bole Sub City, Woreda 13

In front of Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy Moya Foods Building, 2^nd Floor

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2019-07-26

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