RFP: Behavior change intervention on maternal, infant and young child feeding behaviors in East Java, Indonesia

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. GAIN is a Swiss based international organization that mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition.  The organization is delivering improved nutrition to an estimated 700 million people in more than 30 countries, half of whom are women and children. 

Through its Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) program, and in line with GAIN’s corporate MIYCN strategy and scientific evidence, GAIN is implementing an integrated market-based delivery and public sector delivery approach to improve maternal and infant nutrition practices, and maternal and infant nutritional status with the objective to reduce stunting. 

Request for Proposals

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Behavior change intervention on maternal, infant and young child feeding behaviors in East Java, Indonesia

I.              SUMMARY OF DEADLINES

RFP Issuance:	2 December 201
Questions for Clarifications Due:	10 December 2014
Clarifications Issued from GAIN:	16 December 2014
Submission deadline of full proposal:	4 January 2015
Evaluation of Proposals:	5 – 19 January 2014
Announcement of  Award:	23 January 2015
Contracting Process completed	23 February 2015

GAIN has, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), developed an innovative approach to behaviour change communication for IYCN for project Baduta based on extensive formative research and collaboration with a local creative agency. This approach was piloted in Sidoarjo in May-Aug 2014 and is currently being evaluated. Additional formative research for maternal nutrition was undertaken by LSHTM in September 2014 and will be utilized to develop behavior change interventions and messages for maternal nutrition by December 2015.  On the basis of this work an overall behavior change campaign is being developed for implementation from early 2015 until late 2016. The behavior change campaign will consist of 3 different types of interventions: Mass media interventions including TV Commercials (TVCs) (with the support of a local creative agency); interpersonal communication through existing health services (with the support of Save the Children); and community level activation and mobilization. GAIN is looking for a partner to implement the behavior change campaign at community level (activation and mobilization).

Objective

To implement the community activation and mobilization activities under the overall behavior change campaign to improve key nutrition related behaviours for women and children under the age of two, with the aim of creating a two-way communication, branded social movement at community level that reinforces key messages and behaviours from the campaign including the TVCs in East Java, Indonesia.

Location

In all 113 villages in the sub-districts of Dampit, Turen and Tumpang in Malang District, and in Tulangan, Wonoayu and Sidoarjo in Sidoarjo district, East Java region.

For a complete copy of the RFP, please e-mail GAINIndonesia@gainhealth.org with the subject line, "BCC Intervention on MIYCN in East Java, Indonesia".