Anaemia
among adolescent girls is one of key public health problems in
Indonesia. According to the Riskesdas 2013, the prevalence of anemia
among adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (15 to 24 years) in
Indonesia was 18.4%. Meanwhile, some studies indicate higher data
(anemia is estimated to be 40%-50% in adolescent girls) in some area 1.
Anemia is first cause of Disability Adjusted Life-Year among the
adolescent girls, hindering them to actively participate in school,
hence reaching their full potential. Compared to adolescent boys,
adolescent girls are more prone to anaemia due to iron loss during
menstruation cycle and inadequate iron-rich diet intake. Accordingly, to
prevent anaemia in adolescent girls, Nutrition International (NI) has
been supporting Ministry of Health (MOH) since 2017 to implement Weekly
Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFAS) programs in Indonesia.
Due
to the pandemic regular monitoring and reporting processes of the WIFAS
program were also adversely affected. Consequently, multiple virtual
applications applications (including CERIA, SIGIZI, SIMPATI, Google form
and WhatsApp) were developed and utilized to collect and reporting the
coverage and consumption data. CERIA and SIGIZI were developed by
Ministry of Health to for nutrition services' reporting including WIFA
program, however, these systems are not yet streamlined. Complexities
and non-alignment of these various strategies and application that have
been utilized for WIFA supplementation program will negatively affect
the program performance report, such as under reporting of coverage
data, errors in gathered data, incomplete data, etc.
School
have started to gradually re-open since July 2021 with hybrid
modalities, extra precautions to minimize C-19 infections, and limit
students' attendance. As mentioned above, WIFA supplementation is
ongoing through various platforms, including Puskesmas and community
level. Hence, there is a need to align and streamline monitoring and
reporting processes across all these platforms and ensure commitment,
support, and collaboration among four key stakeholders (MOH, MOEd, MOHA
and MORA) and UKS/M to plan, implement, monitor, supervise and report on
the WIFAS program.
With
the above context, NI will facilitate a dialogue session at national
level to discuss with multi-stakeholders the ongoing issues, propose
changes and request corresponding updates in national guidelines,
policies, resources on WIFAS program within COVID/post-COVID context.
Kindly find detailed RFQ in the link as follows:
Deadline for submission: Tuesday, January 04, 2022
The proposal shall be put into a covering email specifically indicating with subject line:
" To Conduct Dialogue Session to Advocate Multi-Stakeholders at National Level" and should be sent by email to:
proposalsindonesia@
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