RFP 2003-04: Hire an agency to train GAKI Team for USI Monitoring & Enforcement at village level in Indonesia - East Java

Nutrition International (formerly the Micronutrient Initiative) is a global organization dedicated to delivering proven nutrition interventions to those who need them most. Since 2011, Nutrition International (NI) has been supporting the salt iodization program in Indonesia. This includes development of salt iodization business models, establishment of quality assurance (QA)/ quality control (QC), monitoring and capacity building of salt processors in the provinces of Central Java, East Java and West Nusa Tenggarra (WNT). Indonesia is a large country consisting of a large number of islands and a long coastal belt where raw salt is produced. It is difficult to ensure that all local salt is iodized following the national iodization standard and only production level efforts will not lead to USI in the country. Although, most of the salt processors registered with SNI in these provinces reportedly produce adequately iodized salt, there is a reasonable quantity of inadequately iodized salt still being sold in the markets which is primarily consumed by the poor and vulnerable population. The foremost reason of this is lack of quality monitoring of iodized salt and insufficient awareness among community as a result of which some market players take advantage. Hence, there is a need to involve community groups in monitoring salt that they are consuming. In absence of market/ consumer level iodization data, it becomes difficult for province and district level GAKI teams to ensure effective enforcement so that distributors, wholesalers and retailers sell adequately iodized salt. To ensure that the community is able to differentiate between adequately and inadequately iodized salt, NI would like to undertake a demonstration initiative for the same, which will be done in selected districts. This demonstration will strengthen community monitoring.

It’s important to note here that every village receives funds directly from the central government for village development. The head of village can use these fund to develop and strengthen the monitoring mechanisms for iodine content in edible salt. At village level NI is revitalizing the ‘village level GAKI team’ that consists of 5 persons i.e. head of the village, three health cadres (PKK members) and one village police which at times monitors the iodization of salt but not regularly. Therefore, efforts could to be made to engage village level GAKI team to carry out the monitoring activities i.e. collecting and analyzing salt samples from village kiosks and retailers by using mini laboratories and report to the enforcement authorities in case salt samples are found to be substandard. Considering that women are an integral part of village health cadres (PKK) most of the GAKI team members are women who work under the overall supervision and coordination of the village head. They primarily work as volunteers and are also part of POSYANDU (village level health centers/services), it would be relatively easy to engage and train them on how to monitor adequately iodized salt at village level. 

With this objective in mind, NI would like to work in 100 villages to strengthen the local community led monitoring by engaging the ‘Village level GAKI team’ to regularly monitor quality of iodized salt being distributed and sold at village level. Strengthening the local community led monitoring mechanisms, would require (i) capacity building of the GAKI team and (ii) mobilize active participation of local government at grass-roots level such as sub-district, village officials, and village level GAKI team. This activity will be carried out in 100 target villages in Central Java. Therefore, NI is interested to hire services of a local agency to undertake activities listed under point III(Scope of Work).

The main objective of this intervention is to support the local government to improve monitoring and enforcement of USI regulations through establishing women led community monitoring system in 40 villages  in Lumajang and Banyuwangi District East Java.

 

Kindly find detailed RFP along with TOR and Budget Template in the link as follows: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R2_rK5PN8nAexIVO-xgq6GipNBXIt7p0?usp=sharing 

The submission deadline for proposals is Monday, November 7, 2022 by 12:00 HRS. West Indonesia Time.

The Technical and Financial Proposal in two separate files put into a covering email specifically indicating the subject line “Hire an agency to train GAKI Team for USI Monitoring and Enforcement at village level in Indonesia (ToR 2: East Java)” and should be sent by email to:

proposalsindonesia@nutritionintl.org