Saturday, October 22, 2022

RFP 2037-08: To Conduct a National Level Expert Group Meeting & Advocacy Meeting to Generate on Status of VAD in Indonesia

Nutrition International (NI) has been supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) in strengthening their Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) program in Indonesia since 2006. From 2009 to 2016, NI has supported the implementation of VAS program in six identified high  mortality provinces in Indonesia. Then, since 2016 towards, NI has scaled up the support   to MoH national level with focus to sustaining the high coverage of VAS for U5 children.

 

Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) continues to be a major public health problem among children aged 6-59 months of age in many countries around the world.   In populations where VAD is a public health problem, WHO recommends twice-yearly high dose vitamin A supplementation (VAS) for children 6-59 months of age as a means to reduce morbidity and mortality.  In accordance with WHO guidelines, the Government of Indonesia has been implementing a VAS program for over 20 years, however the last micronutrient survey that measured VA status among preschool children was in 1992. In order to know whether or not the national VAS program should continue as is, or if there is need for any targeted improvements, updated VAD data among preschool age children is urgently needed. 

 

Therefore, NI is seeking to hire an agency to provide support to MoH to conduct national level expert meeting to collect feedback and recommendations from experts to generate evidence on VAD and conduct an advocacy meeting for resource mobilization to identify funding for MOH to conduct a national serum retinol survey in Indonesia. 

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

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13vWOCJQXjaKdwmxzz9h4s81oDSnp0V8k?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 “RFP 2037-08 To conduct a national level expert group meeting & advocacy meeting to generate on status of VAD in Indonesia and should be sent by email to:

proposalsindonesia@nutritionintl.org

 

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