RFQ 1617-XX For Revision and Update of the Integrated Technical Guidance on Nutrition Deficiency Elimination

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Investing in nutrition in Indonesia is essential for the country’s development. Improved nutrition will significantly reduce child mortality, improve children’s school performance, and result in greater economic productivity for the nation. Indonesia is still facing malnutrition issues i.e. underweight, stunting, wasting and obesity. Stunted growth refers to low height for age, when a child is short for his/her age. It is an indicator of chronic malnutrition and carries long-term developmental risks. Children suffering from stunting may never grow to their full height and their brains may never develop to their full cognitive potential. Stunting not only curbs the potential of individuals but also of the nation’s human capital. Childhood stunting imposes life-long penalties on adults, who are likely to have a lower income if they have experienced nutritional deficiency as a child. The income of today’s workforce reflects stunting rates going back 50 years. In order to reduce the number of stunted children, focused investment is needed to improve nutrition during the critical 1,000 day window of opportunity from woman’s pregnancy through a child’s 2nd birthday. 

Deficiencies of essential micronutrients (vitamins and minerals such as vitamin A, iron, folate, zinc and iodine) have significant adverse effects on child survival, growth and development, as well as on women’s health and well-being.. Stunting echoes undernutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life.

The new 2017-2021 National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) aims to reduce high stunting rates across Indonesia. In doing so, both nutrition specific and sensitive interventions need to be taken. Adequate, healthy and diverse diet (including breastfeeding), micronutrient supplementation and appropriate young child feeding practices are nutrition-specific actions aiming to improve the quality of nutrition for mothers and children.

Unfortunately, however there is no integrated and comprehensive national nutrition guidelines. The current guidelines are limited to each program intervention e.g. VAS supplementation, IFA supplementation, Zinc supplementation and IDD program. Furthermore some of the provisions in the those individual guideline, protocols and BCI materials have become outdated and are not consistent with each other and are not reflective of recent changes and strategic directions within the Indonesia nutrition and health sector context. Therefore there is need to have the current guidelines revised, updated and, most importantly, integrated.

To this effect, NI Indonesia is supporting the Nutrition Directorate of Ministry of Health authorities in the revision, updating and integrating of the current guidelines into an integrated nutrition guideline, that would enable nutrition service provision at all levels of the health/nutrition system in the country (Puskemas, Districts and Provinces health offices) to respond effectively and efficiently to management of malnutrition in Indonesia. Therefore Nutrition International seeks services of an Event Management Agency to support NI and Ministry of Health for organizing serial meetings and workshops required in revision and update of the integrated technical guidance on nutrition deficiency elimination.

NI invites firms/institutions to submit proposal with link as below:

https://www.scribd.com/document/406313613/RFQ-1617-XX-Revision-Integrated-Nutrition-Guideline-Final

Deadline for submission: 25 April 2019, 17:00 West Indonesia Standard Time.

Please submit the documents to proposalsindonesia@nutritionintl.org using subject line:

““RFQ No: 1617-XX Revision and Update of the Integrated Technical Guidance on Nutrition Deficiency Elimination”” in the subject line.

Thank you for your kind attention and cooperation.