Deadline: 20-Apr-22
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking proposals for Transforming Food Systems to Improve Diet Quality and Resilience for the most Vulnerable.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, they aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people.
Scope of Work
The successful applicant shall provide the following services:
- Review the theories of change underlying the 4 (and potentially 2 additional) country programs, and based on these develop detailed impact pathways that can be used to guide the evaluations
- Support GAIN to ascertain evaluability of the programs in Kenya, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria by the end of 2022 (and potentially up to 2 additional countries by mid-2023)
- Based on the impact pathway and evaluability assessment, develop an initial overview of potential evaluation approaches for each of the country programs, including a detailed overview of how they will work with GAIN, and engage with local academic/ research institutions as full evaluation partners (i.e., local co-PI), including specific details of roles and responsibilities for all stages of evaluations from design through reporting and publications
- Identify a local evaluation partner in each country context and support (together with GAIN) that partner to obtain all relevant ethical approvals, access and data collection permissions as appropriate, e.g., government approvals.
- Support the local partner in the development of study protocols (including literature review, detailed methodology and justification, sampling plan (where applicable), data analysis plan, and data collection tools) for review and approval by GAIN
- Support or oversee (as agreed with GAIN) all aspects of primary data collection, quality assurance, and data entry, cleaning, management and analyses conducted by local implementing partners.
- For primary data collected, ensure that GAIN receive raw and clean datasets, accompanying codebooks, and syntax and output of all data analyses. If quantitative data are collected, data documentation must be provided using Nesstar.
- Work with local evaluation partners (aligned with pre-defined roles and responsibilities), draft full reports, including literature review, methods, data collection activities, results and conclusions/recommendations.
- Identify opportunities for and lead in collaboration with GAIN peer-reviewed papers about evaluation frameworks, approaches, methods, and similar.
Objectives
GAIN’s work to improve the consumption of safe and nutritious food is based on three interlinked strategic objectives:
- to improve the demand for safe, nutritious foods,
- to increase the availability of nutritious foods and enhance the nutritional value of foods, and
- to strengthen the enabling environment to improve the consumption of safe, nutritious foods
Categories
GAIN seeks to transform food systems leading to lasting changes that favour improved diet quality and ultimately, nutrition outcomes. With support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (MoFA), GAIN is embarking on a new round of programming (5-year grant) being undertaken in up to 6 countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Benin, Uganda). The approach will build on the previous work of GAIN and others and varies in each country context. In general, activities can be classified into 4 categories:
- Strengthening nutritious food value chains from production to consumption.
- Prioritise, empower, protect those in situations of vulnerability.
- Generate and use evidence for programme improvement, to inform policymaking, and to influence the approaches and priorities of others.
- Collaborate, share, disseminate, learn, and strengthen impact potential
Evaluation Criteria
- Technical quality of proposal 40%
- Clear articulation of the respondents understanding of the scope of word and objectives
- Proposed collaborative approach for meeting the 3 stated objectives
- Example of detailed approach in 1 chosen country (Kenya, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria), drawing on the nature of activities.
- Team profiles and experience 50%
- Demonstrated expertise and prior experience in the evaluation of relevant programs
- Composition of evaluation partner team
- Demonstrated ability to identify and collaborate as full intellectual partners for research institutions in each of the focus countries
- Experience working in at least one of Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ethiopia, with preference for experience in multiple African countries
- Budget 20%
- Total budget
- Value for money
For more information, visit https://www.gainhealth.org/requests-for-proposals
