Deadline: 21-Apr-25
The UNICEF is requesting proposals for its programme titled “Increase Capacities of Children and their Families, Adolescents and Women to access and demand Improved Feeding Practices and Services to Prevent and Treat Undernutrition, Micronutrient deficiencies, Overweight and Low birth weight in Newborns focusing on the most vulnerable and hard to reach areas including those with disabilities.”
The nutrition component of this programme aims at ensuring that “By 2030, women and children from early childhood to adolescence benefit from improving diets, services and practices to optimize their nutrition”. To achieve this outcome, the nutrition component planned to deliver the following output by 2030:
- Output 1: By 2030, children in their early childhood and their families have increased capacities to access and demand improved diets, practices, and services to prevent undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight.
- Output 2: By 2030, school-aged children and adolescents have increased capacities to demand and access to improved diets, practices, and inclusive services to prevent undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight.
- Output 3: By 2030, women have increased capacities to access and demand for improved diets, practices, and services to prevent undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and low birth weight in newborns.
- Output 4: By 2030, national and local capacities are increased to ensure the integrated and inclusive early detection and treatment of wasting and other forms of life-threatening acute malnutrition in early childhood, including in humanitarian settings.
- These outputs will be delivered through interventions implemented both by Government entities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). CSOs will contribute to this program by implementing specific projects in the following areas:
- Improve access to and utilization of quality nutrition services for young children and their families.
- Increase school-aged children’s and adolescents’ access to and demand for quality nutrition services.
- Empowering Women for Optimal Nutrition: Access, Demand, and Service Utilization
- Strengthen national and local capacity for the integrated and inclusive management of acute malnutrition in early childhood, including humanitarian settings
- Strengthening Evidence for Wasting Prevention and Treatment: Data-Driven Policy and Program Development
Focus Areas
- Infant and young child feeding
- Malnutrition prevention and treatment
- Micronutrients
- Nutrition – general
- Nutrition in emergencies
Expected Outcomes
- Improved access to and utilization of quality nutrition services for young children and their families in all regions: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to ensure the provision of essential nutrition services for women during pregnancy including micronutrient supplementation, deworming, weight gain monitoring, physical activity, and rest for pregnant women, and strengthen the quality of nutrition counselling during antenatal care.
- Increased school-aged children’s and adolescents’ access to and demand for quality nutrition services in all regions: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to enhance access to quality nutrition services through the provision of nutritious foods in schools and beyond, integration of nutrition education into the school curriculum, promoting healthy eating habits among school-aged children and adolescents, and supporting the nutritional needs of adolescent mothers and vulnerable women in all regions of Ethiopia and Addis Ababa focusing on the most disadvantaged areas and groups.
- Empowering Women for Optimal Nutrition: Access, Demand, and Service Utilization in all regions: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to empower mothers for access and utilization of quality services through fostering early childhood breastfeeding, empowering women for access to healthy diversified nutritious foods and nutrition of adolescent mothers and other nutritionally at-risk women.
- Strengthen national and local capacity for the integrated and inclusive management of acute malnutrition in early childhood, including humanitarian settings in all regions: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to build the capacity of local actors to enable integrated and inclusive early detection and treatment services for children with wasting including MAM cases at high-risk of mortality and integration of nutrition supplies into national health systems.
- Strengthening Evidence for Wasting Prevention and Treatment: Data-Driven Policy and Program Development: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to generate and strengthen evidence for wasting prevention and treatment through data-driven Program development and data-informed policies and programmes for prevention and treatment of children with wasting.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a community-based organization or a national or international NGO with a legal personality recognized in accordance with Government of Ethiopia’s national legislation.
- Be registered on the UNPP as a non-profit civil society organization.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.