Request for Proposals
Consultancy Strengthening Nutrition in Pre-service Education of Nurses and Midwives in Ghana
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA)
RFP Date of Issuance:
Due date for Application:
Availability:
Place of Performance:
April 24, 2013
May 10, 2013 by 5:00pm GMT
June 1 - 30, 2013 (up to 20 days)
Combination of remote work and potential travel to Ghana*
Interested parties should send the following completed documents via email to Alice Nkoroi at
ankoroi@fhi360.org
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1.0.
Curriculum Vitae
FHI 360 Biodata Form
Proposed daily rate
Background
The 2008 Lancet series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition classified Ghana among the 36 countries
with the highest burden of childhood chronic undernutrition globally. Undernutrition is a major public
health and developmental challenge in Ghana and is characterized by high rates of stunting,
underweight, wasting and micronutrient deficiencies throughout the country with some regional
variations. The northern regions (Upper East, Upper West, and Northern) and Central Region have the
highest rates of stunting and wasting, which are closely linked with diseases and food insecurity.
Concurrent with undernutrition, overnutrition, including overweight and obesity, has resulted in
increasing rates of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases
and gout, which are emerging health concerns.
To address the high rates of malnutrition (undernutrition and overnutrition), the Ministry of
Health/Ghana Health Service (MOH/GHS) and other Government of Ghana (GoG) sectors have
implemented a number of interventions to prevent and control underweight, stunting, wasting,
micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity. On-going nutrition-specific interventions include:
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Micronutrient supplementation and food fortification
Supplementary feeding in food insecure areas
Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition
Growth monitoring and promotion
Appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding practices
Maternal health and nutrition
*Pending donor approval, travel may be required for the completion of the scope of work
Additionally, nutrition-sensitive interventions such as actions to increase food security, provide
adequate health care, control and treat disease, improve hygiene and sanitation, increase education and
reduce poverty are supported by relevant sectors and address underlying causes of undernutrition.
Implementation strategies, guidelines, and protocols have been developed for the aforementioned
interventions and service providers have provided in-service trainings. However, these strategies,
guidelines, and protocols have not always been widely disseminated to pre-service training institutions.
The MOH/GHS is currently in the process of finalizing a National Nutrition Policy that will provide a
comprehensive nutrition programming framework including relevant multi-sector linkages. One of the
main strategic issues addressed in the National Nutrition Policy is the need to build institutional and
human capacity as part of strengthening the quality of nutrition service delivery at national and subnational levels.
Nurses and midwives play a vital role as frontline health care providers and are often responsible for
delivering nutrition services at the facility and community level. It is essential that all nurses and
midwives have adequate knowledge, skills, and attitudes to deliver quality nutrition services and are
abreast of the most recent policies, strategies, guidelines, and protocols on nutrition in Ghana.
A competency-based training approach will be used to strengthen the current nursing and midwifery
pre-service training on nutrition. Eight steps will be implemented during the process, which include:
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Hold a Stakeholders Consultation to define competencies, standards and means of
verification
Design and conduct an assessment of nutrition competencies
Analyze results and prioritize gaps to focus on in technical updates and training of tutors
Use existing training and reference materials to refine technical updates
Conduct technical updates for tutors in the various nursing and midwifery schools
Provide mentoring and supportive supervision to the schools
Conduct a post assessment
Formulate and submit recommendations to the Nurses and Midwives Council for inclusion
in the revised curriculum
This consultancy will focus on developing a technical update package for tutors teaching nutrition in
nursing and midwifery training schools, the update package will use existing Ghana specific and global
technical reference materials and will be guided by findings of assessment of nutrition competencies in
nursing and midwifery training schools.
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Objective
To develop a technical update package for tutors in nursing and midwifery training schools in Ghana
based on existing Ghana specific and global technical and training reference materials.
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Specific Activities and Methodology
3.1.
Review of Background Information Including Collating of Relevant Technical Reference
Materials
The consultant will review all relevant background information on strengthening nutrition and other
health related topics in pre-service education in nursing and midwifery training schools in Ghana. Some
of background information will include and not be limited to:
 Ghana pre-service stakeholder consultation workshop report on strengthening nutrition in preservice education of nurses and midwives
 Assessment of nutrition competencies of nursing and midwifery tutors in selected schools in
Ghana
 Ghana Nursing and Midwifery training curriculum
 GHS/MOH nutrition technical reference materials catalogue
The consultant will also gather all soft and hard copies of relevant and available nutrition training
materials, guidelines, protocols, policies, strategy documents including all other technical reference
materials and tools.
At the end of the background review, the consultant will be expected to propose an outline for the
nutrition technical update for nurses and midwives in Ghana.
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Design a nutrition Technical Update Package
Using the existing technical reference materials and tools, the consultant will design a nutrition technical
update package for tutors teaching nutrition in nursing and midwifery. A competency-based approach
will be used to design the technical updates. The nutrition technical updates are expected to
complement existing nursing and midwifery training curriculum. Information drawn from the
assessment of nutrition competencies of tutors in nursing and midwifery training schools will be used to
identify knowledge and skills gap areas of focus for the update.
The technical update package will be designed in the format of brief teaching aids which will include and
will not be limited to the following:
1) Competency areas for update including objectives, topics be covered under the competency
area
2) Required reference materials, equipment and tools under each identified topics
3) Duration
The consultant will also be required to provide a training schedule that will be used to provide the
technical updates to the tutors.
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Deliverables and Timeline
The consultant shall submit the following deliverables to the FANTA Technical Manager according to the
following schedule:
Activity
1) Review of Background
Information including
collating of relevant
technical reference
materials
Deliverable
- Outline of Proposed
Technical Update
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2) Designing technical
update package
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Technical update package
Updated catalogue of
technical reference
materials and tools
Technical update training
schedule
Timeline
Estimated LOE
June 1- 6, 2013
Due Date: June 15,
2013
5 days
June 13 – 30, 2013
Due Date: June 30,
2013
15 days
TOTAL
20 days
Skills and Qualifications
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A Master’s Degree in Nutrition or related field
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Preferred 10 years working in pre-service training curriculum development.
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Experience teaching nutrition in nursing, midwifery or medical school is preferred
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Experience with developing competency based training curriculums is also preferred
Evaluation matrix:
Criteria
Education
Pre-service curriculum development
experience
Nutrition, midwifery, or medical
school experience
Competency based training
curriculum experience
Point value
No masters – 0; Masters – 1; Above Masters – 2
0 years – 0 points; 1-5 years – 1 points; 6-10 years – 2 points;
10+years - 3 points
One additional point for each area of experience
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Compensation:
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Compensation will be at a daily rate (LOE)
All applicable travel expenses (pending Donor approval) as well as lodging and per diem,
will be covered by the project.
Payment Schedule:
Payment will be made on receipt and acceptance of deliverables.
Disclaimers:
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