Requests for Proposals

GAIN is seeking a qualified consultant or organization to provide IT training for government partners and other stakeholders on the Country Food Systems Dashboards. These Country Dashboards were developed in partnership between GAIN, country governments, and other stakeholders from UN agencies, academia, and civil society. They have launched in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Pakistan and are in development in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, and Rwanda. The goal is to fully handover the Country Dashboards to each country government to maintain and update. To support this process, we plan to hold three regional training workshops that will contain a large IT component to provide country governments with the information and support for these handovers.

GAIN is seeking a qualified consultant or organization to provide IT training for government partners and other stakeholders on the Country Food Systems Dashboards. These Country Dashboards were developed in partnership between GAIN, country governments, and other stakeholders from UN agencies, academia, and civil society. They have launched in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Pakistan and are in development in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, and Rwanda. The goal is to fully handover the Country Dashboards to each country government to maintain and update. To support this process, we plan to hold three regional training workshops that will contain a large IT component to provide country governments with the information and support for these handovers.

The selected consultant shall provide the following services:
1.    Preparation for IT training sessions focused on the handover, maintenance, and data update processes for Country Dashboards at three regional workshops in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This preparation includes working with our Food Systems Dashboard team to design the workshop sessions and materials. These materials include pre-workshop materials to be shared in advance of the workshops, the agenda, and slides for presentations.
 

GAIN seeks an independent research partner to conduct a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of the CMRFS programme, generating rigorous evidence on the programme outcomes and impact.
Specific objectives are to:

• Design a robust quasi-experimental evaluation methodology, including sampling approach (with sample size calculations and control group selection), data collection and analysis, and written and verbal presentation of results.
• Conduct baseline, midline, and endline surveys in intervention and control sectors to measure programme effects.
• Report on immediate and intermediate outcomes (e.g., dietary behaviours, access to nutritious foods) at midline, and on final impacts (e.g., diet quality indicators including Women’s Dietary Diversity and Minimum Acceptable Diet for young children and infants) at endline. In addition, using secondary data from DHS, include changes in anthropometric indicators of undernutrition for children under five years of age in the five districts.
• Provide independent analysis and dissemination of results internally to the programme team and to stakeholders in Rwanda and internationally.

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GAIN is seeking a qualified consultant or organization to provide information and training for government partners and other stakeholders on food systems data including the Diet Quality Questionnaire and Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicators. This training will be included in regional workshops to support country governments GAIN is partnering with on country adaptations of the Food Systems Countdown Initiative and Country Food Systems Dashboards in Africa (Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zambia), Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Pakistan), and Latin America (Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico). This training aims to support governments and other stakeholders on these dietary intake and food affordability indicators included in the Food Systems Countdown Initiative and on the Food Systems Dashboard.