Requests for Proposals

The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen GAIN's digital communications presence and support delivery of key communications priorities across corporate, programme, and advocacy communications channels. The consultant will provide specialist support in digital storytelling, content development, social media management, audience engagement, and communications reporting.

This assignment is intended to supplement existing communications capacity during a defined four-month period. The consultant will operate as an independent contractor and will be responsible for delivering agreed outputs and deliverables within the contract period.
 

Overview

Uganda faces a triple burden of malnutrition, with secondary school learners caught in the middle of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, and rising overnutrition. A 2024 dietary assessment covering 4,008 learners across 60 secondary schools in and around Kampala found that only 25% consumed all five recommended food groups daily, school meals delivered just 29% of iron requirements, and 98% of school canteens sold sugar-sweetened beverages without restriction. No existing programme in Uganda addresses the urban secondary school food environment as an integrated system. The 18-month proof-of-concept pilot is designed to test what works, at what cost, and under what conditions, and to generate evidence that supports national scale-up. The project operates through four integrated components and is designed to feed findings directly into Uganda’s active national school feeding policy development process. The independent evaluation is a core project output and will be the primary basis on which GAIN and partners assess whether this model merits scale-up. We are therefore looking for a thought partner who can engage critically and constructively throughout implementation and who brings intellectual rigour and independence to tell us what the evidence shows.

In Kenya, CASCADE project focuses on Nakuru, Nyandarua and Nairobi counties with cross cutting effect at national levels. Aligning with GAIN’s A1 program (Vegetable for All project) areas at national levels and in the targeted Counties, CASCADE will also build on successful projects in Nyandarua by CARE which have successfully implemented Farmers' Field and Business Schools (FFBSs) that integrated gender-transformative interventions. Apart from sustaining the gains made, CASCADE programme targets to galvanize government commitments towards policy change and accountability and respond to GAIN`s goal towards strengthening food systems in Kenya and supporting stakeholders’ actions at County and national levels.
 

Focus for the consultant:

To analyse and synthesize the effectiveness of nutrition governance and coordination structures established and strengthened under the CASCADE Project and assess how CASCADE interventions and indicators have influenced the implementation, integration, financing, accountability, and sustainability of nutrition-related policies and strategies at national level and in Nakuru, Nyandarua, and Nairobi counties.