Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 06 Feb 2019
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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The nutrition sector through various joint field monitoring visits with various stakeholders such as NGO partners, UN agencies and donors have realized quality gaps in the delivery of the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) services in the current Rohingya nutrition response.
This is partly attributable to the limited experience in CMAM program implementation, lack of sustained quality support supervision related to high staff turnover as partners with pre-existing program capacity have lost their staffs to UN agencies and NGOs as well as overriding challenges in the referral system that impede continuity of care for infants and children with acute malnutrition.
The above constraints coupled with the current serious level of acute malnutrition level that are close to emergency thresholds plus the seasonal challenges of the monsoon season which is associated with increased risk of cyclones, landslides as well as flooding resulting in potential increase in water communicable diseases leading to further elevated levels of acute malnutrition.
Therefore, in view of the above, there is need to establish mechanisms and systems that can ensure continuous capacity building for individual agencies and the overall nutrition sector through attachment of a dedicated CMAM technical specialist that will ensure identified CMAM implementation challenges and gaps faced by all nutrition partners are addressed and response strategies implemented in an effective and coordinated manner with government counterparts and key stakeholders.
Therefore, the Nutrition Sector CMAM Technical specialist will collaboratively work with the inter sector coordination group and key stakeholders (Government authorities, communities, NGOs, UN agencies etc.) as well with Nutrition Sector coordinator team to ensure coherent and effective CMAM nutrition interventions that address nutrition needs of the forcefully displaced Rohingya nationals are implemented through agreed quality standards.
This will require coordination with the sector lead agency to strengthen systems within the nutrition sector and ensure high quality implementation of comprehensive CMAM programs.
The CMAM technical specialist will focus on the following specific tasks.
Provide strategic leadership and technical support to nutrition sector partners through ensuring the CMAM working group meets regularly, focuses on real needs and follows up on agreed action points in a well-planned and coordinated manner.
Support the roll out and operationalization of the CMAM harmonized tools for the collective response.
Participate in Joint field monitoring visits with sector partners and key stakeholders to monitor CMAM program implementation status, service coverage and provide recommendations to address any observed implementation gaps in program service delivery and coverage.
Lead the operationalization of bi-annual comprehensive nutrition service quality and capacities monitoring assessments to evaluate quality of nutrition service delivery based on agreed SOPs.
Support nutrition surveillance activities by closely working with partners to ensure Nutrition surveys, Coverage studies are appropriately conducted in coordination with the sector assessment technical working group and government counterparts. In addition upon completion of the assessments ensure appropriate and wide dissemination to concerned actors including IPHN.
Support the identification of urgent CMAM advocacy concerns and sharing them with sector coordinator, sector lead agency for subsequent engagement with government counterparts and concerned stakeholders.
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