OFDA Smart Survey Consultancy Work in Diinsoor District

Tenders are invited for OFDA Smart Survey Consultancy Work in Diinsoor District Somalia TERMS OF REFERENCE OFDA SMART SURVEY CONSULTANCY WORK IN DIINSOOR DISTRICT SOMALIAJob DescriptionTERMS OF REFERENCE OFDA SMART SURVEY consultancy work in Dinsoor district Somalia type of servicesmart surveylocationDinsoor Districts send documents tocss logistics savethechildren orgdeadline25th september 020o BACKGROUNDSave the Children has worked in Somalia since 1951 when we set up a vocational school for orphaned boys in Somaliland From the early 1970s we have provided emergency assistance when the needs demand Each year about 650 000 people benefit from our longer term development work in Health Nutrition Water Sanitation Hygiene WASH Education Food Security and Livelihoods FSL Child Protection and Child Rights Governance We believe that the provision of basic social services in education health nutrition and protection and the strengthening of government capacity to deliver these along with a concerted effort to work with communities and children to promote their rights are all central to what we call resilience Save the children will be using external consultant who will lead the overall SMART survey assessments in addition Save the children SMART Survey managers will work with conduct SMART survey Adado and Abudwaq districts to assess the prevalence of GAM rate and other indicators contributing to nutrition situation of the two districts with the aim of generating quality information for humanitarian actors Currently save the children is implementing OFDA funded multi sectoral humanitarian programme in Dinsoor direction through GREDO The SMART survey will be conducted with the aim of filling nutrition information gaps at district level With the current climate crisis in Somalia humanitarian situation needs constant updates and specifically to ascertain key indicators that can aid in ensuring appropriate response o METHODOLOGYThe survey was developed using the SMART methodology ENA software 2020 January 2020 is used to run all possible analysis expected within a standard SMART survey that includes analysis for standardization test calculation of samples selection of clusters and final calculation of wasting both for WHZ score and MUAC Sampling 2 stage Probability proportionate to size sampling will be employed in the survey The first stage will be selection of cluster and the second will be selection of HH Sample size The sample size will be calculated using ENA January 2020 at district level Parameters to be used for the survey will be sourced fromLocation The survey will be conducted at district level and depending on access all possible settlements will be included in the sampling frame Analysis Analysis of the anthropometric findings will be analyzed and categorized based on WHO standards 2006 o OBJECTIVESEstimate Nutrition status of children 5 retrospective Mortality rate CMR and U5MR and factors influencing nutrition status of children in Adado and Abudwaq district 3 1 Primary objectivesEstimate the prevalence of acute malnutrition in children aged 6 59To determine the coverage of measles vaccination among children aged 9 59 monthsTo determine the coverage of vitamin A supplementation received during the last 6 months among children aged 6 59 monthsTo assess the two week period prevalence of morbidity among children aged 6 59 monthsEstimate mortality rates both CMR and U5MRTo assess household dietary diversityTo determine the population s access to and use of improved water sanitation and hygiene facilitiesTo establish recommendations on actions to be taken to address the situation 3 2 Selected clusters Diinsor districtGeographical unitPopulation sizeClusterGeographical unitPopulation sizeClusterGasareeb39212buulaxaanshi7002 3Saandole410Jabal awees3884Bulofarey4005Sufibarako4126Mustaqbal10387 RCHoryal10128 9Buulamareer61110Kor kaamari91311 12Kulmiye98713 14Afgooye123515 16Sheikh mudey97817 18Buulo Tuni50019Buulo Fuur40020Xaranka20021October270022 23 24 25 26Warcadey60027Fatxuraxman30028Buula cadey400RCMooro masaakin400Abdulle Hassan200029 30 31 32Jameeco50033Wadajir70034 35Ahmed Gurey320036 37 38 39 40 41Raamadhawi120042 RC 43Leemlebowle50044Buulo xaanshi450Sheeb cabdi shiimoy20045Misra yarey700RCBuur riib600RC3 3 Household Selection Strategyo Definition of household for the surveyA household will be defined as number of people living together and sharing a common cooking pot Polygamous families will be defined based on the same if each wife has her own pot even if living in the same compound this will be treated as different households o Household selection techniques e g segmentation simple or systematic random sampling modified EPI Selection of households will be done in every sampled cluster The survey teams will obtain an updated list of households per cluster with the aid of a village elder guide and select the households accordingly through simple random sampling If the clusters correspond to a large population it will be subdivided into segments of roughly the same number of people Each segment will be numbered and one of these segments will be chosen with a based on the proportion to their size if they are in equally segmented or simple random sampling using random number table In the selected cluster the households can then be listed using the enumeration method and the required households will be selected from the list by using random number table This pointed number will be the first houo DELIVERABLESData collection of the assigned clusters in Dinsoor o Supervision role During the SMART survey process Save the children will develop the SMART survey protocol and present to the AIM working group for approval before field work commences Save the children will also seek ethical approval from respective line ministries both at federal and south west state The consultant is expected to oversee the overall data collection and cleaning from starting from enumerators training quality assurance and generating preliminary report The consultant is expected to report the data quality report and on daily basis on secondly data of data collection The SMART survey consultant will lead the technical analysis of data final report writing presenting the findings to Save the children technical team MEAL and Nutrition and to AIM working group report validation o QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED from the external consultant o Be a holder of university master s degree in epidemiology public or equivalent with a specific competency in nutrition in humanitarian setting o Previous experiences of nutrition assessmentso Previous SMART survey delivery training data collection data cleaning and reporting o Certified SMART methodologyo Be fluent in English have adult learning skills Presentation skills and high organizational skills Prove of ability to contextualize the training will be an added advantage EXPRESSION OF INTERESTThe minimum required documents o Technical proposal clearly capturing the approach and methodologyo Financial proposalo Past similar experience please attach previous stamped contracto Relevant CVS of the lead consultantso Firm individual profileInterested applicants should submit the minimum required documents with email CSS LOGISTICS savethechildren org with the subject line of the email body Smart Survey Dinsor Applications will close by 10 00AM on 25TH September 020

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