Country: Uganda
Closing date: 23 May 2018
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Under the supervision of the Nutrition Specialist, the consultant will provide technical support to the UNAP Secretariat to effectively coordinate the implementation of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Policy and its attendant implementation strategy (UNAP II) at national and decentralized level.
Background
Uganda joined the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in March 2011. During the same year 2011, the Cabinet under Minute 293 (CT 2011) approved the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP) as the Government Strategic Plan for Scaling up Nutrition (SUN). It was also approved that coordination of the UNAP would be carried out by the Office of the Prime Ministe (OPM). The UNAP was extended until 2018 to enable the finalization of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Policy and the development of the second UNAP (UNAP II). The UNAP is therefore Uganda’s common results framework for nutrition programming.
Since February 2017, UNICEF has provided support to OPM through a consultant for day to day coordination of the UNAP implementation. During this period, a lot has been achieved in the areas of coordination and partnership, district-level support supervision and monitoring, policy development, district action planning, learning and experience sharing at national and district level and development of capacity building tools for nutrition governance, among other achievements. This first period of engagement has led to a greater diversity and number of actors involved in nutrition programing at national and local government. This evolving diversity of actors needs to be embraced and strategically harnessed .During this period , the consultancy was able to map all partners supporting DNCCs as well as nutrition parners in general. In additional mapping of all districts with functional DNCCs was done. The consultant also provided technical support to 28 districts to develop Multi-sectoral Nutrition action Plans . in addition the consultancy was very instrumental in process of finalization of the National Nutrition Policy (in terms of cosolidation of comments into the policy document, technical review of the draft policy working documents . While this support has resulted into strengthening of the UNAP secretariat functions, an additional eleven months engagement is still required to further strength the role of the UNAP Secretariat, as per mandate. For 2018 going forward , the UNAP secretariat is tasked with facilitating the process of implementation of the new policy and strategic plan (UNAP II ) and given the limited Human resource within the secretariat, this calls for continued technical assistance to the department of Strategic Coordination and Implementation at OPM to move the nutrition forward .
Key Tasks:
Support and facilitate national level multi-sectoral nutrition coordination efforts
Coordinate and manage processes to integrate nutrition into multi-sectoral policy and planning processes at national-level.
Support the UNAP Secretariat alongside with relevant sectors to facilitate the process of developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for Sectors, District Nutrition Coordination Committees (DNCCs) and Sub-county Nutrition Coordination Committees (SNCCs).
Support and facilitate UNAP implementation at decentralized levels
Knowledge management and reporting
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