Consultance internationale : Alimentation saine et nutrition à New Dehli, Inde.
Purpose of consultancy
This consultancy will focus on young child diets and food environments, child obesity, settings based actions to promote healthy diets, and nutrition of older adults. Emerging areas of connectivity such as climate change and related nutrition will also form a component of the work profile for this consultancy.
Background
The WHO South-East Asia Region covers 11 Member States, including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar. The Nutrition and Health for Development (NHD) unit in the Department of Healthier Populations & Noncommunicable Diseases (HPN) of WHO regional Office for South-East Asia provides support to Member States to develop, implement and monitor food and nutrition policies and promotes essential nutrition actions across the lifecycle to reduce the double burden of malnutrition. The work of the unit is guided by the Strategic Action Plan to reduce the double burden of malnutrition in the South-East Asia Region where the key objectives are to promote and establish an enabling environment with health and other sectors for effective implementation of evidence-based nutrition interventions.
This consultancy will focus on young child diets and food environments, child obesity, settings based actions to promote healthy diets, and nutrition of older adults. Emerging areas of connectivity such as climate change and related nutrition will also form a component of the work profile for this consultancy.
Deliverables
- Deliverable 1- Assist the NHD unit in reviewing the data analysis on nutrition of older adults and the report on nutrition status of older adults in WHO South-East Asia Region.
- Deliverable 2- Support the NHD Unit to collate nutrition data to update the current country profiles on nutrition in the NHD website.
- Deliverable 3- Develop policy briefs and an information slide deck on marketing to children based on the report of the multi country assessment of marketing and organize a webinar for the dissemination of information.
- Deliverable 4 – Develop a policy brief on climate change and nutrition based on a background report on climate change policies and nutrition, in coordination with the Water Sanitation and Health Unit, HPN Department and arrange for its dissemination.
- Deliverable 5 – Support the NHD unit in planning a pilot study on actions recommended in the case study based framework to promote healthier diets in the out of home food sector.
- Deliverable 6- Develop materials for World Breastfeeding Week and review information of a scoping of policies on Infant and Young Child Feeding.
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications:
Essential: First university degree in medicine or nutrition sciences.
Desirable: Post Graduate degree in nutrition or public health with a focus on maternal, child or adolescent health and nutrition.
Experience
Essential: At least 5 years’ experience in nutrition programmes at national level with 2 years at international level. Specifically, the candidate would be expected to have experience in application of nutrition interventions and policies related to young child diets, interventions to improve the food environment through regulatory measures, child obesity, data analysis and implementation research related to healthy diet promotion. The international experience in any of the above areas should be clearly mentioned in the application.
Skills/Knowledge:
- Excellent knowledge of public health nutrition with updated knowledge of current regional priorities in nutrition for WHO;
- Skills in report writing and data analysis.
- Knowledge and technical expertise in evidence-based public health approaches to reduce the diet related risk factors for NCDs;
- Expertise in young child diets and childhood obesity actions;
- Demonstrated ability to adopt to diverse educational socio-political and cultural backgrounds and to maintain a high standard of personal conduct;
- Demonstrated ability to develop innovative approaches and solutions to nutrition issues;
- Communication skills, with demonstrated ability to coordinate across countries and partners;
Languages and level required (Basic/Intermediate/Advanced): Advanced knowledge of English both in writing and speaking.