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For every child, there is hope

Proper nutrition is essential for the growth and development of the child, which is paramount to achieving his or her full potential. Significant progress has been made in the fight against malnutrition in all its forms in Burkina Faso over the past decade. Chronic malnutrition has risen from 35.1% in 2009 to 21.6% in 2021 (national SMART nutrition surveys 2009 to 2021). However, malnutrition remains a major public health problem in the country.

In the field of’ infant and young child feeding practices (ANJE), Burkina Faso has reached and exceeded the target of the global assembly of health by 50% exclusively breastfed children up to’6 months old (69.6% in 2021). The rate of food diversity (consumption of’at least 5 groups of’foods) increased from 17.4% to 31% during the same period. This rate means that 69% of children do not have access to at least five groups of’foods and are in food poverty. The proportion of’children aged 6 to 23 months with a minimum acceptable diet increased from 17.4% in 2019 to 24% in 2021.

How can you make a difference?

The general objective of the Consultancy is to provide support to the Government of Burkina Faso to make an in-depth analysis of the gaps, bottlenecks and obstacles to food, adequate practices and services at political, institutional and community level for the improvement of diets of children aged 6-23 months.

For more information on the consultation, please refer to the document attached here:

TDR_consultant_Documentary review and analysis by system alim 6-23 months.pdf

To be considered an advocate for each child, you must…

• Hold a university degree of minimum level Bac + 5 in the field of Nutrition or Public Health.
• • To justify at least 05 years of’experience in Public Nutrition. Mastery of evaluations of nutrition projects/programs is required ;
  • To justify a good knowledge of nutrition problems, in particular in the field of’infant and young child feeding ;
  • To justify a confirmed experience in the field of multi-systems’ analysis for nutrition
  • To justify a confirmed experience in the’analysis of qualitative and quantitative data
  • Demonstrate good capacity to work with government partners, NGOs, UN agencies, the private sector and communities, and,
  • Justifying the conduct at least once of’a similar work in the field of health nutrition sanctioned by’attestations of good end of’ execution
  • Justify good capacities for synthesizing and writing high quality documents in French
  • Justify that the computer tool and word and email processing software as well as data entry and analysis software have been well mastered.
  • Being able to work under pressure with constraint to produce quality results within very short deadlines
• The consultant must have good communication skills in French and bases in English.

For each child, you demonstrate…

Our fundamental values

• Benevolence
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Responsibility

Our fundamental skills

• Encourage, lead and manage people ( 1 )
• Demonstrate self-awareness and ethical awareness ( 1 )
• Work collaboratively with others ( 1 )
• Build and maintain partnerships ( 1 )
• Innovating and embracing change (1)
• Think and act strategically (1)
• Achieve tangible results (2)
• Managing complexity and’ambiguity (2)

UNICEF is there to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of these children. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, regardless of race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual identity, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity, gender identity and gender identity, nationality, socio-economic origin or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodations to individual consultants/providers with disabilities. These can be, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal guides. We encourage you to disclose your disability when applying in case you need reasonable accommodations during the selection process and subsequently in your assignment.

’unICEF applies the zero tolerance policy to’s with respect to sexual abuse and’, as well as any other type of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination. Any candidate considered for recruitment will be subject to’a a rigorous verification of references and background.

Note: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and will proceed to the next stage of the selection process.

Persons engaged under a consultant contract or an individual contract will not be considered “staff members” within the meaning of the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to the benefits provided for therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their terms of service will be governed by their contract and the terms and conditions of the service contracts of consultants and individual contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax obligations and paying any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local laws or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible for ensuring that the ( applicable ) visa and the health insurance necessary for the performance of the tasks of the contract are valid for the entire duration of the contract. Selected applicants must confirm that they are fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 ( Covid-19 ) with a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), what must be done before accepting the mission. It does not apply to consultants who work remotely and are not expected to work or visit UNICEF premises, the places of program implementation or interact directly with the communities with which UNICEF works, or travel to exercise functions for UNICEF during the term of their consultant contract.