Terms of Reference Nutrition and Food Security Survey in the Dry Zone, Myanmar Background There have been concerted efforts to improve food security and nutrition assessment, surveillance and programming to ensure that the three pillars of food security are addressed. Ensuring that good quality nutrition data is collected as part of a household food security assessment is core to being able to draw causal pathways and associations which might better help us understand malnutrition in the dry zone and therefore inform programme design and decisions. A full nutrition survey in the three agro ecological areas of the Dry Zone is planned including anthropometrics, diet diversity (household and child under 5) and frequency, basic morbidity, water use and access, supplementation, latrine use and health seeking practices for PLW and U5s. Objectives of the Survey 1. Identify the prevalence and severity of malnutrition, by agro-ecological zone in the dry zone. 2. Understand the practices against recommended IYCF behaviours in the Dry Zone 3. Integrate the nutrition survey with the food security assessment to ensure the full data set can be analyzed and a better understanding gained of the food security situation by household within each agro-ecological zone. Drawing comparisons between zones and correlations with core nutrition and anthropometric data. Timings: The consultant will be hired for approximately 50-60 days (exact number of days to be confirmed) and will be expected to travel to Yangon and the survey data collection sites. Clean Data Set: 30th June Final Report: 31st July The consultant will be responsible for: • Finalisation of the survey protocols and guidelines including sampling framework • Developing and leading on the nutrition component of the survey training in coordination with partner. Training to include; survey objectives, sampling strategy, roles & responsibilities, and necessary pilot testing • Leading the survey and providing technical input and oversight to ensure the timely and effective completion of the survey. • Providing training and guidance as required to the data entry team for effective data entry and initial cleaning of nutrition data. • Data Cleaning for total data set – Food Security, Livelihoods and Nutrition – in preparation for data analysis • Data Analysis following the pre agreed analytical framework (TBD). Additional analysis may be required depending on the results and will be discussed and agreed upon between partners. • Full Report including the joint analysis of food security, livelihoods and nutrition survey data and analysis using the pre agreed report format (TBD) • Feedback of the results to partners and reasonable revisions to be made before the final submission. Person specification Previous experience of designing and leading integrated food security and nutrition surveys is essential. The consultant must be familiar with the sampling requirements of specific indicators such as Infant and Young Child Feeding, nutrition status and how best to integrate these with food security indicators. The consultant must have knowledge of statistical analysis software and be experienced in cleaning and analysing large data sets and familiar with statistical such as chi-square test, independent samples t-test; Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman’s correlations to be used to compare outcome parameters of interest between groups and also to assess associations between variables. The consultant must be comfortable using SPSS/Stata software. The consultant should also have experience of training large survey teams and working through translators. The consultant is required to have regular face to face or email contact with SC staff and WFP staff and will be required to deliver results in a timely manner. Excellent spoken and written English is essential. Must be available from 1st May If you are interested please send an email with your CV directly to jennie.hilton@savethechildren.org