The Nutritional Vulnerability Analysis (NVA) Consultant will be an integral member of the Nutrition in Crisis team. This role will contribute to the strengthened partnership between UNICEF and WFP on Nutrition Information System issues and is part of a broader initiative to enhance Nutrition Information Systems in fragile and crisis-affected countries.
The NVA was initiated at the end of 2023 in response to the Gaza context, where limited data on nutrition outcomes were available. The process and output have a dual objective: 1/ To ensure that the nutrition community can assess/monitor the nutritional situation in a timely and regular manner, and 2/ To guarantee that the nutrition sector can provide clear messages to inform both programming and decision-making, even in absence of nutrition outcome indicators. As an innovative approach, it proposes a new model of nutrition situation analysis that focuses on the main drivers of acute malnutrition, using several possibilities for nutrition-sensitive data collection - including qualitative information - and adopts a consensus-based analytical process involving nutrition partners, as well as partners from other sectors.
The NVA is a consensus-driven approach that is led by WFP and UNICEF. The process involves the identification of areas where it is not feasible to collect nutrition outcome data and, together with the national nutrition cluster coordination team, identifying the scope of the NVA. UNICEF and WFP lead the consensus-driven working sessions with all partners, including conducting various bilateral key discussions to understand the situation.
This role involves:
- Identifying areas in selected countries where there are gaps on data on nutrition outcomes
- Support in compiling the data in the nutrition vulnerability analysis analytical framework
- Leading the NVA working sessions together with the UNICEF NVA lead and the national nutrition cluster team
Terms and Conditions:
The When Actually Employed (WAE) will be based remotely. The contract will be of 70 days over a period of 11 months.
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