Dear Potential Bidders,
Nutrition International/NI (formerly The Micronutrient Initiative/MI) is implementing MITRA Youth, a project supporting Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFAS) for prevention and reduction of Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) among school-going adolescent girls, in selected districts in two provinces of Indonesia: East Java and East Nusa Tenggara (ENT). MITRA Youth is funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Australia.
MITRA Youth is implemented in 10 districts in East Java and 10 districts in ENT. In 2018, NI conducted advocacy meeting at province and district level to sensitize the WIFAS program. The meeting at province level was attended by stakeholders from health, education, religious office, social welfare from the targeted districts. WIFAS program is mostly perceived as the responsibility of the Health Office, even though it should be also the responsibilities of Education, Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Offices. After the advocacy meetings and capacity building supported by NI, the involvement of non-health sectors were improved and districts have started activities to strengthen the implementation of program.
March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic hits Indonesia among many countries in the world. As per October 8, 2020 there are 320,564 confirmed positive cases with 244.060 people have recover and 11.580 people died of COVID-19 virus. Currently, many provinces are still implementing large-scale social restriction policy to minimize the spread of COVID-19 which results in significant reduction on domestic and international travel, bans on group and crowd gatherings and the closure of schools, factories, restaurants and public spaces. Such measure affected health services. According to recent online survey conducted by UNICEF of more than 6,000 young Indonesians, nearly 90% of girls have stopped taking iron tablet during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is stopping essential nutritional services for adolescent in Indonesia and this has a major impact on their nutritional status.
This is the last year of MITRA Youth project before it ends on May 2021. To better document project’s results and lessons learned, NI together with SEAFAST Center – IPB have conducted Endline Survey study and have finalized its report last October 2020. There are many key findings and recommendations found from the study that would improve implementation of Anemia Prevention program among adolescent in both East Java and East Nusa Tenggara.
Many achievements and improvements on WIFA program in East Java and East Nusa Tenggara attained throughout MITRA Youth project. However pandemic situation impacted a set back towards those achievements. Taken into consideration NI together with PHO would like to ensure WIFA program is sustainable despite the pandemic circumstances.
Hence, in order to conduct advocacy meeting at provincial level in East Java and ENT, NI seeks support an event organizer/agency (EO) to facilitate the implementation of the advocacy meetings.
NI invites agencies to submit bid with link as below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJDOKao66IAhwQthcDJ2gbIKMVyy4pv8/view?usp=sharing
Deadline for submission: November 16, 2020, 17:00 West Indonesia Standard Time.
The proposal shall be put into a covering email specifically indicating with subject line
“RFP 1833-XX Advocacy Meetings for Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation Program at Province Level in East Java and East Nusa Tenggara” need to be sent to email: proposalsindonesia@nutritionintl.org
Thank you for your kind attention and cooperation.
Regards,
Nutrition International
