Consultant - develop package

Vacancy Announcement

First Published Date:- 19 Jan 2022

Terms of Reference

Early Start Integrated Project

To develop package (flip chart with illustration) of Baby package (Early stimulation, parenting without violence and Health and nutrition)

Background on Everest Club

Everest Club was established in 1993 as a non-profit organization for the cultural and social service provider, especially development of health, education, sanitation, agriculture promotion, WASH promotion, natural economy, social empowerment, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, etc in Dailekh, Kalikot, Jumla, Jajarkot District as per aspiration of Bheri zone region.

From the beginning, it has been working to implement sustainable development with a primary focus on the deprived and disadvantaged community by qualified, experienced professionals and dedicated young hands. Now NGOs are working for the creation of self-reliance society through improving their (Focused community) socio-economic status. Everest club is working in the area of renewable energy promotion, WASH promotion, drinking water scheme functionality, income generation, sustainable soil management, small irrigation; Marketing, advocacy and networking, empowerment, and organization development to the creation of self-reliance society through improving their (Focused community) socio-economic status.

Background information/context

Everest club has started the implementation of an integrated baby package that includes Early stimulation, parenting without violence and (Health & Nutrition, sessions) focusing the parents of under three years of age children under in two municipalities: Aathbis and Chamundabrindasaini of Dailekh district. The overall objective of the Early Start project is that young children survive and thrive in a healthy, protective, and stimulating environment, and develop to their full potential. To achieve the objective, this project has identified three outcomes with emphasis on improving access and utilization of health services, improving competencies of caregivers, and increasing capacities of civil society networks and local and provincial governments. The first outcome seeks to ensure that the local health facilities provide quality service and that mothers and their children access the quality health services, particularly those related to antenatal care, institutional delivery by a skilled birth attendant, promotion of optimal breastfeeding and screening, and referral and treatment of children’s malnutrition. In addition to improved health outcomes, the project will seek to improve children’s motor, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills in an improved protective environment at home and in the community. It will seek to ensure that children aged 0-3 receive early stimulation, nutritious food, and responsive care without any violence from their caregivers. The project will promote “role model caregivers” to influence and increase peer caregivers' engagement in providing care to their children. The project will conduct direct outreach to marginalized households, as identified during the baseline, to ensure that the socially excluded girls and boys and their caregivers receive equal and specific program interventions. The third outcome will seek to ensure that the local government develops enough capacity to support young children through implementing their responsibilities as per the Constitution of Nepal 2015 and the Local Government Operation Act 2017. The major focus will be to support and influence the local government to institutionalize the results through their own policies, programs, and budgets. The project will enhance civil society advocacy with the local government to increase allocation of resources to young children and to ban physical and humiliating punishment. Various local level initiatives for raising awareness on young children's rights will be conducted through mobilizing civil society network.

The child protection component of Early Start project has included parenting without violence common approach to roll out into the community focusing parents, caregivers of under 3 years of age children in Dailekh. The approach aims to prevent children from experiencing physical and humiliating punishment at home. Through its implementation; fathers, mothers and caregivers gain increased understanding of child development, child rights and positive parenting; parent child relationship are strengthened based on the principles of non-violence, non-discrimination, and gender equality; and children are empowered to express their views and feelings in their home, and seek help from caregivers when they feel unsafe.

The common approach further work with father, mother, caregivers, communities to transform harmful and discriminatory gender norms, power dynamics and accepted practices that drive violence at home. It also works with government to strengthen system and mechanism that increase children's health, education and protection in equitable way. It provides a foundation to positive parenting that start from care during pregnancies of mother, new-born care, nutrition, postnatal care, early learning, early child development to support the physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of children. Thus, it has needed to develop flip chart with illustration of nineteen packages focusing the caregivers/parents of under 3 years of children. The developed flip chart will be the key resource materials to implement group sessions in community through community volunteers (Female Community health volunteers/ Para social workers/ ECCD facilitators) and Social mobilizers.

2. Objective:

The purpose of the consultancy is to develop ready to print an integrated baby package of 19 sessions covering early stimulation, parenting without violence and health and nutrition component with illustration for Flip chart. The content including some of the illustrations will be provided by Everest Club. The needed and remaining illustrations should be designed by the consultant in close collaboration with technical team of Save the Children. 

3. Methodology 

The Consultant will be responsible to review the project document, existing drafted integrated packaged and edit the text/content and fit it into appropriate design and share the illustration to technical team based on the context and culture of target beneficiaries. The consultant and project team will review and produce final consolidated guideline capturing the content and context of target audiences.  

The firm will be required to develop a methodology that comprises of work plan, concept, GESI friendly illustration (picture, language, words) for the flip chart. Local culture and practice of Dailekh need to be reflected on the pictures and illustration. They need to submit the technical proposal mentioning the key approaches to be followed.

4. Target Audience

Target audience will be parents, caregiver of 0-3 year's children, and pregnant women with their husband.

5. Consultant qualifications and experience

The firm/Individual consultant must have prior experience working on the development, organization, directing, shooting, editorial news picture, and icon with meaningful content. S/he should have experience of working with child rights, child protection issues, health and nutrition, early stimulation, and positive parenting. Firm/Individual having previous experience of designing and developing integrated package comprising early stimulation, parenting without violence and health and nutrition would be added advantage.

(Consultant- most have +5 years of working experience in illustration, especially in edit, review, compile, select appropriate pictorial message to convert the text into consolidate guideline for the target audience. 

Must have prior work experience with development organizations, developing illustrations and familiarity with child health, nutrition, early childhood development, positive parenting components.  

Produce a final consolidated integrated guideline with quality both technically and creatively.

Experience in creating materials for diverse cultures and low-literate audiences. Familiar working with pregnant women, childcare givers, parents and understanding of social norms, socio-cultural background, geography in context of Karnali province of Nepal.

Ability to produce quality work within deadline. )

6. Deliverables and Timeline

The developed package illustration in Nepali version

Deliverables and Timeline

7. Supervision Arrangements

The firm/individual consultant will work in close coordination with Early Start Project, Project Coordinator (Everest Club), Sr. Project Coordinator (SCI) and SCI thematic leader on health, Education and Protection (SCI), based in M&FWFO, Surkhet.

8. Timeline

Estimated Commencement Date: 04 Feb 2021

Estimated End Date:  28 Feb 2021

9. Payment modality

1. The payment will be made in two installments.
2. 40% after signing the agreement
3. remaining 60% after completion of work

Note: Everest Club rights to terminate the contract (without paying any penalties) if another party does not do what agreed to do, or becomes insolvent or otherwise to complete the contract.

Tax will be deducted as per the government rule.

11. How to apply

Qualified and interested firms/individual are requested apply with below mentioned documents. and application letter to the email address everestclub.hr.2050@gmail.com addressing to The Human Resource Department, Everest Club or submit the hard copy to Everest Club District Office, Narayan Municipality-1, Naya Bazar, Dailekh by 31 Jan 2022, 5 pm.

Proposal Submission Guideline/ Required Documents: Proposal Submission Deadline- 31 Jan 2022

Please go through the link below for Instruction and template for PROPOSAL Submission:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aAhclTBzemLXXouEu6Zi7YnL1ARB973R/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106755148129806025610&rtpof=true&sd=true

Required Documents

• Filled out Consultancy Proposal Form (enclosed with this TOR)
• Budget to be proposed
• CV(s) of the proposed consultant(s) with full date of birth in dd/mm/yy format.
• For firms: Copies of ; Firm registration certificate, VAT registration certificate, Latest tax clearance certificate. For firms that are tax exempted by the government, a copy of tax exemption certificate should be submitted.
• For Individuals (Nepali): Copies of passport and a valid visa/ permit to work in Nepal.

If an individual is a full- time staff member of another organization,  a no objection/consent letter signed by the organization head must be submitted along with the proposal.  This is not applicable for proposals sent through a firm.