Review and documentary analysis on Adolescent Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Nutrition, includes access and availability … at Save the Children

Consulting: Review and documentary analysis on Adolescent Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Nutrition, includes access and availability of food

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Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. leader in work for children’s rights. We are present in more than 120 countries, including Guatemala where we have been present since 1983 working together with the Government, partner organizations and communities in the most vulnerable areas of the country. Only in 2018 with our actions in favor of children, we managed to impact 40 municipalities in 6 departments of the country.

Primarily, our work focuses on indigenous populations affected by poverty, violence, migration, abuse and other violations of law, guiding our interventions in long-term sustainable development actions, as well as in humanitarian response during crisis situations. To date, programs linked to our strategic objectives are implemented in Guatemala, including: Child Poverty, Education, Health and Nutrition, Public Investment in Children and Child Protection.

SC will integrate the “ Adolescent Nutrition ” component into the LENS project activities into the existing LENS project activities. The LENS project is currently implementing the School Health and Nutrition program in El Quiché, improving the quality of education and nutrition, reaching more than 46,000 students, beneficiaries of enrollment in 315 schools located in 7 municipalities ( San Pedro Jocopilas, Sacapulas, Cunén, Uspantán, Cotzal, Chajul, and Nebaj ). The project is also implementing the Field Technical Schools model for School Feeding ( ETCAE ),aimed at local agricultural producers to strengthen their agricultural knowledge and skills and facilitate their linkage as providers of school feeding and supply the demands of local nutritious food products to schools. The initiative will incorporate nutritional interventions for adolescents, including training ETCAE participants so that they can produce nutritious food for their own consumption and to generate income from the surpluses produced.

The central objective of the initiative is to empower adolescents to create innovative solutions for nutrition and food security, increasing the use of best practices related to nutrition and food security within the framework of the Field Technical Schools (ETCAE) model, in addition, that they receive the certificate and accreditation from the Ministry of Education.

Save the Children will collaborate with local organizations and government entities, including SESAN ( Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition ), the Ministry of Education ( MoE ) and the Ministry of Health ( MoH ), to align actions with national policies. Adolescents, especially girls between the ages of 12 and 18, will actively participate in the co-design, implementation and monitoring of project activities, promoting cultural relevance and sustainability.

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Consulting context

The consultancy will focus on review and documentary analysis on related studies on Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices and food availability in students between the ages of 12 and 18, in the department of El Quiché.

The consultant must include in the technical proposal the methodology to carry out the documentary review and analysis that allows identifying a profile of students between 12 and 18 years old, and its relationship with issues of nutrition, availability and access to food. In addition, you must conduct semi-structured interviews with key actors in the Ministry of Education (General Directorate for Strengthening the Educational Community – DIGEFOCE – and General Directorate for Extracurricular Education); Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food -MAGA – departmental representatives of SESAN, MAGA, MINEDUC and LENS project staff.

In this context, the consultant will involve all the aforementioned actors, LENS project staff will be facilitating coordination, through the Departmental Directorate of Education – DIDEDUC, MAGA and SESAN.

In addition, the consultant must carry out 3 focus groups with students from the institutes of the municipality of San Juan Cotzal ( see annex 1 ). 2 with basic level students and one with diversified students. In both cases, equal participation of men and women is required. LENS staff will provide the necessary contacts and support to coordinate their implementation.

Based on the results of the diagnosis of the documentary review / analysis and focus groups, the consultant should propose a methodological guide and curriculum for nutrition training, availability and access of food for adolescents between 12 and 18 years old, taking into account the sociocultural context.

Objectives

• Identify adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on nutrition, food access and availability, based on documentary review / analysis, the result of interviews with key actors and focus groups.
• Design, validate and prepare a curricular training guide that responds to the gaps found in the documentary review / analysis, results of interviews and focus groups taking into account the sociocultural context.

Services provided by the provider

Objective activities 1: Identify the knowledge, attitudes and practices of adolescents about nutrition, includes analysis and interpretation of results on food access and availability, based on secondary sources, interviews, and focus groups.

• Plan and methodological proposal for the documentary review / analysis to identify “ knowledge, attitudes and practices of adolescents on nutrition ”, includes analysis on food access and availability, of adolescents between the ages of 12 to 18 years.
• Summary presentation of the results of the diagnosis.
• Design, validation and elaboration of an instrument and checklists for the review and documentary analysis of secondary sources in accordance with the objectives of the consultancy.
• Design, validation and elaboration of an instrument to carry out virtual and / or face-to-face interviews with personnel from the Ministry of Education (General Directorate for Strengthening the Educational Community and General Directorate for Extracurricular Education), SESAN and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food at the departmental and municipal levels includes CTA Administrative Technical Coordination –, from the Department of El Quiché, LENS project personnel.
• Design, validation and elaboration of an instrument to facilitate focus groups with adolescents.
• Prepare a schedule for interviews with personnel from Mineduc, Maga and SESAN, focus groups, review and analysis of secondary sources.
• Develop field work to collect information: interviews and focus groups.
• Tabulation of the information collected, interpretation and analysis to prepare the diagnosis report.

Objective activities 2: Design, validate and prepare curricular training guides that respond to the gaps found in the review / analysis documented, the result of interviews and focus groups taking into account the sociocultural context.

• Design methodological guide to socialize results with adolescents through workshops and recreational activities.
• Review of the National Curriculum Base – CNB – for basic and diversified students with an emphasis on nutrition.
• Design and prepare the curricular guide for the training of adolescents integrating them into the ETCAE ( illustrated and diagrammed ).
• Review and analysis of the curricular training guide with central level Mineduc personnel
• Validation with teachers and directors of Cotzal Basic and Diversified Cycle, with final edition of the curricular training guide for their respective accreditation and certification.
• Summary report and photographs of the process of preparing the curricular training guide.

Location and corresponding official travel

The consultant must carry out the field work of interviews in Guatemala City, Santa Cruz del Quiché Guatemala and focus groups in Cotzal.