Nutrition Consultant, Expert in CMAM, Nairobi (UNICEF)

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Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UN Organization
Closing date: 11 Jan 2011
Location: Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya, UNICEF Regional Office (ESARO)

The UNICEF Regional office of Nairobi is supporting the development and roll out of the integrated package for the management of acute malnutrition within emergencies and within longer term health programming in Eastern and Southern African countries. This includes community based therapeutic feeding, as part of an integrated package for the Management of Acute Malnutrition linking supplementary feeding, community based and facility based therapeutic feeding, and prevention of acute malnutrition.

Countries implementing Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, initially as an emergency intervention, increasingly recognize the direct burden of acute malnutrition on morbidity and mortality. As a result, the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition is being seen as a key treatment intervention, part of the essential minimum health package in general, and more specifically within the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, as part of Maternal and Newborn Child Health strategies.

In 2009, nearly 50% of the total number of severely malnourished children in Eastern and Southern Africa Region were admitted for treatment. So far, mainly four countries reached coverage of 50 % and more. CMAM is being implemented at large scale in various contexts in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi and Somalia. The progress these countries made should be documented for use by other countries and bottlenecks should be addressed. At global level and in other regions, UNICEF and its partners are also in the process of analyzing implementation of CMAM.

ESARO wants to share the main findings of these different initiatives, as starting point for discussion on scaling up CMAM in ESAR and organize a regional meeting on CMAM.

Main objective:
The main objective of this meeting is to provide a framework for scaling up CMAM in ESAR countries and agree upon necessary support and follow up from ESARO.

Participants:
Participants will be UNICEF officers in charge of nutrition in ESAR countries and a representative of their main government counterpart. UNICEF health officers will be invited as well. Other participants will come from other UNICEF RO’s, HQ and main CMAM partners.

Scope(s) of work:
Under close supervision of the Nutrition Specialist, carry out the following tasks:
-In collaboration with HQ, RO, selected CO’s and CMAM partners, establish a small documentation kit on CMAM, NIS and NiE for all ESAR countries
-Review and summarize key documents
-In collaboration with HQ, RO, selected CO’s and CMAM partners, develop draft framework for scaling up of IMAM. This includes contents and mechanisms of policy, implementation, partnership, coordination, funding, monitoring and definition of IMAM indicators, Disaster Risk Reduction and framework to monitor progress by CO, RO and HQ.
-Prepare specific work sessions
-Contribute to the final meeting report
-Any other task as requested by the supervisor
How to apply
The Human Resources Specialist
UNICEF Kenya Country Office
P.O. Box 44145, Nairobi
OR

kenyahrvacancies@unicef.org
Reference Code: RW_8CDG37-54