Contractor For Nutrition And Personal Hygiene Awareness Session

1- BACKGROUND: World Vision is contributing to the enhancement of healthy choices and habits of children and parents by conducting awareness sessions for parents of Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in 8 schools, and that for the aim of enabling children to have a fortunate start to healthy lifestyles. 2- THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTANCY: World Vision Lebanon is looking for a short term nutritionist to deliver the following key messages mostly related to nutrition and personal hygiene through interactive sessions. Sessions will be delivered to audiences primarily parents of vulnerable children in schools. The show duration should be of 1h20 minutes, followed by an audience question-and-answer period. The sessions will be delivered in 8 schools between the period of March 1 and March 31, 2017 3- REQUIRED TASKS: Overall The Contractor will develop an awareness session including audiovisual presentations. The session should be in Arabic and simple language is to be used and it should send clear messages, notions and tips on topics of nutrition and personal hygiene. The session should be interactive to include audience participation as much as possible. Specific Required Tasks • Conduct 8 nutrition sessions for parents in 8 schools (1.20 min/ school). -Topics to include are: 1. The Food groups and their importance 2. Optimal nutrition for children (key concepts) 3. Common nutrition related problems among children 4. Healthy eating at school. The session designed by the second party must: • Be 1h 20min minutes long, followed by an audience question-and-answer/ discussion period • Utilize interactive methods of delivery. • Use of Arabic language. • Take into consideration the unavailability of professional stage, sound and/or lighting. • Communicate all steps of the session preparation with World Vision The contractor will incorporate the different suggestions made by WVL team. • Be reviewed and approved by World Vision committee. • Successfully engage parents with themes of health lifestyles, specifically topics of nutrition and personal hygiene • The animation should respect the Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi contexts taking into consideration different religions and different cultures. Content, clothes, names and performance must be inclusive of all groups. 4- KEY MESSAGES TO BE DELIVERED: The following are the key messages which need to be delivered through the animation: • Key concepts of Nutrition and Personal Hygiene.  Food safety guidelines  Nutritional need for children  Promotion of Hygiene related rituals. • Common nutrition related problems.  Malnutrition  Obesity and diseases  Dehaydration  Diabetes • Healthy eating at school.  Effects of non healthy eating on children’s cognitive function.  Examples of school healthy snacks 5- CONSULTANT QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: The Consultant should have the following competencies and experiences: - Expertise in Nutrition or any similar background. - Experience in public speaking, , having undertaken similar activities in the past. - Familiar with civil society and NGO engagement. - Preferably familiar with the Syrian refugee and host communities in Lebanon. - Excellent Arabic language proficiency 6- DURATION OF THE CONSULTANCY: The consultant will provide services for WVL as per agreed plan of work during March 2017 The schedule of the sessions shows will be shared as soon as the service agreement occurs. Interested applicants are requested to kindly send detailed quotations for the accomplishment of the above tasks.