C-Sema - Your Logo Here - Maternal Nutrion | Concept Note - SEMA TANZANIA

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Maternal Nutrion | Concept Note

What is the problem?
                            Malnutrition rates are still very high: children under five, women of
                            reproductive age especially pregnant and lactating women and adolescent
                            girls are the most affected by under-nutrition due to their physiological needs
                            for growth and reproduction.

                            Over the past 5 years the National Child Helpline contact centre has received
                            cases on mother-child nutrition with little capacity to respond and meet
                            those callers’ needs.

Call
We need to work together to ensure that the poorest and most marginalized households are targeted with
messages and promotion of infant and young child feeding and care practices.

Key stats…

                                                  Stunted children come from 10
       Women with children under five               regions. All three forms of

31%   years of age do not use iron-folic
         acid supplementation during       58%   under nutrition are higher among
                                                     children from the poorest
           pregnancy for past birth.              quintile and higher among boys
                                                              than girls.

Our joint solution

‘Child Nutrition Helpdesk’ will be a desk at the
National Child Helpline contact centre:

            Dedicated to offer nutrition
            information to children / adults

            For counseling, referral or other
            interventions
            .

            Via tele-communication: voice /
            text and online

The Helpline’s technical capacity

                                                             100% free
                                                             of cost in
                                            Up to                all
                                                             networks
                                           100 calls
                                             per
                                           network
Available opportunity
Child Nutrition Helpdesk was born out of
this opportunity! MoU was signed                       Available
between TFNC & the helpline to                          all over
address quality, consistency, prompt                   Tanzania
responses and information on nutrition
matters.

Service overview

As per the MoU:
Second TNFC staff to work at the Child
Nutrition Helpdesk at Dar es salaam call
centre handling calls and offering advice
on nutrition related matters

C-Sema will ensure 24 hours operation
of the Child Nutrition Helpdesk

How to get on board

              2018
                                                                    Helpline service delivery.
  Initial set-up cost and launch

              2019

 Year one review and long-term                                          Awareness creation.
          strategizing
                                   Strengthen nutrition referral.

Pilot year implementation strategy

        Initial set up                 Implementation                 Awareness                     Evaluation

 Initial set up cost is about    Implementation budget is      About $80,000 is needed      We are proposing year one
  $15,000 for orientation /        estimated to be about         for Mother and Child        evaluation; fund needs to
training for LGA Nutrition      $15,000 for seconded TFNC     Nutrition and the help desk    cover participants related
Officers and helpline staff +    staff and about $5,000 for   services awareness. Mainly       costs, facilitation, etc.
      $5,000 for launch.                 operations           selected media houses and     Between $5,000 to $10,000
   Equipment to support                                        interviews with nutrition       depending on size &
      service is available                                        experts from TFNC         composition of participants

Project timeline
      MoU signing          2017   The MoU between TFNC and C-Sema is already signed.
              November

      Stakeholders                So far sessions with key MDAs, DPs and CSOs are ongoing. The
                           2018
         January - March          aim is to help get those who can to get involved

            Launch         May    The Child Nutrition Helpdesk will be launched is June, 2018
          May 2018 TBC.

  Year 1 Evaluation               The 1st feedback and evaluation session will be gathered in May
                           2019
              May 2019            2019.

“Everything begins
  with an idea.”