Maternal Nutrition and Child Wasting policy and program expert
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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
As a United Nations (UN) agency reaching more than 115 million nutritionally vulnerable and food-insecure people each year, WFP plays a critical role in multi-stakeholder efforts to address malnutrition. In 2021 alone, 22.3 million children under the age of 5 (CU5) and pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLW/G) were assisted through WFP-supported nutrition-specific programmes that aim to prevent undernutrition and treat moderate wasting across 51 countries.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 aims to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030, including wasting, stunting, overweight and vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Childhood malnutrition is a major global development challenge, contributing to increased mortality, morbidity, impaired intellectual development, increased risk of disease in adulthood and suboptimal adult work and earning capacity. The world is currently off-track to meet the global target of having less than 5% of CU5 suffering from wasting by 2025 and less than 3% by 2030. At least 149 million CU5 are estimated to suffer from stunting, 170 million women are underweight and many more children and women have some form of micronutrient deficiency.
Women are particularly vulnerable to undernutrition due to their increased nutrient requirements for pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding, yet are often not prioritized in policy and programming. Pregnant women require a diet with appropriate energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals to meet their own needs for health and wellbeing as well as for the growth and development of the foetus. Requirements are even higher during the first six months of breastfeeding. Poor nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding is known to have adverse short and long-term effects on the mother and the child, including increased risk of mortality, poor growth and development of the infant and longer-term health consequences. Maternal nutrition is an investment in both the mother and the child and will support ending the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition its negative effects.
Although wasting treatment coverage has steadily increased since 2010, reaching nearly 14 million children in 2021, the proportion of wasted children with access remains low at
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Rome, Italia World Food Programme A tempo pienoJOB PURPOSE The aim of this consultancy is to develop normative, agency specific and global guidance and gather learning from ongoing programmes, guide and support the development, piloting and roll-out of different tools to improve programme design and implementation, including the application of the new tools in WFP countries to undertake...
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Rome, Italia World Food Programme A tempo pienoJOB PURPOSE The aim of this consultancy is to develop normative, agency specific and global guidance and gather learning from ongoing programmes, guide and support the development, piloting and roll-out of different tools to improve programme design and implementation, including the application of the new tools in WFP countries to undertake...
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