AYUBU GIDEON MENYO

• Activity Overview: Strengthening Health, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Food Systems to promote the adoption of optimal nutrition among Women of Reproductive Age and Children Under Five
• Support the implementation of Nutrition specific Interventions in the area of implementation and design strategies to improve well-being outcomes for children and women
• Build capacity/mentoring of health care providers on nutrition assessment, counselling, classification and interpretation of nutrition status by using National Guidelines and available SOP and mentored on basic nutrition, IYCF & growth monitoring and development
• Ensure health care providers from supported districts have knowledge on providing nutrition messages during nutrition counselling and during conducting nutrition education sessions
• Use of quality improvement teams to include projects that will improve and strengthen nutrition service provision and linkage to care
• Refine evidence-based clinical training materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training materials needed for implementation of nutrition specific interventions to meet the needs of Government of Tanzania and USAID
• Identify capacity building needs among health care providers for continuous quality improvement in provision of nutrition services
• Foster linkages between community-based NACS programs, livelihood and food security programs available in the district (Help in strengthening referral systems)
• Identify, assess and document successful experience/learning and share with other health facilities or during data sharing
• Routinely collection of data from registers to prepare weekly/ monthly Nutrition services provided reports from each health facility supported by the project
• Support health care providers to use data for clinical decisions
• Strengthening Health, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Food Systems to promote the adoption of optimal nutrition among Women of Reproductive Age and Children Under Five

ACHIEVEMENTS

• A total of 621 healthcare providers (310 female, 311 male) and 216 community health workers (CHWs) (104 female, 112 male) from 151 health facilities (140 public and 11 private) were trained on Maternal, Infant, Young Child, and Adolescent Nutrition (MIYCAN), along with Baby Friendly Hospital Initiatives
• 108 Regional/Council Quality Improvement Team (R/CQIT) members (35 female, 73 male) were trained as Trainers of Trainees (TOTs) in Quality Improvement (QI), extending their training to 389 QIT members at the health facility level (169 female, 220 male)
• 158 healthcare providers (76 female, 82 male) from 52 health facilities (51 public, 1 private) were strengthened on commodity forecasting and ordering for 20% poor performing facilities to address the ILS gap, and conduct training on commodity ordering and forecasting
• 240 community health workers (115 female, 125 male) reached on refresher training on prioritizing nutrition and hygiene behaviors during the crucial first 1,000 days
• Health facility assessment as a baseline assessment reached 252 (224 public, 28 private) health facilities out of 330 health facilities
• Refresher training to 170 teachers (40 female, 125 male) and 5 District Education Officers (2 female, 3 male) to scale up nutrition education and promotional activities in schools to target youth and adolescents
• Mapping of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECD) Centers for 0-3 years and 4 – 6 years and Nutrition services provided in these centers reached 386 (299 public, 87 private) ECCD centers

• Activity Overview: Complementary feeding to people with chronic illness, Infant formula to orphan under 6 months and Nutrition education awareness on Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices
• Conduct health facility support, working side by side with the health staff, doing daily training on the job and staying in the health facility the time needed for understanding the gaps and the needs
• Identify training needs and prepare training programs for health staff in collaboration with the doctors in charge and the Nutrition Coordinator
• Conduct quarterly health facility supervisions of health staff activities utilizing the given tools and following the IMAM guidelines
• Instructing, motivate and couching clients with Malnutrition, HIV, Sickle cell, Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and others clients in need
• Prepare reports and analyses
• Conduct data collection in the health facility of the Project’s area
• Monitoring the data collection process in collaboration with the Nutrition Coordinator
• Prepare and conduct with the Nutrition Coordinator the quarterly IMAM meeting with all the in charge of the health facilities and the medical authorities to give the supportive supervision feedback and plan together the next step forward
• Support the Nutrition Coordinator in the realization of ECD corners and ECD related activities at facility level
• Collaborate to the training of the CHWs to improve their knowledge and skills on nutrition and Early Child Development
• Contribute to ensure and supervise the effective referral systems along the continuum of care for the project beneficiaries in collaboration with the field officer, DNuOs and the health staff
• Supervise the correct use of Therapeutic food in the health facility and coordinate the quarterly order from the District to the Organization
• Participate to District and Regional Nutrition meeting with the Nutrition
• Complementary feeding to people with chronic illness, Infant formula to orphan under 6 months and Nutrition education awareness on Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Timely initiation of breastfeeding was increased from 86.0% (2019) to 88.3% (2021) According to SENS 2021 report-Nduta camp
• The GAM prevalence was decreased from 3.2% (2019) to 1.8% (2021)
• The Prevalence of stunting was decreased from 47.35 (2019) to 39.9% (2021)
• Achieved in developing the Information Education and Communication material- Community Health Worker Training manual in Nutrition, Health and Sanitation
• Achieved in developing translated Information Education and Communication material on Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices manual from Swahili into Kirundi Language
• Formation of 5 Care Support Groups consists of 50 women and men

• Support recruitment of data collectors in study sites
• Support training of local data collectors for 2-3 days
• Map data collection process, and identify study participants in respective study sites
• Support community sensitization engagement with local leaders and stakeholders in study sites
• Assist Research officer setting up interviews, finding study participants and engaging with local leaders and stakeholders
• Conduct and oversee quantitative and qualitative data collection in study sites
• Lead and oversee data entry, transcription and translation of qualitative data
• Ensure the participants’ privacy and confidentiality is maintained
• Undertake any other tasks that the supervisor shall reasonably require from time to time
• Data accuracy by editing, detecting, resolving issues and analyzing data

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Formation of SOPs for data collection ethics abide to all regulatory and compliance requirements with research
• Developed materials and methods for data collection and analysis

• Activity Overview: Supplementary Feeding Program to under five, Pregnant and Lactating women and People living with HIV/TB
• Providing Maternal and Child Nutrition health services
• To prepare advocacy materials and documents to support the strengthening of nutrition, health and agriculture innovation systems and support services
• Attending and participating in trainings identified and organized by UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and other stakeholders
• Conduct nutrition education and counselling for about 3807-children between 24-59months, 4543-children between 6.1-23months, 2234- pregnant and lactating women, 510- moderate acute malnutrition and 251- Antiretroviral therapy
• Conduct community sensitization meeting on the importance of SBCC
• To ensure that Refugees nutrition volunteers (RNVS) trained on Health and WASH a technique that positively affects nutrition status of the refugees
• Collect and prepare project implementation successes, challenges and share them in different meetings
• Capture lessons learned and best practices, document and disseminate the information
• Supervising 1 store keeper, 2 Field monitor and 41 Refugee Nutrition Volunteers in Mtendeli Refugees camps at Kakonko Districts
• Provide guidance and supervision to the project staff to ensure that they have clear objectives
• Responsible for personnel management & training of nutrition health in Emergencies Department
• Identify training needed for the Nutrition Health Volunteers and organize regular Refugee Nutrition Volunteers trainings to improve their competencies
• Participating in Nutrition and Health coordination meeting organized by WFP and UNHCR
• Preparation and Coordinate Nutrition and Health meetings in Mtendeli Refugees camp at Kakonko Districts
• Collaborate with WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, other humanitarian local and international NGOs and local government leaders to support and implement the Supplementary Food Project (SFP) that contribute to improved indicators for Maternal and Child Nutrition in the refugee camps
• Execute project coordination activities within the budget line
• Supplementary Feeding Program to under five, Pregnant and Lactating women and People living with HIV/TB
• Opening of the second SFP center in order to reach our beneficiaries
• Global Acute Malnutrition was reduced from 3.3 (2017) to 2.9% (2018) (According to Standardized Extended Nutrition Survey –SENS-2018)-Mtendeli camp
• Reduction in Stunting prevalence from 54.8 (2017) to 48.6% (2018)
• Reduction of Anemia in Women of reproductive age from 26.7 to 13.9%
• SBCC in Dietary diversity from 4.8 (2017) to 29.8% (2018)
• Formation of 20 Mother Care Groups consist of 200 women and men
• Raised picks up rate of Supplementary food especially for micronutrient powder from 27% to above 85%

• Company Overview: Community based Rehabilitation
• Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participator assessments, key informant interviews according to DRC’s protection monitoring plan
• Identify cases in need of urgent response and immediate follow-up
• Work with supervisor to create weekly work-plans and prioritization of tasks
• To provide agricultural incentives such as seed, and equipment to the refugee in order to improve food security to the refugees
• Identify cases in need of urgent response and immediate follow-up
• Community based Rehabilitation