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2. Provide answers to questions received on November 29,2017 from various Offerors as attached in Section J.

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Mohib Ahmed

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December 6, 2017

Subject: Request for Proposals (RFP) Number SOL-611-17-000005

USAID Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance - Amended

Dear Prospective Offerors, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Zambia is seeking proposals to provide technical services for USAID Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance as described in the attached Request for Proposals (RFP).

This procurement is being conducted through full and open competition for which the procedures described in PART 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) will apply.

Proposals will be accepted from private for-profit firms; not-for-profit organizations; non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including universities, research organizations, professional associations; and relevant special interest organizations. USAID encourages proposals from potential new partners.

USAID anticipates the award of one Single Award Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, Completion-Type

Contract for a maximum seven (7) year period of performance as a result of this RFP. USAID anticipates that the total estimated cost will range in the amount of $65 to $75 million. The

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this solicitation is 541990 and the small business size standard is $15 million. The authorized geographic code for the prime contractor of this procurement is 935.

Please refer to Section L for information regarding proposal requirements. Failure to comply with the submission date and time may result in a submission being deemed unacceptable, such that it will not be reviewed or evaluated. Faxed proposals are not acceptable, nor will they be reviewed or evaluated. Section M states the criteria by which proposals will be evaluated. Oral explanations or instructions given before award of the Contract will not be binding. A solicitation industry-day conference and webinar will be held as described below.

All questions related to the RFP must be submitted to oaa-solicit-lusaka@usaid.gov on the date and time indicated below. Unless otherwise notified by an amendment to the RFP, no questions will be accepted after this date.

This RFP in no way obligates USAID to award a Contract. Nor does it commit USAID to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of a proposal. Award of a Contract under this RFP is subject to availability of funds and other internal USAID approvals.

mailto:infozambia@usaid.gov mailto:oaa-solicit-lusaka@usaid.gov

Action Date Time

RFP Issuance Date November 16, 2017 N/A

RFP Webinar November 28, 2017 [See L.4] 14:30 Lusaka Time

Questions Due November 29, 2017 17:00 Lusaka Time

Proposals Due December 22, 2017 17:00 Lusaka Time

Oral Presentations January 15-31st 2018 [See L.6] N/A

This RFP and any future amendments can be viewed and downloaded from www.fbo.gov.

USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. Further, be aware that amendments to solicitations are occasionally issued and will be posted on the same internet site from which you downloaded the solicitation. You are therefore advised to regularly check the above internet site for amendments.

Sincerely, Mohib Ahmed

Contracting Officer http://www.fbo.gov/

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Mohib Ahmed 12/06/2017

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USAID Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance RFP

ACRONYM LIST

AIV African Indigenous Vegetables

BMI Body Mass Index

CLTS Community-Led Total Sanitation

CP Cooperating Partner

COP Chief Of Party

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

DDCC District Development Coordinating Committee

DNCC District Nutrition Coordinating Committee

DFID Department for International Development

EMMP Environment Mitigation and Monitoring Plan

EE Environmental Enteropathy

FTF Feed the Future

DNCC District Nutrition Coordinating Committee

ECD Early child development FM Fund Manager

GRZ Government of the Republic of Zambia

GFSP Global Food Security Program

HH Household

IEE Initial Environmental Examination

IYCN Infant and Young Child Nutrition

MCDP Most Critical Days Program

MOH Ministry of Health

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

NFNC National Food and Nutrition Commission

ODF Open Defecation Free

PNCC Provincial Nutrition Coordination Committee

SFSC SUN Fund Steering Committee

SUN Scaling Up Nutrition

SUN TA Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance

TA Technical Assistance

USG United States Government

WNCC Ward Nutrition Coordinating Committee

ZDHS Zambia Demographic and Health Survey

PART I – THE SCHEDULE

SECTION B – SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS

B.1 PURPOSE

The purpose of this contract is for the Contractor to implement the USAID Scaling Up

Nutrition Technical Assistance activity in accordance with Section C – Performance Based

Work Statement (PBWS).

B.2 CONTRACT TYPE AND SERVICES

This is a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) completion-type contract consistent with Federal

Acquisition Regulation 16.306(d)(1). The Contractor must provide the outputs as described in

Section C and the deliverables as described in Section F in accordance with the performance standards specified in Section F and H.

B.3 ESTIMATED COST, FIXED FEE AND OBLIGATED AMOUNT

In accordance with FAR Part 52.232-22 - Limitation of Funds:

(a) The estimated cost for the performance of the work required hereunder, exclusive of fixed fee, if any, is $TBD. The fixed fee, if any, is $TBD. The estimated cost plus fixed fee, if any, is $TBD.

(b) Budget

Line Item

Description

BASE PERIOD OP 1 OP2

TOTAL Yr. 1 Yr. 2 Yr. 3 Yr. 4 Total Yr. 5 Yr. 6

– 6 mo.

Total Yr.6

– 6 mo.

Yr.7 Total

Salaries and Wages

Fringe Benefits

Consultants

Travel, Transportation and

Per Diem

Equipment and

Supplies

Subcontracts

Participant Training

Other Direct Costs

Direct

Implementation

(non-grants)

$15.1M $3.5M $0 $18,600,000

Direct

Implementation

(Grants Under

Contracts)

$2.4M $900K $0 $3,300,000

Indirect Costs

Fixed Fee

Total Cost Plus

Fixed Fee Ceiling

The contractor will not be paid any sum in excess of the ceiling price.

(c) Within the estimated cost plus fixed fee (if any) specified in paragraph (a) above, the amount currently obligated and available for reimbursement of allowable costs incurred by the Contractor (and payment of fee, if any) for performance hereunder is $TBD. The

Contractor will not exceed the aforesaid obligated amount.

(d) Funds obligated hereunder are anticipated to be sufficient through o/a TBD.

B.4 PAYMENT OF FIXED FEES – FAR 52.216-8 (JUN 2011)

The Government must pay the Contractor for performing this contract the fixed fee specified in Section B.3. The payment of fee will be in accordance with the following fee schedule:

(a) Seventy Five (75) percent of the fixed fee is tied to the deliverable schedule as outlined in Section F.5 and provided below:

% OF FIXED FEE

Base Period OP 1 OP 2

No. Deliverables Yr. 1 Yr. 2 Yr. 3 Yr. 4 18 Mo 18 Mo

Inception Phase - Section C.10.1

SUN Activity “Menu” accepted by

NFNC

15%

Monitoring, Coordination, and

Communication Plan approved by

USAID

5% 15% 15%

Implementation Phase - Section C.10.2

SUN Annual District Work Plans submitted and accepted by the SUN

Steering Committee

10% 10% 5% 5% 15% 15%

Periodic Progress Reports

Annual Progress Reports Accepted by USAID 2.5% 2.5% 2.5% 2.5% 15% 15%

Other Reports

20 EMMP Approved by USAID 5% 15% 15%

Close out and Demobilization Plan

Executed

5% 5% 5%

Final Activity Report Approved by

USAID

5% 10% 10%

TOTAL FIXED FEE 75% 75% 75%

(1) If the option period(s) are exercised, the fee(s) associated with deliverables 24 and 26 will be carried over to and added with the OP fee. For example, if OP 1 is exercised, then the fee of 5% from the base period associated with “Close out and Demobilization Plan Executed” will be added to the OP 1 fee of 5% under the “Close out and Demobilization Plan Executed” to make the total fixed fee

10% in OP 1.

(b) The remaining twenty five (25) percent of the fixed fee will be allocated based on the percentage point change in prevalence of stunting among children under-two years of age across the 30 target districts. The baseline, midline, and endline will be conducted by the SUN

Learning and Evaluation contract, with an anticipated award date around the same time as SUN

TA.

(1) The baseline will be completed within the first year of implementation. In the event of a delay in the baseline, the contracting officer will prorate the fee schedule accordingly;

(2) The midline will be conducted after 36 months (year 3) and completed by 42 months (year 3.5) after the award date; and

(3) If the option years are exercised, the endline will be completed either:

i. End of OP 1 (if OP 2 is not exercised) or

ii. End of OP 2 (if OP 2 is exercised).

Note: If OP 2 is exercised the contractor’s fee will be calculated based on the combination of OP 1 and OP 2 as it relates to percent change in prevalence of stunting among children under-two years of age across the

30 target districts from the midline to the endline.

BASE PERIOD

Determined by percentage point change from the baseline to midline

OP 1

Determined by percentage point change from the midline to endline

OP 2

Determined by percentage point change from the midline to endline

Percentage

Point

Reduced Stunting

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Percentage

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Dollars

Percentage

Point

Reduced Stunting

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Percentage

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Dollars

Percentage

Point

Reduced Stunting

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Percentage

Proportion of Overall

Fixed Fee Dollars

1 0% TBD 1 0% TBD 1 0% TBD

2 0% TBD 2 0% TBD 2 0% TBD

3 10% TBD 3 10% TBD 3 10% TBD

4 15% TBD 4 15% TBD 4 15% TBD

5 20% TBD 5 20% TBD 5 20% TBD

6 22% TBD 6 22% TBD 6 22% TBD

7 24% TBD 7 24% TBD 7 24% TBD

8+ 25% TBD 8+ 25% TBD 8+ 25% TBD

In the event of discontinuance of the work in accordance with the clause of the contract entitled “Termination (Cost Reimbursement)” (FAR 52.249-6), the fee must be re-determined by mutual agreement equitably to reflect the reduction in the work actually performed. The amount by which such fee is less than, or exceeds, payments previously made on account of the fee must be paid to, or repaid by the Contractor, as applicable.

B.5 TASK BUDGET

Task Description CLIN Base Period OP 1 OP 2 TOTAL

Inception Phase

N/A

N/A

Staffing Plan Finalized and Personnel Operational 001 TBD

Year One Work-Plan Completed 002 TBD

Intervention “Menu” Approved 003 TBD

District Plans Approved 004 TBD

Monitoring, Coordination, and Communication Plan Approved 005 TBD

Implementation Phase

Annual Work Plan(s) Completed (Starting from Year 2) 006 TBD

Annual Work Plan(s) each SUN District Completed 007 TBD

Technical Assistance (TA) Provided 008 TBD

Capacity Built for SUN Monitoring and Learning 009 TBD

Direct Implementation (non-grants) Executed 010 $15.1M $3.5M $0 $18,600,000

Direct Implementation (Grants Under Contract) Executed 011 $2.4M $900K $0 $3,300,000

Adaptive Management and Monitoring Executed 012 TBD

Total Estimated CLIN Costs TBD

B.6 MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT

This contract is considered non-severable, and is therefore a multi-year contract as defined in

FAR 17.103. Therefore, this contract is subject to the requirements of FAR 17.106.

Cancellation Dates:

Contract Year Date Amount in $

Contract Year 2 TBD TBD

Contract Year 3 TBD TBD

Contract Year 4 TBD TBD

Contract Year 5 TBD TBD

Contract Year 6 – 6 months TBD TBD

Contract Year 6 – 6 months TBD TBD

Contract Year 7 TBD TBD

Cancellation Ceiling:

This is a cost reimbursement completion-type contract where the Contractor is authorized to be reimbursed for all costs which are allowable in accordance with FAR 52.216-7, “Allowable

Costs and Payment.” Therefore, the Contractor must not incur any costs which would have been amortized over the life of the contract should the contract be cancelled in accordance with FAR 52.217-2. The cancellation ceiling for each cancellation date is indicated above.

B.7 INDIRECT COSTS

The Contractor is authorized to recover applicable indirect costs, if it is part of the contractor's usual accounting procedures, consistent with FAR Part 31, and Negotiated Indirect

Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA).

Pending establishment of revised provisional or final indirect cost rates, allowable indirect costs will be reimbursed on the basis of the following negotiated provisional or predetermined rates and the appropriate bases as below:

[To be inserted at the time of Award]

Contractor Fringe

Rate

Overhead

Rate %

Overhead

Ceiling

Rate%

G&A

Rate %

G&A Ceiling

Rate %

PRIME (insert)

Type of Rate (insert)

Base of Application (insert)

Source: (insert)

Period: (insert)

SUBCONTRACTOR(S)

(insert)

Type of Rate

Base of Application (insert)

Source: (insert)

Period: (insert)

NOTE: Ceiling Rates only applicable to other than small business contractors. Ceiling rates may be negotiated through the life of the contract to mitigate performance risk.

NOTE: Insert additional indirect rates as needed for all primes and subcontractors in the above table.

NOTE: The un-shaded columns in the indirect cost table are the current approved indirect cost rates for the prime and subcontractor(s).

NOTE: Contractors are allowed to recoup indirect costs (OH, G&A, etc.) as other direct costs if it is part of the contractor’s usual accounting procedures, consistent with FAR 31 and the contactor’s NICRA.

NOTE: Major subcontractors are subcontractors whose proposed costs exceed 20% of the

Offeror’s proposed total cost or perform a key element of the PBWS.

The Contractor will make no change in its established method of classifying or allocating indirect costs without the prior written approval of the Contracting Officer.

Reimbursement for indirect costs shall be at final negotiated rates, but not in excess of ceiling rates specified above.

The Government will not be obligated to pay any additional amount associated with indirect costs above the ceiling rates established in the Contract. This advance understanding will not change any monetary ceiling, cost limitation, or obligation established in the Contract.

B.8 COST REIMBURSABLE

The U.S. dollar costs allowable will be limited to reasonable, allocable and necessary costs determined in accordance with FAR 31 (Contract Cost Principles), 2 CFR 200 Subpart E (Cost

Principles), FAR 52.216- 7 (Allowable Cost and Payment), FAR 52.216-8 (Fixed Fee) if applicable, and AIDAR 752.7003 (Documentation for Payment), may be reimbursable under this contract

B.9 LABOR

(a) Compensation of personnel under this contract or any resulting subcontracting must be in accordance with AIDAR 752.7007 Personnel compensation (July 2007) , and will be based upon a combination of factors including the Mission’s Local Compensation Plan for the professional category being negotiated and consideration of the individual's education, work experience and recent relevant salary history. Unless otherwise authorized by the Mission

Director or AA having programmatic responsibility, the compensation for CCN and TCN labor must not exceed the Missions’ Local Compensation Plan and must be paid in the currency of the cooperating country.

(b) All locally hired national personnel and other non-U.S. expatriates must be paid in accordance with AIDAR 722.170(a). Third Country Nationals (TCNs) and Cooperating

Country Nationals (CCNs) who are working in the United States or are legal residents of the

United States at the time they are hired, must be extended benefits, and be subject to restrictions on the same basis as U.S. citizens who work in the United States.

(c) The work day and work policies and method of accounting for paid absences including holidays for the contractor and major subcontractors is set forth the contractors policies and procedures which are hereby incorporated by reference.

[END OF SECTION B]

SECTION C – DESCRIPTION/PERFORMANCE BASED WORK STATEMENT

C.1 Activity Title

The activity title is USAID Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance.

C.2 Overview

The Scaling Up Nutrition Program is a cross-ministry and multi-donor program to reduce stunting in Zambia through implementation of the Government of the Republic of Zambia

(GRZ) 1,000 Most Critical Days Program. The first phase, referred to as SUN 1.0 was funded by several donor organizations and significant lessons were learned regarding coordination and implementation. Attachment J.1 provides additional reference materials as it relates to SUN

1.0.

Armed with these lessons, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) and cooperating partners are currently embarking on the next phase, SUN 2.0.

The SUN 2.0 has three major components:

1. Pooled Multi-Donor Fund [managed by DfID and funded by several cooperating partners];

2. SUN Technical Assistance (SUN TA) [funded by USAID]; and,

3. SUN Learning and Evaluation [funded by USAID].

This activity is component 2 of SUN 2.0, SUN TA. This component must enhance the management and implementation of the Pooled Fund by providing high-level technical assistance including support for planning, implementation and monitoring at the district and sub-district levels.

C.3 Success

Success will be measured through an independent USAID bilateral award, the SUN Learning and Evaluation component, as the percent change in prevalence of stunting among children under-two years of age in target districts. Successful implementation of this activity will result in a minimum of a two percentage point reduction in stunting per year over the life of the award. The contractor will work closely with the Learning and Evaluation contractor during the annual performance audits to finalize the theory of change, demonstrating how the interventions in governance, agriculture, nutrition, WASH, health including family planning, early childhood development and behavior change will lead to the reduction in stunting. Exercising of option years will be contingent on a multitude of factors; however, the contractor’s ability to demonstrate that that the interventions are leading to a reduction in stunting will be a major factor in such determination.

C.4 Key Stakeholders

Implementation of SUN 2.0 will require coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders.

The following list provides key stakeholders and their respective roles and responsibilities within the SUN 2.0 program:

Stakeholder Role

National Food and Nutrition

Commission (NFNC)

NFNC holds the current mandate for national nutrition coordination and leadership, and convenes the First 1,000 Most Critical Days

Program.

While the contractor is ultimately responsible to USAID, the SUN

TA program will work under the direction of the NFNC Executive

Director. NFNC will play a leadership role in both the SUN TA and the SUN Fund Manager activities. Terms of reference will be developed by NFNC within the first three months of the activity to clarify reporting roles and coordination.

Ministry of Finance The Ministry of Finance will sign the MOU with other donors supporting the SUN Pooled Fund.

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Agriculture

Ministry of Livestock and

Fisheries

Ministry of Community

Development and Social

Services

Ministry of Water Supply, Sanitation and Environment

Management

Ministry of Local Government and Housing

These are national counterparts for program implementation.

Many of these are also likely provincial- and district-level counterparts for activity planning, implementation, and reporting.

SUN Fund Steering

Committee (SFSC)

The SFSC is the primary technical accountability structure for the

Fund Manager and Technical Assistance Provider. It is made of appointed representatives of key stakeholders including NFNC, line ministries, cooperating partners, UN and civil society organizations.

The SFSC meets on a quarterly basis to review progress and make recommendations to improve impact of the SUN program.

The SUN TA contractor will support the Steering Committee meetings as requested by NFNC, and will routinely be asked to report on progress and challenges.

SUN Fund Manager This role will be filled by a DFID contracted agency responsible for efficient, transparent and effective management and administration of the Multi-Donor Pooled Fund, including program procurement, direct payments and grant disbursements. The SUN Fund Manager will act as the Secretariat for the SUN Fund Steering Committee.

The SUN TA activity will coordinate with the SUN Fund

Manager. The SUN TA provider and SUN Fund Manager will closely work together to jointly manage the process for monthly, quarterly and annual reporting with NFNC involvement and the Steering

Committee.

SUN Technical Assistance USAID will fund the SUN TA activity which will be responsible for

Provider (this activity) strength-based and need-based technical capacity strengthening for

NFNC and line ministries, primarily at the district level and below.

This will include work planning and costing, mentoring regarding implementation of the activities by the line ministries, progress reporting, advocacy and governance strengthening, learning, and monitoring and evaluation. It will also include direct implementation to address time-sensitive gaps in programming.

SUN Learning and Evaluation

Provider

USAID will separately and concurrently fund the SUN Learning and

Evaluation activity which will conduct annual surveys as well as a baseline, midline and endline to determine changes in nutrition status which have been achieved by SUN TA. The baseline will be completed within the first year of implementation. The midline will be conducted after 36 months (year 3) and completed by 42months

(year 3.5) after the award date. If the option years are exercised, the endline will be completed either; at the end of OP 1 (if OP 2 is not exercised) or end of OP 2 (if OP 2 is exercised).

SUN Learning and Evaluation will develop a sampling framework to measure stunting across the 30 districts (not at the district level) and will use globally recognized anthropometric measures for stunting among children under two years of age. In addition, the SUN

Learning and Evaluation contract will conduct focused research on interventions that have promising but limited evidence on improving nutritional outcomes and will carry out implementation science to determine high-impact intervention modalities in Zambia.

Sub-National Coordination

(Provincial, District and Ward

Nutrition Coordination

Committees)

The Committees are mainly made up of the Ministries of

Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Health, Community

Development and Social Welfare, General Education, Chiefs and

Traditional Affairs, Water Supply Sanitation and Environment

Management.

At the provincial, district and ward levels, the SUN TA activity will set up where needed and support the Provincial, District and Ward

Nutrition Coordination Committees to effectively deliver the First

1000 MCDP services ensuring targeted beneficiaries receive the full package of evidence-based interventions. Coordination committees at all levels must be able to lead the process to identify targeted beneficiaries, coordinate work-plans across Ministries, and communicate evidence on high-impact interventions. Further, Coordination Committees at all levels must be informed and empowered to coordinate and leverage activities outside of the SUN program that are delivering complementary results. This will include, but is not limited to the USAID, DFID- and SIDA-funded Maternal and Child Health Continuum of Care support, agriculture value chain activities under USAID’s Feed the Future and Global Food Security

Program, HIV and family planning programs, and governance strengthening activities, among others.

NGOs and private sector organizations working at the community level

Potential implementing partners may be contracted to deliver priority interventions to the target population in selected districts.

Pregnant women and children under 2 years old

These are the intended primary beneficiaries of the First 1,000

MCDP.

Cooperating partners (US, UK, EU, Germany, Sweden, Ireland)

These include donors providing funding for scaling up the First 1,000

MCDP activities under pooled funds or common arrangements.

Cooperating partners (non-pooled funding)

These include other donors providing funds for nutrition activities independently but aligned with the national program.

Private sector partners These include water supply and sanitation commercial utilities and small scale private sector enterprises that can be engaged in service provision.

To help further demonstrate the relationships and how this activity relates to the entire SUN

2.0 program structure, the following representation is provided. This is currently being refined and a final version will be available by the time of award.

C.5 Background

Childhood stunting is a largely irreversible outcome of growth failure that often starts in utero and is caused by a host of factors including inadequate maternal and child nutrition, poor feeding and care practices, disease, and infections. Stunting has long-term effects on individuals and societies, including diminished cognitive and physical development, poorer performance in school and fewer years of completed schooling, reduced adult economic productive capacity, poor health, and an increased risk of degenerative diseases, such as diabetes.

Zambia’s critically high rates of stunting have persisted for several decades, with 45-50 percent in rural areas and 35-40 percent in urban areas. Nationally, the rate of stunting has decreased by approximately 12.5 percentage points since 2001/2002 - from 52.5 percent in 2001-02 to

40.1 percent in 2013-14 (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, ZDHS).

Some immediate and underlying causes of this high rate of stunting include the following:

● High levels of poverty (80 percent of Zambians earn under $1.25 in rural areas);

● Rural households that are largely dependent on subsistence agriculture and agricultural systems complicated by food safety issues and household-level production of food that is neither sufficiently diverse nor nutritious;

● Frequent bouts of diarrhea (16 percent of children under 5 had an episode of diarrhea two weeks prior to the ZDHS 2013 survey);

● Poor access to clean water (only 47 percent of the population in rural areas has access to an improved drinking water source) (ZDHS 2013 survey);

● Poor access to improved sanitation (only 25 percent of the population in rural areas has access to improved sanitation) (ZDHS 2013 survey);

● Poor access to health clinics (57 percent of women in rural areas cited distance to facilities as a barrier to accessing health care) (ZDHS 2013 survey);

● Poor adolescent and maternal nutrition and health, including anemia during pregnancy influences a child’s growth and development starting from the womb;

● Lack of knowledge and skills surrounding infant and young child feeding practices, including for the transition from breastfeeding to solid foods;

● Early childhood marriage and pregnancies, which occur when a girl’s body is not prepared for childbearing, which affect fetal growth due to competition for nutrients with the mother’s ongoing growth;

● Inadequate spacing between pregnancies; and,

● Low dietary diversity and protein consumption among adolescents, pregnant women and children under the age of five years.

Supplemental information on factors contributing to stunting can be found under Attachment

J.2 “Background on Contributing Factors to Stunting.”

C.6 Objectives

In order to achieve the stated success of this activity, USAID has identified two main objectives that address stunting:

1. Adequate Quantity and Quality of Dietary Intake among Target Groups; and,

2. Adequate Health Conditions for Biological Utilization of Nutrients.

C.7 Results Framework

The following Results Framework provides an overall description of the goal and objectives:

Illustrative indicators for the results framework are included below.

The contractor will draw upon these indicators and propose a comprehensive set of indicators, benchmarks and targets to accomplish the SUN TA results. In particular, the contractor will consider direct, proxy and/or composite indicators for gender, resilience and environmental enteropathy, as appropriate. The contractor will take into account the Feed the Future, the

Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act, and other initiative frameworks, as appropriate.

GOAL: Reduce stunting by at least 14 percentage points across 30 target districts

Primary Target Groups: pregnant women,Children < 2 years

Measurable Indicators: Stunting

OBJECTIVE 1: Adequate Quantity and Quality of Dietary Intake Among Targeted Groups

IR 1: Increased, reliable access to safe, nutritious food

IR2: Adoption of better child feeding and household hygiene practices

OBJECTIVE 2: Adequate Health Conditions for Biological Utilization of Nutrients

IR3: Improved delivery of effective, sustainable health and nutrition services

IR4: Healthier, cleaner environment

Cross –cutting IRs:

IR5: Improve intra-household, joint decision-making with a focus on enhancing women’s control over resources and household nutrition and male care-taker support on nutrition actions.

IR6: local government and their stakeholders strengthened to ensure coordination, accountability and learning in nutrition and agriculture, following the scaling up nutrition model.

IR7:Monitoring systems strengthened to ensure data from the lowest level of the community are driving decisions.

Sub-IRs:

- Increased access to safe drinking water

- Improved sanitation in communities and schools

- Reduced exposure to causes of disease and environmental enteropathy

- Strengthened health system capacity to deliver essential health and nutrition services

- Nutrition support services provided to vulnerable groups

- Specialized feeding provided to ART clients and malnourished children

Sub-IRs:

- Improved knowledge of best feeding, hygiene practices

- Adequate time and support for child care

- Increased market availability of diverse, affordable nutritious foods

- Increased local production of diverse, quality foods

- Increased incomes and resilience of poor households

- Reduced aflatoxins in food

- Preparedness for emergency food response

Goal: Reduce Stunting among Children under Two Years of Age

Percentage of children under age 2 who are stunted

Percentage of women with low BMI (by age)

Percentage of children under age 2 who are underweight

Number of children under age 2 reached with community-level nutrition specific interventions

Objective I: Adequate Quantity and Quality of Dietary Intake among Target Groups

Percentage of HHs with moderate or severe hunger

IR 1: Increased reliable access to safe, nutritious foods o Prevalence of HHs practicing safe food processing/preparation /improved storage practices o Prevalence of women of reproductive age who consume targeted nutrient rich value chain commodities o Women’s dietary diversity: Mean number of food groups consumed by women of reproductive age o Percentage of HHs selling or bartering nutritious crops that they grew o Prevalence of HHs practicing aflatoxin management techniques o Per capita income in target provinces o Percentage of HHs reporting stronger resilience to lean season and environmental shocks

IR2: Adoption of better child feeding and household hygiene practices o Percentage of HHs practicing essential hygiene actions o Percentage of HHs practicing essential nutrition actions o Percentage of children exclusively breastfed to 6 months o Percentage of children under 2 meeting minimal standards for infant and young child feeding (IYCF)

Objective 2: Adequate Health Conditions for Biological Utilization of Nutrients

Percentage of children under age 2 who had diarrhea in the preceding two weeks

IR3: Improved delivery of effective, sustainable health and nutrition services o Number of new family planning users o Percentage of children with diarrhea in the preceding two weeks who received treatment from a health facility or provider o Number of health facilities routinely conducting growth monitoring and counselling parents on results o Percentage of children identified as severely malnourished identified and who received treatment

IR4: Healthier Cleaner Environment o Number of people gaining access to basic drinking water services as a result of USG assistance;

o Percent of households in target areas practicing correct use of recommended household water treatment technologies;

o Number of institutional settings gaining access to a basic drinking water services as a result of USG assistance;

o Number of communities certified as open defecation free (ODF) as a result of USG assistance;

o Number of people gaining access to a basic sanitation service as a result of

USG assistance;

o Percentage of households with soap and water at a handwashing station commonly used by family members;

o Number of households with clean latrines, including covers; and, o Number of local artisans trained to construct and maintain latrines.

C.8 Link to CDCS

USAID has maintained a presence in Zambia for 34 years, supporting and implementing programs targeting economic growth, health, education, democracy and governance, and humanitarian assistance. USAID/Zambia’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) seeks to better understand what is holding Zambia back and what USAID, the GRZ, and the donor community need to do differently to turn Zambia’s development around. The current

CDCS was extended for a further two years and is available from:

https://www.usaid.gov/zambia/cdcs. USAID anticipates nutrition will continue to be a high-level priority in the future CDCS.

The CDCS, like the Seventh National Development Plan (SNDP), focuses on rural poverty and its multiple dimensions that include malnutrition, poor education, poor health, poorly functioning institutions of governance, and limited or no market access further constrained by low household agricultural productivity. The SNDP identifies nutrition and food security as primary objectives and agricultural development as a way to achieve these objectives. It seeks to achieve a “well-nourished and healthy population by 2030,” specifying five nutrition and food security targets, including a target to increase the GDP agriculture contribution from 16% to

20% by 2015.

Nutrition is addressed in both the CDCS Development Objective 2( DO2) which addresses rural poverty and Development Objective 3 (DO3) which addresses Human Capital.

DO2 responds to challenges outlined in Zambia’s SNDP and builds on Zambia’s own commitments to address these challenges. Further under DO2, USAID tests and scales up household models that promote more equitable gender and intergenerational outcomes in terms of incomes, assets, and nutrition, as well as reducing domestic violence. The target beneficiaries under DO2 include smallholder farmers, people living in poverty and underweight children. Illustrative indicators include, among others, the prevalence of stunted children.

DO 3 responds to the lack of human capital as a constraint to Zambia’s competitiveness and growth. Low levels of human capital drag down labor productivity and prevent broad based growth. As a development catalyst, human capital requires an educated populace that is capable of embracing new technologies while also able to make sound decisions that affect the health and welfare of families and economic livelihoods. Yet an education is not sufficient if health impairments such as stunting limit cognitive function. Illustrative indicators include, among others, stunting in children under five.

C.9 Link to other Programs

This activity will be expected to build upon successes and key interventions laid out in FTF projects, maternal and child health programs and Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programs that are/were funded by USAID including the following. As stated above, the activity should also build on lessons learned from SUN 1.0 and other nutrition-related activities in

Zambia.

Mawa (PSP-led SILC model, integrated agriculture-nutrition-gender-financial inclusion approach, use of mobile technologies and extension materials, nutrition behavior change interventions);

PROFIT+ (build upon CAD and private service provider models, strengthen agro dealers, cooperatives, groups, and small and medium businesses, strengthen input and output markets, combine CAD and Mawa SILC models);

CASH/Agrismart (build upon private sector partnerships, nutrition research for African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs), technology access and adoption);

Better Life Alliance/COMACO (CSA, agro-processing markets, integration of traditional authorities, strengthening cooperatives as small businesses and promotion of sustainable agriculture practices);

INGENAES (utilizing gender and nutrition integration in agricultural extension);

R&D/Innovation Labs/Africa Rising (dissemination of newly tested varieties, approaches to reduce aflatoxin, green manures/agroforestry/CSA approaches, new technologies and research findings on groundnuts, soybeans, cowpeas, pigeon pea, AIV, post-harvest managements and early generation seeds; orange fleshed sweet potatoes and orange maize.)

Partnership for Innovation: Public Private Partnerships that scale up commercialization of improved agriculture and food products and technologies.

IAPRI (use of data for decision making on agriculture, nutrition and food policy).

Continuum of Care (CoC) activities across the 45 districts supported by USAID and other donors. The contractor will also learn from the strengthened Safe Motherhood

Action Groups (SMAGs) in various districts.

SPLASH: This was a WASH activity which focused on the provision of sanitation and water supply infrastructure in schools alongside hygiene education/awareness, community engagement, capacity building in WASH operation & maintenance services through community financing and technical training of Area Pump Menders.

C.10 Assumptions

USAID/Zambia believes that through this activity the results will be achieved by the end of the seven years given the following assumptions:

● GRZ is stable and the country remains peaceful

● GRZ will continue to invest in nutrition, increasing its contributions over the next seven years

● Donors continue to support the Scaling Up Nutrition basket fund

● GRZ’s currency remains stable and does not suffer significant devaluation

● The policy environment related to imports and exports remains stable and predictable

● District officials and nutrition coordinating committees have or will develop the capacity to plan, execute, and monitor SUN Fund funded activities, in addition to their current workloads

● Extreme weather (drought, flash floods, erratic rainfall patterns) does not adversely impact the timing of the activity’s weather-dependent WASH and agriculture activities or access to remote project communities

The assumptions listed above will be revisited on an annual basis during the PMP review to help determine why results are (or are not) occurring.

C.11 Scope

This activity is expected to provide targeted, high-impact technical assistance coupled with targeted direct implementation to reduce stunting in targeted districts. This activity will work initially in a minimum of 30 districts in Zambia. The following are the anticipated districts that this activity will cover with the potential to increase the geographic scope in future years. (note, USAID reserves the right to change the districts based on NFNC):

# Province District # Province District

1 Central Mumbwa 16 Central Kapiri-Mposhi

2 Eastern Chipata 17 Central Kabwe

3 Eastern Lundazi 18 Copperbelt Kitwe

4 Luapula Mansa 19 Copperbelt Ndola

5 Luapula Samfya 20 Eastern Katete

6 Muchinga Chinsali 21 Eastern Petauke

7 North-Western Mwinilunga 22 Luapula Nchelenge

8 North-Western Zambezi 23 Lusaka Lusaka

9 Northern Kaputa 24 Muchinga Mpika

10 Northern Kasama 25 Muchinga Isoka

11 Northern Mbala 26 North-Western Solwezi

12 Western Kalabo 27 Northern Luwingu

13 Western Mongu 28 Southern Choma

14 Western Shangombo 29 Southern Kalomo

15 Central Chibombo 30 Western Kaoma

At a minimum, the activity will work in the 14 original SUN districts plus 8 additional districts in year one and scale-up to the remaining 8 districts in year 2. However, the activity is not prohibited from working in all 30 districts at inception. NFNC’s ambition is to scale SUN 2.0 to 100 districts over the next five years. Under this activity, a minimum of 80 percent of the contractor’s focus will be at the district and sub-district levels, while the remaining 20 percent focus being split between the provincial and the national levels.

C.11.1 Inception Phase

The activity will begin with a rapid ‘inception phase’ which will last no longer than six months, encompassing:

1. Staffing Plan Finalized and Personnel Operational

2. Approved Annual Work-plan

3. Approved Activity “Menu”

4. Approved SUN District Plan

5. Approved Monitoring, Coordination and Communication Plan

TASK 1: Staffing Plan Finalized and Personnel Operational

The contractor must provide the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) within the country no later than one month after award. The contractor is responsible for all logistics and ensuring the Key Personnel have resources to enter the ‘implementation phase.’

All full time staff must be in place no later than three months after award.

A lean headquarters staff must be based in Lusaka and must work in close collaboration with the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC), the SUN Fund Manager and other key stakeholders to direct a high-impact SUN Program. An innovative national staffing pattern must:

Ensure flexibility to respond rapidly and effectively to identified needs; and, Provide high level technical assistance focused at the district level and below.

The staffing plan must reflect the expertise and level of effort necessary to provide on-going technical assistance as well as mechanisms to respond to needs as they arise.

TASK 2: Year One Work-Plan

The Year One Work-Plan must describe the timeline and major activities necessary to successfully complete the inception phase and begin the implementation phase.

The Work-Plan must be realistic and reflect a prioritized plan to move through inception to implementation. The Plan must reflect time for consultations and approvals among key stakeholders within the SUN Program. While the details of all interventions per target district must be determined under the ‘implementation phase’ and may be not available at the time of submission, the Work-Plan must demonstrate the process that must lead to and build from those plans.

The Work-Plan must reflect attention to the overall Results Framework and must describe how the activity will reach the overall goal of decreasing stunting among children under 2. In the Year 1 Work-Plan, the Contractor must ensure geographic coverage across all target districts and must take a district-wide approach, reaching 80% of target beneficiaries in the district. The Work-Plan must reflect NFNC input and collaboration across line ministries.

TASK 3: Approved SUN Activity…