Requests for Proposals

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is issuing this Request for Proposal (RFP) and will be the administrative lead organisation for this RFP. Nutrition Connect is an initiative of GAIN (https://nutritionconnect.org/ ), its purpose is to mobilise knowledge, share experiences, and stimulate dialogue on public private engagement (PPE) for nutrition. Nutrition Connect keeps focus on its three pillars; enhancing knowledge curation, co-creation, and collaboration & communication (3 C’s), aligned with its key mandate to champion public-private engagement (PPE) in nutrition and coordinate action for the larger food systems transformation. This online platform caters to government, business, civil society and academia, to identify innovative solutions, form new partnerships, and share good practices for effective PPE solutions that can drive investment and action for better nutrition. Nutrition Connect (NC) works on following priority areas : Advancing partnerships; Climate and sustainability; Consumer demand; Food fortification; Food loss and waste; Healthier diets; Food safety; Policies, taxes and incentives; Supply chains; Workforce nutrition The purpose of this RFP is to engage the services of a consultant or agency as a Service Provider to develop and execute the monthly campaigns of Nutrition Connect, focusing on enhancing public-private engagement (PPE) for nutrition. The consultant agency will undertake end-to-end planning and execution of campaigns to mobilize knowledge, share experiences, and stimulate dialogue within the context of nutrition-related initiatives, in the GAIN global and countries-context.

GAIN seeks a full-time consultant to support the GAIN team in conducting an upcoming market-level assessment (MLA) in the states of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Karnataka (KA). The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

 1) Providing end-to-end project support for the MLA in UP and KA.

 2) Coordinating on a daily basis with the Knowledge Leadership (KL) team, country team, laboratory, implementation partners, and other relevant stakeholders. 

3) Performing quantitative data analysis and preparing detailed reports for the MLA in UP and KA. 

4) Conducting field visits in the states of UP and KA as and when required.

 5) Be available for virtual and in-person meetings as and when required.

o ensure that the grant is used to build a sustainable business for the tempeh producers, GAIN seeks a business consultant (s) to support tempeh partners in business development for achieving their business goals to increase production and sales of jack bean and/or mixed bean tempeh. The services of the business consultant (s) include consultancy on business development, to provide capacity building in increasing production for jack bean / mixed bean tempeh; and linkage to larger industries such as private sectors committed to taking forward jack bean / mixed bean tempeh.

This RFP seeks a research partner to: 

1. Capture lived food behaviours and the language people use to describe/ characterise them. 

2. Identify themes in food behaviours and relate them to our initial synthesis of Indian Food Culture Codes (x3) and surface other relevant codes. 

3. Provide input (through online discussions) into the GAIN/FCA team’s prioritisation of the food behavioural themes on the basis of their potential impact on sustainable and nutritious diets. 

4. Understand how the cultural codes are expressed in food behaviours, what and who is driving the codes, and the channels of this influence.