Consultancy to Support The Implementation of Unicef Thailand’s Nutrition Operational Plan
4 weeks ago
**Job no**: 577922
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Bangkok
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Thailand
**Categories**: Adolescent Development, Nutrition
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfilling their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
**For every child, a better future**
UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region. This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:
- **survival** - to basic healthcare, peace and security;
- **development** - to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
- **protection** - from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
- **participation** - to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them.
**How can you make a difference?**
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking a nutrition expert to support implementation of the Nutrition Operational Plan by building on existing initiatives and strengthening UNICEF TCO’s nutrition support to the Royal Thai Government.
**Background**:
While Thailand has been relatively successful in reducing undernutrition in children over the last few decades, there are still pockets of undernutrition among poor populations.
While stunting among under-fives declined significantly in the 1980s and 1990s, rates have not shifted much since 2005. Stunting rates are higher than the mean for Thailand in poorer provinces, affecting over one third of children in Mae-Hong Son in the North and over a quarter of children in Ranong in the South.
At the same time, Thailand is experiencing a rapid increase in overweight and obesity. In the last 15 years, overweight and obesity prevalence has more than doubled among children under 5 years of age and quadrupled in 5-18-year-olds. Currently, around 1 in 8 children in Thailand is overweight or obese. The cost to health and to the economy is significant. Overweight and obesity is associated with chronic diseases such as diabetes type II, cardiovascular diseases, certain forms of cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and premature mortality. It can also lead to depression and lower school attainment.
Malnutrition in Thailand is closely associated with changes in diet from fresh, local foods to higher consumption of ultra-processed foods full of unhealthy fats, sugar, and salt. Thailand now ranks highest among 54 low
- and middle-income countries for adolescent fast-food intake and sales of ultra-processed food and drink are rapidly increasing. These changes are being driven by the food environment in which access to healthy foods is decreasing while ultra-processed products are abundant, cheap, and heavily marketed.
The Government of Thailand, under the leadership of the Department of Health (DoH), is responding to the nutrition challenges through a range of legislative, policy and programming approaches. UNICEF Thailand Country Office (TCO) is supporting and enhancing government efforts and has recently developed a two-year Nutrition Operational Plan for 2025-2026. The plan adopts a systems approach with the food system at the center supported by contributions from other key sectors and integrated into broader programme approaches in Early Childhood Development, Education, Adolescent Development and Participation and private sector engagement.
In this context, UNICEF TCO is seeking a nutrition expert to support implementation of the Nutrition Operational Plan by building on existing initiatives and strengthening UNICEF TCO’s nutrition support to the Royal Thai Government.
**Work assignment**:
**Assignment 1**: Edit and finalise an existing draft of a joint UNICEF-WHO advocacy brief on the Draft Act to Control the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Drinks, for the Minister of Public Health. This includes conducting a review of existing key advocacy documents and materials previously developed to ensure alignment and consistency with prior efforts. The brief should be concise, compelling, and action-oriented, designed to facilitate informed decision-making and garner support at the ministerial level.
**Expected deliverable**:Advocacy brief for the Minister of Public Health
**Delivery Schedule**: 30 January 2025 (2 days)
**Assignment 2**: Develop a policy brief to support the expansion of breastfeeding counselling, especially through online channels. The brief should provide the rational and evidence to advocate with high-level decision makers within the Ministry of Public Health and National Health Security Office. It can be built on an existing study and pilot conducted by Department of Health on online breastfeeding counselling.
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