Support for Review of Social Protection Programs and Impact Analysis

Background

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), together with partners, has led a global scoping review of the impact of social protection programs on dietary intake and nutritional status. We are seeking a consultant to support an update to the associated literature review and manuscript. In addition, we conducted an impact evaluation of a nutrition-sensitive social protection program in Sri Lanka and are seeking to work with the same consultant to update the analysis of the impact of the program on dietary intake among adults and provide inputs to the associated manuscript.

Activities

The collaborator will rerun the literature search to identify papers published in the last three years, that qualify to be added to the review. For included papers, the consultant will update the summary tables with the descriptives related to the identified papers as well as the accompanying tables in the draft manuscript. The consultant will also review and revise the manuscript to account for changes necessary due to the updated review. The second activity will involve working with the lead authors and other collaborators to update the impact analysis and tables in the draft manuscript. The consultant will also provide written inputs for the manuscript, including, but not limited to leading the drafting of the methods section of the manuscript. Specifically, the consultant will:

• Rerun literature search to account for the time since the last literature review was conducted.

• Screen articles for inclusion in the updated review

• Update background table and tables in the draft review along with the other sections of the paper that need to be updated with the inclusion of the additional papers.

• Update tables for results section of the table

• Draft methods section for impact paper

• Provide other inputs as needed to finalize the two manuscripts (e.g. additional writing, bibliographic support, etc.)

Location

All work will be done remotely.

Level of effort

The level of effort for this activity is 40 days.

Deliverables

• Summary of updated literature review process and results

• Updated tables for the two papers

• Updated methods sections for the two papers

• Other inputs for the papers as needed

Required qualifications

• PhD degree in nutrition, public health, or other closely related field

• Demonstrated experience with quantitative dietary data analysis to assess macro- and micro-nutrient intake

• Demonstrated experience with literatures reviews

• Experience working in LMICs

• Demonstrated professional level of attention to detail and accuracy of work