SUMMARY OF DEADLINES

Proposal
Deadline: 9
October 2016, 17.00 WIB

Technical
Review:   10

– 12 October 2016

Award of
Contract:   14
October 2016

Implementation Period: November 2016 – January 2017.

Indonesia is one of the world’s
leading textile and garment exporting countries, which grows over 8% annually
and contributes to economic development, foreign currency reserves and
employment levels of the country. Indonesia’s garment and apparel sector employs
approximately 1.3 million people with women comprising 78% of the workers in
the sector. The Indonesian government targets to increase the nation’s value of
exported textiles and garments to USD $75 billion by the year 2030, implying
that this industry would contribute around 5 per cent to global exports. More
women will work in factories for long hours but their nutritional status may
deteriorate if no action is taken. This will impact on overall health
increasing the potential for staff absenteeism and reduced productivity.

Malnutrition is an intergenerational
problem, with maternal malnutrition impacting the nutritional status of infants
and children. By changing the health and nutritional status of the
predominantly young garment sector workforce and providing access to nutritious
foods and supplements, we have a great opportunity to break this
intergenerational cycle of malnutrition as pre-pregnancy health and nutrition
can define a child’s growth and development.

By improving the nutritional status of female factory workers (garment
sector in particular but other factory-based industries may also be reached
through this approach) and their families, we expect to bring benefits to the
workers, their children as well as factory owners. Improved nutrition in this
target group is expected to result in a reduction of absenteeism and staff
turnover, and an increase in productivity, job satisfaction and employer
loyalty. For the garment workers, this will lead to better health and higher
income, when paid per working day / product output.

In Indonesia, civil society and government have been actively engaged in
developing different health and safety interventions for female workers. One of
the initiatives established by MoH is the Productive and Healthy Female
Labor Movement (Gerakan Pekerja Perempuan Sehat
Produktif) in collaboration with several ministries and government bodies. At the same time, a key gap that has been identified is the lack of
in-depth interventions on improving the nutrition of the female workers as well
as existing policies regarding current interventions. Therefore, considering
the importance of gathering more information related to nutrition in workplace,
GAIN plans to conduct series of activities on landscape and scoping nutrition
in workplace in Indonesia.

The Specific Objectives:

• To gather data and information on
  nutritional situation among the target group, relevant policy and legal
  frameworks and current programs in the workplace
• To gather data and information on private
  or public sector initiatives or products appropriate for a factory based
  nutrition intervention
• To gather information Conduct a nutrition
  assessment in maximum 30 factories, using nutrition assessment toolkit
• To disseminate the findings of the review
  and assessments.

For the complete RFP, please email [email protected] with the subject line: “RFP NW Landscape & Scoping”