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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR TRANSLATOR: TRANSLATING HYGINE MANUAL FOR HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR CHANGE (HBC) IN COMMUNITIES UNDER WIMBLEDON PHASE 2 PROJECT IN NTCHISI
Project Background
WaterAid Malawi has been working with healthcare facilities across the country since 2014. For the last three years (2020-2023), the Wimbledon Foundation has been supporting WaterAid’s strategic aims in Malawi by helping transform healthcare facilities through Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Ntchisi district. The Wimbledon Foundation funding has enabled WaterAid to install new WASH facilities at four healthcare facilities in the district namely Ntchisi District Hospital, and Kangolwa, Nkhuzi and Khuwi Health Centres serving a district population of around 317,000 people.
In the second phase of the project, WaterAid Malawi will target three new Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) in Ntchisi district with improved WASH services. These HCFs are Chandawe, Chinkhande and Sambakunsi and serve a catchment population of 13,627; 7,914, and 10,629 respectively. These HCFs have recently been upgraded from ‘Health Posts’, which are defined as community-built structures providing limited health services.
Since being upgraded to Health Centres, these HCFs are providing a wider range of services, and they urgently require WASH facilities and hygiene practices are needed to provide a safe and clean environment for healthy service delivery. For the hygiene interventions, the project will also target all villages surrounding all the previously targeted HCFs (namely Nkhuzi, Khuwi and Kangolwa), where WASH provision remains poor and 1 Group Village Head (GVH) around the new HCFs with Hygiene interventions with an expectation to reach a total population of 100,000 people with hygiene messages.
WaterAid thus conducted a formative assessment to generate evidence to inform the design of hygiene behaviour change interventions for communities and HCFs specifically focusing on: handwashing with soap at critical moments for all; safe and hygienic management and disposal of human excreta and toilet use; water treatment and storage and child feeding practices; COVID-19 prevention; food handling; food preparation; utensil cleanliness; food reheating and other context specific food hygiene behaviours in communities around Ntchisi District.
The insights gathered through the formative research on motives, barriers, and drivers of behavior informed the development of a hygiene behavior change package aimed at promoting hygiene practices among parents/guardians, men, women, youths in targeted households and communities in the targeted communities and HCFs in Ntchisi District. This package thus requires to be translated into Chichewa.
It is against this background that WaterAid would like to engage the services of a development-oriented Translator to support the translation of the HBC manual from English to Chichewa.
For specific Terms of Reference for this assignment, please download from www.wateraid.org/mw/publications
Please submit your expression of interest not later than 10:00am on 5th September, 2024.
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