THE CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING, NUTRITION AND HEALTH CARE (COUNSENUTH)
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
TO BE APPOINTED AS EXTERNAL AUDITORS OF COUNSENUTHFOR YEAR ENDING 2020
The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition, and Health Care (COUNSENUTH) is a Tanzanian non-profit, non-governmental organization working to scale up nutrition work in Tanzania. The mission of COUNSENUTH is to improve quality of life for vulnerable groups through cost-effective, evidence-based and locally appropriate nutrition interventions. COUNSENUTH achieves this mission by building a multi-sectoral advocacy movement for better nutrition governance through active engagement with citizens, policy makers, and government authorities at all levels.
COUNSENUTH is implementing different programs as follows:
1. Gender–Nutrition (Lishe Kijinsia) Program – Dodoma: This is a four-year (2018-2022) community-based gender-driven and learning based nutrition project supporting the LGA in Chemba, Dodoma region to accelerate reduction of childhood stunting among children 0-59 months by at least 5% from 37.7% in the 4 years using a gender-based approach.
2. Accelerating Stunting Reduction Program (ASRP). This is a four-year program (2015 to 2019) funded by UNICEF with support from Irish Aid and DFID. The project aims to support the Government and partners’ efforts to reduce the prevalence of stunting among children under five years old in Tanzania with a focus in six districts of Mbeya region.
3. Kijana jiongeze project. A one-year learning project (2019-2020), aimed at improved performance of girls in Secondary Schools in Tunduru through participatory community’s own solutions, with MasterCard Foundation funding.
4. The Wasichana leadership program under OVC project, the overall objective of this project is to provide Secondary School education for girl orphans with financial support from Friends of COUNSENUTH
ORGANIZATION’S BACKGROUND AND ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The Centre for Counseling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization in Tanzania established in 1998 (under registration number SO. 9495) and is located on Galu Street, Ada Estate, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Our Vision Statement
A leading Non-Governmental, Not for Profit Organization (NGO) that is committed to achieving optimal nutrition and healthy, quality life for children, women and the most vulnerable in Tanzania.
Our Mission Statement
COUNSENUTH works to improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups; through cost effective, innovative evidence-based actions that are locally appropriate, with advocacy for better health & nutrition, gender equity and women’s empowerment; and governance and accountability; with active engagement of citizens.
Our mandate includes but not limited to enhancing the quality of life of all people specifically children, women, adolescents, other vulnerable groups, through:
1. Health and Nutrition improvement
2. Health/Nutrition and psychosocial counseling services
3. Prevention and improved management of diet related non communicable diseases
4. Good Governance and accountability monitoring
5. Social Behavior change communication
6. Youth skills development & economic empowerment
7. Human rights, gender equity, prevention of violence against women and girls and women empowerment
8. Awareness creation for food consumers on food quality & safety standards, and WASH to food consumers on food quality, safety standards, hygiene and sanitation, nutrient value and healthy lifestyles through public education and information;
9. Technical capacity building for civil society groups, community-based service providers and communities, on preventive health, nutrition, and women empowerment
10. Innovation and learning to contribute to evidence base in the health, nutrition gender, youth and other development concerns
11. Climate change mitigation,
12. Organizational and institutional development for COUNSENUTH and other CBOs.
13. Advocacy and lobby to achieve sound policies, guidelines for nutrition, and better lives for women and the poor.
14. Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
To achieve its mandate, COUNSENUTH employs a number of strategies including the following:
• Capacity building on nutrition including that of a critical mass of implementers at all levels.
• Nutrition Advisory and Technical Assistance services to government and implementing partners.
• Designing, development and dissemination of user friendly and up to date education and advocacy materials and tools.
• Advocacy and lobby to place nutrition high on national development agenda.
• Working with CBOs/FBOs to implement community–based health and nutrition related programmes and counselling services for women, children and other vulnerable groups.
• Networking within the country and abroad for cross fertilization of ideas to increase effectiveness of the organization and its work.
COUNSENUTH’s Target Groups are women, Children, Youth, Adolescents and Families; Most Vulnerable Children and Orphans; Social/health service providers and other extension workers.
COUNSENUTH wishes to appoint external auditors to audit its account for the financial year ended December 2020
If you are a registered firm of auditors and your firm is accredited by USAID Office of the regional inspector general to audit USAID grants, and you wish to be considered for appointment please apply giving the following information:
• Name of the firm,
• Profile of the firm including personnel and their qualifications,
• Details of similar work undertaken,
• Fees to be charged.
For further information please contact our Executive director. Your submission should be sent to Executive director not later than 20th October 2020.
Pauline Kisanga,
Executive Director,
COUNSENUTH,
Plot No. 08 Sam Nujoma Road, Mikocheni B
P.O. Box 8218, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Mobile: 0682 892 386
Email: [email protected]
