UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN`S FUND has floated a tender for Child Friendly Education Evaluation Consultancy. The project location is Papua New Guinea and the tender is closing on 23 Aug 2019. The tender notice number is , while the TOT Ref Number is 35481401. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

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Procurement Summary

Country : Papua New Guinea

Summary : Child Friendly Education Evaluation Consultancy

Deadline : 23 Aug 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 35481401

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN`S FUND
P.O. Box 472, Port Moresby, NCD Telephone: (+ 675) 321 3000 Fax: (+ 675) 321 1372
Papua New Guinea
Email :portmoresby@unicef.org
URL :http://www.unicef.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Child Friendly Education Evaluation Consultancy.

Purpose, Objectives and Scope

The purpose of the Evaluation is to evaluate the extent to which the UNICEF PNG child friendly education programme is being implemented and provide a set of actionable recommendations to inform the MTR decision-making for future programming, education policy implementation and budgeting for programme scale-up. The Evaluation serves a dual purpose of enhancing accountability and promoting learning through assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and relevance of the governments CFS initiative. The Evaluation is expected to be completed, validated and disseminated by December 2019 at the latest to inform the NDoE-UNICEF (2020-2021) Work Plan, MTR for UNICEF PNGs 2018-2022 Country Programme and the next NEP (2020-2029). The 2020 MTR will streamline UNICEFs interventions and ensure alignment with PNGs Medium-Term Development Plan III 2018-2022 (MTDP III- Goal Area 1 Improve Education Services and Outcomes). The secondary purpose of the evaluation is to account for the results UNICEF has contributed to the desired results for children. The evaluation will assess UNICEF PNG performance and support for quality IECD services and elementary and primary education as well as improved service delivery. In addition, the evaluation is intended to evaluate how UNICEF has contributed to the NQSSF and supported the achievement of the NEP. Lastly, the evaluation will inform UNICEF education programming in PNG, in particular through analysis of the effectiveness of the approaches used in the 2012-2017 and 2018-2022 country programme cycles particularly during the duration of the current NEP (2015-2019). This assessment will also determine the comparative advantage (mandate, capacity, position- comparative advantage analysis) of UNICEF PNG and does not articulate the status quo, but rather is a forward-looking projection of capacities and positioning at the country level. UNICEF will continue to support the GoPNG in further strengthen equitable access to quality education in the future using a child rights and gender sensitive lens. The primary users of the evaluation will be the UNICEF PNG and its partners, i.e. GoPNG, United Nations Country Team, as well as donors, partners and practitioners who support the education programme. The partners will be able to use the evaluation for policy and planning purposes.

The objectives of this evaluation are:

1. To assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and sustainability of the UNICEF IECD and CFS initiatives and to determine to what extent interventions have contributed to the NQSSF and the achievement of the NEP (2015-2019).

2. To assess the performance and achievements of UNICEF-supported IECD centres and schools in meeting quality standards and enhancing Grade 8 student learning outcomes.

3. To draw lessons learnt and identify good practices based on case studies.

4. To generate a set of clear, forward-looking and actionable recommendations logically linked to the findings and conclusions. These recommendations will include specific guidance on how to effectively implement, monitor and evaluate the NQSSF as well as IECD and CFS interventions in centres and elementary and primary schools supported by UNICEF.

Given the context described above, the scope will cover UNICEF-supported IECD and CFS initiatives in Madang and Milne Bay provinces as well as ARoB from January 2015 to December 2018 and the extent IECD abd CFS interventions have contributed to the NQSSF and the achievement of the NEP. To gain a deeper understanding of local dynamics, the consultant will do a case study in at least one IECD centre lin ARoB, Madang and Milne Bay Provinces and will also cover UNICEF support to GoPNG at the national and sub-national levels. The evaluation will not include UNICEF PNG emergency response and Flexible and Open Distance Education. The evaluation will use OECD/DACs evaluation criteria as laid out in the DAC Principles for Evaluation of Development Assistance and later defined in the Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. Namely:

1. Relevance (the extent to which the aid activity is suited to the priorities and policies of the target group, recipient and donor);

2. Effectiveness (A measure of the extent to which an aid activity attains its objectives);

3. Efficiency (measures the outputs -- qualitative and quantitative -- in relation to the inputs. It is an economic term which signifies that the aid uses the least costly resources possible to achieve the desired results);

4. Impact (the positive and negative changes produced by a development intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended. This involves the main impacts and effects resulting from the activity on the local social, economic, environmental and other development indicators);

5. Sustainability (measuring whether the benefits of an activity are likely to continue after donor funding has been withdrawn).

Key questions of the evaluation include:

A. Relevance:

§ To what extent are the UNICEF education programme IECD and CFS objectives still valid?

§ Have UNICEF interventions in selected IECD centres as well as elementary and primary schools been appropriate for the children, teachers and other targeted beneficiaries in the context of meeting PNG educational needs?

§ To what extent are UNICEF education programme interventions aligned with national education, policies?

§ To what extent are UNICEF PNG IECD and CFS interventions suited to the priorities and policies of the GoPNG, youth in PNG and bilateral donors?

B. Effectiveness:

§ What is the extent UNICEF IECD and CFS objectives have been achieved?

§ To what extent do UNICEF IECD and CFS interventions contribute to the improvement of access to quality education in PNG?

§ What are the main factors that contributed to the realization or non-realization of the IECD and CFS interventions?

§ To what extent do UNICEF-supported IECD centres and schools supported through CFS interventions meet quality standards?

§ How effective are the national and sub-national processes in place for IECD centres and schools supported through CFS interventions to meet quality standards?

§ Has Grade 8 student performance improved in UNICEF supported schools?

§ Have IECD and CFS initiatives been cost efficient and cost-effective in contributing to education plan outcomes and outputs?

C. Efficiency:

§ To what extent are the UNICEF-supported IECD and CFS interventions implemented in a timely fashion?

D. Equity:

§ To establish to what extent are theUNICEF-supported IECD and CFS interventions addressing gender equity and equitable access to education in schools targeted by UNICEF?

E. Impact:

§ What difference did the UNICEF-supported IECD and CFS interventions make to children and their communities?

§ What has happened as a result of the IECD and CFS initiatives?

§ Has the enrolment, retention and completion rates increased in schools targeted by UNICEF?

F. Sustainability:

§ To what extent will the benefits of the education programme continue should UNICEFs funding cease?

Sub-questions:

§ Has national and sub-national capacity development been built on the implementation and monitoring of the IECD and CFS interventions?

§ To what extent has the IECD concept been adopted by GoPNG?

§ To what extent has the CFS concept been mainstreamed through the NQSSF?

§ To what extent can the NQSSF and UNICEF-supported IECD and CFS interventions be maintained by GoPNG and relevant stakeholders?

§ To what extent are school boards of management involved in the operationalization of UNICEF-supported IECD and CFS interventions?

§ To what extent are School Learning Improvement Plans (SLIPs) processes contributing to sustainability?

All the questions above will be reviewed and prioritised in the inception phase. The most relevant questions will be answered with a view to identifying and documenting key strengths on which to capitalize, and shortcomings to address, to improve the UNICEF PNG education programme planning, implementation and inform the new NEP (2020-2029).



Proposed Evaluation Methodology and Process

The evaluation will utilise a mixed method, participatory, theory-based, utilization-focused, as well as gender and human rights responsive approach to be carried out in accordance with United Nation Evaluation Guideline (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation, Ethical Guideline, Guidance on Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation and UN-SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator as well as OECD/DAC evaluation principles and GEROS evaluation quality assessment tools and fully compliant with the UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards, UNICEF Procedure for Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis. The evaluation will be conducted under the supervision of the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in close collaboration with Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (IMEP) committee and national counterparts. The evaluation will be conducted in three phases:



Phase 1- Inception phase:

§ Analysis of reference material: The consultant, supported by the UNICEF education programme team will present to the CFE evaluation working group a list of background materials, documents, and reports relevant to the evaluation which have been compiled through a desk review of reference material (i.e. the annual programme reports, programme donor reports, results and implementation data collected throughout the programme implementation period and other supporting documentation) before the consultant arrives in-country.

§ Drafting of inception report with evaluation strategy and design: Prior to

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