Consultancy -- Developing Indicators for Women-s Empowerment Tender, USA - 35582280

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Consultancy -- Developing Indicators for Women-s Empowerment

Deadline : 26 Aug 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 35582280

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Competition : ICB

Financier : Other Funding Agencies

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Purchaser : PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL
Attn: Dennis Mello
USA
Email :dmello@pciglobal.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for United States of America: Consultancy -- Developing Indicators for Women-s Empowerment.

Background:

PCI implements a variety of programming and activities that aim to empower women. Of these, the Women Empowered (WE) program is currently implemented across the largest number of country programs. WE is dedicated to the social and economic empowerment of women through the formation of self-managed and self-sustaining savings groups. WE groups are formed based upon proven savings group methodologies which bring 15-25 members together to save money, develop financial literacy, make loans to one another, and invest in income-generating activities. Beyond that, WE groups empower women by building skills and capacities; providing leadership experience to build self-esteem and self-efficacy; increasing access to information and resources; and promoting collective action and community organizing. WE groups become a platform for members to raise awareness on important topics and act collectively to improve their lives and communities.

WE is currently implemented as a component of a variety of larger community development programs with different focus areas. These include programs focused on improving education and literacy; health; and climate change adaptation, among others. Under a previous consultancy PCI analyzed its women-s empowerment programing and the WE theory of change and measurement framework. Building upon that work, PCI is in the process of strengthening its program M&E processes to capture individual level social empowerment outcomes of the WE initiative within our projects, and to do so with greater standardization across projects. This consultancy will require thorough knowledge of savings groups and PCI-s WE methodology, its theory of change and objectives in order to effectively identify specific sets of indicators and measures that can be used to measure the empowerment impacts.

Scope of Work:

The overarching goal of the consultancy is to develop a modular collection of indicators for the Women Empowered program to track social empowerment outcomes in the key sectors in which PCI works. Towards this end, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

Review key documents pertaining to PCI-s Women Empowered (WE) program.
Participate in virtual/in person planning meetings with members of the WE team in Washington DC, San Diego and elsewhere as needed.

Develop detailed work plan and timeline in collaboration with PCI

Develop menu(s) of indicators that can work individually or in combination to measure women-s empowerment across key domains (domains such as agency, income, decision-making, and leadership - but will be determined with advice from consultant):

A set of universal “core” indicators to use across all WE programs
In complement to the above, tailored indicators to measure WE outcomes in key PCI sectors/programs (e.g. WE & Education, WE & Health, WE & Climate Change Adaptation, WE and Disaster Risk Reduction)
Support field testing of indicators in two countries

leading remote training to enumerators as project staff
Conducting remote results review discussions with project staff
Make revisions based upon field testing results
Develop operational definitions for each indicator and

Create data analysis and data use plans for each set of indicators

Provide a set of overarching research / learning questions (by sector) that can be integrated into project learning agendas and correspond to the indicator sets *

How to apply:
*Please note that the location is flexible

To Apply: To be considered for this consultancy, Please submit your CV, cover letter, three references, high level budget proposal and a completed Biodata form *by August 26, 2019 to Dennis Mello at dmello@pciglobal.org with the subject line “Women-s Empowerment Evaluation Indicators Application”. We will begin reviewing applications during the week of August 26, 2019.*

*Language

Fluency in English (Oral / Written)
Bilingual (English - Spanish) preferred *

Documents

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