Consultancy - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework Development Tender, Malawi - 26191615

Procurement Summary

Country : Malawi

Summary : Consultancy - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework Development

Deadline : 03 Sep 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 26191615

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Department For International Development

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
P.O. Box 1608, Lilongwe Tel: +265 (0)999067634/ (0)888350482 Dedza Office District Education Office Tel/Fax +265(0)1 223 466
Malawi
Email :graham@lcd.org.uk
URL :http://www.lcdinternational.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultancy - MEL Framework Development.

Link Community Development International are looking to contract the services of External Evaluation specialists to develop the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework for a DFID (Department for International Development) funded, ‘Girls' Education Challenge’ (GEC) initiative through the ‘Leave No Girl Behind’ (LNGB) funding window. The 5-year project, entitled ‘Transformational Empowerment of Adolescent Marginalised Girls in Malawi’ or ‘TEAM Girl Malawi’, will be implemented through Link Community Development International’s partners in Malawi addressing the social, cultural, economic (and other) barriers to education.

We want to engage experienced MEL specialists to form the foundation of our MEL approach for the project duration. The MEL framework will provide the basis for the objectives and key evaluation questions of the project, as well as evaluation design, propose relevant data collection tools and plan, a detailed sampling framework, a learning strategy, a performance monitoring plan, and will consider and integrate Link’s child and vulnerable adult safeguarding policies and practices throughout. It is vital we get the most appropriate MEL structure and systems in place from the outset.

Link Community Development International

Link Community Development International is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished rural areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda.

Since 1995 we have improved the learning and lives of over 2 million children in 3, 000 schools. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost, evidence-based and sustainable solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy, life skills and inclusion for the most marginalised. To ensure we support vulnerable learners without leading to segregation, we follow a ‘twin track’ approach to inclusive education - working towards systemic change in the equity and quality of education in schools whilst recognising the need for individualised support to learners with additional needs.

Link Community Development has been working in Malawi since 2006 with funding from DfID, USAID, the Scottish Government, Comic Relief, Oxford University Press amongst others. By sharing our learning, we have influenced government policy and practice and achieved significant impact through developing the first National Education Standards to be used in every primary and secondary school in the country. To strengthen accountability, we deliver a community engagement model that improves reading skills of young children and are demonstrating our school improvement model in a new district to show that it works.

The Transformational Empowerment of Adolescent Marginalised Girls in Malawi project or “TEAM Girl Malawi” will operate in 40 communities in two rural (Dedza and Mchinji) and one urban (Lilongwe) district in Malawi’s Central region. It will improve learning and life chances for girls aged 10–19 who have never been to school or who dropped out of school without gaining functional literacy and numeracy.

HOW TO APPLY:

http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

Interested candidates should submit a proposal including proposed methodology, along with curriculum vitae, and an expected costing.

Proposals should be addressed “Tender for LCDI LNGB MEL Framework Development” and marked “Private and Confidential – Addressee Only” and sent for the attention of Graham Niven, TEAM Project Coordinator, by latest 5pm on Monday 3rd September 2018. E-mail Address: graham@lcd.org.uk

We will review all proposals on 4th and 5th September and we hope to hold a one-hour interview/discussion with successful shortlisted candidates on 6th and 7th September 2018. We hope to be able to notify the final successful candidate by close of business on Friday 7th September, and to complete contracting by 10th September 2018.

For further information and to download the Terms of Reference and other supporting documents, please visit http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

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