Consultancy on Child Functioning Module Analysis Tender, Azerbaijan - 25207207

Procurement Summary

Country : Azerbaijan

Summary : Consultancy on Child Functioning Module Analysis

Deadline : 19 Aug 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25207207

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
24, Neftchilar avenue, Dalga Plaza Baku AZ1095 Tel: +994-4923013 / 4980578 / 4372284 Fax: (944.12) 4922.468
Azerbaijan
Email :baku@unicef.org
URL :http://www.unicef.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for International Consultancy on Child Functioning Module Analysis.

UNICEF works in some of the world-s toughest places, to reach the world-s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 (UNICEF, 1989), included the first explicit provision relating to the rights of children with disabilities. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities encourages States to collect appropriate information, including statistical and research data, to enable them to formulate and implement policies to give effect to the Convention (art. 31).

These Conventions focus on the disparities faced by children with disabilities and call for improvements in their access to services, and in their participation in all aspects of life. To achieve these goals, there is a need for improved data collection internationally. The current lack of accurate data impedes the development, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes that would improve the lives of children with disabilities.

The Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) is a United Nations (UN) sponsored City Group commissioned in 2001 to improve the quality and international comparability of disability measures. UNICEF and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) have developed a survey module on child functioning and disability for use in surveys and censuses. The module reflects current thinking around disability and can produce internationally comparable data. The module covers children between 2 and 17 years of age, and assesses activity limitations in the domains of speech and language, hearing, vision, learning, mobility and motor skills, and emotions. The module has been tested in India, the USA, Belize, and Oman. Field testing has taken place in Cameroun, India, Italy, Haiti, Samoa El, Salvador as part of a National Survey on Disability, and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Findings from the two field tests resulted in further, minor, changes being made to some questions.

UNICEF Azerbaijan Country Office (CO) has supported State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan to adapt Child Functioning Module to local context and collect data from households. The pre-test was conducted among 225 households and the questionnaires were adapted to local context. Around 6, 000 households with children were randomly selected from the sample framework of the annual Family Budget Survey of the State Statistical Committee to conduct full data collection. Since the State Statistical Committee quarterly collects other household related data as part of the Family Budget Survey from the same household it will provide additional information to allow disaggregate the data by gender, location, region, wealth quantile, and mothers- education, etc.

Though the State Statistical Committee has significant expertise in statistical analysis, the subject of Child Functioning is very specific and requires knowledge on child development, child disability, age and appropriate needs of children to conduct comprehensive analysis of collected data.

How can you make a difference?

The international consultant or institution will support efforts to:

· analyse the data of Child Functioning Module to calculate prevalence of functional difficulty among children aged 2-4 and 5-17 disaggregated by gender, location, region and wealth quantile;

· analyse the use of assistive devices among children aged 2-17 and 5-17 disaggregated by gender, location, region and wealth quantile;

· provide a comprehensive analysis of the identified patterns/ tendencies in findings;

· assess to what extent the currently used methodological approaches (sampling, questionnaires, calculation, etc.) are relevant to the country context;

· provide recommendations on improvement of data collection and measurement strategy of Child Functioning to be able to respond to national priorities and SDG monitoring and reporting needs;

· present practical recommendations on improvement of policies and programs for children with functioning challenges.

Key assignments and tasks

To meet the consultancy-s objectives, the consultant or institution will undertake the following:

I. Conduct a desk review of current methodology for Child Functioning Module

The consultant or the institution will undertake a review of all available materials related to Child Functioning and Child Disability, including study methodology, questionnaires, sampling techniques used, manuals, analysis approach, syntax files etc. The SSC and UNICEF will provide necessary documentation and the literature.

II. Support the SSC in data cleaning, validation and data weighting

The consultant or institution should check to ensure the skip patterns for questions related to seeing, hearing, and walking have been followed and provide methodology on data weighting and provide computing syntax to SSC for tabulation or do direct tabulation for each age group of children (2-4 and 5-17) disaggregated by location, region, gender, wealth quantile, and education of mother. A 5-day in-country visit (including travel) will be conducted at this phase.

III. Determine functioning difficulties of children aged 2-4

The consultant or institution should analyse functioning difficulties of children in the following domains seeing, hearing, walking, fine motor, communication (understanding or being understood), learning, playing, and controlling behaviour disaggregated by location, region, gender, wealth quantile, and education of mother.

IV. Determine functioning difficulties of children aged 5-17

The consultant or institution should analyse functioning difficulties of children in the following domains seeing, hearing, walking, fine motor, communication (being understood inside or outside the household), learning, remembering, concentrating, accepting change, controlling behaviour, making friends, anxiety, depression disaggregated by location, region, gender, wealth quantile, and education of mother.

V. Use of assistive devices for children aged 2-17

The consultant or institution should calculate the percentage of children aged 2-17 years who have functional difficulty while using an assistive device (wear glasses, use hearing aid, use equipment or receive assistance for walking) disaggregated by location, region, gender, wealth quantile, and education of mother.

VI. Develop a report based on results of calculations and analysis

A draft report is envisaged to be discussed with the working group established by the main stakeholder that includes the State Statistical Committee (SSC) and UNICEF Azerbaijan. The consultant or institution will need to review all comments/recommendations on the draft report and incorporate them into the final study report.

VII. Prepare a Brief Summary and a PPT of final report

Upon the SSC and UNICEF Azerbaijan-s approval consultant or institution should prepare a Research Brief Summary and a PPT of main findings and recommendations of the study.

Deliverables

Under the overall supervision of UNICEF Azerbaijan, and in continual consultation with the SSC-s designated staff, the consultant or institution will be accountable for the following measurable deliverables:

Description of Deliverables

Days required

I. Desk review of current methodology for the Child Functioning Module. Develop an Inception Report including data analysis methodology, Report outlines and work plan for the consultancy assignment including timeframe.

3

II. In-country visit. Provide support to the SSC in data cleaning, validation and data weighting (provide syntax or do files to the SSC)

5

III. Analysis of Child Functioning (provide adjusted syntax or do files to the SSC) and draft of a report based on results of calculations and analysis

18

IV. Finalization of the Report. Preparation of a Brief Summary and a PPT of the findings and recommendations

4

TOTAL DAYS

30

All the reported activities of the consultant or institution will be considered completed only upon the acceptance and formal approval by the SSC working group and the UNICEF.

Ethical considerations

The selected consultant or institution is expected to adhere to the UNICEF procedure for ethical standards in research, evaluation, data collection and analysis and address any ethical issues in the report.

In addition to wider research ethical framework the analysis should be based on core principles spelled out in CRPD.

[1] UNICEF procedure for ethical standards in research, evaluation, data collection and analysis, 1 April 2015, CF/PD/DRP/2015-001, available from UNICEF

Duration and Expected Timeframe

The contract will cover the period of early-September to end October with totally 30 working days in total. The selected consultant or institution should be available for the assignment by 27 August 2018.

Supervision arrangement

The consultant or institution will work in close cooperation with the State Statistical Committee under the supervision of the Child Rights Monitoring Specialist of UNICEF Azerbaijan CO with the general guidance of the Deputy Representative.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

· Hold advanced degree in Social Sciences (preferably in Economics), demography, statistics, Public Policy or any other relevant field;

· Have extensive work experience in production of studies for different international agencies, preferably UN system, in the field of child development and child disability;

· Have good skills in statistical and policy analysis and detailed knowledge of st

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