Consultancy for Independent Third Party Monitoring Integrated humanitarian assistance... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Somalia

Summary : Consultancy for Independent Third Party Monitoring Integrated humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations

Deadline : 10 Jun 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 23970131

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : European Commission

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : SAVE THE CHILDREN (SC)
Maansoor Area/Road, Jig-jiga yar, Hargeisa, Somaliland Tel: +2522570158/59/63
Somalia
Email :logistics@savethechildren.org
URL :https://somalia.savethechildren.net/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultancy for Independent Third Party Monitoring Integrated humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations in Shebelle IDP camp in Dharkeynley district of Mogadishu, Somalia.

Terms of Reference (TOR)

Consultancy for Independent Third Party Monitoring

Integrated humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations in Shebelle IDP camp in Dharkeynley district of Mogadishu, Somalia

Background

For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, and Collaboration. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.

Save the Children has been working in Somalia/Somaliland for over 40 years. Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland country office is implementing an integrated humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations in Shebelle IDP camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. The purpose of this project is that Internally Displaced People in Somalia have access to life-saving assistance and to basic social infrastructure in communities affected by protracted crisis Somalia/Somaliland through community-based and integrated nutrition, Health FSL and WASH interventions. The action aims to achieve four key result areas: 1) Increased access to interventions aimed at preventing, identifying and treating severe and moderate acute malnutrition among children and PLW. 2) Increased access to essential package of health services, maternal health services, and improved quality of care for targeted IDPs; 3) Reduced prevalence of Water and Sanitation Related Diseases (WSRD) in IDPs, and 4) Targeted IDP households have increased income and access to emergency shelter and non-food items Improved capacity of vulnerable households to meet their essential food and non-food needs, and 5) Targeted newly arriving households have increased access to shelter and non-food items. Through this action, SC intends to reach a total of 24000 direct beneficiaries, of which 68% are children under 5. The project financed by The project financed by European Commission – Federal Foreign Office Strategy for Humanitarian Assistance, Federal Foreign Office Funding Policy –

Result 4 (FSL): Targeted IDP households have increased income and access to emergency shelter and non-food items Improved capacity of vulnerable households to meet their essential food and non-food needs.

The FSL component will focus on 3 activities; unconditional cash grants, business skills training & income generation and credit and saving schemes. The overall aim is to implement activities that span from short term humanitarian support to long term resilience building using the durable solutions approach to IDPs crisis in Mogadishu. As such, there will be two sets of beneficiaries. The unconditional cash grants targeted 450 households of the most vulnerable IDPs in the target location to enable them to meet their urgent and immediate food and non-food needs, particularly during the lean season. They received monthly transfers to improve household food access, dietary diversity, repayment of debts and access to other non-food needs such as health and education. The cash transfer was set to further protect the little assets they have. 110 household of income generating activities will also benefit from saving and credit schemes. From the same locations, SC selected poor households who are interested in engaging in business based on an agreed selection criteria. The aim was to ensure transition from IDP status to self-reliant urban dwellers. Promotion of saving and credit culture within this target group ensures peer support to their businesses and joint activities for sustainability and monitoring purposes.

To improve the accountability of the program a third party monitor will be contracted to monitor the project progress and also to ensure whether the project implementation is in line with SCI accountability strategy.

Consultancy Objectives

To complete independent monitoring of SC FFO project in Dharkeynley district in order to enhance program quality and accountability to beneficiaries

Scope of work

Income generation activities: Cash Grant in Mogadishu 2017

S/No

District

camp or Community name

HH Total beneficiaries per site

IGA/UCT

1

Dharkenly

Bariire

30

UCT

2

Beyre

40

UCT

3

Dan iyo Daacad

30

UCT

4

Goobsoor

60

UCT

5

Hareed

50

UCT

6

Kaah

60

UCT

7

Liibaanta Shabeele

60

UCT

8

Maandeeq

40

UCT

9

Mustaqiim

80

UCT

10

Al furqan

56

IGA

11

Alhikma

54

IGA

13

Total



Program implementation

Food Security and Livelihood

A: Beneficiary selection

Hold interviews with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries and other stakeholders to document the beneficiary selection process specifically community participation including women and marginalized groups in the selection and verification of beneficiaries.
Document the process of selecting beneficiaries committees and establish the role of the committee members and SCI staff in the selection and verification of project beneficiaries.
Assess the appropriateness of the targeting criteria, the extent to which it was followed and overall fairness of the process.
Identify if there were any shortcomings in the process of payment or diversion of assistance. Diversion of cash through voluntary or involuntary taxation or forced contribution should be properly scrutinised and reported.
Determine how the targeted communities have benefited from the unconditional cash transfers and income generating activities (IGA) intervention in their respective communities.
B: Mobile cash transfer system:

Determine how targeted project beneficiaries have benefited from the mobile cash transfer system in which they’ve received their unconditional cash transfer
Gather general feedback from project beneficiaries between the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile cash transfer delivery system.
Collect information of which approach (mobile money transfer and Hawala) beneficiaries are interesting or preferring to get money.
Document the beneficiaries’ satisfaction on the quality of the mobile handsets provided
B: Information sharing

Assess the extent in which the beneficiaries are informed and aware of key project information such as project objectives, activities, timelines, entitlement, number of cash payments, expected results and targeted beneficiaries and criteria for selecting beneficiaries.
Establish whether beneficiaries have been informed and are aware about opportunities/activities in which they can participate.
Establish whether there is information that beneficiaries would like to have about the project and its implementation but not they are not getting.
C: Complaint and response mechanisms: –

Establish beneficiaries’ awareness of mechanisms through which they can give feedback or make complaints to SC. (how to complain or raise concerns about activities, what they can people complain about, who can complain to, how and where they can complain and issues of confidentiality).
Assess the acceptance and level of confidence that beneficiaries have in the existing SC complaints response mechanisms
Generate ideas for improving the existing complaint handling mechanism
D: Participation

Generate Information about how beneficiaries including children would like to/ are participating in the project implementation.
E: Project results integration

Identify and Document evidence of project integration between the cash programming health, nutrition and WASH.

F: Impact

Collect qualitative data on the impact of the program including case studies that demonstrate change in the lives of children
Assess the impact of the IGA interventions in contributing to reduce vulnerability of crisis-affected people in Shebelle-IDP-camp, especially women and children in Mogadishu, through integrated measures
To document unintended impact of the project (Negative and Positive Impacts)
Find out the % of the target population with acceptable Food Consumption Score (FCS)
Assess the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS)
Assess the household reducing Coping Strategy Index (rCSI)
Minimum acceptable diet
Find out how much the cash transfer (IGA and UCT) contributed to children’s access to education
G: Program integration

Hold interviews with beneficiaries to find out Level of integration with other ongoing Save the Children programs in their respected areas,
Map out the proximity of FSL targeted villages to WASH/Health/nutrition services of the same project
Organize meeting with the respective village’s community structures to see if there is an overlap among SC programs/projects going on in the project supported areas.
Deliverables:

The following outputs are expected of the consultant

Detailed methodology and data tools
The field monitoring reports of no more than 10 pages summarizing findings of the field monitoring and recommendations.
A set of pictures with GPS coordinates taken during the monitoring exer

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