Consulting: Elaboration of the Action Plan of the Municipal Policy of Comprehensive... Tender

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Country : El Salvador

Summary : Consulting: Elaboration of the Action Plan of the Municipal Policy of Comprehensive Protection of Children Adolescent Girls

Deadline : 22 Apr 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32146770

Document Ref. No. : 521252

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATION CHILDREN'S FUND
Santa Elena Boulevard and Alegría Street. Interalia Building, 4th. Floor, Santa Elena, Antiguo Cuscatlán. La Libertad, Tel: +503-2252-8800
El Salvador
Email :sansalvador@unicef.org
URL :www.unicef.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for El Salvador: Consulting: Elaboration of the Action Plan of the Municipal Policy of Comprehensive Protection of Children Adolescent Girls in San Marcos # 521252.

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.

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Background

UNICEF initiated the development of a strategy to prevent violence at the local level in 2013 in the municipality of San Marcos, in 2014 in San Martín, in 2015 in Santo Tomás and in 2018 in Soyapango, Santa Ana and San Miguel.

The main components of the strategy are: a) Strengthening local systems for the protection of children and adolescents; b) Strengthening the capacities of families in the face of violence; c) Promotion of the right to participation, play, recreation and culture, and d) Guarantee of the right to education and protection from violence.

The a component of the strategy includes the development of a Municipal Comprehensive Protection Policy for children and adolescents in San Marcos, this instrument was developed with the cooperation of UNICEF, but for its implementation, it is necessary to prepare a concrete action plan.

Justification

The nature of any public policy is never definitive regarding the need it serves. The problems of the population change, and this requires updating the measures to be applied. The Municipal Policy for the Protection of Children and Adolescents of the municipality of San Marcos pursues as its primary objective that its actions are better planned to have a greater impact on the growth, development, protection and participation of children and adolescents.

This policy was born from the consultation carried out in 2016 to various sectors of the municipality: mothers, fathers, young people, social promoters, project managers, PNC agents, among others; and it is complemented by a data update carried out in 2018 with municipal actors and institutional sources.

The document has three main sections: the first indicates the national and international standards that regulate the protection of children and adolescents, explains the reasons for their priority and shows the focus of the policy. This is based on the National Policy for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (PNPNA), the respective National Plan of Action, and the Law for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (LEPINA), from which establishes a protection system that includes, at the local level, the creation of the Local Rights Committee (CLD) to monitor and protect the collective and diffuse rights of children and adolescents.

The second section is a summary of the situation of children and adolescents obtained from the citizen consultation in the municipality. The qualitative methods included workshops with children, adolescents and institutional representatives; a focus group with mothers, fathers and caregivers; and interviews with specific actors. The quantitative component was a survey applied to young people, parents, pregnant women, representatives of institutions and tutors.

The third section addresses the strategic lines and their monitoring. The strategic lines correspond to the needs and problems identified in the consultation, at the same time as they are articulated with each category of rights contained in the LEPINA. Thus, strategic lines are proposed for: (a) Rights of Survival and Integral Growth; (b) Protection Rights; (c) Development Rights; and (c) Participation Rights.

The policy in question contains strategies and lines of action that need to be concretized in a plan of action or implementation that allows the execution of said guidelines taking into account the needs of the municipality of San Marcos.

In this sense, in order to execute said strategic framework defined in the policy, the elaboration of the Action Plan of the Municipal Policy of Integral Protection of children and adolescents in San Marcos is required.

How can you make a difference?

Specific objectives

To gather information about the map of actors of the protection system present in the municipality that includes government institutions, NGOs and civil society.
Identify and recommend articulation mechanisms among the key actors for compliance with the strategies and lines of action established in the policy.
Formulate objectives, activities, results and products, scheduling, responsible, schedule and necessary resources.

Methodology

For the elaboration of the Plan of action or implementation, the municipal policy of Integral Protection of children and adolescents in San Marcos will be taken as reference, an instrument elaborated in the period 2016-2017.

The Action Plan translates into operational terms, guidelines and priority orientations of the Municipal Policy, defining strategic results, commitments, indicator (s) for monitoring, baseline, lines of action, activities at 2019-2020, responsible and co-responsible .

It is expected that the consultant will put forward a work scheme easily understood by all, which will allow the members of the municipality to transmit a simple work plan for the implementation of the municipal policy in question.

To this end, the consultant is expected to conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups on staff of the Mayor's Office, the Municipal Committee for the Prevention of Violence (CMPV), the Local Rights Committee (CLD) and other main actors from the sectors: childhood, adolescence, youth, women and communities, evidencing documentary research and in the field.

The Consultant will work in coordination with the commission for the follow-up of the consultancy, composed of 1 member of the Mayor's Office of San Marcos and 1 of UNICEF, and will maintain constant communication about the progress of this consultancy.

Likewise, that the consultant will facilitate validation spaces for the document with the Municipality of San Marcos.

Once the consultant or consultant team has been chosen for the implementation of this initiative, the following phases of execution must be fulfilled:

Phase 1: Construction of the work plan

The responsible consultant must prepare a work plan that contains the integral development of the proposal based on the contents that frame this TDR, including as minimum elements: background, justification, objectives, description of the proposal with the breakdown of the phases and activities, approach of the methodological strategy and the model of work to be carried out, products of the process, scheduling, work schedule, resources to be used, among others.

Phase 2: Implementation of activities and management of resources

During this phase, the consultant will be responsible for the execution of the activities proposed in the work plan, according to the schedule and schedule that is presented and approved by the personnel responsible for the consultancy, managing in an adequate manner the resources for Develop the process in the planned times.

Phase 3: Evaluation, results and dissemination

In this phase, a final document will be produced in which the results of the gathering of information and analysis will be considered, taking as a base the inputs thrown in the implementation stage.

UNICEF will facilitate contact with the municipal reference for the management and coordination of the consultancy activities, with the objective that the consultant has the facility for the ideal documentation.

The final product must include the observations or recommendations generated by the team in charge within the municipality and UNICEF, and for which the consultant must send prior to the final presentation of the products, the corresponding report to UNICEF, being subject the consultant to incorporate the observations and recommendations generated in the process.

The Action Plan must include the political, institutional, programmatic and normative components of the Policy, as well as the transversal axes required for the implementation of the Local System for the Protection of the Rights of Children.

As a strategic part of the Plan, it must include an institutional reference framework, generated from the applicable regulations on the protection of children at the national and local levels. Of particular importance, within this framework, are the functions, responsibilities and actions that local level institutions must assume in relation to the implementation of the Plan, such as, the Local Committee on Child and Adolescent Rights, the social promotion units of the local government, among others.

Likewise, it is recommended to structure the Action Plan from strategic areas of promotion and protection of rights that have been used at the national level, such as, for example:

Area

Rights that integrate

Strategic objective

Survivorship rights

To life, to a decent and adequate standard of living, to health, to a healthy environment, to social security, among others.

Guarantee the right to life, health and integral growth of girls, boys and adolescents in conditions of dignity, equity and equality.

Protection rights

To personal integrity, protection against torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, protection against sexual abuse and exploitation, protection against child labor, among others

Guarantee the right of children and adolescents to timely, immediate and comprehensive protection against threats or violations of their rights.

Development Rights

To identity, to know their mother and father and be raised by them, to education and culture, to rest, recreation and sports, among others.

Promote the progressive and full development of children and adolescents in the family and in society.

Rights of participation

From petition, freedom of expression, to opinion and being heard, access to information, protection from harmful and inadequate information, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of assembly and association, among others .

Guarantee all children and adolescents the exercise of their right to participation in all areas of their development, in accordance with the evolution of their faculties

Cf. CONNA (2015). National Action Plan of the National Policy for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents. San Salvador. Available at: http: //www.sipi.siteal.iipe.unesco.org/sites/default/files/sipi_interven ... (likewise, the National Action Plan can be taken as a frame of reference)

Likewise, it is important to take into account for the preparation of the Plan as an immediate antecedent the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child made to El Salvador and related to the Local Protection System.

Additionally, the Plan must have the identification and ordering of the lines of action, taking into account certain criteria, such as: availability, accessibility, quality and relevance, based on the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and instruments of human rights, to identify gaps in the fulfillment of rights that need to be addressed to achieve the objectives and results defined in the Plan.

Finally, it is recommended that the plan contain a specific number of results, with their corresponding indicators of monitoring and evaluation, temporality and responsibility to effect, to be able to verify the progress of results generated from the definition of the Plan.

Products to deliver

Product 1: Work plan with schedule of activities and tools for the collection of approved information.

Product 2 : Approved and received to conform:

Draft of the Action Plan of the Municipal Policy for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in San Marcos.
Results report of the consultation with the focus groups and interviews (supporting documents)
Product 3: Approved and received to conform:

Action Plan for the Municipal Policy for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in San Marcos
You must submit 1 copy in physical and electronic editable.
Final report of the consultancy with incorporated findings and recommendations.
Contract period

This technical assistance will have a duration of ninety calendar days counted from the signature of the contract by the consultant chosen for that purpose.

Conditions of the contract

The consultant will be under the supervision of the protection specialist of UNICEF El Salvador and will work in close coordination with municipal leaders of the municipalities related in this initiative.

This consultancy does not imply the adaptation of physical spaces in the UNICEF offices for the consultant. In any case and by mutual agreement, you can identify and coordinate with the authorities of the municipalities the possibility of having spaces for interviews, focus groups and the development of desk work.

UNICEF will not be responsible for providing transport or accommodation to the consultant, so any expenses related to these aspects should be included in the financial offer of the consultancy. The contacts with state or non-state institutions for the realization of the consultancy should be managed directly by the consultant, and in any case UNICEF can provide presentation notes for this purpose.

The contract is for professional services and does not represent a direct or permanent employment relationship with UNICEF, it does not cover life insurance, insurance for medical services or other benefits for which the contractor is responsible.

UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or part of the payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if the work / product is incomplete, not delivered, if it does not meet UNICEF quality standards, and / or if it is not met. the terms foreseen in these TOR and in the contract.

In the case of the development of workshops that require logistical or food expenses, the consultant should foresee the same within their economic offer.

Required profile

This technical assistance may be developed by individual consultants freely associated with experience and specialization in the subject matter of the consultancy:

Professional graduated in social sciences, administration or similar degrees, preferably, with a master's degree or specialization in processes oriented to local development and in matters of childhood policies

Knowledge about the rights of children and adolescents and the application of the rights approach (demonstrable).

With at least five years of demonstrable experience in work aimed at strengthening processes and management at the local level.

Knowledge in the design and application of methodological tools for the collection of diagnostic information, as well as presentation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative results.

Work experience with organizations of the United Nations system or other international and national organizations.

Excellent oral and written expression skills, writing and reporting of social research and analysis.

Estimated budget

The fees for this consultancy will be established based on the economic offers received during the selection contest.

This value will be disaggregated as follows:

Product

Total payment percentage

Estimated time of presentation

Against delivery to the satisfaction of the work plan or product 1

30%,

15 calendar days from the corresponding signature of the contract

Upon delivery to product satisfaction 2 .

30%

45 calendar days after the day of signing the contract

Against delivery of product 3 of the consultancy, validated and approved by the municipality and UNICEF

40%

At 90 calendar days from the signing of the contract

Confidentiality

The consultant is committed to maintaining the privacy of the information, data and / or images that are provided or collected during the process of preparing the consultancy. The contracted party also undertakes not to make a copy of the data, nor use the information and images in any way other than that required in the UNICEF contract.

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Requirements to participate and submit bids

Those interested in participating must submit the following documentation:

Technical offer adjusted to the requirements of time and form defined in this consultancy with its respective schedule of activities.
In addition, it should include:

- CV (s) of the person (s) that will carry out this consultancy.

Economical offer.
The consultants can present their proposals through the UNICEF employment platform, filling out the application form. All the attached documents must be in non-editable format (PDF, JPEG, etc.) and the technical proposal must be presented in a separate file of the financial offer.

Deadline to apply for the consultancy: Monday, April 22, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. (El Salvador time).

Written inquiries will be received before the closing date, addressed to: esl-licitaciones@unicef.org, which will be answered as soon as possible, by email, with a copy to all participants.

Deadline to receive questions: Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. (El Salvador time).

Please note that the selected person will be asked to present police and criminal centers solvencies.

Evaluation criteria

The selection will be made based on a competitive process, in which the technical offer and the professional profile of the candidates will be evaluated, as well as the economic proposal with competitive prices, exempt from VAT.

Only people who obtain the highest scores will be contacted.

Assigned score:

Technical offer with its annexes: Maximum score: 70 points.

Only proposals that reach a minimum score of 60 points will be considered for the economic evaluation.

Economic offer: Maximum score: 30 points, awarded to the lowest price bid that would have obtained at least a score of 60 points in regards to the technical offer.

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UNICEF'S FUNDAMENTAL VALUES

Diversity and inclusion
Integrity
Commitment
Remarks:

This contract does not cover travel costs from other countries to El Salvador, and vice versa; since it is expected that the consultants reside in the country to be able to make the assignment.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=521252

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