Desk Review and Mapping of Global Education Projects and Intervention Outcomes and... Tender

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Country : United Kingdom

Summary : Desk Review and Mapping of Global Education Projects and Intervention Outcomes and Impact Consultancy

Deadline : 23 Jul 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25003673

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Other Funding Agencies

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : ISLAMIC RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
Tel +44 (0)121 605 5555 19 Rea St South, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6LB
United Kingdom
Email :tendering@irworldwide.org
URL :https://www.islamic-relief.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for desk review and mapping of IRW global education projects and intervention outcomes and impact consultancy, July 2018 (Lot 2).

Islamic Relief is an international aid and development charity, which aims to alleviate the suffering of the world's poorest people. It is an independent Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in the UK in 1984.

As well as responding to disasters and emergencies, Islamic Relief promotes sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities - regardless of race, religion or gender.

Our vision:

Inspired by our Islamic faith and guided by our values, we envisage a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others.

Our mission:

Exemplifying our Islamic values, we will mobilise resources, build partnerships, and develop local capacity, as we work to:

Enable communities to mitigate the effect of disasters, prepare for their occurrence and respond by providing relief, protection and recovery.

Promote integrated development and environmental custodianship with a focus on sustainable livelihoods.

Support the marginalised and vulnerable to voice their needs and address root causes of poverty.

We allocate these resources regardless of race, political affiliation, gender or belief, and without expecting anything in return.

At the international level, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) has consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, and is a signatory to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct. IRW is committed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through raising awareness of the issues that affect poor communities and through its work on the ground. Islamic Relief are one of only 13 charities that have fulfilled the criteria and have become members of the Disasters Emergency Committee (www.dec.org.uk)

IRW endeavours to work closely with local communities, focussing on capacity-building and empowerment to help them achieve development without dependency.

Please see our website for more information http://www.islamic-relief.org/

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Islamic Relief-s Global Strategy 2017-21 identifies a mission to “Promote integrated development and environmental custodianship… regardless of race, political affiliation, age, gender, abilities or belief, and without expecting anything in return”. Our vision includes “Empowering local communities to overcome poverty and vulnerability”. To do this “We aim to complement humanitarian work with a stronger portfolio of longer-term integrated development programmes across our core programme countries, improving the lives of poor and marginalised people (of all faiths and none) through this work”. The global strategy states that “by 2021 we will have completed consultation on and development of a strategy to make a significant impact on educational attainment from both a programme and resource mobilisation perspective. The global strategy further states, that by 2021 we would have ‘developed an IR strategy for a significant contribution to educational attainment within the countries in which we work.- This outputs from this assignment shall contribute to and act as the basis for wider consultation on the development of an IRW educational strategy, possibly the recruitment of global education advisor, as well as inform short to medium term funding and programming priorities, plans and actions related to enhancing the effectiveness and impact of IRW educational programmes globally.

Islamic Relief implements a wide range of education projects globally in humanitarian, conflict and development contexts. Examples of type of education related projects and interventions range from support to formal basic/primary education, early childhood education development, through to teachers training, improving school infrastructure including classrooms, water, hygiene and sanitation, support for children with special needs such as those with living with hearing and sight disabilities, provision of basic education to agropastoral and pastoralist children who have no access to formal schools through a staggered curriculum that led to transformation of the non-formal schools into formal schools where the government had allocated budgets to support to and for tertiary education and technical and vocational educational centres.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this consultancy is to provide a detailed account of Islamic Relief-s current and recent activities in education interventions in order to identify outcomes achieved, any indicative impact, best practice, and provide a baseline and capture learning that will be used to further the strategic objectives set out above. It is recognised that currently Islamic Relief-s International Programmes Division lacks adequate capacity to carry out this review in a timely manner, and that by recruiting a dedicated consultant it will be able to complete this work within its 2018 plans.

This consultancy will involve document reviews, emailing, face to face, virtual- and tele-meetings, distributing and analysing the results of questionnaires, and other means of eliciting data concerning Islamic Relief-s current and recent activities in education sector programming interventions. The resulting reports will inform programme, policy and advocacy development, regional and country coordinators, programme managers and officers and the global education advisor (should this position be recruited) to support situation analyses, funding, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of education related work throughout the organisation.

Consultancy Goals

1. Islamic Relief will be informed of the extent, nature, key results (outcomes/indicative impact) best practices and learnings derived from its work in and around education programming since 2014.

2. Islamic Relief will be able to utilise this information to inform its programme, policy, advocacy and planning towards achieving its strategic objectives in the education sector including contribution to SDG4 and support funding positioning.

3. The Global Education Advisor who is to be potentially recruited (or a further phase of consultancy) will be able to identify locations for country and field visits which will provide primary evidence of outcomes achieved and programme impact to support future planning to achieve the strategic objectives.

IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK

Consultants are invited to propose the specific methodology as part of this call. In general, it is envisaged this desk review and mapping will involve document reviews, emailing, face to face, virtual- and tele-meetings, distributing and analysing the results of questionnaires, and other means of eliciting data concerning Islamic Relief-s current and recent activities in education sector programming.

· Please refer to annex 1 for the specific scope of assignment highlighting key questions this desk review seeks to answer and suggested final report outline.

· The consultant is expected to propose a suitably robust methodology through which areas highlighted in annex 1 can and will be most readily extracted, analysed, synthesised and reported back on, within a 4 week consultancy time period, to provide a detailed understanding of the current status, approaches, gaps and potential opportunities in further developing IRW-s education programming globally both within development and emergency contexts.

· The proposal should also take into account that some projects may not have evaluation reports and other baseline or endline data; whilst other projects are ongoing and may not have final reports. In such situations, the consultant should consider and propose suitable alternative methodology which can be used to determine project details and provide indicative, relevant and credible findings and recommendations.

Policy Framework

The consultant will be expected to work within and abide by Islamic Relief-s policy frameworks on communications, information management, human resources etc. and will be obliged to sign an agreement assuring the confidentiality of data and information utilised and collected in pursuance of the consultancy. The consultant will be sensitive and compliant to any requirements of GDPR.

The report will be produced for internal audience but may be edited and adapted for external publication by IRW for wider communication and learning purposes.

Reporting Framework and Schedule

Brief reports (written or oral) on progress against implementation plan weekly for the duration of the project.

DELIVERABLES

Deliverables for this project would be;

1. Written implementation plan agreed with Programme Impact and Learning Manager within one week of commencement.

2. Narrative account, not exceeding 32 pages describing the extent, nature, best practices and learnings derived from its work in and around education projects since 2014

3. Executive summary incorporated in the above, not exceeding 3 pages

4. Data base on MS Excel format of all projects and programmes examined, including country, PIN number, name, brief description, dates, budget, donor.

5. Soft copies of any substantial MS Excel or Word documents or other documents created to support mapping and analysis from which the findings in the main report have been extrapolated - including any tables, charts, graphs etc.

ACCOUNTABILITY

The consultant will be responsible for conducting the activities and delivering the outputs set out in this terms of reference and will coordinate all activities with and through the Programme Impact & Learning Manager. The Programme Impact & Learning Manager is responsible for facilitating access to all relevant and available documents (proposals, donor reports and evaluation reports) and wider staff necessary for the con

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