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.: 25034596

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Competition : ICB

Financier : Other Funding Agencies

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Purchaser : ISLAMIC RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
19 Rea Street South Birmingham B5 6LB Tel 0121 605 5555 Fax. 0121 622 5003
United Kingdom
Email :irw@irworldwide.org
URL :http://www.islamic-relief.org/

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Tenders are invited for Desk Review and Mapping of Irw Global Education Projects and Intervention Outcomes and Impact Consultancy, July 2018.

ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE

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 nonformal
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.

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