End-term Evaluation Study of the Pan Africa State Accountability Project (PASAP) Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Ethiopia

Summary : End-term Evaluation Study of the Pan Africa State Accountability Project (PASAP)

Deadline : 23 Jul 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25003672

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : PLAN INTERNATIONAL
Yemez Building, ECA Road, Kirkos Sub-city 5696 Addis Ababa Tel +251-115-571916
Ethiopia
Email :auliaisonoffice@plan-international.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for End-term Evaluation Study of the Pan Africa State Accountability Project (PASAP).

The Pan African state Accountability Project (PASAP) is a multi-partner, multi-level Pan-African project that ran from January 2015 to June 2018. The project is overall coordinated by the Plan International African Union Liaison and Pan Africa Program Office (Plan PAO). The project is funded by Sida CIVSAM as part of a framework agreement with Plan International Sweden.

The PASAP project took its starting point in the gap that exist between policy making and policy implementation in regards to children’s rights in the African continent. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are broadly considered key actors for holding states accountable for the implementation of children’s rights. However, their ability to do so depends on strengthening their organisational and technical capacities, as well as their capacity for coordination and collaboration. PASAP aims to support this need by creating sustainable impact on the realization of children’s rights in Africa by strengthening CSOs’ institutional and technical capacity to hold States accountable and effectively engage in child rights monitoring and advocacy at national, sub-regional, regional and international level.

Over all Objective of the End-Term Evaluation

The PASAP ended on 30th of June 2018. An extension period of one year (July 2018 – June 2019) has been approved by Sida serving both as an opportunity of putting proper closure of phase 1 of the PASAP, but also as preparatory phase for the next multi-annual application to Sida CIVSAM. A mid-term evaluation of PASAP was carried out in 2017 to take stock of progress in relation to selected programme indicators. The result was used to update the project M&E framework with mid-term results and some recommendations to guide the terminal-evaluation process. Hence, the objective of the end-term evaluation is to assess the overall performance of the PASAP and the extent to which the program objectives were achieved, the contributing factors to the achievement (both intended and unintended) and any deviation from the agreed objectives and the implementation strategies and the reasons for the deviations.

Specific Objectives of the evaluation

The mid-term review aimed to achieve the following:

· Assess the project progress against the project outcomes

· Identify the most significant outcomes of the Project for each project objectives

· Identify Project potential, challenges, and lessons learnt

· Generate concrete conclusions and recommendations that can feed in to the implementation of the PASAP extension period and ultimately to the planning of phase 2 of the project.

· Update the project results framework with end-term results against the baseline and, where relevant, against the mid-term value

The Consultant/Evaluation expert/team

The consultant must have undertaken similar works at the Pan African level in the last two years and should have the following competencies:

· Extensive and advanced evaluation skills and experience in program monitoring and evaluation in related fields.

· Demonstrated technical expertise, methodology and tools in measuring and evaluating advocacy resultsoutcomes

· Familiar with participatory and partnership approaches, and empowerment of civil society.

· In-depth understanding of child rights monitoring and advocacy in Africa and previous work in the field of pan-African advocacy is an asset. Knowledge of children’s rights instruments and mechanisms at the AU and experience engaging with the AU on the same would be an added value

· Advanced knowledge of English. Knowledge of French language would be an asset

· Team Leader must be a well-grounded social scientist with excellent skills in research, monitoring and evaluation of child centred community development and rights based programs.

· Previous experience in evaluating a multi-level, multi-stakeholder project

· Lead consultants are expected to have a minimum educational qualification equivalent to a Masters’ degree in their areas of expertise from recognized universities

Submission of Proposal

The consultant shall submit a technical proposal and a financial proposal, separately. The following components will be required in the proposals:

Technical proposal

· The consultants understanding of the Terms of Reference.

· A detailed methodology, tools and approaches on how the end-term evaluation review will be conducted

· Proposed implementation time schedule

· Organizational capacity statement, past experience and activities related to project evaluations

· Curriculum Vitae for all the consultants and proposed capacity of any complementary staff.

· Names, addresses, telephone numbers of three organizations that will act as professional referees.

· Lists of relevant work undertaken in the last 2 years. The consultants should be ready to provide samples of previous work of similar nature.

Financial proposal

· An itemized line by line budget proposal for consultancy fees. Proposed fees should clearly state the net of tax and the total gross figure. The proposal should also indicate all other expenses that will be billed as cost with supporting receipts as per Plan International’s expenses policy. Note that Plan International will pay directly for air travel, accommodation and meals during the meeting days.

· Tax and any other relevant cost related to and required for the proper conducting of the strategic review as per the objectives and requirements detailed in the present ToR

· Proposed terms and schedule of payment.

Please find the full Terms of Reference below:
https://plan-international.org/sites/default/files/tor_for_pasap_final_evaluation_10_07_2018.pdf

HOW TO APPLY:

All proposals must be sent to the following address: AULiaisonOffice@plan-international.org no later than Monday, 23, July 2018, at 12:00 (GMT+3).

Documents

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