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Country : Togo

Summary : International Consultant - Conduct Summative Evaluation of the UNICEF-Togo Partnership with Radios for Behavior Change and Adoption of Child-Friendly Practices

Deadline : 18 Oct 2018

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TOT Ref.No.: 27418476

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Tenders are invited for International Consultant - Conduct Summative Evaluation of the UNICEF-Togo Partnership with Radios for Behavior Change and Adoption of Child-Friendly Practices (2012-2018).

Longer Version_TDR International Consultation _Evaluation Partnership with the media_26 09 18.doc Purpose of the evaluation

In 2013, during the development of the UNICEF country program in Togo, socio-demographic indicators for children (girls and boys) showed a steady or weak trend, particularly in terms of infant mortality, malaria, neo-medical natal and education (for more details see section 5).

Based on this analysis of the situation of children, the Government of Togo and UNICEF signed on November 15, 2013, the Country Program Action Plan (CPAP) 2014-2018. The CPAP is fully integrated into the United Nations Development Plan or UNDAF 2014-2018 and thus contributes to the implementation of the Togolese Government's Accelerated Growth and Employment Promotion Strategy (SCAPE). The objective of the Togo-UNICEF CPAP is to contribute to providing support to the Government towards achieving the MDGs, with a focus on children and in particular the most vulnerable children.

One of the strategies chosen by the country program is the partnership with the media, especially community radios, to inform the community, especially children and women, about the basic social services they can benefit to improve the living conditions of children. and facilitate their access to basic social services for girls and boys. Such a strategy, implemented in several regions of Togo, was supposed to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Country Program as mentioned in the Country Programming Document of UNICEF in Togo (CPD) 2014-2018 [1].

The partnership with the radios has been the subject of annual reviews in the past and even of a mid-term review. These exercises verified the progress of the established partnerships. However, important questions still remain to be explored:

· To what extent have these emissions really influenced the behavior of women and children in the targeted areas?

· What is the level of participation of the Health, Education, Child Protection sectors in the partnership with the media? What is the role of Communication / Communication Officers for Development / IEC in the Sectors? Who should coordinate these activities in the regions? What is the best mechanism to ensure the participation of all stakeholders? Which entity will be responsible for monitoring activities?

· What are the opportunities to review the progress indicators and results of the communication strategy, based on the findings of an independent evaluation?

In order to answer all these questions, UNICEF Togo has commissioned an evaluation to enable Government partners, UNICEF staff and community radio teams to learn from this partnership in order to improve their practices in the field. future. This assessment is also intended to provide guidance on the added value of this partnership and, therefore, its findings and recommendations will be critical in negotiating future partnerships between UNICEF and implementing partners (such as Regional Directorates and community radio staff).

II. Purpose of the evaluation

This assessment has two purposes: accountability and organizational learning.

· As for accountability, this assessment addresses the requirement to report to planners and donors (vertical accountability) and targeted communities (horizontal accountability) on the effects of these partnerships.

· As for learning, the evaluation is expected to generate evidence on the performance and results of the implementation of this partnership, which will serve as a basis for (i) improving the future programming of community radios in the sectors UNICEF intervention in Togo: (ii) strengthening coordination among UNICEF TOGO, the Government and community radio managers in the future; (iii) negotiate future partnerships with radios.

Users and uses of this assessment

See Table in the attached file

[1] https://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/2013-PL8-Togo_CPD-final_app ...

II. Objectives of the evaluation

The principal objective

The main objective of this evaluation is to measure the change made by community radios among the target groups (community, parents, men and women) and its beneficiaries (girls and boys) within the framework of the partnership signed with UNICEF

The specific objectives s

· Assess the extent to which the partnership has contributed to meeting the needs and issues identified in the Partnership Project Document;

· Measure the degree of implementation of the partnership, its effectiveness, and the quality of outputs and deliverables compared to what was initially planned;

· To measure the contribution of the partnership to the achievement of the fixed results of the different components of the country program namely Survival and Growth, Education and Development, Child Protection and Empowerment of Adolescents as well as the results of the Country Program;

· Identify and document key lessons learned and best practices on the topics and themes addressed in order to ensure the continuity and sustainability of the media partnership strategy, in particular community radios

VI. Evaluation criteria

The evaluation will be aligned with six international evaluation criteria that are: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, coverage, coherence. Gender equality, protection and accountability will be integrated into all criteria. With respect to the impact criterion, as the contribution of these radio partnerships to the changes in the sociodemographic indicators envisaged can not be estimated, the evaluation will try as much as possible to identify the medium-term results produced among the target groups (changes at the level of behaviors).

V. Evaluation questions

See Table in the attached file

VI. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

The methodology of this evaluation is mixed, with a dominance of the qualitative methodology.

In all cases, the consultant must analyze all relevant sources of information, such as reports, program documents, partnership agreements, annual review reports and the journal. mid-term, program files and any other documents that may provide information to make judgments.

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