Mid-Term Evaluation of the Skills for Youth Employment Tender, Haiti - 24582743

Procurement Summary

Country : Haiti

Summary : Mid-Term Evaluation of the Skills for Youth Employment

Deadline : 01 Aug 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24582743

Document Ref. No. : AFD/DOE/CHT1072/01

Competition : ICB

Financier : Agence Francaise De Development (AFD)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Matthieu GENIN Immeuble Hexagone, 4e étage Angle rue Clervaux et Darguin Petion-Ville Tel : +509 29 42 22 23
Haiti
Email :geninm@afd.fr
URL :http://www.afd.fr

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Mid-Term Evaluation of the Skills for Youth Employment in Haiti Project (CHT1072).

As part of its retrospective evaluation system, the French Development Agency ( AFD) evaluates, at mid-term or after completion, the projects and programs it finances. This approach responds to AFD's concern to promote a reinforced results dialogue with its partners, to draw lessons from past interventions and to provide objective information on the proper use of the public funds it is responsible for implementing. artwork.

These evaluations are piloted and financed by AFD, entrusted to external consultants and carried out in a participatory manner with its national partners, project owners of the projects concerned. Their main purpose is to formulate credible and independent judgment on the key issues raised by the soundness, implementation and effects of projects. They follow the principles and criteria set out in AFD's evaluation policy.

The consultants must take into account in a balanced way the different legitimate points of view that can be expressed and conduct the evaluation impartially. This consideration of the plurality of points of view must be translated, whenever possible, by associating the different project stakeholders in the evaluation process.

In this context, AFD wishes to recruit a consultant to carry out the mid-term evaluation of the Skills for Youth Employment (CPEJ) project.

In the specific case of the mid-term evaluation, AFD is seeking, in a context of increased funding for the education sector and especially for the training sub-sector in Haiti, a mid-term evaluation. pathway to guide the current implementation of the CPEJ project and to make recommendations to guide the operational implementation of a second competition jointly instructed with the European Union for the National Institute of Vocational Training (INFP): the PAFMIR project (project to improve vocational training, especially in rural areas).

1. Description of the project to be evaluated

1.1. Background

Elements of context at the time of instruction
Haiti ranked in 2013 as the 20th least developed country according to the Human Development Index. GDP per capita was estimated at USD 827. 78% of the population lives below the poverty line and 56% in extreme poverty.

Despite strong demand for education by households, enrollment rates at the different levels of the system remained low, estimated at 77 percent at primary level and 25 percent at secondary level. The barriers to access to school are largely explained by the costs of schooling borne by the family, more than 80% of the supply of education being private, and the lack of supply, especially in rural areas.

The vocational training offer is based on 447 centers, unevenly distributed throughout the country, with 56.2% of the establishments surveyed in the West. Data on learners by training center was not available at the time of project appraisal; their total number was estimated at over 20 000. Young people enter training in the CTF system after the 9th basic year (equivalent to the 3rd class in the French system), or after the baccalaureate I and II (1st or 4th year). INFP had 18 public centers, 18 government-funded centers (only part of the teachers in the center is supported) and 176 private centers accredited but without associated funding.

In total less than 10% of the training centers were public. State interventions are small and, from a budgetary point of view, limited to paying teachers' salaries. Nearly US $ 70 million had been invested in the sector between 1998 and 2014, thanks in particular to the support of the Technical and Financial Partners (TFP). These efforts led to the training of thousands of young people, but many Haitians remained and are still waiting for quality training, a pledge of socio-professional integration.

The technical and vocational training device (FTP)
The sector is governed by the decree of March 1985, which sets the standards, types and modes of vocational training and identifies the different levels of qualification. The National Institute of Vocational Training (INFP), attached to the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), has the mandate to regulate the sector. It is also the operator of public training centers, including the Pilot Center for Professional Training (CPFP).

The CPEJ project marked the return of the AFD in the financing of the Haitian education system. The financing agreement was signed on the occasion of the presidential visit of May 12, 2015, which placed education as AFD's focal sector in Haiti.

Since the start of the project, the INFP has experienced relative stability at the level of its General Management and its main executives. Indeed, only one change, the former director general has given way in early 2017 to a new director general, and a single change in the team of directors of the INFP that constituted the replacement of the former executive director and financial by a new one. The technical advisor, assigned as project focal point, remained the same, as well as the accountant, who has been promoted since the start of funding but has retained his role vis-à-vis the project. Similarly, the managers of the Pilot Center have not changed and the Director, appointed shortly before start-up, is still in place. This stability was a condition of success identified by AFD at the time of training. This remark is valid for the project management assistance team, at which only the private sector expert has experienced some changes, with a stabilization that has achieved a certain number of results. This situation is optimal for conducting a mid-term evaluation, as the early actors are almost all still present.

The law on the reorganization and modernization of vocational training was passed by both chambers and was promulgated in May 2018.

1.2. AFD-funded

project The aim of the "Skills for Youth Employment" project is to support the INFP in improving and modernizing its training offer to meet the skills needs of economic operators. and the Haitian economy, and that it allows the socio-professional integration of young Haitians.

At the time of project appraisal, AFD opted for an operational approach, focused on a center, aimed at replicating the key principles of this pilot intervention in order to optimize the leverage effect:
* Improvement of the match between the training offer and the economic demand;
* Accompaniment of young people in the transition phase from school to employment;
* Sustainability of activities by supporting a governance model to generate revenue;
* Coordination of the intervention with other TFPs to optimize synergies.

The specific objectives are:
* The creation of a sector of excellence in water trades at the Pilot Training Center (CPFP) of the INFP in partnership with the National Directorate of Drinking Water and Water. Sanitation (DINEPA) and private actors in the sector;
* the upgrading of the INFP Pilot Center as a reference center for the integration of young people into existing promising sectors, in partnership with the ILO and employers;
* support for the modernization of the INFP and the permanent transfer of skills to the INFP teams.

Taking into account the institutional fragility of the State and the weak capacities of the Haitian public contracting authorities, the logic of intervention rests on a relatively simple project, to aim for quick and visible results, while preparing the future by working strengthening the capacity of the administration and coordinating actions with other development partners.

Operating mode initially defined

Project management is provided by the MENFP and more specifically by the INFP, which is supported by Project Ownership Assistance (AMO). A project focal point has been appointed within the Operations Coordination Branch of INFP. The Administrative Department is responsible for the procurement and management of the financial resources of the project, with the support of an accountant and an expert procurement. The AMO has been recruited through a single contract of intellectual services and will cover:

* a bilingual international technical assistance, specialized in professional training, in support of the piloting and coordination of the project;
* beaded international technical assistance, with a training center manager profile, to support the capacity building of the Center Pilote management team;
* resident national technical assistance, specialized in the analysis of business skills needs, in support of the management team of the Pilot Center, in particular on the integration of young people and the generation of income;
* a section of flexible, one-off expertise to be mobilized according to needs;
* an expert procurement and an accountant, the first beaded and the second written, in support of the implementation of the project and in charge of strengthening the capacities of the INFP on these functions.

The competition is run as a project aid. AFD non-objection notices are given at key moments in the life of the project (on the project procedures manual, the procurement plan, the annual budgeted action plans of the project, the half-yearly reports of the project. technical and financial implementation, as well as all the documents relating to the award of contracts which are subject to ex-ante controls). An annual audit of the accounts is conducted by an independent firm. Implementation is planned for approximately 42 months.


2. Mid-term evaluation work method and approach

The evaluation work will be based on a four-step approach:
* Structuring the evaluation process;
* Conduct evaluative analysis;
* Discuss ways of improvement with the different actors involved;
* Present the conclusions of the evaluative work and the recommendations of the mid-term evaluation for furt

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