Recruitment of an International Consultant Tender - 21990008

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Country: Netherlands

Summary: Recruitment of an International Consultant to Develop the Baseline Situation of the Youth and Adolescents Vulnerability (AJF) Pilot Project

Deadline: 03 Apr 2018

Posting Date: 30 Mar 2018

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TOT Ref.No.: 21990008

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Competition: ICB

Financier: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFFATM)

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Tenders are invited for recruitment of an International Consultant to develop the baseline situation of the Youth and Adolescents Vulnerability (AJF) Pilot Project .
Terms of reference for the recruitment of an International Consultant to develop the baseline situation of the Youth and Adolescents Vulnerability (AJF) Pilot Project on HIV / AIDS
1. Background
Studies in the DRC, including DHS, have shown that the existence of gender inequalities has an impact on the vulnerability of Adolescents and Young Women (AJF) to contracting HIV-AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB). These inequalities affect the effectiveness of the national response to these two diseases. According to data from the 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), the prevalence of HIV / AIDS among women is between 25 and 30 years old. Adolescence and early twenties (especially the period of 15 to 24 years) is therefore a crucial period for the prevention of HIV-AIDS through information and awareness, but also by changing social norms (inequalities men -women, acceptance of gender-based violence (GBV),
Based on the foregoing, and in order to correct this negative impact on the target of Adolescents and Young Women (AJF), ??a pilot project aimed at providing an adequate and adapted response to address the vulnerability of gender inequalities has been put in place. foot with FM funding.
This project aims to:
(1) improve AJF access to adapted health services;
(2) improve AJF knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and human rights;
(3) reduce GBV in schools and workplaces through improved access to information, services and a supportive environment for AJF health.
In order to achieve change in gender social norms to reduce GBV and vulnerability to HIV / AIDS in communities, the project will use the SASA methodology!

This approach was developed by the Ugandan NGO Raising Voices and allows to go beyond a model of simple transmission of information, to integrate the different levels of the ecological model of fight against violence (individual, relations, community, society) and thus to have a more lasting impact.

Two provinces were selected for this project: Kinshasa (3 ZS) and Kasaï Oriental (3 ZS).
This project is placed under the institutional anchoring of the Ministry of Health through its national program against AIDS.
It will be run for three years by CORDAID with funding from the Global Fund.
Expected effects of the project:
In the medium and long term, the project wants the vulnerability of AJF to HIV-AIDS to be reduced. Indeed, this reduction will have an impact on the prevalence of HIV-AIDS in adult women so that the overall prevalence of HIV-AIDS will be reduced in the DRC.
It will also be, in the medium and long term, that the commitment of the AJF to fight against HIV / AIDS / AIDS is strong and deeply anchored in the mentalities, so that the use of the adapted health services is systematic and without taboo or fear.
In the medium and long term, the project wants the change in behavior and social norms in relation to GBV to be acquired from all target youth and the general population, that this violence is not accepted in any case and denounced by systematic way.
To do this, the project envisages:
· to inform and sensitize the AJFs so that they have a better knowledge of their rights, modes of prevention and transmission of HIV-AIDS, sexual reproductive health and GBV;
· to promote the change of social norms, namely the inequality between women and men, the acceptance of SGBV, the dominant masculinity, the submission of women, ... which accentuate the vulnerability of AJF to HIV-AIDS;
· improve access to health services adapted to AJFs.
Basic study
For the efficiency and effectiveness of the implementation of the project and the achievement of the expected effects, it is important to obtain the reference situation. It will help us to have precise information on the targets and sites of intervention concerned by the project and to inform the project indicators on a periodic basis thus making it possible to measure and follow the changes induced by the project.
In this perspective, CORDAID in collaboration with the National AIDS Control Program (PNLS), is looking for a competent and experienced International Consultant who will have the mission to conduct the study to develop the baseline situation of the pilot project to reduce AJF vulnerability to HIV-AIDS and to develop a relevant monitoring and evaluation system. He / She will also be responsible for providing a mid-term and end-of-project monitoring plan (endline study). The consultant will work closely with the PNLS who will designate a focal point to accompany the Consultant and benefit from a transfer of competence.
2. Objectives of the study :
The study will be structured around two main objectives, namely:
2.1. Elaborate the baseline situation of the project in order to highlight the basic data that will be evaluated and allow us to measure the changes induced by the project
It will be:
o Analyze the issue as defined in the context and possibly propose new or improve existing indicators to help the project measure progress toward results;
o Define the relevant sampling of this study for the areas and health areas that the project will cover;
o Inform indicators based on data collected and analyzed;
o Develop a report that presents the overall baseline situation of the project including the baseline levels of the project indicators as defined.
Rules for the indicators:
· Indicators should be defined to be SMART and disaggregated by sex, age, and AJF enrolled or not;
· There should be both quantitative and qualitative indicators.
2.2. Regarding the definition of the project's monitoring and evaluation system:
It will be :
o Produce tools for collecting and reporting activities and data. These tools will need to be validated jointly by the project team to enable regular collection and processing of indicators. They will be developed by level (AS, ZS, SR) from tools already existing in the country and in connection with those provided in the SASA methodology!
· AS: welcome sheet, register, report ...;
· ZS: Reporting template;
· SR: Reporting template.
o Develop the plan for the collection of indicators defined for the total duration of the project.
o Produce a report that will present the indicator monitoring plan. It will include, in particular, the reference values ??of the indicators, the exhaustive list of tools produced and used for data collection, processing and analysis. It must include for each indicator: the frequency of collection, the source of collection, those responsible for collection, the means of verification.
o Carry out two workshops (one in Kinshasa and one in Mbuji-Mayi) to review and discuss the results of the study by involving the important partners of the pilot project.
o Write a final study report integrating the recommendations of the restitution, present.
3. Tasks and duties assigned to consultants :
In close collaboration with the focal point designated by the PNLS and the Consultant / Project Leader, the Consultant will work under the overall authority of the CORDAID HIV / AIDS / TB Project Coordinator and under the technical supervision of the Coordinator. the monitoring and evaluation of CORDAID within the FM HIV / AIDS / TB programs.
All will report progress to the steering committee and to monthly technical meetings around the NAP.
Given the gender dimension of the project, all the data collected as well as the analyzes carried out will have to disaggregated by gender, age and AJF, whether they are in school or not, in order to understand how teenagers (young boys and girls) and young women may be differently ( or not) affected by project interventions.
The tasks of the Consultant should cover the following aspects:
Concerning the elaboration of the reference situation of the project:
· Conduct a literature review by looking at data available at SANRU, CORDAID, PNLS and elsewhere. (report of the inventory, report of the baseline SASA!, strategic documents of the PNLS, report all in, methodology SASA!, ...);
· Conduct field missions in project health areas to collect data needed to inform project indicators;
· Analyze the data by presenting the differences found for adolescents (young boys and girls) and young women ...;
· Analyze the context as well as the perception of AJF in relation to the health care offered to them (are they adapted? Accessible? Equitable?);
· To assess adolescents' and young women's knowledge of HIV / AIDS and SGBV prevention (HIV status, condom use, knowledge of transmission modes) in the health zones targeted by the project;
· Evaluate AJF knowledge on sexual reproductive health, family planning, their rights to violence and reporting mechanisms;
· To evaluate the knowledge of the AJF and the whole community on the notions of gender equality, violence against women, notions of power ...;
· To assess the rate of school-based gender-based violence and the reporting rate of these cases;
· Map the sites of care in the areas covered by this project;
· Enter the data collected from the targets;
· Clean up the database (it is an obligation to have a database clean, without missing, errors, etc.);
· Perform data analysis (preferably in SPSS for Windows);
· Revised draft project performance framework and finalization.
4. Methodology of the study:
The baseline situation in the intervention areas of the pilot project must come from the populations themselves. It is for this reason that a participatory approach will have to be used within the framework of the study carried out, this will allow the tar

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