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Country : Chad

Summary : Recruitment of a National Consultant to Support the Development of the Multi-Year Resilience Program NOC

Deadline : 09 Jul 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 34433163

Document Ref. No. : 523547

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND
N'DJAMÉNA Country Office Mail address UNICEF BP 1146 N'Djaména Republic of Chad Visitors' address UNICEF Route de l'Aeroport N'Djaména BP. 1146 N'Djaména Republique du Tchad Telephone Country code 235 City code - 2251.89.89 Facsimile (235) 2251.74.65
Chad
Email :ndjamena@unicef.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Recruitment of a National Consultant to support the development of the Multi-Year Resilience Program NOC N'Djamena Chad, 4 months.

I. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION

The Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion is committed to developing a multi-year resilience program aimed at improving joint planning and programming, especially in protracted crises in the country. The multiannual modality must make it possible to achieve collective results for education in an emergency situation.
The multiannual program aims to address the quality and financing problems of education that persist in the humanitarian sector, as well as to bridge the gap between short-term humanitarian investments and long-term development investments. The joint program should align with the Interim Education Plan in Chad (PIET 2018-2020), the Education Cluster Strategy, the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), the Refugee Response Plan (RRP) and the Global Refugee Response Framework (CRRF).
The consultation will contribute to the achievement of the programmatic priorities N ° 2 of Education and N ° 4 of the Emergency.
Education Can not Wait (ECW) provides start-up funding for the multi-year action plan and works with partners at national and global levels to mobilize the additional resources needed to fund the full program. It is important to emphasize that, although the multiannual program is not an "ECW program" but a multi-year program at the country level, it needs to be aligned with the goals and objectives of ECW as this program is supported and facilitated by ECW's efforts. Start-up funds are set to increase exponentially by catalyzing additional funding.

The disbursement of funds to support the multi-year program is expected to take place within four months of the conclusion of the joint program design process in the country facilitated by ECW. The program can last between three to four years, depending on the context and abilities. The program can be renewed or updated and updated as long as the protracted crisis lasts.

II. GOAL

2.1. Main objective

The main objective is to support the International Consultant in charge of elaboration of the Multi-Year Resilience Program in all its tasks (needs analysis, formulation of strategies, organization of workshops, making appointments made contacts with local authorities and other actors involved, facilitate access to documents and other requested tasks).
2.2. Specific objectives: Specifically, it is to support the International Consultant in charge of the elaboration of the Multiannual Resilience Program in the following tasks:
• Support the international consultant in the development and execution of a work plan for the program development phase, with specific milestones, timelines and support the organization of meetings organized by the work team.
• Support the International Consultant in the contextualization of INEE standards and their inclusion in the strategies, objectives and interventions of the action plan to ensure optimal inputs and results.
• Help identify relevant child protection actions to be included in the program - The multi-year program should also promote a protective environment for children, including by preventing sexual exploitation and abuse. They should rely on robust safeguards and ensure safe and child-friendly reporting systems.
• Ensure that the necessary support is available to develop gender-sensitive interventions by mobilizing actors in the country. This is particularly important in this design phase. One of the key functions of this expertise is to ensure that the analysis generates sufficient quantitative and qualitative data to subsequently enable the design of gender-sensitive programs.
• Support the international consultant in the drafting of the multi-year program and ensure its timely submission, using the model proposed by ECW, on the basis of contributions from the Government, the Education Cluster, the Local Group of Education Partners, the protection group, donors / donors, local and international NGOs and civil society with analytical work and relevant documents / frameworks in the country.
• Support the international consultant in the revision of the program document and respond to all the questions raised based on the comments of the local consultations as well as those of the ECW secretariat and ECW's independent review group and ensure that all revisions are approved by local partners before resubmission.
• Support the International Consultant in developing an overall results framework consistent with the cluster strategy and existing plans (PIET, HRP, etc.).
• Support the overall budgeting exercise of the action plan, as well as ECW's specific budget, and identify which interventions would be supported by ECW start-up funds (in the ECW Annex).
• Support the International Consultant in developing an advocacy and resource mobilization plan (as part of the multi-year program) to ensure that the necessary actions fill the financing gap and that they are supported by all parties (national and international) to fully finance the multiannual program. This will involve conducting consultations with donors, reviewing existing investments, and future education sector funding plans - to quickly identify resource mobilization opportunities and donor appetite for future investments. . Explore links and opportunities for public-private partnerships (between national and international public partners and the local private sector,
III. EXPECTED RESULTS
At the end of this consultation, the results below are expected:

• The main output of this process is a budgeted action plan and a high quality multi-year program for Chad, which is in line with the cluster strategy Education and national education strategies and policies (such as in the area of ??gender equality, inclusion and protection policies, etc.).
• The program document with an annex that identifies the interventions to be funded by the ECW Seed Funds and the associated results, as well as the related budget developed.
• The program document with an annex on the available resource mobilization strategy.
IV. METHODOLOGY

ü Development process

The methodology will follow a participatory and consultative process which will involve first and foremost consultations with the country technical team set up by the MENPC, the thematic groups, the Education Cluster, the civil society organizations, the development partners and working in the field. and the private sector to produce a robust needs analysis and formulate strategies based on identified priorities.
This participatory approach will allow the consultation to propose a program document for its future validation by the partners before its submission to the ECW Board of Directors.
The methodology will also take into account the close collaboration to be established with the Ministry of Women, the MENEC Girls' Education Department and organizations working in the field of gender equity to incorporate sensitive gender analysis of the situation. target group.
IV. Deliverables
The following deliverables will be expected as a result of the consultancy. The consultant's proposal should include the 8 deliverables in the timeline:


N? Products Period
1 Elaboration of a framework for the analysis of the situation in the thematic groups Access, Quality and Management:
- Organization of a workshop to take into account the gaps resulting from the comparison of the PIET and the Strategy the Education Cluster;
- Sensitive gender analysis of the situation (overall situation, needs, barriers, priorities).
- Consolidation of the inputs of the thematic groups, submission of the analysis, identification of the needs and priorities to the technical team, thematic group, Plan International, UNICEF and SNU Gender Specialists. Month 1 (July)
2 Identification of strategies:
- Development of strategies and outputs
- Identification of outputs by strategies;
- Consolidation of the inputs of the thematic groups and submission of the document on the identification and development of strategies to the technical team, thematic group, Plan International, UNICEF and UNS Gender Specialist;
- Integration of feedback and comments and submission to ECW;
- Integration of feedback from ECW and validation of the strategy document. Month 1 (July)
3 Development of the detailed budget:
- Consolidation of the inputs of the thematic groups and submission of the budget draft to the technical team, thematic group, Plan International, UNICEF and UNS Gender Specialists;
- Integration of feedback and comments and submission to ECW;
- Integration of feedback and budget validation by ECW. Month 2 (August)
4 Development of the program document:
- Development of the chapters and sections of the program according to the ECW model: Overview of the Situation, Existing Strategies and Plans, Key Actors in Education, Cross-cutting Themes, Trans-sectoral Links, Geographic Priorities, Geographic Priorities, Management Program, Gender Integration, Coordination, Partnerships and Collaboration, Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency;
- Consolidation of the inputs of the thematic groups and submission of the document developed to the technical team, thematic group, Plan International, UNICEF and UN Gender Specialists Integration of feedbacks and comments and submission to ECW;
- Integration of ECW feedback and document validation. Month 2 (August)
5 Monitoring Plan: Learning and Knowledge Management, Evaluation Plan, Accountability to affected populations
- Submission of the monitoring and learning framework to the technical team, thematic group, Plan International, UNICEF and UN Gender Specialists Integration of feedback and feedback comments and submission to ECW;
- Integration of ECW feedback and document validation. Month3 (September)
6 Specific work on the appendices:
- Theory of Cha

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