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  • Posted: Dec 9, 2022
    Deadline: Dec 12, 2022
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    Consultant - Community Mapping And Situational Assessment

    Description of Project / Programme

    • The Partnership for Learning for All (PLANE) is an FCDO Funded Project which consists of 3 windows namely: improvements in the foundational systems (Window 1); specific support to children in conflict environments (Window 2); and communities supporting children learning (Window 3). It is expected that at impact level, PLANE will contribute to ‘More children and young people acquire basic skills and transition to more productive life opportunities” 
    • PLANE Window 3 is a 4-year project which focuses on community support to learning and is implemented by Save the Children International (SCI) and its partners in Jigawa, Kaduna and Kano (JKK) states. Across the 3 JKK states, the project will work with existing community structures such as the School Based Management Committees (SBMCs), Ward Development Committees (WDCs), women and men's groups, disabilities groups, child protection committees, children, etc to engage local communities using SC's flagship Community Action Cycle (CAC) approach.  
    • The project aims to deliver an integrated programme aimed at mobilizing communities to support children to access education and derive the maximum benefit from the educational opportunities available to them. In the long run, the PLANE Window 3 project will improve/build foundational skills of marginalised children (particularly girls) through community learning initiatives and reduce demand-side barriers to education to enable and improve learning for marginalised children (particularly for girls) by addressing social norms and harmful practices. This will be done through two key intermediate outcomes:
    • Girls and boys including children living with disability complete community-based learning interventions and have increased well-being and life skills
    • Community members are engaged in collective action to create an enabling environment which supports girls' and boys' rights and to demand for safe, quality and inclusive education
    • The project has the following Interventions
    • Literacy Boost and Numeracy Boost camps – Community led sessions outside of school to help children between 6-9years (G1-3) both in school and out of school to improve their reading and numeracy skills
    • Catch Up Clubs - Community led sessions outside of school to help in school and out of school children between ages 9-13 years (G4-6) both in school and out of school to improve their reading skills.
    • Home based learning – Remote/home-based learning for children living in insecure communities.
    • Very Young Adolescent clubs – Safe spaces for girls and boys attending catch up clubs to improve their life skills and discuss issues that affect them.
    • Social Behaviour change – Implementing the Community Action Cycle approach to mobilise and strengthen community capacity and foster individual and collective action
    • Social Behavioural Change Communication – Mobilising various strategies to communicate key information related to gender transformative change as they relate to access to education
    • Dedicated activities for children with disabilities – Advocacy activities, support to enroll and stay in the education system
    • Household economic strengthening – Setting up Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) - a economic empowerment strategy for vulnerable families to support children’s education continuity.
    • Community Case Management – A community-led service for girls and boys with protection concerns that links with the government Social worker system.
    • PLANE Window 3 project is currently in its inception phase and as part of the activities to ensure smooth take off the project, the organisation is commissioning a community mapping & situational analysis exercise in selected communities in the three implementation states.

    Rationale for the Activity / Assignment

    • This project will use evidence-based approaches to enable and increase community-based support for learning for 200,000 marginalised children, especially girls and children with disabilities, through building foundational competencies, fostering empowerment, strengthening protection systems and supporting families to overcome demand-side barriers to productive education opportunities.
    • As part of its take off activities and for effective project delivery, the project intends to collaborate with the LGA level government stakeholders to agree on criteria for school community mapping/selection.
    • The mapping activities will also involve mapping of structures and mechanisms existing in the community that will aid or affect the project delivery.
    • To this end, the project is commissioning a community mapping assessment & situational analysis to understand the communities and the existing structures that may influence the delivery and the impact of the PLANE Window 3 project in the three states.  

    Objectives

    • The overarching objective of this assignment is to gather an indepth understanding of the Window 3 PLANE communities we will be working with.
    • The exercise will provide information to understand both the people (communities) and the existing structures that can impact the delivery of the planned education interventions.

    Specifically, the assignment will achieve the following objectives among others:
    The specific objectives of this exercise are to:

    • Understand the current situation and power dynamics in supported communities with respect to community support to learning. This will include:
    • Identify power relations, community leadership, existing  structures and actors, formal and informal groups, key influencers, community dynamics in supported communities and how these may influence community support to learning
    • Conduct  disability as well as gender analysis in supported communities
    • Identify community assets and resources (including spaces) that can be leveraged within the community interventions
    • Understand factors that influence conflict in the communities and well as review of civil conflict in these communities in the past 10 years
    • Understand factors influencing the problem of out-of-school children in the communities
    • Map out & locate (using GIS coordinates) existing civil organisations, structures and service providers in and close to the communities that provide education, health, protection,  and social protection etc services, especially for children, including those with disabilities
    • Understand the situation of the hub-schools and factors that may affect enrolment and attendance including for children living with disabilities
    • Identify existing and/or ongoing economic activities in the target locations

    Methodology

    • Three individual consultants or organizations (one for each state) will be selected for the assignment.
    • Each consultant/ organization is expected to come up with a detailed methodology for the assignment in the inception report.  
    • However, the assessment is expected to mainly be qualitative data collection approach with some quantitative data.
    • The methodology should detail target participants, type of data collection methods and the number of sessions per location segregated by participants’ characteristics.  
    • A detailed review of secondary data that provides details of the situation in the states, LGAs and communities is expected

    The consultant should note the following when planning the methodology:

    • A desk review of relevant documents to provide an understanding of the project and contextual analysis of the existing systems. All necessary data quality control measures should be put in place during the fieldwork, ensuring data protection during collection, storage, transfer, analysis, and reporting.
    • A risk assessment will be conducted that includes any risks related to children, adolescents, and adults' participation in this study.
    • A referral mechanism will be in place in case any child safeguarding or protection issues arise during the study.
    • Informed consent is obtained from all respondents participating in the study.

    Scope

    • The scope of the assignment spans across 3 states in Northwest geopolitical zone in Nigeria.
    •  The consultant will visit the implementation states for Windows 3 PLANE project, engage with the community participants to gather their views/opinions to understand the communities (people) and the existing structures that can impact the delivery of the planned education interventions.
    • The consultant must ensure gender inclusion including people living with disability within the communities.
    • Below are the selected LGA per state:
      • Jigawa - Malam Madori LGA, Babura LGA 
      • Kaduna - Soba LGA, Kauru LGA 
      • Kano - Minjibir LGA, Makoda LGA​, Ajingi LGA 
    • The community mapping & situational analysis is expected to cover all selected hub school catchment communities (8 per LGA). By ‘hub school community’ we mean all the communities who access a single primary school or live within 3km walking distance from it.  Therefore, the mapping is expected to cover:
      • Jigawa – 16 communities
      • Kaduna – 16 communities
      • Kano – 24 communities

    Specific Tasks
    The selected individual shall:

    • Develop the inception report (Protocol) which will include an interpretation of the study design & methodologies, detailed work plan and financial proposal (Consultant daily rate for the period of the assignment).
    • Conduct a desk review of the relevant program documents.
    • Develop appropriate data collection tools and guides
    • Hold preliminary discussions with project leads, MEAL team and relevant key stakeholders.
    • Train facilitators, interviewers and supervisors, ensure the quality of data.
    • Undertake consultations with key stakeholders and conduct field data collection, Focus group discussions, Key informant interviews, etc.
    • Process and analyze the data, write and submit a draft report of the assessment
    • Submit transcripts & data sets
    • Present the draft report of the findings to SCI for comments and feedbacks.
    • Revise and submit final report including recommendations

    Deliverables

    • Inception report (Protocol)
    • Collated Mapping outline
    • Data collection tools & guides
    • Transcipts and cleaned data sets
    • Draft report
    • Final report

    Timing of Consultancy

    • The proposed duration for this consultancy is 25 working days for Jigawa and Kaduna state and 30 working days for Kano from mid-January to February 2023.
    • The individual expressing interest shall provide the detailed plan of activities.
    • The 3 selected consultants (1 for each state) will work concurrently within the stipulated period  

    Consultant / Firm Specification Required
    Individual Consultant:

    • He/she must have at least Master's Degree in Education or relevant Social Sciences or Development Studies. Details of experience providing above mentioned services and references
    • Consultant must have five years and above experience in conducting qualitative studies and analysis and, experienced in community mapping/situational analysis for programmes especially in education context (with evidence/reference)
    • Must possess high level of skill in assessment report writing
    • He/she should have experience working in and understanding the selected state.
    • Pricing plans for all services (financial proposal).
    • Specify if any part of their services is subcontracted to other parties, and if yes list the other parties

    For firms:

    • In addition to those information requested above , the bidding organizations would be required to submit evidence of statutory records and that the company is legally registered with the government authorities.

    Ethics Approval and Disclosure/Ownership of Information:

    • The Consultant must obtain and adhere to ethical approval processes of Nigeria before commencement of the activity.
    • Full ethical approval must be obtained before the activity commences, if required. 
    • All ownership and copyright for the information collected is held by the Project and Save the Children Nigeria.
    • The Consultant shall, during and after the effective period of the contract, treat as confidential and not divulge, unless authorized in writing by Save the Children Nigeria, any information obtained during the performance of the assignment.
    • Information will be made available for the consultants on a need-to-know basis.

    Evaluation Criteria:

    • There will be one set of evaluation criteria for individual consultants.
    • For this assignment SCI will apply first the Essential criteria and then Capability criteria.
    • The essential criteria will be evaluated using a simple Yes/No scoring method.
    • A Yes will be awarded if the consultant provides evidence of the requirement.
    • Only consultants that score all ‘Yes’ under the essential criteria evaluation will progress to the capability evaluation stage.
    • The pass mark for the capability criteria is 80 points out of 100 points.
    • Consultants who respond to the tender must meet the following criteria.

    Payment Schedule

    • Payment to the consultant shall be done in accordance with normal procedures of Save the Children.
    • In principle however, consultant fees will be paid upon the satisfactory report of performance.

    The payment schedule will be as follows:

    • First payment: after successful submission and approval of the inception report, data collection tools, workplan, travel schedule and story bud: will be paid 30% of total payment.
    • Second payment: upon successful collection of interviews across the identified states and first draft of the report, will be paid 40% of total payment.
    • Third and final payment: upon submission of the final copy of the assessment report and all other deliverables to Save the Children, will be paid 30% of the total payment.
    • SCI reserves the right to withhold payment if deliverables do not meet the requirements outlined in this Terms of Reference.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified consultants should send their Responses to: quotations.nigeria@savethechildren.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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