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Tenders are invited for Consultancy to Conduct Endline Evaluation of The Strengthening Partnerships for Nurturing Care Project. Closing Date: 29 Oct 2024 Type: Consultancy ChildFund is an international child-centered development organization whose vision is a world in which every child realizes their rights and achieves their potential. Our three-fold mission is to help children living in deprivation, exclusion, and vulnerable situations to improve their lives and become adults who bring positive changes to their communities; to promote societies that value, protect and advance the worth and rights of children; and to enrich supporters lives through their support of our cause. In Kenya, ChildFund works through 11 Implementing Partners (IPs) and 2 Direct Implementing Partners Units in 26 counties. Our thematic focus areas are Child Protection, Household Economic Strengthening, Early Childhood Development, Education, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition. The programming of interventions in each of these sectors is informed by three Life Stage (LS) Program Approach. Each of these are Life Stages, this is LS 1 (0 5 years), LS 2 (6 14 years), and LS 3 (15 24 years) aims to respectively ensure that infants are healthy and secure, children are educated and confident and youth are skilled and involved. Child protection, disability mainstreaming, and gender inclusion are cross-cutting interventions implemented across the life stages. Under the Early Childhood Development (ECD) thematic area, ChildFund Kenya works with caregivers, communities and the government both at the national and county levels to support responsive caregiving, child protection, improved health and well-being of infants and young children (IYC) through systems strengthening of government and community structures to provide nurturing care for ECD interventions. Our aim is to strengthen the nurturing environment to promote protective and responsive parenting and supportive structures for early childhood development. 2.0 About Strengthening Partnerships for Nurturing Care Project ChildFund International, with funding from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, is implementing a multi-country Early Childhood Development project in Kenya and Mozambique dubbed Strengthening Partnerships for Nurturing Care. In Kenya, the project is implemented by Lake Region Development Program (LRDP) and Western Community Childrens Program (WCCP) in Busia and Homa Bay counties from March 2023 to February 2026. Goal The goal of this project is to improve the development of children aged 0-3 years in priority locations of Mozambique and Kenya by February 2026. Objectives Objective 1: Deliver an evidence-based parenting program that improves the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of caregivers, (including adolescent mothers) of children 0-3 years old in Kenya and Mozambique. Objective 2: Improve overall caregiver well-being through holistic psychosocial support and income-generating activities for caregivers of young children 0-3 years in Kenya and Mozambique. Objective 3: Support the capacity development of local implementing organizations and child protection agencies to enhance local ownership and enable multisectoral coordination at national and subnational levels in Kenya and Mozambique. Outputs Trained group parenting trainers and facilitators capacitated on nurturing care and caregiver wellbeing. Trained caregivers regularly participating in bi-monthly group parenting sessions. Caregiver and children receive maternal, child health, and nutrition services. Caregivers participate in psychosocial wellbeing activities. Caregivers participate in economic wellbeing activities. Local Implementing partners supporting the Strengthened Partnership for Nurturing Care Project (WCCP and LRDP) are trained on child protection and Nurturing Care Advocacy. Multisectoral Advocacy plans on child protection and nurturing care with partners are launched. 3.0. Purpose of the Evaluation The purpose of this assignment is for the country-based evaluator to work in close partnership, coordination and consultation with ChildFund Kenya, its local implementing partners (Lake Region Development Program (LRDP) and Western Community Childrens Program (WCCP)), ChildFund International, and an international evaluator engaged by ChildFund, to support all evaluation activities specifically the design, planning, implementation, reporting and dissemination. 4.0. Roles and Responsibilities Joint Responsibilities between International and Country Based Evaluator The country-based evaluator will work in coordination with the international evaluator, to review and provide inputs to the design of a Kenya M&E plan. This will involve developing a detailed implementation plan for the endline assessment, which will be inclusive of: Proposing the number of enumerators and developing/finalizing a ToR inclusive of competencies to use to identify enumerators. Identifying the timing needed to hire enumerators. Proposing the timeline (number of days per community, time required per assessment activity per site, etc.) and logistics (transport, quality assurance mechanisms, ensuring data storage and security in the field) for field data collection. Identifying time and resources needed for developing the training agenda and modules for training enumerators on data collection tools and piloting tools. Identifying the time and resources required for finalizing assessment tools post-pilot and either printing or including in mobile data collection forms. Identifying the time required for creating the data entry forms; entering data; and cleaning data prior to sending to an international research partner. Contextualize, translate, and finalize endline data collection tools in consultation with the international evaluator. International Evaluator Finalize all endline evaluation enumerator training agendas and modules. The International Evaluator will share the draft guidance for any contextualization needed and will complete the final technical review. Develop quantitative and qualitative data entry forms for use by the enumerators. Conduct preliminary analyses of qualitative and/or quantitative data for the endline evaluation Develop draft endline evaluation report and briefs produced by the international evaluator in coordination with ChildFund Kenya and ChildFund International. Country Based Evaluator. Enumerator recruitment, management, and payment. The country-based consultant will be responsible for fully managing enumerators ToR and identifying enumerators with adequate competencies to fulfill the respective ToR. Train enumerators on how to utilize the endline evaluation tools as well as pilot the tools. Identify and facilitate the enumerators entering the quantitative data collected for the endline assessment using agreed upon data entry forms determined in consultation with ChildFunds international evaluator. Identify and facilitate the enumerators entering and translating the qualitative data for the endline evaluation collected using agreed upon data entry forms determined in consultation with ChildFunds international evaluator. Clean qualitative and quantitative data sets entered for the endline evaluation. Conduct preliminary analyses of qualitative and/or quantitative data for the endline evaluation as per an agreement with ChildFunds international evaluator using the data analysis plan per outcome studys assessment. Review and provide feedback on the drafts of the report and briefs produced by the international evaluator in coordination with ChildFund Kenya and ChildFund International. ChildFund Kenya Provide access to documents and information needed to undertake the survey, Provide day-to-day coordination of activities and as the need arise including mobilization. Pay the agreed costs for the assignments and as per the deliverables completed. Socialize the consultant and team on Child safeguarding and have the team sign the policy. Implementing Partners Mobilization of respondents in their respective geographical areas. Provision of guidance and support during community entry and data collection 5.0. Expected deliverables for this assignment. The evaluator is expected to satisfactorily complete the deliverables outlined in the table below for each stage of the assignment: Evaluation Stage A Deliverables: M&E Plan Requested inputs provided to the international evaluator to finalize the Country M&E Plan based on review of project documents and consultation with Country Team. 2 Days Evaluation Stage B Deliverables: Endline Evaluation Planning, Implementation and Report Spreadsheet of enumerators hired characterizing their competencies against the ToR for enumerators. This is inclusive of timing for hiring and determining enumerators. 0.5 day Final set of training agenda and modules for the endline assessment enumerators training that have been reviewed and finalized in consultation with ChildFunds international evaluator. 2 days Review contextualized and translated endline assessment data collection tools to utilize for training enumerators established in coordination with ChildFunds international evaluator. 1 day Training of enumerators and pretest of the tools 4 days Endline assessment field data collection. 10 days Complete set of entered, cleaned (and translated for qualitative data) raw qualitative and quantitative data as per the final endline assessment data entry forms agreed with ChildFunds international evaluator. 4 days Preliminary analysis of agreed upon data (to be determined with ChildFunds international evaluator). 2 days Validation of the preliminary results with the county stakeholders 2 days Update the Perfomance Mea Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4103124/consultancy-conduct-endline-evaluation-strengthening-partnerships-nurturing-care-project
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