Invitation for Consultancy Job at Save The Children - 2015

Invitation for Consultancy Service to Assess Enabling Environment

for Investment in Children Initiatives

 

1.      Introduction

Save the Children Ethiopia (SC-Eth) is a leading child well-being organization. Its vision is a nation in which every child’s survival, protection, development and participation is attained. Its mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way children are treated and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives and that of their families. As part of our commitment to the wellbeing of children, SC-Eth has established Investment in Children as a breakthrough for Child Friendly National System and Structure Program. This breakthrough aspires to ensure that all children, especially vulnerable, benefit from greater public investment and better use of society’s resources in the realization of their wellbeing. Investment in Children aims at influencing State and Non-State actors to mobilize and allocate adequate resource to programs targeting children and to put in place transparency and accountability mechanisms to enhance citizens’ engagement in budget process.

2.      Background

Currently, the Investment in Children Program of Ethiopia has a plan to develop SC–Eth’s Investment in Children Strategy for the years 2016-2018. The main objective of the strategy is making CSOs, Children groups, media, academia and private sectors credible partners able to work together to influence national, regional and local level child budgeting processes and spending for improved resource and services. As it is a new engagement area, the program needs to assess the environment for availability and access to crucial information for effective engagement; spaces for dialogue and interaction between CSOs, children led groups, academia, media, private sectors and governments; policy and legal frameworks at local and national level that may affect CSOs’, Children led groups, academia, media and private sectors operations, nature of interaction between and amongst civil society including local and international, children led groups, media, academia and private sectors. The outcome of the assessment will facilitate evidence based Investment in Children approaches in currently running investment in children programs and feed into other thematic sectors in the future.  Thus, the program is looking for a licensed and qualified consultant that would undertake this task.

3.      Objectives of the Assessment

 

3.1 Overall Objective

The overall objective of the assessment is to enable CSOs, Children led groups, media, academia and private sectors to be credible counterparts for both government and citizens Investment in Children.

3.2 Specific Objectives

Ø Identify currently running initiatives on children’s budget work or applied budget work related initiatives among CSOs in Ethiopia, children led groups, media, academia and private sectors and also other crucial information for effective engagement in investment in children initiatives;

Ø Undertake comprehensive assessment of strengths, weakness of  these initiatives and also identify potential spaces and opportunities for investment in children initiatives and anticipated threats;

Ø  Identify policies relevant to children, budget and on the participation in public actions such as policy influencing of these actors(CSOs, children led groups, academia, media and private sectors) and other relevant legal and policy frameworks;

Ø Design a strategy on how to enhance understanding, interactions and collaboration between the actors in these initiatives so as to ensure these actors become credible partners in investment in children initiatives in line with SC strategy.

 

4.      Scope of work and deliverable

 

Comprehensive baseline information on the overall environment in CSOs, children groups, media, academia and private sector in line with the overall and specific objectives of this assessment is expected at the end of the consultancy.  The Consultant is expected to come up with the reporting outline while submitting the technical proposal but the outline should at least include the following;

Ø  Executive summary,

Ø  Introduction/background(including the overall situation and objectives of the study),

Ø  Methodology,

Ø  Findings/Results, analysis and discussion,

Ø  Conclusion,

Ø  Way forward/Recommendations,

Ø  References,

Ø  Appendices.

 

.      Required qualification and experience

 

The consultant should encompass the following competencies

Ø  Degree in governance, sociology and policy analysis; social works and Developmental Sociology; Development Finance and/Budgeting; economics and policy studies, other social sciences and/or development Studies;

Ø  Proven experience in applying participatory tools especially when interviewing/collecting  information;

Ø  Proven experience in conducting budget studies in the  child sector or familiarity with Children’s Budgeting;

Ø  Proven experience with CSOs/NGOs, government, academia, media and private sector;

Ø  Fluency and proficiency in written and spoken English, excellent communication and analytic skills.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the consultancy work can be found from Reception at Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office in Addis Ababa, situated around Bisrate Gabriel Church Dire Complex Building. From the TOR; applicants can get full information on what to incorporate in the proposal.

Interested applicants should submit two separate sealed documents in which one document should include the technical proposal including curriculum vitae of the proposed professional(s) with supporting document that shows previous work experience. The second document should include professional fee on the bases of daily rates, VAT and per diem costs, as well as transport costs separately for the stated work along with copy of renewed Consultancy License to Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office in Addis Ababa, situated around Bisrate Gabriel Church, Dire Complex Building, before Monday May 11, 2015 at 4:30 P.M in person.
 
 
Only proposals from individuals will be accepted. Proposal from firms will not be accepted.
 
 
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