REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL- Only for Local FIRM/ORGANISATION

Ref- (RFP-2014-9114029)

1. Topic: Consultancy services: todesign, develop, install and support implementation of school management information system at school for( Phase I : 7 months and Phase II 10 months)

2. Background

EMIS has been functional in Ethiopia for a long period of time. Great improvement has been noted in collecting education data and publishing basic statistics in education annually. MoE has currently educational statistics application software called StatEduc2, implemented in all the Regional Education Bureaus (REBs) of the country. The system is web-based database application system for data entry, storage, and processing.

3. Objectives

Objectives of Education Management Information System (EMIS) in many education systems include ensuring that education stakeholders at all levels can generate and have access to reliable data and information; and that policy makers, education managers and planners use accurate, timely information and relevant data to effectively operate and develop the education system.

4. Qualification of Firm and Experience RequiredThe consulting firm must have developed at least two MIS and web-based applications in the last 5 years. Team Leader/System Analyst- Master’s Degree in Computer Science and related fields-7 years of experience of which 5 years extensive experience in team coordination, system analysis, software design, software development, supply, and installation. Database specialists two- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and related fields-5 years’ experience .Software programmer two- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and related fields-5 years’ experience in software programming. Testing, maintenance and support professional five- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and related fields-4 years’ experience in software testing and maintenance. National and/or International Expert on Education Statistics-5 years’ experience in education statistics and economics of

Interested and eligible bidders are invited to collect the complete tender document by sending an email to the address below starting on 4rd Sept 2014. Formal offers are to be submitted to UNICEF on Fridaybefore 9.00 am. 19th- Sept- 2014. Due to the nature of the bid, there will be no bid public opening for this offer.

UNICEF reserves the right to accept or reject part or all of any or all bids.

ADDRESS: UNICEF ETHIOPIA, Supply Section, Room 3, Attn. Mr. Sebastian Muzuma (smuzuma@unicef.org) P.O.BOX 1169, TEL: +251-11 5184233, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia.

Post Date: March 8, 2013
Deadline: March 9, 2013

Organization: Family Health International (FHI 360)-Ethiopia

Family Health International (FHI 360)-Ethiopia
Invitation for Consultancy Services to Develop Training Manual and to Provide Training of Trainers (TOT) for Master Trainers on Household (HH) Vegetable Gardening, Assist FHI 360-Ethiopia Team to Conduct HH Garden Viability Assessment in HH Garden Activity and Re-fresher Training and Household Follow-up Visit on Household Vegetable Gardening Implementation.

Technical Managers: Medhanit Wube

Period of Performance: March to September 2013

Total Number of Days: Maximum of 70 (16 days travel days) consultancy days

Project Number (ID/FCO): 102705 / 0600.0001

1) Background:-
Family Health International (FHI) is a technical assistance agency specialized in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support programming, which provides technical assistance to the Ethiopian government as well as NGOs and other stakeholders in the response to AIDS in Ethiopia. FHI has been in Ethiopia since 1996 providing technical assistance in the areas of Family planning, research and HIV/AIDs. FHI-Ethiopia’s efforts are funded by the US government through the bilateral agreement between the United States and the Ethiopian Governments.
FHI 360-Ethiopia would like to invite well qualified and experienced Consultants to apply for the development of training manual and for providing TOT for master trainers on Household Vegetable Gardening.

2) Rationale of the Training:-
In order to build the technical capacity of implementing partners, FHI 360 will develop master’s trainer manual to provide Training of Trainers (TOT) on household vegetable gardening & Visual Aid to educate households and work with FHI 360-Ethiopia team to conduct HH assessment to determine baseline knowledge, skill, and willingness to engage in HH garden activity. FHI will also provide TOT to implementing partners who will be master trainers that can roll out the training and support the households to families of highly vulnerable children. The training will be provided using the master’s trainer manual on vegetable gardening which will be developed by the consultant. The training is supported by practical session for demonstration and exercise, as well as information about nutrition & food handling/storage techniques.

3) Objective of the Consultancy Mission:-
The main objective of the training is to build the capacity of Yekokeb Berhan implementing partners on household vegetable gardening by availing Masters Training Manual & Visual Job Aid and providing TOT for the Master Trainers of implementing partners so that they can roll out the training to the family of Highly Vulnerable Children and support the implementation. The main activities of the consultant will be: -
i. Development of household vegetable gardening masters training manual.
ii. Development of simple Job Aid on household vegetable gardening.
iii. Providing TOT on Household vegetable gardening training for staffs of Implementing partners and Yekokeb Berhan Technical team.
iv. Assist the FHI 360-Ethiopia team in conducting household (HH) assessment to determine baseline knowledge, skill, and willingness to engage in HH garden activity
v. Providing a one re-fresher training and household follow up visit on Household Vegetable Gardening implementation.

4) Summary of Activities:-
The consultant will carry out the following activities:

Activity Week Commencing Estimated
Level of Effort
1. Development of household vegetable gardening masters training manual. Beginning of April 2013 8 days
2. Development of simple Job Aid on household vegetable gardening Beginning of April 2013 4 days
3. Providing TOT on Household vegetable gardening training for staffs of Implementing partners and Yekokeb Berhan Technical team April 22 to early June 2013 24 days (6 days * 4 regions)
4. Assist the FHI360 team in conducting household (HH) assessment to determine baseline knowledge, skill, and willingness to engage in HH garden activity First week of June 2013 10 days
5. Providing a one re-fresher training and household follow up visit on Household Vegetable Gardening implementation. Second week of August 2013 24 days (one day refresher and 3 days household visit in each 4 region and two travel days)

5) Deliverables
The consultant will be responsible for the preparation and delivery of the following outputs relating to the activities outlined above:

• Household vegetable gardening masters training manual
• Simple Job Aid on household vegetable gardening.
• A 24-day TOT workshop on household vegetable gardening for staff of implementing partners and Yekokeb Berhan Technical team.
• One refresher training and household follow-up visit on Household Vegetable Gardening implementation.
• HH garden viability assessment report

6) Minimum requirements: -
• Minimum of MSc degree in the field of Agriculture or other related disciplines
• Minimum of 7 years of experience developing such type of manuals and providing TOT trainings
• Skilled in the facilitation of trainings
The trainer is expected to bring his/her best experience in the development of manuals and in providing TOT trainings on urban agriculture, specifically on household vegetable gardening. Candidates with overseas experience are preferred.

7) Disclaimers
• FHI 360 may cancel the solicitation and not award.
• FHI 360 may reject any or all responses received.
• Issuance of the solicitation does not constitute an award commitment by FHI 360.
• FHI 360 reserves the right to disqualify any offer based on offeror failure to follow solicitation instructions.
• FHI 360 will not compensate offers for response to solicitation.
• FHI 360 reserves the right to issue award based on initial evaluation of offers without further discussion.
• FHI 360 may choose to award only part of the activities in the solicitation, or issue multiple awards based on the solicitation activities.
• FHI 360 reserves the right to waive minor proposal deficiencies that can be corrected prior to award determination to promote competition.
• FHI 360 will be contacting offers to confirm contact person, address and that bid was submitted for this solicitation.

8) How to apply

Well qualified and interested candidates can send their application letter, CVs and supporting documents through our E-mail address: CAbdu@fhi360.org before the closing date of this announcement, which is March 9, 2013

You can collect the TOR of this consultancy service from our Operation Coordinator, FHI 360-Ethiopia/C-change office along the road from Dembel City Center to Meskel Flower Hotel close to Adot Tina Hotel. You can also call on 0114-66 81 68 to get correct information of our address

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UNICEF Ethiopia
Near UNECA Compound, Opposite German House
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Topic: Consultancy service-to develop five years Strategy Document for Education Cluster in Ethiopia for( two months.)- RE-advertised.

Background: Ethiopia is a diverse country with varied topography and demographics, which makes it highly vulnerable to both natural and man-made emergencies. Eight regions of the country (Somali, Afar, Gambella, Benshangul Gumuz, Tigray, SNNPR, Amhara and Oromiya) are identified as emergency prone regions as they are affected every year either by drought, flood and/or conflict. The recurrent natures of these emergencies along with pre-existing poverty affect the education of thousands of children every year. The ability of children to access education is severely compromised because of these emergencies as children drop out of school, school buildings become shelters or are damaged, school materials become damaged, schools remain closed for extended periods of time, teachers leave the affected areas and children and their families become displaced from their villages and live in temporary shelters for long periods of time.Objectives: To develop five year Strategic plan Document for Education in Emergencies (2012 ? 2016) with budget estimates. Specific Tasks: Under the overall guidance of the Education Cluster Coordinator and UNICEF Education Emergency Officer/focal person for the Education Cluster and Education Cluster focal person from Ministry of Education, the consultants with this TOR are expected to Develop Strategy Plan Document for Education in Emergencies.Qualification / Experience of the firm/Team composition: N.B The firm/organisation to be contracted should have a consultancy team as per (TOR) to be provided.

How to apply:

Interested and eligible bidders are invited to request the complete tender document by sending an email to the address below STARTING on Thursday 01- Nov-2012. Formal offers are to be submitted to UNICEF at 10.00 am on Friday 23-Nov- 2012. Due to the nature of the bid, there will be no bid public opening for this offer.

UNICEF reserves the right to accept or reject part or all of any or all bids. ADDRESS: UNICEF ETHIOPIA, Supply Section, Room 112, Attn. Sebastian Muzuma (smuzuma@unicef.org) P.O.BOX 1169, TEL: +251-11 5184233, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia.

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Post Date: June 28, 2012
Deadline July 6, 2012

Company: Family Health International (FHI 360)-Ethiopia

Back ground
Family Health International (FHI) is a development agency providing technical assistance in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, food and nutrition, livelihood, communications, education programming which provides technical assistance to the Ethiopian government as well as NGOs and other stakeholders in the response to AIDS and development areas in Ethiopia. Family Health International has been in Ethiopia since 1996 providing technical assistance primarily in health and later in various development areas. FHI-Ethiopia`s efforts are funded by the United States Government through the bilateral agreement between the United States and the Ethiopian Government.

One of the projects being implemented by FHI 360-Ethiopia is Yekokeb Berhan HVC. It is a USAID funded project in which PACT-Ethiopia is the prime recipient while FHI 360-Ethiopia and Child fund are sub-recipients. The HVC project focuses on addressing the varied needs of highly vulnerable children and their families in Ethiopia using different technical intervention mechanisms.

Thus FHI 360-Ethiopia would like to invite well experienced and competent firms and/or individuals to submit their applications to be available to provide consultancy services as and when needed by the organization in the following area: -

Graphic Designer

The consultant designs graphics for training materials (curriculums, manuals, guidelines and Job Aids) that are already developed and finalized. The consultant formats training materials (curriculums, manuals, guidelines and Job Aids) that are already developed and finalized. She/he expected to make ready the materials for final printing. The consultant expected to work closely with concerned FHI 360 technical person/team while undertaking the assignment.

Required qualification and experience: BSc in Graphic Design, Information Technology or Computer Science and training on graphic design software. Expertise of graphic design and formatting, , can work with Adobe photo shop, adobe illustrator and other graphic design soft wares, experience in designing and preparing camera ready print materials, and can submit sample works that are already printed.

Instruction for application: - Potential candidates may collect the detailed Terms of Reference from FHI 360- Ethiopia, Addis Ababa office within ten working days (Morning 8:30am-12:30am, Afternoon 1:30pm-5:30pm) from the first day of the announcement on “The Daily Monitor” newspaper. Qualified applicants should submit their application letter and CV to FHI 360-Ethiopia, E-mail: info@fhi.org.et or P.O. Box 121789, Addis Ababa. Please mention in which areas of consultancy service you want to participate on the envelope. Deadline for applications is Friday 6th July 2012.
Only individuals who meet the above criteria are encouraged to apply.

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Post Date: June 28, 2012
Deadline July 6, 2012

Company: Family Health International (FHI 360)-Ethiopia

Back ground
Family Health International (FHI) is a development agency providing technical assistance in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, food and nutrition, livelihood, communications, education programming which provides technical assistance to the Ethiopian government as well as NGOs and other stakeholders in the response to AIDS and development areas in Ethiopia. Family Health International has been in Ethiopia since 1996 providing technical assistance primarily in health and later in various development areas. FHI-Ethiopia`s efforts are funded by the United States Government through the bilateral agreement between the United States and the Ethiopian Government.

One of the projects being implemented by FHI 360-Ethiopia is Yekokeb Berhan HVC. It is a USAID funded project in which PACT-Ethiopia is the prime recipient while FHI 360-Ethiopia and Child fund are sub-recipients. The HVC project focuses on addressing the varied needs of highly vulnerable children and their families in Ethiopia using different technical intervention mechanisms.

Thus FHI 360-Ethiopia would like to invite well experienced and competent firms and/or individuals to submit their applications to be available to provide consultancy services as and when needed by the organization in the following area: -

Design, developing and reviewing training materials (curriculums, manuals, guidelines, simple Job Aids and other training related materials) for community workers and households.

The consultant is expected to design, develop and review training materials (curriculum, manuals, guidelines, job Aid and other training materials) the in the areas of psychosocial support, Life skills, Child health and nutrition and Child protection and shelter and Care.
• The consultant reviews curriculums that are already prepared by program staffs.
• The consultant will work closely with concerned FHI 360 technical person/team while undertaking the assignment.
• The consultant develops training materials, guidelines, simple Job Aids which is appropriate for community workers and households in the areas mentioned above as per the demand of the client.

Required qualification and experience:
BA in Education, Psychology or any related subject and expertise in developing training materials, Job Aids, Guidelines, Job Aids, Simple/ low literacy manual for community workers and household’s area.

Experiences in developing and/or reviewing training material that are focused on community based activities are highly appreciated. In addition, previous experience in developing and reviewing training curriculums and material in the aforementioned technical areas is required

Instruction for application: - Potential candidates may collect the detailed Terms of Reference from FHI 360- Ethiopia, Addis Ababa office within ten working days (Morning 8:30am-12:30am, Afternoon 1:30pm-5:30pm) from the first day of the announcement on “The Daily Monitor” newspaper. Qualified applicants should submit their application letter and CV to FHI 360-Ethiopia, E-mail: info@fhi.org.et or P.O. Box 121789, Addis Ababa. Please mention in which areas of consultancy service you want to participate on the envelope. Deadline for applications is Friday 6th July 2012.
Only individuals who meet the above criteria are encouraged to apply.

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