Background Information on Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. We endeavour to ensure children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share. Save the Children operates across all regions of Ethiopia with a vision of creating a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Its mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children has long-standing experience and particular expertise in implementing programs for children on the move globally and in Africa, including cross-border programing targeting children and young people in irregular and forced migration; and targeting sending, transit and destination areas. In Ethiopia, we have multi-sector programs that address particular issues of highly vulnerable children including children involved in unsafe irregular migration and their host communities. Our program uses multi-sectoral and coordinated approaches that deliver integrated services for children at-risk of irregular migration, those in transits, and upon arrival to longer-term destinations.

Background Information on the Action

Save the children International has been implementing a project entitled “Sustainable Reintegration of Vulnerable Returnee Children in Eight Woredas in North Wollo Zone (Amhara Region) And East Hararghe Zone (Oromiya Region), Ethiopia” funded by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Save the Children Italy.

The project is a 20-months project is designed with two complementary outputs. The first is that child protection mechanisms and services for returnee children and their families are strengthened and become accessible in the project target areas. Under this output, the project will further assess and build on available structures, and seeks to strengthen the capacity of the government and other civil society actors to respond to the protection concerns of returnees. Duty bearers will be trained on existing policy and response mechanisms; community based structures will be strengthened and referral pathways are developed between actors. Through the second output, the Project aims at empowering returnee and other vulnerable children and youth through skills training, supporting their successful transition to young adults. This output, on one hand, focuses on developing soft skills, such as their self-confidence and self-awareness; cooperation skills and peer relationships; capacity to adopt positive coping mechanisms to deal with stress and aggression, thus fostering both their resilience and employability while on the other hand, provides support with market relevant technical skills (including vocational and entrepreneurship), business start-up support and mentorship linkages.

The project is implemented in North Wollo (Amhara Region) in the woredas of Gubalafto, Habru, Mersa, Woldeya and in East Hararghe (Oromiya Region) in the woredas of Bedeno, Deder, Girawa, and Gole Oda, it started on August 01, 2019 and will end on March 31, 2021.

The project has two main components (results) as follows:

• Child protection mechanisms and services for returnee children and their families are strengthened and become accessible, in the project target areas
• 600 returnee and other vulnerable adolescents in the target areas have attended skills training supporting their resilience and successful transition to young adults

The target groups of the project include estimated 400 returning migrants and 200 vulnerable adolescents from the local community are primary beneficiaries of the project.

The project will also reach their parents or caregivers and 370 community protection workers and representatives of existing community based structures (such as community care coalitions and Iddir, and other child protection structures and stakeholders), government authorities (such as Women and Children Affairs, the Health, Education, Labor and Social Affairs, Police/ Justice Office) and other service providers in the concerned areas will also be targeted by this project.

Additional documents produced by the project to be reviewed for further analysis are:

• A baseline analysis
• A Situational Analysis on specific vulnerabilities and challenges, risk and protection factors of unaccompanied returnee children after they return back to Ethiopia

General Purpose of the service and scope

Save the Children is looking for a consultancy firm/team of experts to conduct an external final evaluation of the action in order to ensure an objective, impartial evaluation.

Through the evaluation, Save the Children aims to assess the performance of the project, the perceptions of stakeholders and beneficiaries, to document lessons learned and to provide practical recommendations for the sustainability of the action and for future interventions into the project impact area – with a similar thematic focus.

More specifically, the evaluation will aim to assess the sustainable achievement of project results and to identify the best practices from the project intervention

Evaluation Criteria

The Final Evaluation should be based on DAC/OECD criteria’s and include methods to evaluate relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the action.

Job Requirements

Qualifications or Specialized Knowledge/Experience of the Consultant/entity

• Extensive experience in conducting evaluations, including designing and employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and tools;
• Solid experience with Results-Based Management and Evaluation Guidelines;
• University degree in Sociology or other relevant areas linked to the object of the exercise; 
• At least 5 years of work experience in the evaluations field;
• Familiarity with the Ethiopian Migration and Child Protection context, policies, strategies, laws;
• Proficient in crosscutting issues (gender, resilience);
• Fluent in English & Ethiopian – all documents will be produced in English

Duty station and timeline

Duty Station: Ethiopia, in North Wollo and East Hararghe region.

Timeline: Estimated 30 working days required to complete the tasks.

Data collection and field visit are expected to be done at the same time into both locations.

The Final Report should be finalized within the 15^th of April, 2021.

How to Apply

Submission of application

Interested candidates/agencies should present the followings and should not exceed 7 pages (in total):

• Proposed approach and outline design of the evaluation including work plan reflecting the key outputs/deliverables and proposed timeframes;
• CV and at least two References;
• Written evidence[1](e.g. evaluation reports attached) of previous work meeting the requirements laid out in this Terms of Reference or online links to access the evaluation reports;
• A statement of availability and commitment to undertake and complete the consultancy within indicative assignment dates in both regions;
• Detailed complete budget with all foreseen costs, including Fee per working day for all the members of the team (including taxes and local transport)

Detailed EOI for the Consultancy work should be Submitted in hard copy to Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office in Addis Ababa, situated around Bisrate Gabriel Church Save the Children Ethiopia Office At the Main Security Gate Dire Complex, Behind Bisrate Gabriel Church P.O Box 387 Tel 01137284 5561/ 0116 535174 Addis Ababa

Interested applicants should submit two separate sealed documents in which one document should include the technical proposal including of the proposed professional(s) with supporting document that shows previous work experience. The second document should include professional fee stated work along with copy of renewed Audit License to the above mentioned address of Save the Children, Ethiopia Country Office before or on March 8,2021 at 4:00 P.M in person.

Closing date for submission of the application package is end of business day on: March 082021

Bid shall be submitted in the box ready at reception for this purpose

Save the children reserved the right to cancel all the bid or partially