INVITATION TO BID FOR CONSULTANCY: BMZ Consultancy services for Final Evaluation of Improved Child Protection Systems for IDP Children Project (2021 – 2024).
Job Description
Job description
INVITATION TO BID FOR CONSULTANCY
Title of Consultancy
BMZ Consultancy services for Final Evaluation of Improved Child Protection Systems for IDP Children Project (2021 – 2024).
SCI Contracting Office
Save the Children Somalia Country Office
Period of Consultancy
Child Protection
Consultant type required
Consultant firm/Individual
Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs
Save the Children will pay the fees for the consultancy in a lump sum and will not reimburse any incurred costs during the assignment. The consultant will cover their Logistical arrangements and costs in the country to coordinate and implement the consultancy.
Taxation Provisions
The consultant shall be responsible for all Taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office named above.
Travel requirements
The consultant will cover their travel costs (tickets) and arrange local travel to field sites if needed
Security requirements
The consultant will comply with standards of Save the Children Security procedures, including the completion of SCI online security training prior to travel to Somalia.
BACKGROUND:
Somalia ranks as the sixth hardest place for children to grow up, according to Save the Children’s Global Childhood Report. In 2022, UNICEF estimated that 7.7 million people, including 5.1 million children, required humanitarian aid due to prolonged conflict, political instability, extreme poverty, and environmental crises. In 2020 alone, the UN verified 4,714 grave violations affecting 3,810 Somali children, underscoring the dangers faced by young people amid conflict. The risks are compounded by factors like family displacement, which increases children’s vulnerability to abuse and exploitation, especially within IDP and minority communities. Additionally, Somalia sees some of the highest global rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child marriages, with 98% of girls aged 5-11 experiencing FGM, and nearly half of Somali girls married by age 18.
Despite urgent child protection needs, Somalia faces significant gaps in both demand and supply for services. Social norms and limited understanding of children’s rights contribute to harmful practices. Child protection laws are either underdeveloped or poorly enforced, and departments responsible for child safety are under-resourced and dependent on external support. Legal resources for children are insufficient, leading to customary mediation instead of formal legal recourse, and remote areas are often excluded from protection and referral programs.
Save the Children has worked in Somalia since 1951, operating under its 2019-2021 Country Strategic Plan to support children and youth across age groups, promote gender equality, and strengthen government and community capacity for child well-being. Through integrated humanitarian and development programs across Somaliland, Puntland, and southern regions, SCI aims to increase local ownership and sustain impactful changes in child protection and development.
In response to these gaps, Save the Children in Somalia with financial support from Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is implemented a 37-month project aimed at protecting the vulnerable children and youth in Somalia from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect through systems strengthening.
BMZ CP Project background
This project aims to enhance access to high-quality child protection and GBV services for IDPs and host communities, ensuring that children, caregivers, and survivors of GBV are aware of how and where to seek support, even during emergencies. Fostering community trust in these services, the project aims to better protect vulnerable children and women while delivering essential preventive and responsive care. To maintain this impact, it is crucial to prioritize political commitment to child protection within laws, budgets, and planning processes.
Save the Children is implementing the project in Mogadishu, Kismayo, and Garowe. The project has been developed in collaboration with local partners, including SIDRA Institute in Puntland and The African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) in the Southern States, who will each take responsibility for establishing community-based child protection systems, providing training, and engaging youth and community representatives on child protection matters within their respective areas. Save the Children also collaborates with universities, government agencies, other civil society organizations, and the Somalia Social Workers Association.
The direct beneficiaries under Outcomes 1 and 3 include 29,500 internally displaced children (50% girls, 50% boys, including 9% with disabilities) and 7,500 adults through case management, reunification, parenting education, and psychosocial services, as well as strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms. Indirectly, approximately 150,000 children benefit from behavioral changes and service improvements, with impacts on legal frameworks and budgeting benefitting children across Somalia.
Save the Children International (SCI) is seeking to consultancy service to conduct Final Evaluation for project performance indicators outline in project results in the log frame using mixed-methods and considering gender-sensitivity and persons with disabilities and other marginalized sub-groups within the targeted population. The Final Evaluation is required to established comparability for relevant program indicators and enable subsequent evaluation to assess and establish the results of the programme outcomes at both intermediate and long-term levels. The Final Evaluation exercise should therefore be inclusive by having the full participation of the project staff and stakeholders, community-based organization, child protection structures, child clubs as well as child rights coalitions and undertake preliminary together with the line ministries at federal and member states.
the overall objective is as below:
Overall objective: Vulnerable children and youth in Somalia are better protected from violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect.
Outcome 1: Vulnerable children in IDP areas are supported through quality child protection systems when in crisis (national and community-based systems)
Outcome 2: Based on the involvement of strong civil society actors, the Somalia child protection system ensures a continuous reduction of protection risks through improved legislation, oversight and resource allocation.
Outcome 3: Children and adolescents know their rights and actively – in collaboration with adults – engage in improving child rights in their local communities.
Objectives of the Final Evaluation
The overall objective of this consultancy work is to evaluate the project achievement against the project results framework (outcome and impact) and find out if there is change in project measuring parameters. In addition, it will evaluate if the project contributed intended and unintended impacts at HH, community and system level.
Furthermore, the Final Evaluation should take stock on key successes and good practices and challenges as well as provide concrete recommendations. Findings will primarily be used inform SCI project team and partners to make decisions on which of our capacity strengthening interventions need to be adapted for the remainder of the BMZ project. As well as explore piloting other capacity support interventions for partners.
The study will be used as accountability purpose to measure the success and down fails of the project as BMZ project stage. This evaluation will also provide inevitable information for the upcoming study and measure effectiveness, sustainability and impact of the project to the targeted localities.
More on to that, the findings of this evaluation will be used for learning and adoptive programming in the coming phases of the project and will be a benchmark for designing a second phase that provides a remedy for the upcoming project.at the end of evaluation, all issues observed with corresponding actions/remedies will be posted into evaluation tracker and ensure program development unit, technical specialist to consider while designing the second phase of the project.
The study team will be required to propose how the primary audience was involved throughout the evaluation process and how evaluation findings shared with each of the different stakeholders in the table above, particularly outlining how reporting back to communities, beneficiaries and children will be conducted in an accessible and child friendly manner.
Skills and qualifications
Qualification and Experience
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
The consultant (s) should possess the following qualifications and expertise the consultancy firm/individual.
Relevant Masters level education, experience and training in Research, Development studies or Social Sciences, and/or related fields.
Proven experience of not less than 5 years in conducting quality evaluations and assessing child protection related and/or integrated programmes.
Solid methodological and research skills.
Previously experience of conducting similar evaluations for UN or INGOs.
Thorough knowledge on the relevant thematic areas and Somalia context.
Fluency in English language and local language skills would be helpful.
Excellent communication and report writing skills.
Able to communicate effectively and work in the project areas for the duration of the data collection.
Able to demonstrate solid experience with evidence of previous work on similar topics and/or for international organization and evaluating program
Selection Criteria
The proposals submitted by consulting companies will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
Essential Criteria
· A valid Certificate of Registration from relevant Ministry from Puntland and Southern States.
· A valid Tax Compliance Certificate from relevant Ministry from Puntland and Southern States.
NB: Individuals are no required to submit registration certificates.
Capability Criteria (Technical Evaluation):
· Detailed technical proposal with clear methodology of how the consultant intends to conduct the consultant, objective and methodology including the study design, sampling and sample approach, tools, data analysis and ethical consideration and detailed work plan with clear milestones, methodologies, data analysis, and interpretation, reports, including software to be used for analysis. This to be evaluated based on:
(a) Overall quality, clarity, organization and relevance of the technical proposal document.
(b) The level of work plan detail and how it is related to the proposed methodology.
· Minimum 3 years of experience in conducting similar consultancy evaluations specifically on Final evaluations. This to be evaluated based on:
a) Prior experience in conducting similar evaluations – Please provide at least 3 contracts and/or LPOs.
b) Updated individual CV/firm’s profile including the CVs of the proposed technical team detailing qualifications and experience.
c) cover letter introducing the individual/company profile, outlining their technical expertise and interest for the assignment as well as their availability and commitment.
· Commercial Criteria (Financial Evaluation):
a) Detailed financial proposal with budget breakdown with all expenses, fees, and taxes.
b) updated firm’s bank statement from the last 2 years with a proof of traceability, the bank statement should have original stamps.
· Sustainability Policy; The consultancy firm to share their own sustainability Policy.
Attachments
ITT For Final Evalaution
.docx
How to apply
Application Procedure
Submit your response in accordance with the guidance provided in the below document:
Application can be submitted either Electronic Submission via ProSave (Highly Recommended)
Option 1: ProSave (Highly Recommended)
Bidders are encouraged to apply via Ariba system (prosave) Please request the Ariba link via email sending your company profile and Business registration certificate/CV to the email. Please address your request to somalia.procurement@savethechildren.org
Option 2: Email Submission:
Qualified Consultancy Firms are requested to submit their technical and financial proposals and Lead consultant and associated personnel CVs and other relevant documentation to somalia.tenders@savethechildren.org
Please note the following.
• Email should be addressed to somalia.procurement@savethechildren.org and should not be send any tender documents.
· Emails should not exceed 15mb – if the file sizes are large, please split the submission into two emails.
· Do not copy other SCI email addresses into the email when you submit it as this will invalidate your bid.
· All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered for the assignment.
· The subject of the email should be Application for Consultancy services to Final Evaluation of Improved Child Protection Systems for IDP Children Project (2021 –2024).
· Submissions must be made to this email, attaching all relevant documentation.
· Interested consultant (s) who meet the consultancy requirements are requested to submit their bid and each application package should include the above required minimum requirements.
Do not send tender related questions to this email address: somalia.tenders@savethechildren.org as they will not be answered. The subject of the email should be “Final Evaluation of Improved Child Protection Systems for IDP Children Project (2021 – 2024)
Only shortlisted bidders will be contacted.
PROPERTY RIGHTS:
All data that will be collected should be considered as SCI properties and may not be used for other purposes.
Closing date for Applications
Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the above procedures on or before.
26th November 2024.
