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Purpose of the Assignment

Design and implement in collaboration with identified local/national partner(s) a pilot program to provide support to adolescents and youths in the Far North and to engage them as agents of change in the prevention of violence.

The developed program will aim to:

• Gain an understanding of what adolescents and youths – boys and girls – experience collectively, including school adolescents as well out-of-school/ »excluded »
• Gain an understanding of adolescents’ and youth’s experiences of the conflict, address their perceptions of violence and engagement of young people in violent and terrorist groups, and encourage positive changes in attitudes
• Identify and build capacities of selected local partner(s) to provide group psychosocial support and non-formal education to program participants
• Engage adolescent boys and girls and relevant gate-keepers as appropriate, in promoting gender equality and nonviolence, and contribute to change norms around masculinity by tackling traditional gender stereotypes and harmful practices.
• Engage community mobilization to support the sustainability of the change experience by individuals and promote broader normative change

Assignment Tasks

The selected institutionwill carry out a series of activities whose main orientations are described below.

• Mapping of Local Partners/organizations: identify viable research and implementing local partner(s) and assess their capacity and existing gaps. Via an onsite assessment, key informant interviews with local stakeholders, this first step will also aim at better understanding the situation of adolescents and youth particularly out-of-schools/ »excluded » adolescents, their challenges and where they are located. During this phase, the team will assess the capacity of the identified organization(s) to conduct the formative research and implement the project. Base on mapping and assessment, the team will propose the targeted areas in the Far North region.
• Formative Research: The formative research will rely on qualitative methods and interviews, and will focus on the specific problems faced by the target group in the Far North (i.e. out-of-school/ »excluded » adolescent boys and girls), exploring their lived realities as well as mental health and psycho-social conditions, coping styles and how these aspects are linked to their gender identities and related issues.

The Formative research will carry out a series of activities as below:

• Development and validation of Formative Research Tools
• Recruitment, Management and Training of Local Research Team to Conduct Assessment
• Data Collection
• Transcription and Analysis
• Development of Formative Research Report
• Develop a community based comprehensive, life skills, group education and therapeutic approach for youth: the development of this phase will be based on the formative research Report with inputs from adolescents, youths, local partners and Government counterparts. This will include the adaptation, validation and testing of the methodology in the targeted areas with the selected local partners.
• Build the capacities and create a sustainable partnership with local partner(s)/organization(s) for the implementation of the program in targeted areas: Based on the mapping and assessment recommendations, the program will include intensive training with selectedlocal partner(s)/organization(s) (trainings of trainers, refresher trainings, as well as on site coaching and remote technical assistance throughout the period of the consultancy) to strengthen their capacities to implement the program, as well as their coping mechanisms to deal with violence.
• Piloting the methodology with selected local partner(s)/organization(s): This Phase will include pre-and post-testing the methodology materials, as well as the implementation of the methodology by the local partner(s) in targeted areas. The team of consultants will ensure on site coaching and remote technical assistance of the local partners throughout this phase and till the end of the consultancy.
• Evaluation of the pilot program and development of EXIT strategy: The team of consultants will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the pilot program throughout the project. Both quantitative and qualitative data collection will be planned, with additional in depth process of evaluation including following up with several adolescents within the intervention, particularly those with more intensive needs. The report will elaborate on the effectiveness of the program including the achieved results, the enabling factors and constraints in achieving these results as well as the relevance of the project to the youth and community needs then Prioritize key recommendations and propose an EXIT strategy with an action plan (including for the local partners) that will support the improvement of the program or scale-up.

7. National advocacy for scaling-up/replication: The team of consultants will support UNICEF to disseminate and build consensus around findings from the pilot. By using the evidence from the implementation, this phase aims at engaging in intensive process of advocacy with crucial national, regional and international stakeholders for scaling up and/or replicating the intervention and support youth at risk in emergency as well as non-emergency settings.

Expected Deliverables

DELIVERABLES

TIME FRAME

PAYMENT

Inception report including the comprehensive final methodology and the detailed planning/ work plan, will confirm the commitment of the international Institution to carry out the consultancy

1 week after the contract have been signed

10%

· Mapping of local partner(s)/organization(s) report

· Finalised Formative Research tools

1st month

10%

Final formative research report based on the outline agreed in the inception phase

2nd month

10%

Methodology of pilot approach for youth and program tools (including for capacity building and monitoring/clinical supervision of local partner(s)/organization(s)). This will include a detailed action plan for the local partner(s) as well as monitoring plan which the international institution will use to follow-up, supervise, coach

3rd month

10%

detailed report of the local partner implementation based on the detailed action plan

4th month

10%

detailed report of the local partner implementation based on the detailed action plan

5th month

10%

detailed report of the local partner implementation based on the detailed action plan

6th month

10%

detailed report of the local partner implementation including the EXIT strategy

7th

10%

Draft report of Pilot evaluation including the EXIT strategy

Final report of Pilot evaluation. The EXIT strategy should constitute the core part of the report

8th month

9th month

10%

10%

Planned payments will be released after UNICEF has approved the technical quality of the deliverables.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

The work will be undertaken by an International Institute led by international consultantsthat will work with local partner(s)/organization(s). The international institution will be accountable for the full implementation of the project. This means that they will engage directly with the local partner(s), including providing the necessary funds for the implementation, and overall management of the project.

The following qualifications are required for the principal consultants:

Education

University degree, preferably in social sciences (sociology, anthropology, social service), gender, psychology or, development studies. A specialized training in areas such as project design, management and evaluation, advanced research and analysis is desirable.

Years of relevant experience

Working experience:

• A minimum of height (8) years professional experience including:
• Design and management of program and evaluation processes;
• conduct high-quality formative, population-based research
• develop and conduct impact evaluations
• Monitoring and management of Project promoting peace building and gender equality
• The International Institute is also expected to have a specialized experience and/or technical knowledge in the following areas;
• Human rights-based approaches to programming;
• Gender issues and gender norms;
• Quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
• The Consultant should have strong drafting and analytical skills

Language:

• Fluency in French and English (written & verbal) is required.
• The Consultants should have the following additional competencies and skills:
• Ability to manage and conduct analyses, through compilation and presentation of data, monitoring and evaluation and progress reports;
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and mediation;
• Proven ability in setting priorities and planning, coordinating and monitoring its own work plan;
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams and involving a high mobility on the field;
• Fully proficient computer skills including use of relevant software and other applications.
• Ability to work in an international or multicultural environment.
• Working experience in humanitarian

Ethical Considerations:

All standard ethical considerations and best practices in research applies. These include:

• a duty of confidentiality towards informants and participants
• Consent from respondents must be obtained
• Researchers must obtain parental consent for the involvement of in minors in research studies
• a duty to protect participants from harm, by not disclosing sensitive information
• a duty to treat participants as intelligent beings, able to make their own decisions on how the information they provide can be used, shared and made public (through informed consent)

The consultancy, on a SSA type contract will have a 9 month duration and will start no later than April 2017 and run till December 2017. UNICEF will have no logistical responsibilities. Car rentals and travel arrangements must be taken into account by the international Institute. The financial offer will be comprehensive and will take into account all necessary costs for the completion of the deliverables as described in these TORs (including collaboration with local partner(s)/organisation(s)).

Documents to submit for application

The financial offer will be submitted in the form of a table showing separately the consultation fees of the other sections related to logistics (living expenses, travels, ….), local partner(s)/organisation(s)

The International Institution must submit a Technical Offer comprising following elements:

– Understanding and operationalization of TOR’s

– Detailed Methodology for each activity of TOR’s

– Detailed methodological approach employed for coaching of local partner(s)

– Detailed log frame and work plan including number of working days in Cameroun and days of remote work (well specified)

– Detailed CV for the principal and secondary consultants

– List of past experiences in the same field

NOTE FOR CONSULTANTS AND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTORS:

Please submit a financial offer along with your technical offer/proposal, which contains the following information:

• Fee for services to be provided – based on the deliverables in the Terms of Reference
• Indicate the itemized cost of the travel (air tickets etc) if an international consultation, and subsistence costs for your stay in the country.

UNICEF will not be liable for any other costs related to this consultancy than those which will appear in the financial offer.

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Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

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