SOS Children’s Villages International,REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR PREQUALIFICATION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO ASSESS SOS HEALTH AND EDUCATION FACILITIES WITHIN EASTERN & S

Closing
date: 08 Jul 2016
REQUEST
FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR PREQUALIFICATION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES
TO ASSESS SOS HEALTH AND EDUCATION FACILITIES WITHIN EASTERN & SOUTHERN
AFRICA REGION (ESAF)
1. Background
SOS
Children’s Villages International is t

he umbrella organization for over 130 SOS
Children’s Villages associations worldwide. As a non-governmental social
development organization, we support children without parental care and those
at risk of losing parental care in collaboration with their families,
communities and respective governments.

Health
and Education services have always featured strongly within the SOS Children’s
Village programme. Historically, SOS health and education (H&E) facilities
were built wherever SOS Children’s Villages were constructed. Sometimes these
services were simply non-existent whereas in some cases, the existing ones were
poor in nature.
SOS
Children’s Village Programmes has over the years grown in geographical scope,
beyond the borders of the work with SOS families, reaching additional children
in more communities, particularly through family strengthening. As a result, it
is no longer possible to effectively address the health and education needs of
all of the children participating in our programmes through direct service
provision via SOS Health and Education (H&E) facilities alone. Along with
the adoption of the human rights-based approach as a guiding principle in SOS
Children’s Villages’ work, the scope of continuing to run H&E facilities
seems unsuitable and unsustainable in the long run.
  1. Invitation
    for Proposals
SOS
Children Villages International now invites eligible consultants to submit
technical and financial proposal for the provision of the consultancy services
to conduct comprehensive assessment of Health and Education facilities within
Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAF)
  1. Rationale
    for the Assessment of SOS Health & Education Facilities
At
present, some of our SOS H&E facilities are supporting children (and/or
their care-givers) participating in the programme to access quality H&E
through direct service provision. In this way, they are seen to be supporting
the ‘core’ of our work. However, in other contexts our facilities do not reach
the intended target group in family based care (FBC) or family strengthening
(FS).
  1. Purpose
The
overarching purpose of this consultancy is to assess whether existing SOS
H&E facilities are still able to make a significant contribution to the
‘core’ of our work, now or in the foreseeable future, and which would be better
to ‘let go’. Where facilities are contributing to our ‘core’ and we are ‘best
placed’ to operate them, we may choose to continue to do so, if it is done in a
cost effective way. Where they are not, other stakeholders who are best placed
to offer such services to the community should assume this responsibility while
we let go of our facility. In this way, we can focus on the ‘core’ of our work
and direct / redirect our limited resources to maximise the impact on our
(core) target group.
  1. Terms
    of Reference(TORS)
The
overall objective of the assessment is: To collect, analyse and objectively
make recommendations that will enable mandated stakeholders to make informed
decisions on the way forward with specific health or education facilities
within MAs in ESAF. Specific objectives are:
  1. Specific
    objective 1:

    To evaluate access and appropriateness of the health or education
    intervention delivered in the local community of our target group.
  2. Specific
    objective 2:

    To assess the relevance of the health or education SOS Villages provides
    to our target group.
  3. Specific
    objective 3:

    To assess whether SOS Children’s Villages is best placed to run the given
    facility.
  4. Specific
    objective 4:

    Outline a strategy and action / milestone plan for alignment or
    closure/hand-over of facility
  5. The
    prospective bidders are required to submit preliminary proposals detailing
    the following:-
  6. A
    capability statement: The consultant to carry out this assessment should
    fulfil all the categories’ stated below: State the firm or individual’s
    experience relevant to the assignment, curriculum vitae of key personnel
    stating qualifications and appropriate references.
  7. Technical
    Proposal: Provide an understanding and interpretation of the proposed
    exercise, proposed methodology, tools and resource capability and
    financial proposal: Include all proposed costs in USD (i.e. consultation
    fees as well as operational costs).
  8. CVs
    for lead and associate consultants with their specific roles outlined.
    (Please note the consultancy should include only CVs of those who will
    directly participate.
  9. Contacts
    of 3 organizations that have recently (but preferably the last 3 years)
    contracted the firm/consultant(s) to carry out relevant research/ survey
    or related work in the community development work
  10.  
    1. Scope
      of consultancy will include following:-
  11. Assess
    the contextual background of the (Health or Education ) facility in terms
    of relevance
  12. Assess
    the level of participation of the SOS CV target group in the facility
  13. Assess
    the existence of other similar services as well as potential service
    providers within the location and beyond,
  14. Assess
    the financial sustainability of the facility.
  15. Eligibility
In
order to be eligible to submit EOI proposals, the firm / individual consultants
should fulfil the following criteria:-
(a)
Should be a firms / individual consultants with origin from within Eastern
& Southern Africa including Ghana and Nigeria,(b) Should be in active
consultancy business for at least last five (05) years;
(c)
Should have completed at least one (01) similar consultancy contract either
with SOS CV or a credible organisation;
(d)
Should have in-house professional experts to incorporate in the exercise when
need arise,
(e)
Should be flexible in travelling in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region.
  1. Bidding
    Proposal Specifications
Short
listed firms / individual consultancies will be informed of the dates for a
possible interview soon.
Candidates
are invited to tender the EOI by the date below. Proposals received after this
deadline will not be accepted. The EOI should be submitted to the Regional
Human Resources Advisor based at the SOS Children’s Villages International
Branch Office in Nairobi Kenya at email address Luckford.Gwangwadza@sos-kd.org
and the Project Manager for the Assessments of Health & Education
Facilities at email address Thomas.odera@sos-kd.org,
on or before July 8, 2016 at 1600 hrs. via email with subject
clearly marked “Expression of Interest for Prequalification of
Consultancy Services for Assessment of SOS Health & Education Facilities in
ESAF”
How to apply:
Candidates
are invited to tender the EOI by the date below. Proposals received after this
deadline will not be accepted. The EOI should be submitted to the Regional
Human Resources Advisor based at the SOS Children’s Villages International
Branch Office in Nairobi Kenya at email address Luckford.Gwangwadza@sos-kd.org
and the Project Manager for the Assessments of Health & Education
Facilities at email address Thomas.odera@sos-kd.org,
on or before July 8, 2016 at 1600 hrs. via email with subject
clearly marked “Expression of Interest for Prequalification of
Consultancy Services for Assessment of SOS Health & Education Facilities in
ESAF”

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