NVITATION TO BID FOR CONSULTANCY
Save the Children International (SCI) Somaliland program hereby invites interested consultants to bid for the consultancy assignment detailed below.
Title of Consultancy
Consultancy Service for conducting Joint Review of the Education Sector in Somaliland
SCI Contracting Office
Save the Children Hargeisa Office, Somaliland
Period of Consultancy
35 Days
Consultant type required
Individual or Firm
Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs
Save the Children is responsible for any logistics and accommodations for the consultant during this assignment.
Taxation Provisions
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
Save the Children is responsible for logistics arrangements for the travels of the consultants for the assignment.
Security requirements
The consultant will comply with standard Save the Children Security procedures, including the completion of SCI online security training before travel to Somaliland (if applicable)
Introduction
The Somaliland MOES will conduct Annual Joint Review of the Education Sector (JRES) to review the yearly performance of the new five years ESSP (2022-26). The review will be used as a sector wide performance monitoring system to measure and continuously follow up the progress made against yearly planned activities and result indicators to improve coordination and collaboration among education stakeholders.
The review will involve different departments of the MOES at all levels, development partners, civil society and the private sector. The JRES initiative started in 2014 and so far, five review meetings were conducted between 2014 to 2022 and the ministry is currently planning to conduct the sixth 2023 JRES. Therefore, MOES seeks a consultant who will technically lead the process of the JRES in coordination with the Technical Working Groups from the MOES and the sector partners.
The review process is expected to have both backward looking of what has been achieved during the 2021/22 academic year and the best way forward for the next academic year 2023/24.
Background
Somaliland has been recovering from historic conflict and fragility since 1991 and has established its own government system and functional institutions. It has managed to maintain peace and security in the last three decades and significant improvement has been made in many social and economic sectors including education services. However, the education sector still requires further support to improve access to good quality, equitable and efficient education services for all children. The third and current ESSP 2022 – 2026 for the MOES has started in 2022. The plan sets out the policy priority objectives of the education system that will be achieved during the next five years. These policies and objectives have been developed based on the national and international commitments of the Government of Somaliland through the Ministry of Education and Science to provide quality, affordable and inclusive education to its citizens throughout the country. The new sector plan is guided by the National Education Policy of 2015-2030, Somaliland Vision 2030 and the development of NDP III.
The ESSP 2022-26 is an ambitious document that consists of six sub-sectors of education which includes Early Childhood Education; Primary Education; Non-Formal Basic Education (NFE); Secondary Education; Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), and Higher Education. The plan also covers MOES system capacity in areas such as sector governance, management and accountability, human resources; policy and planning; financial management, education decentralization; curriculum; teacher education, quality assurance systems, examinations, a national commission for higher education and education in emergencies.
The key targets of the ESSP 2022-26 are:
There also target dimensions for all the subsectors of education in areas of equity and inclusion, quality, and governance. The same applies to the MOES System capacity. The review will consider 2022/23 progress across the ESSP indicators but will specifically focus on headline targets and indicators of each subsector including system capacity.
Purpose of the consultancy work
The consultant will conduct, coordinate, and facilitate the sector review process in collaboration with the MoES and development agencies through gathering relevant qualitative and quantitative data on the achievement of 2022/2023 set priorities and plan within the ESSP result framework.
Objectives of the consultancy work
Methodology and scope of the work
Desk Review: The consultant will undertake a technical and financial review of 2023 annual plans against the 2022–2026 ESSP through conducting extensive review of the relevant policy and strategy documents, available secondary data such as annual reports, monitoring and supervision reports, review and evaluation reports, ESA report, EMIS data and Learning assessment reports that are available with the MoES and development partners.
Consultative Meetings: The consultant is expected to conduct wider consultation with relevant education stakeholders in Somaliland. This includes the senior management and leadership and staff of MOES at all levels (Central, Regional, District, School) and education development partners to get wider insight and perspectives of the education sector including achievements and challenges.
Field Visits: The consultant will carry out sample field visits to education institutions in rural and urban settings, including to regional and district education offices in a randomly selected regions in order to get a clearer picture of the situation on the ground through discussion with all education stakeholders. Based on these field visits, the consultant will prepare a field-visit report and key findings that will be part of the JRES Meeting Presentations and final Aid Memoire.
Synthesis Report: The consultant will compile and produce a synthesis report from the key findings of the desk review, consultation meetings and field visits against the achievement of the 2023 plan within the ESSP and prepare power point presentation for the meeting. The synthesis report will include data analysis, graphs and charts, as well as a narrative. The synthesis report will be circulated a few days prior to the JRES and provide the basis for discussions during the JRES Meeting.
Review of Education Action Plan for 2024: if deemed necessary, the consultant will assist the stakeholders, to review the Education Action Plan for 2024 ensuring that the activities proposed in the plan incorporate priorities and key strategies including the costing as well as the monitoring and evaluation framework for the Action Plan.
Aide Memoire of the JRES review process and key action points agreed.
The consultant will provide a final report of the Joint Review of the Education Sector, on issues discussed and raised, key findings and recommendations including the field visit and synthesis report.
Key Deliverables
Management arrangements
The lead consultant will be line managed by SCI and the MOES Technical workforce will be managed by DG, MOES. Both MOEs and SCI will provide access to office as required.
Work plan and Time Schedule
The JRES conference will take place in the last week of February 2024 (MOES to confirm exact dates) in Hargeisa. The consultancy tentative timetable is given below which could be reviewed based during the inception
period consultation:
Advanced degree (master’s or PhD) in education or related social sciences.
Interested consultants should submit their applications via email to Somaliland.procurement@savethechildren.org
The applications should be submitted in PDF format as one document comprising Technical and Financial sections as detailed below.
Applicants should also indicate the date they are available to start working on the consultancy.
All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered for the assignment.
Only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.
Closing date for Applications
Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the email address provided above on 13th February 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be requested for an interview.
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