Terms of Reference For An Institution or a team of consultants to conduct A baseline survey for the project “Transforming Education- Transforming Lives in Zvishavane District”.
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Job Description
Baseline Summary.
Project Name
Transforming Education- Transforming Lives
Target Location wards
Zvishavane District (Dayataya, Mapirimira, Ture and Ngomeyebani)
Project Goal
This program envisions a reality where there is improved access to and completion of transformative and equitable education for girls, young women, and other vulnerable children at primary and secondary school-levels in Zvishavane District, Zimbabwe.
Project Outcomes
Outcome 1: Improved access to and completion of transformative and equitable education for girls, young women, and other vulnerable children at primary and secondary school levels across Zimbabwe
Outcome 2: Creation of a safe learning environment for learners by challenging negative socio norms that affect girls’ education.
Support Office
Oxfam in Zimbabwe
Key Partner
The Bethany Project
Project Life Span
1st February 2024- 30 June 2025
Baseline Purpose
The baseline will form the basis for the midterm and final evaluation other than setting the baseline and contribute to setting targets for project indicators.
Primary Methods
❖ Document/desk review including secondary data gathering.
❖ Quantitative survey data gathering with relevant stakeholders and key informants.
❖ Qualitative data gathering with partner, relevant stakeholders, and community members.
Baseline start and end dates
10th of August - 29th of August (14 working days)
Anticipated baseline results release date
20th of September 2024
Project Description
Oxfam is a global organization working to create lasting solutions to the social injustice of poverty and inequality. Girls' education is crucial for the socio-economic development of any country and its citizens. In Malawi and Zimbabwe, adolescent girls, young women, and other vulnerable children encounter a complex and intrinsically linked range of material and psycho-social challenges at the individual, household, school and community, policy and system level that negatively affect their education. These include poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, unequal gendered distribution of unpaid care and domestic work among girls and discrimination. Oxfam Southern Africa’s Transforming Education, Transforming Lives project in Malawi and Zimbabwe improves education access and outcomes for adolescent girls, young women, and other vulnerable children by combining the provision of practical support (e.g. bursaries learning materials, sexual and reproductive health/ gender based violence clinics) and psycho-social and peer support (e.g. mother groups, girls’ clubs), addressing harmful social norms through targeted community awareness raising, and collaborating on local and national level referral systems and advocacy activities. For Malawi this will be done through consolidation and scale up of the existing transformative education program. For the next two years, the focus activities in Malawi are continued community mobilization, safe schools, and menstrual hygiene management. For Zimbabwe, which is in the formative program stages, project activities will focus on design, set up and limited implementation in ten primary and secondary schools, beginning with community mobilization, practical education support, and menstrual hygiene management in the first year, and then expanding to policy and advocacy work, life skills training for learners and teacher engagement in future years.
Duties and Responsibilities
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Qualifications and Experience
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Team of consultant or team that are proposing by the institution should have;
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experiences in conducting baseline surveys, evaluations for influencing project programmes in the Zimbabwe context.
• Proven track record of quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and analysis and participatory approaches.
• Experience in using theory of change, outcome mapping, outcome harvesting of development projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with people from different backgrounds to deliver quality products within a specified time frame.
• Experiences and/or know-how of project implementation at the ground level.
How to Apply
The consulting team is expected to be flexible, responsive to changes and demands and open to feedback proposal submission.
Oxfam invites a team of consultants or a company to apply for this consultancy. Please send your PDF file of your bid for baseline survey to the following email address zimtenders@oxfam.org.uk The full proposal should consist of methodology, sampling method, relevant experiences/qualifications of team of consultants/company and its team members, division of labour among team members clearly outlining who is responsible for what, budget and work, a sample of work previously done similar to the assignment, company profile, and any relevant supporting documents such as ZIMRA tax clearing certificate. For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to the above email address.
Timeline and Bidding Proposals:
• • Deadline for proposal submission is 26th July 2024.
• • The baseline process is expected to start by 10th of August 2024.
• • Final approved report to be submitted by 20th September 2024
Interested consultants should send technical proposal that include:
• • CV of all proposed team members of the consulting team.
• •A cover letter clearly summarizing experience as it pertains to this assignment and three professional references
• • At least one sample of a baseline report (as described in the ToRs)
To zimtenders@oxfam.org.uk For more on the assignment, please direct your queries to: +263 242 369603/ 369564/ 369873 before the deadline.
