DEADLINE: 10TH JUNE, 2023
PLAN INTERNATIONAL
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FROM CONSULTANTS TO CONDUCT BASELINE SURVEY FOR SWEDISH BROADCASTING FOUNDATION PROJECT ENTITLED-EMPOWERING ADOLESCENTS GIRLS TO ADDRESS GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN BAAMA LGA, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
(1.0) Background
Plan International is an independent child-centered international development organization committed to advancing the rights of children and fight against poverty. Plan International has no religious, political and government affiliation. Plan International has supported girls and boys and their communities around the world to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights, free themselves from poverty and live positive fulfilling lives. Plan International Nigeria has been working in Nigeria since 2014, promoting the rights of children and the equality of girls, responding with both emergency assistance (mainly in Child Protection, Emergency Education, Food Security and Economic Empowerment) and developing actions that allow a transition from this assistance to a phase of post-conflict and peace building. Plan International Nigeria works with communities, civil society organizations, development partners and governments to bring hearts and minds together for children.
(2.0) Project Background
The project Empowering adolescent girls to address gender-based violence in Bama LGA, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria is being funded by SBF and aims to improve the protection of adolescent girls in IDP camps and host communities in Bama LGA, Borno state, and build their resilience. Overall, the project is expected to reach more than 4,400 people directly, with the main target group being 880 adolescent girls aged 10-19 years, with quality GBV case management, psychosocial support, dignity kits, life skills sessions, vocational skills training, start-up kits, positive parenting sessions, specific capacity strengthening for community-based structures to provide service delivery, and general awareness raising around preventing and responding to GBV. The wider target community will also benefit from GBV capacity building, community sensitization and mobilization activities. The overall goal of this project is that: Conflicted affected adolescent girls at risk of GBV or survivors of GBV receive quality age and gender appropriate GBV services, and livelihoods support in Bama LGA, Borno State.
Plan International Nigeria will therefore undertake a survey for the new project to establish the baseline values for project objectives indicators and build evidence for outcome and impact measurement at the completion of the project.
(3.1) Objectives of the Baseline Survey
Overall, the purpose of the baseline survey is to provide quantitative and qualitative analytical information of the status of the stated indicators against which to monitor and assess project progress and effectiveness during implementation and evaluation after completion with attention to the ultimate outcome.
(3.2) Specific objectives:
This baseline survey will be carried out in Bama LGA and should be guided by the following specific objectives:
To collect, analyze and present missing baseline data at outcome and output level (based on the project log frame) to allow for efficient measurement of project impact during and after implementation.
Verify project log frame’s adequacy with realities observed on the ground and propose any adjustments to the results framework of the project. Analyze and, if deemed necessary, revise the project log frame to ensure SMART targets are in place.
To provide project staff with detailed baseline data on key project indicators to enable changes to be measured over the course of the project.
Where necessary, to revise targets of the activities
(4.0) Methodology
Plan International Nigeria will hire the services of a consultant to carry out the baseline survey under the close supervision of Plan International Nigeria M&E delegated staff. Both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods will be used. This will include development of the assessment tools, carrying out the assessment and producing the baseline report within the agreed time frame.
(4.1) Quantitative data collection methods
The basis of this survey is the project indicators as shown in table 1- project summary information. The consultant and team are expected to collect baseline data at outcomes and outputs levels. The possible key respondents or data sources and data collection tools developed by the consultant will be reviewed by the M&E Coordinator and the Child Protection in Emergency Specialist to ensure alignment with the methodology of Plan International’s global Area of Distinctiveness (AoGD) indicators.
(4.2) Qualitative data collection methods
Key methods will include Focus Group Discussions, Key Informant Interviews and surveys with relevant stakeholders who will be identified by the project team. The consultant is also free to propose and utilize other data collection methods beyond these mentioned. The baseline survey team will ensure
- Focus Group Discussion (FGD) will be conducted with adolescents, children (girls and boys, including children with disabilities), service providers and community people.
- Key Informant Interviews (KII) should be carried out with officials from relevant government line agencies, the GBV and Child Protection sectors, community leaders and civil society organizations in the project areas.
- Surveys will be conducted with diverse adolescents, children and their parents/caregivers as well as community members and service providers.
- And other methods as deemed relevant by the consultant.
(4.3) Document Review
The consultant and team will use available project documents and relevant government policy, procedures, records/reports for review. Also, other available secondary data sources, including data from similar projects being implemented by Plan International Nigeria and other organizations, will be used for further data analysis.
(4.4) Data analysis and interpretation
The consultant will propose methods for analysis and interpretation, ensuring ethical care for primary data collection. Where necessary data analysis process will be disaggregated by gender, disabilities and location.
(5.0) Work plan for the baseline survey
Before the commencement of the field activities, the consultant will provide a draft work plan to Plan International Nigeria which will be reviewed and agreed with the CPiE Specialist and M&E Coordinator, consulted with Plan International Sweden.
To answer the assessment questions and criteria, a set of tools will be developed and administered to aid the collation and analysis of data and produce informed and evidence-based narratives by the consultant with reviews from Plan International MERL lead and team.
It is therefore expected that the consultant develops a detailed overall methodology, appropriate methods and a set of tools to respond to the key assessment questions. The consultant shall outline the reasons for selecting the methods proposed and depict the skills/experience they have in applying them. It is recommended to apply a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative methods to meet study objectives. The consultantwill carry out a detailed and rigorous collection of primary data using focal group discussions, Key Informant Interviews surveys among key target groups, and/or other methods as necessary. It is also expected of the consultant to conduct reviews on secondary sources using reviews of relevant documents and reports to triangulate information that will inform the final report the consultant will also triangulate with several actions and stakeholders in the Northeast to gather evidence-based findings.
The consultant will also be responsible for piloting the tools, ensuring that they are effective, understandable, relevant for the context, gender and age sensitive. The proposal must contain a description of the envisaged data validation, quality assurance and data analysis techniques. Plan International Nigeria will make available to the consultant all project documents upon request.
Please send your application to Nigeria.consultant@plan-international.org on or before 10 June, 2023 referencing “Rapid Needs Assessment of Humanitarian Situation in North East Nigeria”
