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- kerkohet Freelancer ConsultantReklama Numer: 3905
- Cmimi : Kontaktoni
- Data e listuar : 2009-11-01
- Zona : Tirane
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kerkohet Freelancer Consultant
Consultant to conduct External EVALUATION of Family Strengthening Programme in SOS Children’s Villages, Albania
Terms of Reference
1. Introduction
From the roots of the organisation, SOS Children’s Villages pioneered family-based child care for children who have already lost the care of their own family, through development of the SOS family childcare model. More recently, we have been implementing programmes to address the situation of those children who are at risk of losing the care of their biological family. This prevention work has taken shape in the development of family strengthening programmes, which aim to prevent children from losing the care of their family.
SOS Children’s Villages, Albania has been implementing a Family Strengthening Project in Local Government Unit no.2 in Tirana since January 2006. The goal of the project is to enable children who are at risk of losing the care of their family to grow within a caring family environment. Specific objectives of this project are:
- To ensure that children from the target group have access to essential services
- To strengthen parent’s capacities towards protection and care of their children
- To increase awareness of the community to provide protection to children at risk of losing parental care
2. Objectives of the external evaluation
- What impact has the programme made in the lives of the participating children within our target group, their families as well as in the community?
- How relevant, effective, efficient, sustainable and participatory are the programme interventions?
- What lessons can be drawn from the programme that can be taken to further develop the programme?
o Focussed on the right target group, i.e. the children most at risk of losing the care of their family
o Participating children have access to essential services for their healthy development
o Participant families are empowered to build their capacity to protect and care for their children
o Participant communities are empowered to respond effectively to children at risk of losing the care of their families.
o There is a network of partners to prevent children from losing the care of their families
Moreover, the impact evaluation should look at the following:
o Relevance
- To what extent is the programme focussed on our target group – i.e. the children most at risk of losing the care of their family?
- To what extent the programme responds to the needs and priorities of the programme participants?
o Effectiveness
- To what extent are the objectives of the programme being attained (orlikely to be attained?)
- To what extent have children remained in their families instead of losing their care? To what extent has their quality of life improved?
- To what extent have families successfully left the programme since the beginning, i.e. became self-reliant? How many children and families have been reached over the whole programme period?
o Efficiency
- Is the relation between input of resources and results achieved appropriate and justifiable (cost-benefit ratio)? What are the annual running costs and the average costs per child per month?
- Have individual resources been used most economically? (e.g. tenders for the purchase of goods)
- Are there any alternatives for reaching the same result with less input?
o Sustainability
- To what extent can activities, results and effects be expected to continue after SOS involvement has ended?
- Is there progress towards SOS withdrawing from its direct involvement and handing over the full responsibility to run the programme to an implementation partner?
- Has the capacity of the implementation partner been developed? If so, in what areas and how?
o Participation
- To what extent are stakeholders (participant families (including children), partners, local authority) involved in the design, planning and implementation of the programme?
- To what extent is the programme designed to develop the necessary local institutional (governmental and/or non-governmental) capacity to respond to the problem?
3. Key areas
Within the family strengthening programme, children, families, and communities have been supported in various areas, which the external assessment should look at such as:
A. target group
B. nutritional support
C. health support
D. educational support
E. psychosocial support
F. living conditions
G. promotion of child rights/parenting skills
H. legal support
I. economic support
J. family development planning
K. community based structures
L. other partners
M. management / administration systems
N. human resources
4. Methodology
o As a minimum requirement, the evaluation should look at the changes that have happened in participating family’s lives due to their participation in the programme.
o As this external evaluation is an opportunity for learning for the programme staff, it is critical that the programme staff participates throughout the evaluation process.
o The evaluation should use quantitative (e.g. surveys) and qualitative data collection methods such as semi-structured interviews (for example with focus groups, key informant, large groups, individual interviews, etc.) as necessary.
o As the evaluation criteria as well as the indicators were not developed before the start of the programme, it is not expected to go into depth to seek information on the quantitative aspects of the programme; hence the qualitative information should be the major focus at this stage. However, if quantitative data has been collected by the programme and it is related to the evaluation criteria (objectives), they should be analysed.
o The evaluation should use participatory methodologies to involve programme participants (families currently on the programme as well as families that have already exited the programme) and wherever possible children should be involved in the design and implementation of the external assessment. It is suggested to group programme participants in the evaluation based on their length of participation in the programme.
5. Major Tasks of the external consultant
Lead the external evaluation involving the project staff and other key stakeholders, including:
o Plan the evaluation design in coordination with programme staff
o Review the project documentation and other sources of information
o Undertake a SWOT exercise with programme staff
o Plan, design, and coordinate the data collection process
- Identification of the major stakeholders who are associated with the programme to be interviewed, such as the direct participants of the programme (children, care-givers) implementation partners, key local government representatives, and other service providers
- Composition of a survey team
- Selection of representative sample of communities or groups to be interviewed on the basis of agreed criteria
- Agreeing on the type of information to be collected
- Preparation of checklists and other tools for data collection
- Facilitate learning during the data collection exercise
o Collection of data
o Analysis of the data
o Preparation of a draft report and finalisation after inputs from various stakeholders
o Present the findings to the programme staff
o After having received feedback from the various stakeholders – finalise the report in Albanian and English Language
6. Time frame
The evaluation will be carried out during the period September-November 2009.
7. Output
The final external evaluation shall be a written report based on a proposed outline from SOS.
8. Payment schedule
Upon completion of the evaluation and submission of the final evaluation report to SOS.
9. Requirements
o The consultant (e.g. research institutions, university, independent freelancers, etc.) must have
- proven competency and experience in monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
- a social science background
- a good understanding of development work and partnerships
- a good understanding of the social welfare system in the country
- good facilitation and interpersonal skills
- proven experience or participatory evaluation and data collection methods
- strong skills in coordinating teamwork
- strong analytical and conceptual skills
- excellent written communication skills
- fluency in written English
- ability to transfer complex concepts / ideas into practical and simple language
o In addition, desirable would be
- field experience within the analysis topic
- knowledge of the SOS Children’s Villages Organisation
10. Deadline and application requirements
Interested candidates and/or institutions are requested to submit:- A letter of interest
- A curriculum vitae
These documents should be sent within 15th of August 2009, via e-mail to Elsa Osmani elsaosmani@soskd.org.al, National Family Strengthening Programme Manager, SOS Children’s Villages, Albania
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