Institutional Consultancy for Evaluation of the Catch-Up programme in Luapula Province, Zambia (2022-2024). (Албания - Тендер #37855840)

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UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Evaluation of the Catch up Programme under Education , Luapula Zambia BRIEF BACKGROUND Purpose The purpose is to conduct a formative and summative evaluation of the on-going Catch-Up programme (Improving Quality of Learning) in Luapula Province, to assess the impact of the programme implementation over the three-year programme cycle (2022-2024) and inform the expansion and sustainability of the programme to other provinces. Introduction The UNICEF Zambia Country Programme aims to support the Government in three output areas in Education, including: 1. National, sub-national and community-level stakeholders have strengthened capacity to increase access to quality early childhood development and education opportunities, in targeted provinces. 2. National, sub-national and community-level education stakeholders have improved capacity to deliver quality learning in targeted provinces especially at the primary level. 3. National, sub-national and community-level education stakeholders have strengthened capacity to increase access, retention and completion of secondary education for marginalised children in targeted provinces. The Catch-Up Programme in Luapula Province is a partnership between UNICEF Zambia Country Office and the Hempel Foundation and aims to further advance UNICEF’s work to support the Ministry of Education (MoE), focusing on children in need who live in rural poverty without access to quality education - particularly girls and primary school aged children. It is a remedial learning programme, targeting 80,000 Grade 3 to 5 learners in Luapula province (Grade 3 to 5 children), and indirectly benefiting learners from other grades in 600 schools while supporting MoE systems strengthening in areas of teacher training and mentoring, remedial learning, data management and utilisation, monitoring, assessments and reporting. This programme is expected to contribute to improved learning outcomes in foundational literacy and numeracy among primary school learners in Luapula Province. Objectives • Conduct a comprehensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative data to assess the effects of the interventions, and identify and document good practices, innovations and lessons learnt – both at school level as well as at the system level of the Catch-Up programme. • Assess the relevance and effectiveness of the Catch-Up programme in meeting the needs of supporting the learning of vulnerable children, the appropriateness of teaching and learning materials, innovation surrounding teacher support • Assess the capacity of the Ministry of Education on data management and utilisation and its relevance to the education strategy and teacher training systems and its likely impact in terms of learning outcomes This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.