TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A CONSULTANT TO CARRY OUT LOCAL AND NATIONAL MAPPING OF CHILD PROTECTION MECHANISMS
- Context
Drawing up a local and national map of child protection mechanisms will provide adequate and effective responses to the concerns and problems faced by the children and young people in our target group in their areas of intervention at SOS Children's Villages in Guinea-Bissau.
- List the legal, institutional, organizational and community child protection mechanisms in the three locations where SOS Children's Village operates at national and local level, their roles and responsibilities.
- Identify the current risks inherent in protecting the children and young people in our target group.
- Identify actors or formal and informal networks working in the field of child protection, including local organizations for children and young people.
- Expected resultss
- The national, sub-regional and international child protection laws in force in Guinea-Bissau are identified and documented.
- The actors involved in the field of child protection (the actors, field of intervention, services and areas of intervention) are identified and listed.
- The roles and responsibilities of child protection stakeholders are clearly defined.
- The risks inherent in the protection of children and young people in the target group in the SOS Guinea-Bissau intervention area are identified.
- A basic mapping of the local and national child protection context is established.
- Scope of thestudy
The study should diagnose, analyze and document the following areas:
- Legal framework, national and local child protection policy and the working environment at SOS Children's Villages in Guinea-Bissau;
- Existing social protection service (type of service, access to services, staff, structures, functions...).
- Analysis of services should be based on the following criteria: availability, accessibility, adequacy, continuity, coherence and sustainability;
- Coordination of stakeholders and services (management, roles and responsibilities, partnership, data collection, information management and reporting...)
- Human resources (workforce, skills, motivation, knowledge, practice and attitude...)
- Financial resources and their distribution (budgets allocated to the region, expenses, accessibility, direct indirect costs and services, current practices)
- The priorities and operationalization of formal child protection services at local level.
- Child and family perceptions of the formal child protection system: knowledge of the system and perception of its relevance and effectiveness (social and cultural practices associated with the use of child protection services and structures)
- Value and acceptance of the child protection system by other actors.
- Informal mechanisms adopted or preferred by the family and immediate environment and the extent to which these mechanisms are related to the formal system.
Support methods proposed by consultants should follow the main phases of implementation mentioned in the 'context' of this call for consultancy. For each major phase, the consultant will indicate the actions that will have to be carried out, the timetable, the expected results, as well as the specialized human resources. These actions should generate the data and information needed to achieve the expected results of this study. They will essentially be as follows :
- The basic tools for data collection
To achieve these goals, a number of issues need to be taken into account:
- How do you describe the child protection structure at local level?
- What kind of coordination is there between the different legal or social service providers?
- What resources (human and financial) are allocated to running the system?
- Do local actors, families and children have the necessary knowledge about effective child protection?
- Are there links between the legal and social aspects of child protection? Are the different actors aware of this?
- Do the services provided meet the protection needs and expectations of local actors, families and children, including girls?
- Are you able to identify and target the less visible cases of mistreatment, violence and exploitation, including sexual?
- What is needed to ensure that the existing protection system meets the standards? Do families and children consider these services important, effective and do they use them?
- What are the alternatives for the transition from an informal to a formal child protection system? Are there ways of protecting children in the cities of Bissau, Gabú and Canchungo?
- What factors influence decisions and choices for child protection (formal and informal) for boys and girls?
- What protection risks do the children of SOS Children's Villages face in the three locations?
- Ethnic considerations, particularly those that lead to discussions in consultation meetings with the children.
- Children's participation must be voluntary, participants must be informed of the purpose of the study in accessible language and asked explicitly whether they want to take part or not.
- Only children over the age of 10 - capable of analyzing their environment and producing a constructed discourse - will be retained. The opinions of the youngest will be presented by their parents or legal representatives.
- The confidentiality and anonymity of the answers will be guaranteed;
- The results of the consultation with the children are sufficiently covered in the report and will be used ethically;
- Stakeholders participating in consultation activities are respected and protected and will not suffer any harm as a result of their participation;
- The people who collect the data are respected and protected;
- The consultation documents will be archived at SOS Villages for Guinean Children and cannot be used as part of the study without the permission of the Country Director;
- As far as possible, the girls' and boys' points of view will be collected and analyzed differently.
The results to be delivered are :
- a) A methodological note validated by the National Director, including a mapping model that will harmonize this operation in the different locations;
- b) A follow-up plan in the three cities and at national level; the reports of the various workshops held during this process, including the launch and restoration workshops.
- c) A general interim report of the study summarizing the methodological and operational process, conclusions and recommendations;
- d) A final study report incorporating the study promoter's amendments;
- e) A PowerPoint presentation in French to present and validate the results of the study;
- f) A summary in French;
- g) A report is prepared and submitted to the National Directorate of SOS Children's Villages Guinea-Bissau within the timeframe specified in the consultancy contract.
- h) The results must be presented in draft and final form.
- Consultant profile
This call for tenders is aimed at consultants who can demonstrate that they have the necessary skills to carry out this consultancy, covering the following areas:
– Postgraduate training in social and legal sciences;
– Mastery of participatory social research and social mapping methodologies;
– Experience in functional analysis and management support/consultancy for institutional and associative actors;
– Experience in functional analysis and management support/consultancy for institutional and associative actors;
– Experience in functional analysis and management support/consultancy for institutional and associative actors;
– Proven experience in the field of child protection;
– Leadership skills, teamwork and group dynamics;
– Knowledge of development approaches;
– Knowledge of institutional and associative players and their areas of intervention, particularly in the field of child protection;
– Ability to write and summarize in French.
– have directed a similar study or participated as part of the study team...
- Consultation control
The consultation will be supervised and monitored by the National Safeguarding Coordinator.
- Approval of the consultancy report
The validation and approval process is as follows:
– Phase 1: SOS Children's Villages responds to the consultants within no more than 5 days;
– Phase 2: Revision of the report taking into account contributions from SOS Children's Villages in Guinea-Bissau;
– Phase 3: Feedback from SOS Children's Villages to the consultants if the organization considers the revised report unsatisfactory; SOS Children's Villages Guinea-Bissau can provide as much feedback as it wishes until the report is approved;
– Phase 4: The validation of the report will be followed by a brief presentation of the mapping results in the form of a workshop during which the consultants will receive feedback from the participants (state and non-state actors, including the SOS Children's Villages Guinea-Bissau team). The comments will be taken into account by the consultants in the final version of the report.
-Stage 5: The final consultancy report is approved by the National Director.
-Phase 6: Sending the first assembly to the SOS Children's Villages in Guinea-Bissau.
- Duration of consultation
The workload will be 30 days for the team of consultants from the date of their recruitment.
- Presentation of proposals
Consultants or groups of consultants invited to submit a proposal must provide the following elements :
– A methodological/technical note
– A technical and financial proposal;
– References and experience (CV);
– The provisional timetable for the study (chronogram).
- Evaluation of proposals
The final evaluation of the proposals will be based on the weighting of the technical and financial evaluation criteria.
- Evaluation of the technical proposal (80% weighting of the overall score)
The technical proposal will be given a technical score (St) with a maximum of 100 points.
A proposal that does not meet the eligibility criteria of the ToR (sections 6 and 7) or does not reach the minimum technical qualification threshold of 70 points out of 100 will be rejected at the end of this first phase.