Hiring consultant/consulting firm to carry out research on “Perception and attitude among young people and community gatekeepers towards gender equality and young peoples’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in project areas of Bangladesh.”

Founded over 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children's development organizations in the world. Plan International plays an important role in mobilising children, communities and civil society organisations to claim the rights of children and achieve agreed upon local development priorities, towards a commitment to ensuring the wellbeing of children in support of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Plan International works in fifty-two developing countries across Africa, Asia and the South America, and twenty-one countries raise funds to support these efforts. Plan International's stated Global Strategic Goal is to reach as many children as possible, particularly those who are excluded or marginalized, with high-quality programs that deliver long-lasting benefits. Children are at the heart of everything we do.

Plan International started its operation in Bangladesh in 1994. Presently under country strategy IV Plan International Bangladesh is implementing programmes in six thematic areas. In recent years, as part of its country strategy Plan International Bangladesh has focused more to implement projects on sexual and reproductive health issues among youths.

In that continuation, in 2015 Plan International Bangladesh has launched a project titled “Creating an enabling environment for young people to claim and access their sexual and reproductive health rights in Bangladesh” with the financial support from European Union and sida. The overall outcome of the project is to create an enabling environment for young people to claim and access their sexual and reproductive health rights in Bangladesh. Although the outcome indicators in log frame of the project was sufficient to cover project’s achievement however still there was gap found in result oriented monitoring (ROM) report of European Union delegation. It was reported that project’s log frame did not adequately capture what attitudes and beliefs underlying behavioural change were being impacted and why through the project’s actions. Moreover, project beneficiaries were not reporting and ascribing remarkable changes in beliefs and attitudes to the project. If the project does not capture more about the impact of its intervention on changing attitudes and beliefs, then an important opportunity to understand the dimensions of such change will be missed.

Under this backdrop, Plan International Bangladesh has planned for a research to capture the project’s impact on positively changing attitudes and beliefs. To conduct the research a consultant/consulting firm will be engaged on behalf of Plan International Bangladesh as per this Terms of Reference (TOR).

Terms of Reference (TOR)

Terms of Reference (TOR) can be downloaded from this link. For any clarification related with project and research please contact Md. Towhidul Islam, Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to the following email address:  Towhidul.Islam@plan-international.org

Submission of Proposal

Interested consultant/consulting firms are requested to submit a technical and a financial proposal through email at planbd.consultant.hiring@plan-international.org with a cover letter addressing the Administrative Coordinator of Administration, Plan International Bangladesh. The deadline of proposal submission is the 16th  August 2018.