Request for Proposal

“LEAP: GENDER EQUALITY, INCLUSION AND CHILD PROTECTION ASSESSMENT”


Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children's development organizations in the world. We work in 52 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.

Project overview

Plan International has been implementing the lifting healthy, empowered and protected girls and women in cox’s bazar (LEAP) project from March 30, 2022. Plan is implementing the project in 18 union in Ukhiya, Teknaf, Ramu and 3 camp (1W, 3 and 4). The aim of the project is to advance the realization of SRHR of adolescent girls and young women in all their diversity in both the host communities and refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The LEAP project proposes three interconnected pillars to achieve the ultimate outcome through improving the individual and collective agency and resilience of adolescent girls and young women to exercise their SRHR and protection rights; strengthening the health system to provide GARI SRH, SGBV and MHPSS services to adolescents and young people, particularly girls and young women and enhancing the capacity of local stakeholders [Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs)/Girl Led Organizations (GLOs) and Youth Led Organizations (YLOs)] to advocate for evidence based and accountable GARI SRH and SGBV services and policies. The project focus on creating agency among adolescent girls and young women and also to have an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights. Keeping this in consideration, the project will conduct a Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) and Child protection (CP) assessment analysis with emphasis on Gender and Social norms, GBV, SRHR to identify the gaps and barriers impacting access to services and rights for adolescent girl, boy and young people.

Objectives:

A GEI and CP assessment will be conducted. The external consultant will undergo a gender equality, inclusion and child protection analysis with emphasis on gender and social norms and behaviors, GBV, SRHR to identify the gaps and barriers impacting access to services and rights for adolescent girls and boys and young people (15-24 years). the GEI Assessment will prioritize the inclusion of AGYW, aged 10-14, 15-19 and 20-24, and adolescent boys (10-14, 15-19), from the lowest wealth quintiles in the above listed project sites, who are out-of-school, and/or living with a disability, and/or single and pregnant/with child and/or living in female headed households, and/or living in refugee camps and/or belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups (henceforth referred to as non-dominant AGYW and boys). The assessment will also engage powerholders and influencers who may either enable or constrain diverse AGYW’s SRHR and protection rights. These include caregivers, male partners, elders, local community, traditional and religious leaders, healthcare, and protection service providers. This prioritization is informed by a comprehensive rights-based analysis, using principles of GBA+. In this way, the GEI Assessment will provide an in-depth understanding of the power, gender and diversity dynamics specific to SRHR and Protection issues at the individual, interpersonal, family/community and institutional levels. It will assess the unique opportunities, challenges, and barriers that diverse AGYW face in relation to SRHR and protection, specifically examining the opportunities and barriers in relation to demand-side, supply-side, and accountability issues. Towards this, it will be guided by five GEI domains, as follows: roles and responsibilities, access to and control over resources, participation and decision making, gender norms, values and practices and institutional responsiveness. Finally, the GEI assessment will provide evidence-based recommendations to inform the project design and implementation.

Assignment deliverables:

The GEI Assessment needs to be finalized within 100 calendar days from the date of signing the contract.

Key Deliverables:

  • Inception report including data analysis plan
  • Translated Bengali version of data collection tools (Plan International will provide the English version of tools)
  • Orientation to the data collectors with appropriate local (and Rohingya) language
  • Approval from RRRC for data collection from camp
  • Raw data and analysis file
  • Final Report (page limit 60 or another agreed during inception meeting)
  • 2 Pager briefs on report (using PIB designed template)
  • Presentation slides (using PIB designed template)

Payment will be based on deliverables. It will be the consultant’s responsibility to manage the number of days to complete the tasks. Travel costs will be reimbursed based on actuals and in alignment with Plan International Bangladesh travel and expenses reimbursement policy. The detail work plan of the consultant will be reviewed by both Plan International Bangladesh and Canada team and approved by Plan International Bangladesh.

Task Plan # of Days Tentative deadline
Contract signed with consultant 1 TBD
Inception phase
Submit final inception report including data analysis plan 5 TBD
Finalize data collection tools, translated and methods finalized 8 TBD
Submit and secure ethical clearance from Plan and RRRC 10 TBD
Training/orientation of enumerators on tools, methodology and process including pre-testing of the tools 5 TBD
Qualitative GEI Assessment phase
Carry out data collection and supervise data enumerators. Report weekly to Plan International Bangladesh 21 TBD
Submit raw and clean data to Plan international Bangladesh 7 TBD
Submit 1st draft qualitative assessment report 15 TBD
Review 1st draft report by PIB and CNO 8 TBD
Submit 2nd draft of report 5 TBD
Submit 2nd draft report by PIB and CNO 8 TBD
Submit 2 pager and presentation slides 5 TBD
Final report submitted 3 TBD

 

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 the title “LEAP: Gender Equality, Inclusion and Child Protection Assessment”. The deadline of proposal submission is on or before 04 February 2023. Two separate folders i.e. technical and financial should be submitted into one zip folder with a covering letter. The proposals should be submitted in PDF format. Proposal submitted to any other email account except this or in any other form disqualified. Submissions after the deadline will be treated as disqualified.

Terms of Reference (ToR)

Terms of Reference (TOR) can be downloaded from this link. For any technical issue related to the project and study, please communicate to Md. Arifuzzaman, M&E Specialist at md.arifuzzaman2@plan-international.org