Terms of Reference:

HIRING A CONSULTANT FOR Comprehensive Sexuality education (CSE) indicators: Pilot

January 2023

Background

Plan International is an international humanitarian, child-centred development organization with no religious, political or government affiliations working in 78 countries across the globe with its headquarters in the UK. Plan works with over one million children, their families and communities in 50 developing countries around the world, implementing projects at the grass root and national level in health, education, water and sanitation, income generation and cross-cultural communication. Plan is registered with the United Nations following recognition in 1989 and has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Plan has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994.

To support Plan International and partner staff, educators and implementers in formal and non-formal settings to deliver effective and quality CSE, we have developed a series of CSE standards and a Topics Table. These standards are based upon international evidence and good practice. They also uphold a set of principles, including a comprehensive, human rights-based, gender transformative, inclusive and sex-positive approach towards the sexuality, sexual development and (sexual) relationships of children, adolescents, and young people. The standards seek to ensure:

1) quality in CSE programme content,
2) effective delivery of CSE, and
3) how to create an enabling environment for CSE and young people’s SRHR.
The standards are accompanied by a Topics Table, outlining learning objectives per age group (0-4, 5-8, 9-12, 12-15, and 15-18+ years old).  

Objective

The aim of this consultancy is to support Plan International Bangladesh to pilot a newly developed monitoring and evaluation tools, including indicators, for Comprehensive Sexuality Education programmes, and share lessons learned for further strengthening the indicators and tools.

The pilot will take place simultaneously in several countries to ensure learning across contexts. To support the operationalisation of the Standards in our programmes, the global CSE Programme and Influence Model and accompanying indicators for monitoring and evaluation was developed. Plan International Bangladesh is now planning to field test the CSE M&E key tools in selected as part of the global initiative. This will enhance continual learning from our model and – critically – provide much-needed data to enhance promotional materials for the model. We need to get M&E right early in our model testing process. Key tools to be tested in workshops internally as well as engaging teachers and students include:

  • Programme assessment tool
  • Curriculum assessment tool
  • Indicator tools:
    • Interview and survey questions
    • Student satisfaction tool
    • Teacher support scorecard

The M&E tools will be piloted during March-April 2023.

The pilot activities will be implemented in connection to an existing programme where Plan International Bangladesh works on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in and out of schools. Plan International Bangladesh staff in country, Plan International’s global SRHR and MERL teams will be available to provide remote support to the pilot.

Key tasks and methodology:

  • Participate in a global orientation session with Plan International’s global SRHR and MERL teams, and with other pilot countries
  • Submit a detailed pilot plan based on Plan International defined deliverables and timeline
  • Collaborate with Plan International’s SRHR and MERL team in-country to plan and deliver the pilot activities, incl:
    • Contextualise and translate tools and materials
    • Assess Gender Equity Movement in schools (GEMS) and Champion of Change (COC) manual according to the PI’s Global Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) standard.
    • Lead workshops with Plan Bangladesh and partner staff, teachers and learners to pilot the tools
      • Meeting with staffs: 3 (1 in Dhaka,1 in Barisal, 1 in Rangpur)
      • 6 educational institutes preferably secondary school and madrasah 3:3 (2 in Dhaka, 2 in Barisal and 2 in Rangpur)
      • Teachers consultation in 6 educational institutes. (in the said areas in same institutions)
    • Document learnings and recommendations from the country pilot
  • Participate in global validation session to compare findings with other pilot countries and share lessons learned
  • Submit final report and invoice to Plan International Bangladesh, no later than 10 May, 2023

Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be downloaded from this link.

Submission proposals:

The technical and financial proposals should be submitted electronically to the email address: Planbd.consultant.hiring@plan-international.org  with the title “Proposal for CSE Indicators Pilot” as subject line within 20th February 2023 before at 4:00pm.

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.

“Any direct or indirect pressure/persuasion/harassment to any Plan staff shall disqualify shortlisted vendors/Consultant”

Two different folders i.e. technical and financial should be submitted into one zip folder with a covering letter addressing to Md. Enamul Haque, Supply & Procurement Specialist, Plan International Bangladesh.