Individual National Consultant to Support the Development of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework of the Child Sensitive Cash Plus Project in Da Nang City, including a Baseline Study – Viet Nam.

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Background

Over the previous decade, the reform agenda of social safety in Viet Nam has seen vital progress. In 2017, Viet Nam marked a key milestone when the Prime Minister permitted the Grasp Plan on Social Help Reform and Growth (MPSARD) 2017-2025 and Imaginative and prescient to 2030, serving as the primary complete social help framework in Viet Nam. The plan envisages an bold scaling up of social help, with the general purpose of progressively realizing common entry.

In 2021, the Authorities issued Decree 20/2021 changing Decree 136/2013 serving as a very powerful decree on money help in Viet Nam, with the renewed focus within the first 1,000 days of life. As of 2021, greater than 3.1 million folks obtained a daily profit (about 3 per cent of the inhabitants) of which about 51,000 are orphans and 70,000 are kids with disabilities (MOLISA, December 2021). The newly issued Decree 20 displays an enlargement in social help protection for under a small group of youngsters underneath 3 years previous from poor households dwelling in ethnic minority communities in mountainous areas.  The Decree 20 additionally contains an vital article permitting provinces and cities with an current and potential fiscal house to have the pliability to make choices on the protection and the worth of the advantages to be transferred to beneficiaries. Nonetheless, the revised Decree 20 remains to be categorical, narrowly focused and with out a roadmap for a progressive introduction of common social help for kids nor the inclusion of emergency and shock responsive money help for kids. Lastly, the Decree 20 doesn’t present steering to strengthen the linkages between social help beneficiaries and entry to important companies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that social safety system wants modernization.  The assist offered to households and kids in response to the pandemic has been restricted when it comes to protection, linkages to important companies, the adequacy of the advantages delivered, the complexity of focusing on and limitation within the present administration info system which have resulted in inclusion and exclusion errors within the identification of the folks most in want.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Help (MOLISA) is the federal government physique chargeable for the administration, implementation, and basic oversight of social safety in Viet Nam. Over the previous years, MOLISA and UNICEF have developed a robust partnership to advertise and defend kids’s rights in Viet Nam. Underneath the brand new Nation Programme Doc of 2022-2026, UNICEF Viet Nam Nation Workplace continues its collaboration with MOLISA in strengthening the built-in and child-sensitive, shock responsive and gender transformative social safety techniques.

At sub-national degree, UNICEF Viet Nam has cooperated with Da Nang Metropolis since 2020 with a concentrate on proof era to tell the planning, improvement and implementation of kid delicate socio-economic improvement plans and the Metropolis Programme of Motion on Youngsters. Da Nang is a vibrant financial hub and has been experiencing speedy urbanization and steady financial progress. Da Nang is one amongst few self-financing provinces/cities in Viet Nam. As well as, Da Nang is likely one of the sub-national authorities to have elevated the extent of social help allowance, expanded the group of beneficiaries for social help, and added an training subsidy. 

UNICEF and Da Nang Division of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA) are supporting the preliminary levels of a child-sensitive money plus programme in Da Nang. The programme facilitates linkages between money switch and complementary companies to result in synergistic impacts for kids and their households with the last word purpose of advancing child-sensitive, gender and shock-responsive social safety in Viet Nam, free from violence. The programme is a part of the Da Nang Youngster-friendly Metropolis Mission 2023-2026 — a collaboration between UNICEF Viet Nam and Da Nang Metropolis. The idea paper on little one delicate money plus mannequin was developed to tell the design and assist the preliminary levels of this programme in Da Nang Metropolis.

The general purpose of the challenge is to contribute to the discount of kid safety dangers and vulnerabilities to enhance the event and wellbeing of youngsters by the mixture of money transfers and complementary little one safety companies (case administration). The proposed mannequin combines a) month-to-month money transfers to susceptible kids and kids at dangers (recognized by vulnerability and danger screening/evaluation) with b) case administration. The mannequin shall be piloted in chosen communes of Hoa Vang and Cam Le District for one yr with the assist of UNICEF.

Function and Goals:

The aim of the project is to develop a complete M&E framework that may function a suggestion for monitoring, evaluating and documenting the method and impression of the intervention and to conduct a baseline research to supply baseline info.

1) The principle goal of the M&E framework is to supply a conceptual foundation and methodology for monitoring and analysis and to explain instruments that shall be used to facilitate info assortment and reporting. The M&E framework, due to this fact, primarily intends to supply an summary and operational mechanism of M&E with totally different necessities and duties taking into consideration the piloting nature of the intervention and cross-cutting points equivalent to fairness, gender and adolescents.

The framework  focuses on (i) monitoring and reporting on the pilot processes for studying, together with third occasion monitoring as required;  The framework will assist the companions and UNICEF crew assess whether or not the deliberate actions are being applied close to the agreed course of, challenges and consequence chain through the implementation part and (ii) assessing outcomes and impression by emphasizing the consequence, effectiveness and success of the challenge. This contains general design of the randomized impression analysis. Furthermore, the generated info will  guarantee dependable and well timed proof for reflection, studying and choice making.

2) The baseline research will assist set up a place to begin for monitoring and evaluating the impression of the challenge. It offers a transparent understanding of the present scenario, identifies gaps, and offers invaluable insights that information the event of applicable interventions and the institution of indicators to trace progress in the direction of attaining desired outcomes. The baseline research serves as a reference level towards which progress will be measured and evaluated all through the challenge cycle.

Detailed Work Assignments and Deliverables as connected  TOR Consultant for Cash Plus Baseline for distribution.pdf

Administration

The consultancy shall be supervised by the Social Coverage Officer underneath the general steering of the Chief of Social Coverage and Governance Part. The guide will work in shut collaboration with the colleagues from Youngster Safety (CP) Part, PM&E and Da Nang DOLISA.

The guide shall be in command of recruiting and administration of any potential enumerators deemed obligatory for information assortment (in dialogue and settlement with UNICEF). 

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Evaluation standards:

For analysis and choice technique, the Cumulative Evaluation Methodology (weight mixed rating technique) shall be used for this recruitment:

a) Technical Qualification weight 75 factors:

Instructional background (15 factors):

– Grasp’s diploma, ideally in public (social) coverage, improvement research, economics, statistics, social work or social science-related area.

– Related work expertise (40 factors):

+ Minimal 10 years of working expertise within the design and supply of analysis and analysis and within the context of worldwide improvement (preferable).

+ Confirmed data and software of M&E techniques and methodologies – together with quantitative and mixed-method analysis approaches, together with expertise in creating logical frameworks and theories of change.

+ Familiarity with randomised experiment;

+ Have a superb understanding of Da Nang’s socio-economic and partnership context.

+ Robust data and technical capability

– Related expertise and competencies (20 factors)

+ Wonderful analysis, analytical, writing, and communication expertise;

b. Monetary Proposal weight 25 factors:

– All costs/charges quoted have to be unique of all taxes as UNICEF is a tax-exempt group.

– Monetary proposal needs to be all-inclusive lump-sum value together with consultancy payment, prices for home and worldwide travels and communication.

– The utmost variety of factors shall be allotted to the bottom Monetary Proposal that’s opened/evaluated and in contrast amongst these technical certified candidates. Different Monetary Proposals will obtain factors in inverse proportion to the bottom value.

– The Contract shall be awarded to candidate acquiring the best mixed technical and monetary scores, topic to the passable results of the verification interview if wanted.

Submission of functions:

a. Letter of curiosity/affirmation of availability and CV;

b. A technical proposal which clearly explains the define on methods to ship the duties and deliverables;

c. Three references;

d. Monetary proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum value together with consultancy payment, prices for home and worldwide travels and communication and some other related prices for this project. 

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background verify.   

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” underneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (equivalent to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for all the interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF at some point of their consultancy contracts.