INVITATION TO BID FOR CONSULTANCY FOR GFFO PROJECT FINAL EVALUATION.

INVITATION TO BID FOR CONSULTANCY

1.   Title of Consultancy: TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR GFFO PROJECT FINAL EVALUATION.
2. . SCI Contracting Office: Save the Children Somalia/land Country Office

3. Period of Consultancy

The duration of the assignment will be completed within 60 days, covering the final project evaluation, preparation of evaluation tools and resources, stakeholder consultations, data collection and analysis and submission of the final evaluation report in accordance with the timeline agreed upon with the organization.

4. Consultant type required

Consultancy Firm

5. Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs

Save the children will pay the consultant fee in a lump sum and will not reimburse any incurred costs during the assignment. The consultant will cover their own Logistical arrangements, costs; including food, accommodation, local transport and all cost associated with data collection work and whole activities

6. Taxation Provisions

The consultancy firm shall be responsible for all taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office.

7. Travel requirements

The consultancy firm shall include all travel costs in its financial proposal, including domestic flights, as applicable and arrange local transportation to and from field sites. For budgeting and bid comparability the proposal should explicitly cost the anticipated travel between Burau, Bandarbeyla and Beledweyne, as well as local ground transportation at each field location. These costs should be consolidated into a single travel and logistics budget line to avoid duplication.

8. Security requirements

The consultancy firm will comply with standard of Save the Children Security procedures, including the completion of SCI online security training (applicable to international consultants) prior to travel to Somalia. 

9. Professional quality and Expertise

The following are the minimum requirements for the Consultant Firm to be considered for carrying out the assignment.

·       Minimum 7 years of relevant evaluation experience.

·       Advanced degree in humanitarian, resilience, climate adaptation, DRR, development or a related field.

·       Proven experience with child-centered and participatory methodologies and ethical engagement of children.

·       Experience engaging in government institutions, local authorities, community structures and humanitarian actors.

·       Demonstrated ability to conduct mixed-methods research and triangulate quantitative and qualitative evidence.

·       Team leader with demonstrated experience leading complex evaluation assignments.

KEY PROFESSIONAL STAFF REQUIREMENT

Description

Minimum Qualification and professional experience

10. Technical and Team Leader Requirements

·       Designing and conducting endline/outcome evaluations using appropriate non-experimental and mixed methods designs.

·       Proven experience in Anticipatory Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, climate resilience and humanitarian programming.

·       Experience conducting evaluations/research in Somalia or comparable fragile and humanitarian contexts, with sensitivity to local culture, child rights, gender, inclusion and minority groups.

·       Conducting ethical and inclusive studies involving children and children’s participatory techniques.

·       Conducting ethical and inclusive studies involving marginalised, deprived and/or vulnerable groups in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways.

·       Managing and coordinating a range of government, non-government, community groups and academic stakeholders.

·       Sound experience conducting evaluations using OECD-DAC criteria, including utilization- and learning-focused evaluations.

·       Strong understanding of theories of change, results frameworks and contribution-focused evaluation.

·       Strong written and verbal skills in communicating technical and/ or complex findings to non-specialist audiences (especially report writing and presentation skills).

11                                                                                                 EVALUATION CRITERIA

The proposals submitted by consulting companies will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Application Procedure

·       Interested consultancy firms who meet the requirements are requested to submit their bid and each application package should include the above required minimum requirements. 

Applications can be submitted by:

Protected Email box below

·       Email should be addressed to [email protected]

·       Should you need any clarifications please direct your queries to [email protected] and expect responses within maximum of two working days.

·       Note – this is a sealed tender box which will not be opened until the tender has closed. Therefore, do not send tender related questions to this email address as they will not be answered.

The subject of the email should be TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR GFFO PROJECT FINAL EVALUATION IN SOMALIA/LAND.

·       All attached documents should be clearly labelled so it is clear to understand what each file relates to.

·       Emails should not exceed 15mb – if the file sizes are large, please split the submission into two emails. 

·       Do not copy other SCI email addresses into the email when you submit it as this will invalidate your bid.  

All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered for the assignment. Only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.

Closing date for Applications

Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the above procedures on or before 24th OCT 2026, EAT at 11:59 PM.