ThaiNGO

Consultancy for conducting REACT II Project Final Evaluation
 

Introduction
Save the Children (SC) has been working in Thailand since 1984, with offices in Bangkok, Mae Sot and Pattani. For over thirty-five years, we have been supporting the most vulnerable children with a specific focus on migrant children, refugees, conflict-affected minorities, children with disabilities and vulnerable children in urban areas.
 

Background
Reaching Education for All Children in Thailand Phase 2 (REACT II Project) aims to contribute to Thailand’s achievement of the Education for All (EFA) policy through improving access to quality basic education for migrant children (aged 3 – 18 years) in Tak and Ranong Provinces by 2022.
 

Objectives:
 

SCT intends to conduct a final (external) evaluation of REACT II Project to generate substantive evidence-based knowledge by identifying and documenting good practices and lessons learned from intended impact and unintended consequences of the project interventions. This evaluation is intended to assess the extent of change that has taken place in the lives of targeted children, quality of services provided, and related policy changes and implementation/response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results from this evaluation will be highly useful in providing recommendations for the Thai Government, as well as future strategies for Save the Children Thailand Foundation.

To ensure objectivity and credibility, the evaluation is to be led by an external consultant who has made no prior commitment or contribution to the project. The evaluation is expected to take place from October to December 2022.

The overall objectives of this consultancy include:

• Evaluate project performance, including progress and achievements towards the project goal and objectives, the overall impact of the project, including unintended consequences and the factors that influenced change at all levels of the outcomes framework.
• Measure and report against the project outcome indicators, baseline and mid-term assessment report to create end line information
• Consolidate key success stories and lessons learned from the project
• Assess to what extent the project has made impacts to change at policy level and/or advocacy with local and national government
• Provide recommendation to Save the Children Thailand Foundation management and program team for project adaptation and scale up.

The Evaluation team will be required to propose:

1. Conduct data validation workshop with relevant migrant education stakeholders to crosscheck the quality and correctness of the data collection.

2. How the evaluation findings will be shared with each of the different stakeholders in the table above, particularly outlining how reporting back to communities, beneficiaries and children will be conducted in an accessible and child friendly manner.

Qualification and expertise

The evaluation has to be completed in December 2022. A field data collection would be mandatory and ideally would took place in October to November 2022.
 

To be considered, the Evaluation team members together must have demonstrated skills, expertise and experience in:

• Bachelor's degree/Masters’ degree in Social sciences, education, international relation or relevant area to the project.
• Proven experience designing and conducting high quality project evaluations based on OEDC-DAC evaluation criteria.
• Proven ability and track record conducting ethical and inclusive research with vulnerable populations while ensuring rigorous ethics, integrity, and safeguarding especially in migrant setting.
• Thai or international consultant who has experience to work in Thailand.
• Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
• Language proficiencies required include: English, Thai, Karen and Burmese; kindly include a clear plan for language proficiencies in the team and/or translators included in the team.
• Flexibility to travel to remote areas (Tak and Ranong Provinces).

There is a high expectation that:

• Members (or a proportion) of the evaluation team have a track record of working together.
• A team leader will be appointed who has the seniority and experience in leading complex evaluation projects, and who has the ability and standing to lead a team toward a common goal.
• The team has the ability to commit to the terms of the project, and have adequate and available skilled resources to dedicate to this evaluation over the period.
• The team has a strong track record of working flexibly to accommodate changes as the project is implemented.

How to apply
 

We invite interested candidates to submit an application with a current CV, a proposal (including a brief evaluation description, a timeline and a budget), and relevant references or past relevant experiences.
 

Request full TOR or more information and Submission through: kwang.tangmanakit@savethechildren.org

Deadline
 

The deadline for submission is 10 October 2022