ThaiNGO

Respect Ourselves, Accentuate Resilience

(ROAR I)

Project Endline Assessment

Background:

Save the Children (SC) has been working in Thailand for over 35 years, supporting the most vulnerable children with Education, Child Protection, Child Safety, and Health & Nutrition programs. Whenever a disaster strikes in Thailand, we are ready to deploy an emergency response. In 2020, we have deployed a multi-site, multi-sectoral response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the Southernmost Provinces (Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat) and the border with Myanmar where more than 91,000 refugees still reside in 9 refugee camps.

Save the Children (Thailand) Foundation believes that consulting with migrant and refugee children aged 12 to 17 from Myanmar living in Thailand is the key to assessing vulnerabilities they face offline and online. For effective and meaningful engagement, this target group should receive financial and technical support to design, pilot, and test, finalize and promote their own solutions to prevent online abuse and other forms of violence against children.

The ROAR project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). The project goal and outcomes align with DFAT’s Partnership for Recovery, specifically its Indo Pacific Development context objectives with a focus on resilience (and specifically violence against the most vulnerable).

With ROAR, SC and partners [Rays of Youth (ROY) and Karen Student Network Group (KSNG)] will support youth-driven design thinking and youth-led campaigns to enable 40 youth leaders from migrant and refugee communities to develop Youth Online Safety and Resilience solutions as well as offline peer to peer mobilization initiatives involving directly up to 1,200 children and youth in their communities.

At least two youth-led solutions have been designed based on youth’s ideas with technical support from the SHIFT 360 team, technical service providers (web developer, drama expert etc.) and CP experts (SC, Thailand Internet Foundation, COPAT, Protection Working Group in the camps). The following processes are being applied: (1) Participatory Action Research, (2) Co-creation workshops using the SHIFT model, (3) Solution development, (4) testing and refinement. Then, youth will directly promote the uptake of their solutions by running a local campaign in each location (5). This will ensure the solutions and messages are tailored to reach target audiences using effective delivery methodology (peer to peer offline mobilization or digital) that align with internet use and access.

Finally, the tools and messages created by the children will be used by SC and youth leaders to advocate to COPAT (DCY online safety department) and to the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on Online safety.

Goal: By 2023, migrant and refugee children and youths (b,g) from Myanmar aged 12 to 17 living in the camps and outside of the camps in Tak Province will be better equipped to identify and protect themselves against online abuse and violence. They will be empowered to support and mobilize each other both offline and online through solutions and campaigns they will have co-designed and co-developed to directly address their needs. 

Scope of evaluation:

To understand the extent to which the current phase of the evaluation is intended to report on project performance, measure project outcomes and outputs, consolidate key success stories and lesson learned, assess impacts at policy level. The results from this endline assessment will be highly useful in providing recommendation to Save the Children (Thailand) Foundation in scaling up the next phase, as well as future strategies for Save the Children Australia, DFAT, and related stakeholders.

The primary purpose of the study is:

The study main objectives are:

• 1. 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.
• 2. Measure and report against the project outcome indicators:

Endline Data collection and analysis in comparison to baseline data collected as part of Participatory Action Research (PAR) to create end line information on 1) children and youth who experience or witness online abuse ability to seek further support 2) children and youth who can identify safety risks 3) children and youth who know what to do to reduce online safety risks or practice safe behaviors on the internet

• 3. Consolidate key success stories and lessons learned from the project
• 4. Assess to what extent the project has made impacts to change at policy level and/or advocacy with local and national government
• 5. Provide recommendation to Save the Children Thailand Foundation management and program team for project adaptation and scale up.

Study Methodology

Study Design

The suggested research design for this endline assessment is a mixed methods design including participatory methods wherever possible. Both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis will be used in addressing each of the assessment criteria. The Study must include, as a methodology, the design and delivery of a children/youth survey to establish relevant endline data to compare with baseline data collected at the beginning of the project.

SCT anticipates the methodology to include a review of project documents, children/youth survey, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and observations, with relevant stakeholders including beneficiaries,  and review of project monitoring data. The consultant is encouraged to propose additional methodology that they consider appropriate to the project, which is subject to Save the Children’s approval.  

Sampling

The project endline study will be conducted in the project targeted areas including three refugee camps (Mae La, Umpiem, and Nu Po) along the border of Thailand and Myanmar, and three migrant communities (Mae Sot, Mae Pa, and Tha Sai Luat) in Tak Province. 

Data Processing, Analysis and Reporting:

• Inception report; including initial desk research and tool review
• Data collection and Analysis
• Presentation on key findings
• Final Endline Assessment Report incorporating Endline Assessment Data submission
• Knowledge translation materials:
  • PowerPoint presentation of evaluation findings.
  • Evidence to Action Brief** (2 – 4 pages)

Key qualifications:  

The study team members together must have demonstrated skills, expertise, and experience in:

• Bachelor's degree/Masters’ degree in Social-sciences, Child Protection, international relations or relevant area to the project.
• Designing and conducting Project Endline Assessment using non experimental design.
• Conducting studies in the field of Child Protection/Gender-based Violence, particularly in relation to online abuse and violence.
• Leading socio-economic research, evaluations or consultancy work in Thailand that is sensitive to the local context and culture, particularly Child rights, gender equality, ethnicity, religion and minority groups.
• Conducting ethical and inclusive studies involving children and child 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.
• Experience conducting study in humanitarian contexts.
• Extensive experience of theories of change and how they can be used to carry out evaluations.
• Strong written and verbal skills in communicating technical and/ or complex findings to non-specialist audiences (especially report writing and presentation skills).
• A track record of open, collaborative working with clients.

Requirement for application:

The applications for the consultancy should include:

• Expression of interest: stating candidate skill and experience suitable for the consultancy (max 1 page)
• Technical and financial proposal: Outline of evaluation framework and methods, proposed timeframe, work plan and budget (max 4 pages; applications over limit will be automatically excluded).
• CV of proposed individual/s and one piece of evidence of similar evaluation carried out previously

Consultancy period:  May 2023 to August 2023.

Professional fees:  The consultant(s) is asked to propose the budget. The financial competitiveness of the fee will be considered in the selection process. Costs involved in the assessment, such as materials, interpreter, travel, accommodation and applicable taxes, should be included in the proposed budget.

Management:

The consultant will report directly to the ROAR Project Coordinator. Additional technical advice will be provided by the Child Protection Technical Expert, MEAL Coordinator and technical team from Save the Children Australia. Save the Children Thailand Foundation together with Save the Children Australia should approve all plans and documents developed by the consultant.

The Project Endline Assessment team lead is to provide reporting against the project plan. The following regular reporting and quality review processes will also be used:

Regular email at least once a week to the ROAR Project Coordinator documenting progress, any emerging issues to be resolved and planned activities for the following week.

At the end of the field visit, the assessment team will hold a meeting with the project team and project partners to discuss the preliminary findings of the endline assessment.

A draft report should be submitted for feedback and comments. The report should be written in English and approximately 30 pages with executive summary (appendices not included). 

Place of work: Tak, Thailand

Close date for submissions:

Applicant should submit their interest by 9 April 2023.

Submission through: THA_Procurement_BKK@savethechildren.org