Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. Our vision is “A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.” and our mission is “Inspiring breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives”. Save the Children works both in the development and humanitarian contexts. In Ethiopia, under the child protection program, Save the Children is responding to ensuring child protection by prioritizing four areas of intervention: children without appropriate care, protecting children from violence, child labor and child protection system strengthening.
Save the Children Ethiopia has received grant from Save the Children Italy to implement a project entitled “Strengthening System for the Prevention and Response to Unsafe Child Migration” from Jan 2018 - Dec 2020. Save the Children has been implementing this project starting Jan 2018 in Amhara regional state to strengthen prevention of unsafe child migration in 30 kebeles of targeted districts (Este, Dara and Adabet of South Gondar zone). This project is also supporting coordinated response services for children on the move in transit towns, namely Hamusit town in Dara district within South Gondar zone, Gondar town and Metema district (10 kebeles) in West Gondar zone.
The project aims at contributing to the protection of children who are at risk of unsafe migration and children on the move from abuse, exploitation and violence within improved child protection systems in targeted districts. This is mainly by focusing on improving access to quality prevention and response services, increasing the knowledge of children and communities on the risks of unsafe migration and strengthening adequate and responsive systems. The project is designed to specifically address unsafe child migration through targeting schools, community structures, children’s families and other key stakeholders. With direct prevention and response services, the project will reach to 10,620 Children and 7, 545 adults
BoLSA (mandated to support OVC, vulnerable youth, women and elders and disabled people) faces budget shortage to translate the mandate, and also lacks tools/procedures/guidance for organized psychosocial support and rehabilitation interventions for migrants and other vulnerable target groups who experienced violence, abuse and exploitation. In this connection, the situational analysis and need assessment during project design reveals that BoLSA and BoWCY (and corresponding structures at zonal and district level) need capacity building support on psychosocial support training and manual development. For this reason, project focuses to support psychosocial support guideline development that can serve as guidance on psychosocial training and capacity building at regional, zonal and district levels. This effort can directly help for improving prevention and response services/ mechanisms for vulnerable groups and victims of unsafe child migration at all levels.
Thus, this term of reference (TOR) is prepared to outline the purpose/objective, scope, and methodology to develop psychosocial support guideline.
The purposes of developing psychosocial support guide are to provide a practical resource book for implementation of psychosocial supports for service providers and standardize the
psychosocial support. The guideline will serve as resource pack and provide guidance to conduct context specific capacity building training for government staff at different level and NGO staff
The following are the specific objectives:
1. Assess the national and regional contexts in terms of how psychosocial support is provided to target groups and existing practices and also explore available resource materials, guidelines, approaches, policies and strategies on psychosocial support that provide guidance, capacity building support and delivery of psychosocial support services for prevention and response interventions at different level.
2. Develop psychosocial support guide that can serve as resource materials for capacity building of various workforce at different levels.
3. Develop psychosocial support guide that can apply for both prevention and response services as well as considering key elements of psychosocial support services (psychological first aid, SCI’s child and youth resilience program and mental health) and outline referral linkage.
4. Develop psychosocial support guide focusing on practical procedures that can be used as resource book for provision of standardized psychosocial supports to target groups
5. Inform and aware key stakeholders about the guideline during various engagements (including validation workshop)
This psychosocial support guideline can serve as psychosocial support guideline can also easily contextualize and apply for relevant actors and at different levels
· Expression of interest: a cover letter with a maximum of one page introducing the consulting firm/consultant with an expression of interest to carry out the work as described in this ToR.
· Technical proposal: This should include, but not limited to, understanding of the ToR with critical reflection on the consultancy assignment (a consulting firm has to clearly show its understanding of the work), methodology (with extremely strong emphasis, should be detailed with clear presentation against each of the objectives, layout choices, pictorial; presentations, etc.), tentative work plan, proposed team qualification and experience, others. NB. Once the consultancy firm has been selected to undertake the task, SCI will not accept changes on the team composition.
· Financial proposal: This should outline the detail financial breakdown per each of the proposed activities.
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