1. Background to TARGET Programme
The Technical Assistance to Reinforce GEQIP-E (TARGET) is a programme supporting the Federal Ministry of Education of Ethiopia and Regional Education Bureaus (REBs) to strengthen the delivery of the General Education Quality Improvement Programme for Equity (GEQIP-E).
The overall purpose of the TARGET programme is to support GEQIP-E, and the general education sector more broadly, to improve both student learning and equity. GEQIP-E is focused on improving school and system performance through direct interventions and relevant system strengthening. TARGET will support GEQIP-E to re-focus the system to improve learning outcomes through four integrated task areas:
Task 1. Performance-Based Delivery: strengthening delivery capacity through embedded delivery approaches across the system.
Task 2: School leadership training and capacity development: reforming the school leadership training programme for school principals to put teaching and learning at the heart of school leadership and ensuring that special attention is paid to gender and inclusion.
Task 3: Enhanced school leadership to improve school performance: supporting existing school leaders through in-service continuing professional development (CPD) to strengthen instructional leadership, accountability and grant use, especially in the worst-performing schools, and to develop model interventions to identify what works in addressing the barriers faced by the most marginalized groups in the four emerging regions.
Task 4: Research, monitoring and evaluation process: improving systems for monitoring, evaluation, research and analysis (MERA) to achieve a system-wide culture of learning.
2. Background to the Equitable School Improvement Fund (ESIF) Project
As a key component of Task 3, a package of interventions is piloted to identify promising practices to improve learning outcomes in the most disadvantaged areas. They will be focused on a total of 280 schools, principally in the four emerging regions of Ethiopia: Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz, Somali and Gambella. The school to Work Transition is also the other intervention which will be implemented in the coming months.
Aligned to Ministry of Education (MoE) and GEQIP-E priorities, the ESIF interventions will support GEQIP-E interventions specifically targeting the barriers faced by the most marginalized groups, namely girls, children with special educational needs and those living in pastoralist communities. Improvement of teacher performance especially -early grade numeracy and literacy, community engagement inclusion are focuses of the ESIF Interventions.
Educational Development Trust (EDT), Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development (ECDD) and Link Education International (LEI) are implementing the TARGET Project on a consortium-basis, with LEI focusing specifically on Task 3 that target on the enhancement of instructional leadership for improving whole school activity, and associated school performance, primarily through this strengthened in-service Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme. Link is leading on the school leaders CPD program being implemented in Beni Shangul-Gumuz, Afar, Gambella and Somali regions.
The consortium members are also providing technical support to these partner CSOs. Link Education International, as a member of the consortium and as part of its responsibilities, is therefore intending to develop a project implementation guideline for these partner CSOs. The guideline to be developed focuses on all aspects of project cycle management, except grant and finance issues.
3. Objectives of the Assignment
The objective of this assignment is to develop a workable and user-friendly implementation guideline for CSOs implementing the ESIF project .There is no page limit regarding the document to be developed but it is preferable if it does not exceed 35 pages
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