Job Vacancy: Job title: Baseline Survey – Empowering Adolescent Girls to address GBV in Bama LGA, Borno state, Nigeria
Job description: Background
Plan International is an independent child-centered international development organization committed to advancing the rights of children and fight against poverty. Plan International Nigeria has been working in Nigeria since 2014, promoting the rights of children and the equality of girls, responding with both emergency assistance (mainly in Child Protection, Emergency Education, Food Security and Economic Empowerment) and developing actions that allow a transition from this assistance to a phase of post-conflict and peace building. Plan International Nigeria works with communities, civil society organizations, development partners and governments to bring hearts and minds together for children.Project Background
The project Empowering adolescent girls to address gender-based violence in Bama LGA, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria is being funded by SBF and aims to improve the protection of adolescent girls in IDP camps and host communities in Bama LGA, Borno state, and build their resilience. Overall, the project is expected to reach more than 4,400 people directly, with the main target group being 880 adolescent girls aged 10-19 years, with quality GBV case management, psychosocial support, dignity kits, life skills sessions, vocational skills training, start-up kits, positive parenting sessions, specific capacity strengthening for community-based structures to provide service delivery, and general awareness raising around preventing and responding to GBV. The wider target community will also benefit from GBV capacity building, community sensitization and mobilization activities. The overall goal of this project is that: Conflicted affected adolescent girls at risk of GBV or survivors of GBV receive quality age and gender appropriate GBV services, and livelihoods support in Bama LGA, Borno State.
Plan International Nigeria will therefore undertake a survey for the new project to establish the baseline values for project objectives indicators and build evidence for outcome and impact measurement at the completion of the project.
Objectives of the Baseline Survey
Overall, the purpose of the baseline survey is to provide quantitative and qualitative analytical information of the status of the stated indicators against which to monitor and assess project progress and effectiveness during implementation and evaluation after completion with attention to the ultimate outcome.
Specific objectives:
This baseline survey will be carried out in Bama LGA and should be guided by the following specific objectives:
- To collect, analyze and present missing baseline data at outcome and output level (based on the project log frame) to allow for efficient measurement of project impact during and after implementation.
- Verify project log frame’s adequacy with realities observed on the ground and propose any adjustments to the results framework of the project. Analyze and, if deemed necessary, revise the project log frame to ensure SMART targets are in place.
- To provide project staff with detailed baseline data on key project indicators to enable changes to be measured over the course of the project.
- Where necessary, to revise targets of the activities
Methodology
Plan International Nigeria will hire the services of a Consultant to carry out the baseline survey under the close supervision of Plan International Nigeria M&E delegated staff. Both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods will be used. This will include development of the assessment tools, carrying out the assessment and producing the baseline report within the agreed time frame.
Quantitative data collection methods
The consultant and team are expected to collect baseline data at outcomes and outputs levels. The possible key respondents or data sources and data collection tools developed by the consultant will be reviewed by the M&E Coordinator and the Child Protection in Emergency Specialist to ensure alignment with the methodology of Plan International’s global Area of Distinctiveness (AoGD) indicators.
Qualitative data collection methods
Key methods will include Focus Group Discussions, Key Informant Interviews and surveys with relevant stakeholders who will be identified by the project team. The consultant is also free to propose and utilize other data collection methods beyond these mentioned.
Document Review
The consultant and team will use available project documents and relevant government policy, procedures, records/reports for review. Also, other available secondary data sources, including data from similar projects being implemented by Plan International Nigeria and other organizations, will be used for further data analysis.
Data analysis and interpretation
The consultant will propose methods for analysis and interpretation, ensuring ethical care for primary data collection. Where necessary data analysis process will be disaggregated by gender, disabilities and location.
Work plan for the baseline survey
Before the commencement of the field activities, the Consultant will provide a draft work plan to Plan International Nigeria which To answer the assessment questions and criteria, a set of tools will be developed and administered to aid the collation and analysis of data and produce informed and evidence-based narratives by the consultant with reviews from Plan International MERL lead and team will be reviewed and agreed with the CPiE Specialist and M&E Coordinator, consulted with Plan International Sweden.
Sample
The Consultant shall propose a sampling strategy for the primary data collection to answer the assessment questions as part of the final assessment, including how they will identify respondents. More specifically, the intended sample strategy shall include a description of the:
- Sample size
- Target group and necessary respondent disaggregation (this will be provided to the consultant)
- Number and type of locations
- Sampling approach (stating the reasons for the approach selected)
Quality assurance
The Consultant is responsible for data quality, validity, consistency and accuracy and is to submit a well-structured report written in English language with complete adherence to Plan International data sharing protocol guidelines. If these standards are not met, the Consultant will, at their own expense, make the necessary amendments to bring the reports to the required standards. The Consultant is expected to maintain the confidentiality of the data collected through the study.
The intended users of the final report of the assessment are:
- Plan International Nigeria country office
- Plan International National Organization and the Global hub
- Different donors on proposal development
- Child Protection and GBV-Subsector
It is expected that the final baseline assessment report will contribute to provide an in-depth insight into the different needs of girls, women, boys and men faced using evidence-based findings to update the logical framework of this project.t and implementation of future projects.
Ethics, Child rights, gender and inclusion
Plan International is committed to ensuring that the rights of those participating in data collection or analysis are respected and protected.
All applicants should include details in their proposal on how they will ensure ethics and child protection in the data collection process. The proposal should also demonstrate the Consultant’s experience on ethics, safeguarding and data protection in relation to data collection on children, adolescents and youth, especially in relation to GBV and violence against children. Specifically, the Consultant(s) shall explain how appropriate, safe, non-discriminatory participation of all stakeholders will be ensured and how special attention will be paid to the needs of children and other vulnerable groups. The Consultant(s) shall also explain how confidentiality and anonymity of participants will be guaranteed.
In line with Plan International’s values and organizational ambition, the assessment should seek to prioritize a focus on child rights, gender and inclusion. As a minimum, this requires: * the disaggregation of all data points from the survey by age and sex,
- the development of an ethics protocol that safeguards children, youth and vulnerable adults,
Key Deliverables
The following are the deliverables that are expected to be fulfilled by the successful Consultant:
Inception report including:
- an updated timeline (considering any current additional COVID-19 safeguarding requirements)
- a detailed methodology including draft sampling methodology and size
- draft data collection tools
- ethical and safeguarding considerations and risk assessment
- consent forms for any primary data collection
- draft methods for data analysis and quality control
- brief justification of the methods and techniques envisaged (including relevant underlying values and assumptions/ theories) with a justification of the selection made.
Final data collection tools
- Final sampling methodology (including unit of sampling and sampling frame) and size
Draft assessment report, including cleaned data files (e.g., Excel, SPSS), transcripts of qualitative data syntax/ code books etc. and completed consent forms (including for children and their caregivers and adults
Final assessment report including Executive Summary
Further information with regards this Consultancy can be found in this link:
Location: Nigeria
Job date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:30:05 GMT
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