Dear moderator,Re send for publishingThanksProcurement———- Forwarded message ———-From: Save the Children <[email protected]>Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:19 AMSubject: RFP for A review of community-based practices and the role of social protection in addressing risks for children and their families in context of disaster and humanitarian action In Cianjur DistrictTo: [email protected]

A.     
BACKGROUND

 

Save the Children
(SC) is a leading, private child-focused non-governmental alliance of 30 member
organizations that works in 120 countries throughout the world. Yayasan Sayangi

Tunas Cilik (YSTC-known as “Save the Children”) is a child rights organization
working to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to
achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Since 2005 we work with
the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) to support a paradigm shifting
of child protection and care system from the use of residential care as primary
response mechanism towards direct child and family centered services. 

 

Background Situation of Integration Child and Family Resilience with Social
Protection through community based mechanism in every Humanitarian Action  

 

Indonesia is well-known
as prone to disasters that pose threats to human lives and livelihoods. Social
protection has been introduced in some disaster prone area to reduce the
vulnerability of the people. Social protection and disaster risk reduction have
overlapping targets, among others, to reduce the risks faced by vulnerable
group (especially children), to tackle the impact of disaster, and seek to
build resilience against future shocks and stresses on livelihoods. While both
social protection and disaster risk reduction are commonly designed for short
term program, they have potentials to sustain long term child and family
resilience.

 

 

In the context of Families First program, the readiness of children and
their families having protective experiences and coping skills to face a
situation of risk will help managing significant adversity, shocks and stresses
and develop positive outcomes despite such environment. The single most common
factor for children who develop resilience is at least one stable and committed
relationship with a supportive parent, caregiver, or other adult. These
relationships provide the personalized responsiveness, scaffolding, and
protection that buffer children from developmental disruption. In this sense,
the quality of care for children is the key component to be considered.

 

On the other hand, one potential starting point for strengthening child
protection and care systems in emergency contexts is to support community-based
mechanisms, which are critical components of the national system. They allow
for immediate action at grassroots level following an emergency. Mobilization
of and support for a network of community mechanisms also have potential for
significant coverage at scale and may promote long-term sustainability of child
protection and care action beyond emergency recovery. Community mechanisms are
also key local ways of supporting social transformation, such as changing
social norms, beliefs, attitudes and practices in favor of child protection and
care. In resource-poor settings and places where the government is unable to
fulfill its duties, community mechanisms may support and supplement government
capacity. Emerging understanding from these contexts leads to a number of
important areas of learning, and found that a community mechanisms are a core
component of national child protection and care systems and important for the
functioning of the system and also draw support from the wider system. Cianjur is also known
as the district with high potential of natural disaster in West Java and can be
one of the pilot prevention area to support a comprehensive risk-sensitive
child protection model

 

 

B.     
OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSESSMENT

 

This assessment seeks to answer and collect the qualitative data based on the
following questions:

 

1.       What are existing risks for children and their families in the target
area and what coping strategies are used for strengthening child and family
resilience to face emergency situation?

2.       What are the social protection mechanisms and policies that are currently
accessible for the target groups, what are the gaps identified for such SP to
incorporate protection against disaster risks and what prerequisite conditions would
be needed to extent the role of social protection in achieving sustainable
child and family resilience?

3.      
What existing
mechanisms and practices at community level can contribute to
strengthen community based disaster risk reduction while building the ownership and engagement of all parties
(including by children, families, communities and government) at all levels.

 

 

C.     
PROCESS

 

The Assessment will focus on Cianjur District area.  The process will include secondary and
primary data collection, and assess a variety of issues related to integration
child and family resilience through community based at national, provincial as
well as district level. The following are some of the steps in this process,
although we welcome interested applicants to provide a more detailed approach
in the proposals. 

 

 

1.       Write the assessment document

 

The product of this assessment will be
a final report document and power point presentation in English and Indonesian.  YSTC will work together with the firm on the
structure and content of this document, but we anticipate that the assessment
report will contain the following:

a.       Executive summary

b.       Background

c.       Objective

d.       Methodology

e.       Description of findings
and analysis

f.       
Recommendations

g.       Conclusions

h.       References

 

 

D.     
DATA REQUIRED

 

The firm will consult
with YSTC to approve data collection plans, but the following is the minimum
amount of data that we anticipate the firm will collect in order to complete
the Assessment.  In addition, prior to
beginning data collection, the firm will become familiar with SC programs and
strategies.

 

Primary data:

1.      
Structured interviews with local government
stakeholder 

2.      
Structured interviews with civil society actors,

3.      
Focus group discussion with community leaders,

4.      
Direct discussions (likely focus group discussions) with children and
parents.

 

Secondary data:

1.      
Collect national, provincial, district, and lower
level data on key indicators including: map areas with high levels of resilience; policy, programs,
infrastructures and other resources on.

2.      
Other relevant information from studies that explore these and other
related issues.

 

This
information should come from accurate and updated sources including government
statistics and research conducted by the UN, universities, research institutes,
and international and local NGOs.

 

 

E.      
RESEARCH DESIGN

 

The firm will include in their proposals an
illustrative research design that will be further discussed and approved by
SYTC after the contractual process.  As
mentioned, we anticipate that the firm will use secondary research methods,
focus group discussions, structured interviews, and observation.   

 

                                                                                                                                       

F.      
ACTIVITY AND TIMELINE

 

  The following is an
illustrative timeframe with major milestones. 

 

No	Activity	Due
1	Firm shares final research methodology including data collection instruments for YSTC approval	August  15
2	Data collection and verification completed	September 10
3	Data Processing and 1st draft report submitted to SC	September 25
4	SC feedback	October 8
5	Submit  the final report and power point presentation	October 15
6	Conduct presentation of final results	By October 20

 

 

G.     
DELIVERABLES

 

The firm will
deliver the following:

1.      
A
final report in both English and Indonesian.

2.      
A
comprehensive power point presentation that highlights the Assessment process
in both English and Indonesian.

3.      
Soft
copies of all raw data including contacts, secondary documentation,
photographs, and notes from field work.

4.      
A
final presentation to YSTC.

 

The
final report and presentation will be property of SC and must be delivered in
final format by October 20, 2016.

 

 

H.     
STRUCTURE
OF PROPOSAL

 

Interested
firm(s) should submit a proposal expressing their interest that includes the
following information for both locations of this study:

1.      
A
detailed description of the research plan

2.      
An
illustrative detailed implementation plan

3.      
A
capacity statement including a list of previous similar studies

4.      
CV’s
of at least one principal investigator- providing CV’s of all members of the
research team is recommended.

5.      
A
summary budget inclusive of all costs related to carrying out this consultancy

6.      
A
list of at least three professional references. 

 

 

 

 

I.       
SUBMISSION OF
PROPOSAL

 

Consulting firm must
submit their proposal in a sealed envelope by August 5 before     17.00 Jakarta time, to below address:

 

Yayasan Sayangi Tunas
Cilik partner of Save the Children

Attn. Procurement
Committee

Jl. Pedurenan 2A

Kel. Cilandak Timur

Kec. Pasar Minggu

Jakarta Selatan 12550

Phone: 021-7824415

 

Or  email to: [email protected]
  by 5 August 2016 before 5 pm with a Subject: Risk
Analysis_Families First – <your company name>. Please do not send before this date.