MENA AI JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Save the Children is inviting proposals from consultancy firms or consortia for a long-term Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) assignment. This consultancy, spanning from December 2025 to November 2030/2031, supports the multi-country BRACE project, focused on strengthening climate resilience in education systems. The primary locations for this work are Cambodia, South Sudan, and Tonga.

Key responsibilities involve conducting a series of assessments and evaluations, including a baseline assessment, an interim process and outcomes evaluation, a final outcomes evaluation, and an impact evaluation. Additionally, the firm will develop a comprehensive MEAL Framework to harmonize data collection and reporting across all three countries. Tasks include developing methodologies, training enumerators, collecting data in local languages, and ensuring ethical compliance. Remuneration will be based on the submitted financial proposal, and interested tenderers must submit their technical and financial proposals by December 12, 2025.

Original Job Description

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Job Title: BRACE Invitation to Tender

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· Long term consultancy assignment
· Commencing December 2025 concluding November 2030
· Cambodia, South Sudan, Tonga

About the project:
BRACE is a six-year, multi-country initiative financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by Save the Children in partnership with national education authorities and local stakeholders. The project will run from November 2025 to November 2030 and is designed to strengthen the resilience of education systems and communities to climate change impacts.

The BRACE project targets over 608,000 direct beneficiaries (students, teachers, school administrators, and community members) and an estimated 8.6 million indirect beneficiaries across Cambodia, South Sudan, and Tonga. These countries were selected due to their high vulnerability to climate-related hazards, such as floods, droughts, and cyclones, which disr upt education continuity and compromise child safety.

A place to make a difference:
Save the Children is seeking a consultancy firm or consortium to carry out a series of assessments and evaluations over the course of the five-year project, including:
· A baseline assessment in Year 1 (January 2026 – May 2026),
· An interim process and outcomes evaluation in Year 2.5 (2028),
· A final outcomes evaluation in Year 5 (2030-2031), and
· An impact evaluation in Cambodia (mandatory) and an optional, budget-dependent IE in South Sudan, also in Year 5 (2030-2031)

The consultancy firm/consortium will also be expected to develop a MEAL Framework aligned to the evaluation package, which will help operationalise the BRACE logical framework and the GCF Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF), harmonising MEAL efforts across Cambodia, South Sudan, and Tonga.

Objectives
The main objective s of this consultancy are described under five components:

Baseline (Year 1)
MEAL Framework (Year 1)
Interim Process and Early Outcomes Evaluation (Year 3)
Final Outcomes Evaluation (Year 5)
Impact Evaluation (IE)

The consultancy covers all three BRACE countries and all project components. The IE may be focused on one, two, or all three components. Activities include:

Development of harmonised assessment/evaluation methods across countries.
Recruitment and training of enumerators through local research/data-collection providers, consistent with Save the Children’s Localisation Policy.
Data collection in local languages, with analysis and reporting in English and country-requested local-language summaries.
Compliance with Save the Children’s safeguarding, ethics, and data protection standards (including disability disaggregation using Washington Group question sets where applicable).
Report writing, validation of findings, and dissemination with project partners.
Delivery of clean datasets, codebooks, and analysis scripts for reproducibility.

For detailed information, including the project background and relevant outcomes, consultancy scope, methodological guidance, reporting and governance structure, key deliverables and timeframes, the full Terms of Reference (ToR) are available here, as well as the Request for Tender Invitation.

This consultancy requires: Interested tenderers are required to review the ToR carefully and submit a comprehensive technical and financial proposal as outlined in Section 10 of the ToR that clearly demonstrates their understanding of the assignment, proposed methodologies, work plan, and relevant experience in line with the requirements outlined in the ToR. The technical proposal sh ould address all core requirements and specifications and provide evidence of the tenderer’s capacity to deliver the expected outcomes as described in the annexed ToR. The financial proposal should include all necessary costs to deliver the outcomes.

Additional Instructions for Tenderers:
· The technical and financial proposals must be structured as noted in Section 10 of the ToR.
· Tenderers are required to demonstrate compliance with all ethical, safeguarding, and data protection requirements as outlined in the ToR.
· Proposals should be concise, well-organized, and free of unnecessary promotional material.
· All supporting documents (CVs, sample reports, references, etc.) must be included as annexes to the technical proposal.

Applications must be received no later than 12th December 2025 and should be sent to [email protected]**.**

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All consultants are required to undergo an International / National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.