Terms of Reference for Conducting Mass awareness campaign on rights of Children living with disabilities identification and assessment of CWDs in Bena

Background

CARE Somalia in partnership with Mercy corps, and two National partners Daryeel Bulsho Guud (DBG) and Gargar Relief and Development Organization (GREDO) are implementing Consortium based education in Emergency project funded by the Education Cannot Wait – First Emergency Respond (ECW -FER). The project seeks to improve immediate education access for the children from the vulnerable IDP families recently displaced by the prolong 2021/22 drought and renewed conflicts in South Somalia. The overall goal of the project is to expand access to safe & quality education through reduction of both supply and demand-based education barriers to increase (re)enrolment for out of school children and minimize dropouts’ rates for the drought and conflict affected children. The action aims to achieve the following two outcomes.

Outcome 1: Expanded access to safe education through reduction of barriers for (re)enrolment of drought and displacement affected children to formal and non-formal education.

Outcome 2: Protected, quality learning is ensured for children affected by drought and displacement, including integrated education – child protection programming.

The response will cover both formal and non-formal learning centres in the project target areas and will prioritizes children who are out of school or recently dropped out of school and displaced by the ongoing crisis. As a secondary target, the project will also support host community learning centers that support the integrated enrollment of both vulnerable IDPs and host community children as well as children who are at risk of dropping out of school from both these groups in line with the do no harm principle. The action will integrate critical EiE pillars and HRP/DRP priorities, including the centrality of protection, inclusion of CVA, gender mainstreaming, enhancing safety and equity for beneficiaries and linking emergency relief to a resilience approach. Special attention is also extended to children with disabilities to ensure they benefit from the response through the adoption of Inclusive education programming approach.

The project seeks to target a total of 43,000 (31,000 direct and 12,000 intermediate beneficiaries) out of school or at risks of dropping out children from newly displaced families (80%) and vulnerable host communities (20%) affected by droughts and recurring conflicts. Of these 60% will be girls and 40 % boys while 10% of the overall target (4,300) will be children living with disabilities.

In line with Somalia HRP 2022 requirements, the project adopted the integration of Inclusive Education approach to ensure school aged CLwDs that have Special Education Needs to equally benefit from the response along with the normal ones. This will be done through mainstreaming disability inclusion across all the two outcome areas as well as increase stakeholder awareness on disability inclusion on education programs.

The objective of the assignment

Considering the project’s approach to inclusive education, which aims to integrate children with Special Education Needs in mainstream schools, and the short turnaround on this, and the geographical inaccessibility to CARE’s technical team, the project intends to engage an external consultant with an expertise on Inclusive Education programming to lead and organize mass campaign awareness on rights of children with disabilities and to be followed by community mobilization and identification of OOSCwDs for enrolment. In addition, the consultant will also carry out a comprehensive technical assessment on disability prevalence types and levels of the enrolled CwDs, the assessment report will further inform the project to plan disability inclusive activities and strategies for supporting CwDs such as training of teachers on inclusive approaches, school infrastructure improvement and provision of assistive devices. The external specialist/consultant will be hired to supplement the work of the SNE coordinator for sixty (60) days to fast track these mapped activities and implement within the contracted time and ensure constant availability for technical support to the project consortium team. Consultant will technically liaise and work closely with CARE Somalia, Special Education Coordinator to ensure effective delivery of the assigned work in line with CARE Somalia’s and MoE framework for inclusive Education.

Scope of the assignment

The project intends to collect comprehensive profile and data of all the 4,500 children with disabilities identified and enrolled in ECW-FER target schools in Banaadir and Biadoa districts. The Specialist/consultant will be required to undertake the following assignment:

• Organize and conduct mass awareness campaigns on the rights of Children living with disabilities in 50 ECW-FER Schools (25 Banaadir, 25 Biadoa) in project target locations.
• Conduct technical assessment on prevalence and types of disabilities and identify children with disability in project target schools.
• Assess and recommend the type of assistive devices required by the identified and enrolled CwDs.
• Trained MoE staff on Washington group of set question to support on assessment and identification of children with disability exercises.

Expected Outputs of the assessment

1. Awareness raising campaign report.

• Designed campaign materials such posters.

1. Assessment report on disability

• The report should include details student profile on types of disability and assistive devices needs and specifications of assessed CwDs.

c) MoE staff training report on Washinton Group of set questions.

Duration of the Consultancy

The assignment will last for 60 days and will cover extremely vulnerable and conflict-affected areas of Banadir (Kaxda,Daynile),and South-West state (Baidoa)

Desirable qualifications of the Experts:

• Degree in Special Needs Education or Social Sciences; a master’s degree in special Needs Education is desirable and an added advantage.
• Proven experience in conducting assessments, evaluation studies and research targeting people with disabilities (some examples of most recent similar research/studies to be shared as a proof)
• Good understanding of gender and disability responsive education programming in public primary schools
• Excellent written and spoken English, proficiency in Somali language is desired.
• Demonstrated experience in managing development, relief and emergency programs or proven experience working/operating/conducting research. Studies in similar conflict prone/volatile contexts
• Familiarity with major donors funded projects including DFID/USAID/EU will be an added advantage.
• CARE PSEA policy, code of conduct and safeguarding measures to protect vulnerable children and vulnerable adults apply in all contracting service.

How to apply

Interested candidates should send in a detailed Technical and Financial Proposal to the email address [email protected] not late 20-11-2023