Consultancy- Development of Child Friendly Version of the COC 57 views0 applications

Terms of Reference for the development of child friendly School code of conduct materials.

Save the Children International (SCI), South Sudan

Title

Consultant for the development of Child Friendly Version of the School Code of Conduct

Purpose

To develop a Child Friendly Version of the School Code of Conduct for use by teachers and Children

Location

Remote

Duration

25 days

Start Date

1 September, 2018

Recruiting Manager

Lizzie Rushwaya

1 Background

• The Humanitarian Needs Overview 2017 estimates that 1.7 million children have lost access to education due to conflict and displacement. Current Primary Net Enrolment rate is 42.5% and available data from the Education Cluster in 2016 showed a decrease of 10% of the number of students enrolled at the start of 2016 compared to the start of 2013. Only 31% enrolled at the start of the year were girls and in Greater Upper Nile, the ratio of girls to boys is 6:10. Within the refugee community, approximately 40% of school-aged children are not attending primary, ALP or secondary school. In Maban the recurrent conflict has resulted from constraints to humanitarian access, increased militarisation of children and eroded socio-economic opportunities that have seriously undermined refugee and host community populations’ access to basic services, livelihoods opportunities, and capacity of NGO’s and CSO’s to provide a protective environment for children.
• Save the Children International (SCI) is a charitable child rights organisation working to secure a world where the rights of all children are recognised and respected. SC has had a working association with South Sudan since its creation as a new state.
• SCI has made a substantial contribution to raising the quality of education in South Sudan including refugee education in Maban. Based on this experience expertise and working with state authorities, SCI is undertaking to a Child Friendly illustrated version of the school code of conduct under the DANIDA funded project in Maban.
• The DANIDA framework project titled “Save the Children Denmark Danida Lot HUM South Sudan Country Programme 2018-21” is implemented with the overall objective of improving access to quality basic education in safe learning environments and are protected through effective prevention and response mechanisms among the conflict affected children in Maban and Jonglei. The project strengthens school-community structures, school leadership and local education system ensuring provision of inclusive quality basic education to boys and girls. This is ultimately improving enrolment and attendance of conflict affected girls and boys, particularly out-of-school girls and children with disabilities, in safe learning environments – schools, TLS and ALP centres and significant achievements are being met in improving learning outcomes, particularly in literacy skills of girls and boys in Jonglei and Maban.
• The DANIDA-funded project ‘is implemented in Maban and Akobo Counties. Although teachers have been trained in South Sudan’s National Professional Standards for Teachers, they have not had practical tools and skills needed to promote Positive Learning Environments. It is envisaged that the School Code of Conduct (SCOC) manual and training program recently published by Save the Children, will help to address this gap.
• The SCoC manual has been finalised and all SCI Maban education staff have been trained and are ready to roll out the training to the teachers, Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs), Student Councils and Child Rights Clubs (CRC) whilst for Akobo, the training is conducted by the Assitant Education Manager and the Education Officers. The ScoC is meant for all teachers. In order to be effective and positively influence the school culture, the principles of the SCoC must be something that all stakeholders in the school and community are familiar with. The Child Friendly version of the SCoC will be a visual tool that could be placed in classrooms and circulated in communities to help explain not only the roles but also the responsiiblities of school managment, teachers and students in seeing to it that schools are safe and protective specaes for learning. The tool will initially be used in project-supported schools in Maban but will be circulated more broadly and can be used as a template for other SCI countries to support the contextualization and roll-out of the SCoC .
• SCI is seeking the services of an experienced consultant to develop the Child friendly version of the School Code of Conduct to that can be translated into the local languages as agreed with the local authorities.

  1 Purpose of the assignment

The overall objective of the consultancy is to adapt and design an illustrated child-friendly School Code of Conduct with input from SCI staff, students, teachers and community members making reference to the existing South Sudan Teacher Code of Conduct and the newly developed SCoC manual and ensure the illustrated version clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of a teacher, school management and the student body in ensuring a safe and protective learning environment.

1 Scope of the assignment

• The consultant will be responsible for co-ordinating the development of illustrated version of the SCoC, for providing technical assistance as necessary and for editing the resultant product into a cohesive, progressive document. It is envisaged that, in order to achieve integration of relevant issues, the consultant will work key resource persons from SCI and education stakeholders.
• Adapt and design an illustrated child-friendly School Code of Conduct with input from SCI staff, students, teachers and community members referring to the existing South Sudan Teacher Code of Conduct and the newly developed SCoC manual.
• Ensure the illustrated version clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of a teacher, school management and the student body in ensuring a safe and protective learning environment
• The tasks to be undertaken by the consultant are as follows:
• SCI will form a review committee comprised of children representatives and education key stakeholders (trained in SCoC)
• SCI and the consultant will agree on relevant documents and manuals to review and use for the development of the Child Friendly SCoC
• SCI will share the relevant manuals and documents with the consultant
• Carryout a desk review and to build an understanding of the assigment. This should include a review of the relevant local materials including Save the Children published ScoC Mannual.
• The consultant will develop the first draft and share with SCI for feedback
• The review committee will review the material and provide feedback
• The consultant will share the first draft for testing
• The first draft will be tested in select schools and further feedback provided to the consultant
• The reviewed document will be shared with the materials review committee and tested for the last time
• The consultant submits the final draft

  1 Development Methodology

• The consultant will work closely with the material development committee chaired by the Ministry of Education
• The approach should be strongly participatory involving all stakeholders. Children will participate in all stages of the process.
• The methodology undertaken during the validation should be highly participatory and to include group discussions and plenary sessions on all issues identified and discussed

1 Deliverables

• A guide and accompanying illustrations/posters.
• The consultant is responsible for undertaking the tasks outlined above and submit the deliverables as per the agreed timeline.
• Timeframe
• The overall task of designing and developing the Child Friendly SCoC is expected to take 25 days. The start date of the consultancy work is 1 September 2018.

The development process will follow the scope outlined in Section II above with the consultant sharing the methodology they will use in developing the materials prior to beginning work

1 Expected Background and Experience 2 Education: University Degree or equivalent in education, social sciences, international development. 3 Demonstrated work experience designing, and producing child friendly materials and guidance in humanitarian or development settings 4 Demonstrated work experience in educational programming in humanitarian or development setting 5 Experience working in refugee settings and understanding of refugee education issues will be an asset. 6 Management and Technical Guidance

The consultant will work under the overall supervision of the SCI Education Programme Manager with technical guidance from the Education Technical Specialist (ETS). The Programme Manager will be the direct contact person for the consultant and responsible for day-to-day supervision and link to any organizational support necessary with required support from Education Technical Specialist. Key staff from SCI including the Education Technical Specialist, Assistant Education Programme Manager and Head Teacher Trainer will be responsible for reviewing and approving the content together with the members of the materials review committee

Responsibilities of Save the Children in facilitating this analysis are the following:

• Provide access to all necessary documents and manuals
• Provide access to any other relevant information
• Coordinate the materials testing, reviews and approval of the Child Friendly SCoC.

  1 Terms and conditions

• Professional fee: Though applicants are expected to provide a budget for the exercise, Save the Children will consider proposals that are within the approved rates as per its policy on professional fees.
• Tax and insurance: The consultant shall be responsible for his/her income tax and/or insurance during the assignment
• Code of conduct: Because SCI’s work is based on deeply held values and principles, it is essential that our commitment to children’s rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff. Save the Children’s Code of Conduct sets out the standards, which all staff members must adhere to. The consultant is bound by the principles and conditions of Save the Children International’s Code of Conducts, Child Safeguarding policy, ethical standards and participation practice standards.
• A contract will be signed by the consultant upon commencement of the assignment, which will detail additional terms and conditions of service, aspects on inputs and deliverables.

  1 How to apply

Interested and eligible applicants are invited to send an expression of interest that should include:

• Cover letter (1 page max.) outlining experience of the consultant in conducting similar assignments
• Brief technical proposal (1 page max.) outlining interpretation of the Terms of Reference and the suggested methodology, including a timeline for implementation.
• Summary financial proposal (1/2 page max.)
• Curriculum Vitae of the staff proposed to be involved in developing the process