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Consultancy Opportunity: Baseline Study – SCALE Project (2025–2030)

Tender Ref Number: WUSC-SSD-002-2025

Call for Proposal for a BASELINE STUDY

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) – South Sudan Office is inviting qualified consultants or firms to submit proposals for a Baseline Study for the five-year project Strengthening Collaborative Action and Learning for Education (SCALE) funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

1. Over View

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a Canadian non-profit organization working to create a better world for all young people. We bring together a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses who share this vision. Together, we develop solutions in education, economic opportunities, and empowerment to overcome inequality and exclusion for youth around the world, particularly young women and young refugees. WUSC currently works in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $40 million. We have over 90 staff in our Ottawa office and over 200 people overseas implementing 16 development projects in collaboration with donors, including Global Affairs Canada; the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO); the MasterCard Foundation; World Bank; the Asian Development Bank; and the African Development Bank.

WUSC in South Sudan is implementing the Strengthening Collaborative Action and Learning for Education (SCALE) which is a five-year project (2025-2030) funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). SCALE’s ultimate goal is to enhance the empowerment of adolescent girls and female youth (AGFY) pursuing educational pathways in selected border zones of South Sudan with high numbers of spontaneous returnees. The project aims to achieve its goal through the following intermediate outcome: 1) Reduced barriers to ongoing equitable access to and retention in safe, quality and gender-transformative learning opportunities for AGFY and other vulnerable groups. 2) Improved provision of life skills and safe, quality, gender-transformative learning opportunities for AGFY and other vulnerable groups.

2. Background of Project

SCALE is a 5-year initiative designed to enhance the empowerment of adolescent girls and female youth pursuing educational pathways in selected border zones of South Sudan with high numbers of spontaneous returnees (Ultimate Outcome). SCALE will be implemented in Yei River, Kajo Keji and Magwi counties, supporting key actors in the education ecosystem to test, adapt, expand, and sustain innovative models and practical approaches that reduce barriers to equitable access to and improve the provision of safe, quality, and gender-transformative learning opportunities for girls and other vulnerable groups (Intermediate Outcomes).

SCALE is designed to strengthen the underlying systems that influence girls’ education and empowerment and targets leverage points where the project can support, collaborate with, and influence key actors within the education ecosystem to drive systemic and sustainable gender-transformative change. This will include working with local organizations; Women for Change (WFC) and Yei Teacher Training College (YTTC), and engaging a number of Community Based Organization (CBOs), local community and women’s groups including School management committees/Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) that can influence girls’ education and empowerment in the targeted regions. Close collaboration with the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI), UNHCR, and other education initiatives will be critical to maximize context relevance, coordination, impact, and knowledge sharing. Design principles that support WUSC’s system strengthening approach include localization; capacity strengthening; innovation; a strong learning agenda; support for collective, collaborative, and complementary action; and focused implementation in geographies where solutions can also be tested for their broader relevance and impact.