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- Country: Ethiopia
- Summary: Gavi 5.0 Programme Evaluation (Tanzania and Ethiopia)
- ETT Ref No: 76989518
- Deadline: 16 Jan 2023
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Other Funding Agencies
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
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- Request for proposals are invited for Gavi 5.0 Programme Evaluation (Tanzania and Ethiopia). Closing Date: 16 Jan 2023 Type: Consultancy Themes: Education/Gender/Health Request for Proposal Gavi 5.0 Programme Evaluation (Tanzania and Ethiopia) December 2022 Request for proposals for a full-service research agency to design, run and deliver a quantitative evaluation for Girl Effect-s Gavi 5.0 programme. Who We Are Girl Effect (GE) works to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty for girls. We believe that if we stop viewing girls as part of the problem and see them as participants in new solutions, they can rewrite their future and their children-s - creating a better reality for all. However, social norms hold girls back. Even when the services they need are available, individual and societal barriers prevent girls from accessing them - these ‘invisible barriers effectively confine them.- We want to reframe how girls are valued by changing how girls and the people around them think, feel, and act. We do this by helping connect girls to the critical assets they need by harnessing the power of mass culture media brands to reframe the value of girls. Everything we do is driven by girls and accelerated by technology to deliver the biggest impact. Working with our partners, we reach millions of girls in more than 60 countries through the daily technology girls use. At Girl Effect, we empower girls to navigate the pivotal time of adolescence, so they are enabled to make choices about their health, education, and economic future - no matter where in the world they live. We use our in-depth understanding of the real needs of girls, along with innovative behaviour change science, to create branded media girls love; virtual and real-world spaces where they can be inspired, informed, and connected to services and others---ultimately, so they can take action to change their lives. Background Summary of the partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance GE first partnered with Gavi between 2016 and 2021 on routine childhood immunization and HPV vaccine demand generation. The successful collaboration continues with a new phase starting in 2022 and will run until 2025. The four-year programme will run in Tanzania and Ethiopia with the following objectives: Identify and action the key barriers and enablers to immunisation to contribute to an Increased uptake of HPV vaccine for eligible girls and Routine Immunisation (RI) in target populations in priority areas; Strengthen the capacity of the Ministries of Health in the use of tailored digital and mass communications to generate demand for vaccines; Contribute to the global knowledge of barriers to vaccination and solutions for reaching missed communities. HPV Vaccines Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines prevent infection by certain types of human papillomavirus. Available HPV vaccines protect against either two, four, or nine types of HPV. All HPV vaccines protect against at least HPV types 16 and 18, which cause the most significant risk of cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine is recognized as an essential prevention strategy, with the WHO recommending HPV vaccines to be included in routine national immunization programs as a public health priority (Perlman et al., 2014). HPV vaccines are most efficacious in females who have not been exposed to vaccine-related HPV types (WHO, 2012). Consequently, the primary target population will likely be girls between 9 and 10 years to 13 years. This cohort is selected based on the age of initiation of sexual activity and the feasibility of reaching young adolescent girls through schools, healthcare facilities, or community-based settings (WHO, 2012). Routine Childhood Immunisation Routine childhood immunization (RI) is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and has been estimated to avert approximately 2 to 3 million deaths annually. Yet, vaccination rates in many African countries remain low. A child is considered fully immunized if they receive a BCG vaccine against tuberculosis, three doses of DPT to prevent diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, at least three doses of the polio vaccine, and one dose of the measles vaccine. The Scope Girl Effect is looking to commission a research agency (or two agencies, one in Ethiopia and one in Tanzania) with experience in girl-centred quantitative research, to run an evaluation of their 4-year programme. The evaluation should deliver against the evaluation objectives below. The successful agency will be able to provide local expertise and apply their experience to design, run and report on the impact of Girl Effect-s 4-year programme for Gavi. An important part of the programme is also to ensure we are reaching and impacting the lives of those hardest to reach, including those in zero dose locations, including out of school girls as well as school girls and mothers giving birth at home as well as in health centres, so these must also be included in evaluation sample. Evaluation objectives To measure Girl Effect-s programme impact on the key barriers and enablers to immunisation, To measure Girl Effect-s programme impact on the uptake of HPV vaccine for eligible girls. To measure Girl Effect-s programme impact on the uptake of Routine Immunisation (RI) in target populations in priority areas; To identify insights contributing to the global knowledge of barriers to vaccination and solutions for reaching missed communities. Tasks The successful agency will be responsible for the following: Design: Design the evaluation to meet Girl Effect-s requirements. We anticipate this is likely to be baseline, midline, and endline cross-sectional study but are open to other recommendations that deliver on objectives. Including working with the Girl Effect programmes team to identify the required locations for evaluation Agreeing on the final design with Girl Effect-s evidence and insight team Design sample specification to be representative of target audiences and to include zero dose locations and individuals Achieve required ethical approvals and obtain approval district level public entities Translate (and back translate) and contextualising the data collection tools into local languages Setup Recruit a suitable team of quantitative researchers and field enumerators Recruit a suitable team of female quantitative researchers and field enumerators for gender-matched interviews with young women and girls Facilitate training for all researchers, including a pre-testing exercise under real-field conditions Complete survey testing and scripting A post-pilot debrief and working sessions to refine and adapt the data collection following the pre-testing Sample and recruit communities and participants according to the provided purposive sampling criteria Obtain informed consent from all participants as well as consent from parents/caregivers of participants and assent from minors Conduct quantitative data collection in the selected districts, following strict quality assurance procedures and ensuring high data management standards. All field worker management, logistics etc, shall be the agency's responsibility. Fieldwork Capture and store all survey data using digital devices. Compile and submit field summaries with a breakdown per locality on agreed-upon frequency Ensure all work is conducted according to the Girl Effect Girl Safeguarding Policy and an agreed safeguarding agreement Analysis and reporting Provision of raw and clean data sets Conduct analysis Deliver draft reports for Girl Effect-s feedback and input Deliver final reports for Girl Effect and Gavi, along with video-call debrief Additional, the final report delivered to ethical approval boards as required The agency will coordinate closely with Girl Effect to deliver work that delivers on all Girl Effect ad Gavi reporting requirements. The Girl Effect Teams will conduct quality assurance during the fieldwork implementation. And review and agree on all major stages of the design and delivery. Deliverables Evaluation Design (with GE-s support and input) Participant sampling Survey tool Consent and Assent forms Translations of survey tools into relevant languages and formats Risk assessment Ethical approval certificates Training plan Raw data files for each stage (baseline, midline, endline) Clean data files for each stage (baseline, midline, endline) Data tables as per GE specification, including sig testing for each stage (baseline, midline, endline) Baseline report Midline report Endline report Ethical approvals final report Procurement Timeframe Terms of reference published: Dec 23, 2022 Deadline for Questions/Clarifications Jan 9, 2023 Deadline for responses: Jan 13, 2023 Supplier selection, contracting, and briefing: End of January 2022 Project commencement: February 2023 Questions/Clarifications If you have questions about this RFP, please email alice.alden@girleffect.org copying suppliers@girleffect.org by Monday, 9th January 2023. All questions will be answered and shared through an FAQ on our website. Location The consultant will be remote and must be conducive to working with teams in the UK, USA, Sub-Saharan Africa & India. Reporting The agency will have a primary point of contact in our Global Evidence and Insights Senior Manager but will work closely with the local managers and senior managers, especially for tool translation and fieldwork components. Project Timelines: Agency procurement completed - End Jan 2023 Ethical approval submitted - March 2023 Ethical approval achieved - End April 2023 Baseline fieldwork - June 2023 Baseline reporting - August 2023 Midline fieldwork - April 2024 Midline reporting - June 2024 Endline fieldwork - March 2026 All final reporting - July 2026 Who You Are Skills and expertise: Extensive experience in de
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Purchaser : GIRL EFFECT
Addis Ababa
Email :alice.alden@girleffect.org/suppliers@girleffect.org
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