Statement of Work (SOW)

Evaluation, Learning, and Monitoring Initiative (ELMI)

Education Activities Closeout Event Preparation and Learning Day Lead Facilitator

Background:

Social Impact (SI) is a global development management consulting firm. We provide monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. Our mission is to help global development organizations and programs be more effective at improving people’s lives.

Social Impact is implementing the USAID/Somalia’s Evaluation, Learning, and Monitoring Initiative (ELMI) activity which provides support for monitoring, evaluation, and program related support services to USAID/Somalia (the Mission). The current USAID strategy for Somalia aims to build a durable foundation for a more stable, democratic, and prosperous Somalia in three primary technical areas: (1) democracy, stabilization, and governance; (2) social services; and (3) economic growth. USAID/Somalia is implementing approximately $60 million annually in activities across these three technical areas.

USAID’s Adolescent Girls Education in Somalia (AGES) and Bar Ama Baro (BAB) activities will be holding a closeout event to celebrate the achievements of program participants, reflect on milestones achieved, and reflect on programmatic and operational lessons learned. The event will take place on July 16-17 and will convene stakeholders including the government of Somalia, USAID, Department of State, development partners, implementing partners, UN agencies, program participants, and community members in Mogadishu. The two-day event includes one day focused on close out and celebrating the achievements realized under AGES and BAB, and a second day focused on learning from the AGES and BAB Activities.

Purpose and Objectives of the assignment

The purpose of the assignment is to support AGES and BAB to prepare for the close out event and facilitate a learning day event for AGES and BAB on July 16-17 in Mogadishu. More specifically, the assignment will (i) use activity documentation and ELMI products to identify key activity milestones achieved during the period of performance for both AGES, BAB, the Stabilization Through Education Program (STEP), and MoECHE achievements over the past 5 years approximately (ii) develop a visual timeline of these key milestones, (iii) coordinate across the three education activities’ implementing partners and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MoECHE) to ensure harmonization and balanced representation across the identified milestones, (iv) plan and facilitate a “learning day” to reflect on AGES and BAB activities, and (v) document reflections from government and IP stakeholders to inform future activity objectives.

Specific Tasks:

The consultant will undertake the following specific tasks:

1. Read activity reports for AGES, BAB and STEP, and ELMI products -data quality assessments (DQAs) and Monitoring, Verification and Reporting (MV&R) etc. for each of these activities as documented over the activities’ performance periods and identify key milestones achieved by the three activities during the period of performance. These milestones should be focused on telling the story of how USAID (and FCDO for AGES) investments have strengthened the education sector in Somalia, and not focus on delineating between BAB, AGES and STEP programming.
2. Coordinate between the three implementing partners (IPs) and MoECHE to ensure harmonization and balanced representation across the milestones that are identified. Discuss with MoECHE if Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and/or Education Cannot Wait (ECW) achievements should be included as the USG is one of the top donors to both.
3. In coordination with USAID Somalia’s Communications partner (MSI), develop a visual timeline to be highlighted in a “timeline walkthrough” during the closeout event.
4. Plan and facilitate a “learning day” event to reflect on BAB and AGES activities centered around three themes: (i) systems strengthening, (ii) transition pathways (to formal education/vocational training/livelihoods), and (iii) school safety and safeguarding (themes to be confirmed through consultations with USAID, IPs and MoECHE). 
5. Document reflections from government and IP stakeholders during the learning day event to inform future activity objectives. 

Deliverables:

The consultant will produce the following deliverables and submit them to the ELMI COP:

·       Identification of key activity milestones to inform development of a visual timeline of milestones. 

·       Learning day plan centered on three themes: systems strengthening, transition pathways, and school safety and safeguarding. 

Period of Performance:

The anticipated period of performance is on or about June 24 to July 31, 2024.

Qualifications

·       Advanced university degree in humanities and social sciences.

 At least 5 years’ experience in research within the Somalia context or any similar context.

·       Demonstrated experience in planning large learning events.

·       Demonstrated experience in facilitation of learning events for large groups (e.g. 200 participants). 

·       Fluency in Somali and English languages.

·       Strong communication, organization, and coordination skills (including ability to work across multiple implementing partners).

·       Knowledge and experience of Somalia context and USAID education portfolio will be an added advantage.

 

Level of Effort:

The level of effort for this assignment is approximately 15 days as follows:

Task	Estimated LOE
Identification of key activity milestones	3 days
Development of visual timeline of education activities’ milestones and knowledge products	4 days
Planning for learning day event	4 days
Coordination and Co-facilitation of closeout event and learning day	2 days
Preparation of event report	2 days
Total	15 days

 

Only actual days worked should be billed.

Reporting: The Consultant will report to ELMI Chief of Party or his/her designated official.

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