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The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV. AKF seeks to provide long-term solutions to problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill health in the poorest parts of South and Central Asia, Eastern and Western Africa, and the Middle East...
Objectives of the Annual Outcome study
The objectives of the annual outcome study include:
- To assess annual progress against the project's outcome-level indicators under the Foundations for Learning (F4L) component of the Foundations for Education and Empowerment (F4EE) project that are included in the scope of the assessment (see Annex 2).
- To identify successes and challenges, informing data-driven decisions on project adaptations.
- The Annual Outcome Assessment Plan will not only serve as a tool for internal reflection and improvement but will also play a vital role in fulfilling our reporting obligations to Global Affairs Canada at the end of the project year. This assessment will be the key means of collecting data to demonstrate project progress to GAC and internally during the current project year.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant (individual consultants/firms) will be responsible for data analysis and reporting. See the specific tasks below:
- Review and clean the data to ensure it is ready for analysis and interpretation.
- Review indicator analysis plans and tentative dummy tables (see Annexes 2 and 3) and share any questions or comments.
- Share preliminary findings with AKF for feedback in the form of populated dummy tables, adding additional summary statistics or other metrics where relevant.
- Develop an annual outcome study report plus annexes (see Annex 1).
- Circulate the draft report to AKF for feedback and ensure that the feedback is adequately included in the revised report.
- Create (country-specific) PowerPoint materials for validation workshops to present key findings against outcome indicators to key AKDN staff for final feedback and validation: 1) Kenya, 2) Tanzania, and 3) Uganda.
- Produce a final report.
Deliverables and target timelines
The main deliverables for this project are as follows:
- Preliminary findings, including populated dummy tables and any other required metrics (excluding Kenya primary school data) – February 2, 2023
- Country-specific PowerPoint presentations for validation workshops (Uganda and Tanzania/Zanzibar) – February 16, 2023
- Draft report plus annexes (including Kenya primary school data) – March 8, 2023
- Country-specific PowerPoint presentation for validation workshop (Kenya) – March 11, 2023
- Final Annual Outcome Study report plus annexes (including Kenya primary school data) – April 5, 2023
Report requirements: All reports should be submitted in electronic form and should be submitted in English.
Detailed work plan: Bidders are required to provide a detailed work plan incorporating all relevant tasks and milestones from start to finish of the assignment.
Ethical Standards and Safeguarding
- The consultant must observe high ethical standards during this assignment. This includes protection of participants from potential research-related harms while observing confidentiality, data protection and safeguarding principles. The consultant must conscientiously abide by AKF’s Safeguarding Manual, and all members of the Consultant team must sign AKF’s Safeguarding Statement of Commitment upon contracting.
Qualifications Required
The proposed consultant (individual consultants/firms) must demonstrate the following technical expertise and practical experience required to deliver the scope of the work:
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as education, ECD or gender studies.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in management, analysis and reporting using quantitative data, preferably for international non-profit organizations or multilateral agencies.
- Specialization in pre-primary and primary education and gender equality issues.
- Demonstrated experience in cleaning and analyzing datasets for research purposes.
- Demonstrated experience in quantitative data analysis and statistics, including using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc)
Expert capacity in technical written and verbal English for international development projects
Evaluation Criteria
- Proposals will be evaluated based on the following set of criteria:
- CRITERIA MAXIMUM SCORE
Technical Component
- Demonstrated experience in conducting similar studies assignments 30
- Education and technical experience of team 15
- Proposed methodology and approach 35
Total Technical Component 80
Financial Component
- Realistic and appropriate costs for proposed work 10
- All relevant costs included to carry out proposed work 10
Total Financial Component 20
- Total Financial and Technical Marks 100
Application Package
Consultants (individual consultants/firms) meeting the above criteria are invited to submit the following application package:
- Letter of interest, including the names and contact information of two previous clients who can be contacted regarding relevant experience. Consultants are also expected to disclose any conflict of interest related to this mandate with AKF.
- Detailed technical proposal of not more than 8 pages clearly demonstrating a thorough understanding of this request for proposals and including the following:
- Description of proposed approach, including data cleaning, management, analysis, and reporting, factoring in gender equality and ethical standards
- Demonstrated previous experience in quantitative data analysis and reporting and other qualifications outlined in this TOR
- A proposed timeframe detailing activities and a schedule/work plan (including a Gantt chart)
- Team composition and level of effort of each proposed team member
- A financial proposal with a detailed breakdown of costs for the study (taking into account an additional 5% VAT for bidders based in Kenya and 20% VAT for bidders not based in Kenya)
- Itemized consultancy fees/costs
- Itemized administrative expenses
- Validity period of quotations
- Expected payment plan and method
- CVs of all proposed team members outlining relevant experience (annexed to technical proposal)
- A copy of a previous report containing similar work undertaken on: a) baseline study; b) endline study; OR c) other relevant outcome-level study or assessment
- Copy of legal registration, certificate of incorporation and current year tax certificate (for registered firms)
- Consulting firm profile (if applicant is a firm)
Submissions must be received by AKF no later than 4th December 2023. E-mail these documents to akfkenya.procurement@akdn.org with ‘F4L Annual Outcome Study Application’ in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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