Save the Children is the world leading independent organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children UK has been supporting Child Rights Governance Works, specifically ICT based social accountability or breakthrough project since 2016. Save the Children is implementing the project with RATSON: Women, Youth and Children Development Program, one of its partners, in Ada’a district of Oromia region.
The ICT Based Social Accountability Breakthrough Project aims to pilot and test an innovative ICT based accountability system in order to improve quality early childhood and basic primary education for children. The project is implemented with active participation of children, parents, educators, government officials in transparency, access to information and accountability in education governance in 16 target schools in Ada’a district from Jan 2016 to Dec 2018. The project focuses on designing ICT system, empowering children, building capacity of educators and government officials, applying social accountability in integration with ICT systems to facilitate education service monitoring and reporting by children, and scaling up of ICT based social accountability project into health and WASH sectors.
The project is planned for three years from 2016-2018, and has set objectives which feeds “monitoring and demanding children’s rights, with children”, CRG strategic objective 1.
Overall Objective of the Project: By the end of 2018, Save the Children and Ratson will contribute to improved quality early childhood and basic primary education for children through the use of digital technology based social accountability mechanisms, by involving different Stakeholders (children, parents and educators) in transparency and accountability towards enhancing district level primary education governance.
At the end of the project period the following objectives are expected to be achieved due to the execution of this project.
Local individual consultants expected to have:
- Second Degree in social sciences, development, project management, monitoring and evaluation or equivalent
- Proven experience of conducting surveys in the area of social accountability and child rights governance
- Specifically, experience in conducting evaluations in ICT based social accountability is preferable.
- Very good knowledge of ICT based social accountability, transparency and accountability
- Excellent analytical skills (qualitative and quantitative)
- Excellent SPSS skills
- TIN number
- Paid tax for the current year
- Other desirable experiences include:
- Previous relevant experience of working with Save the Children International preferably in ICT based social accountability or CRG thematic Program
- Demonstrable excellence in meeting deadline without compromising the quality of the deliverables
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