Background
Save the Children international is the world’s leading independent organization for children, delivering programs and improving children’s lives in about 120 countries worldwide. Save the Children mission is to fight for children's rights and deliver immediate and lasting improvement to their lives worldwide. In Ethiopia Save the Children has been operating since 1973 providing both relief and development programs. It has operational presence almost in all the regions of the country implementing Programs in different thematic areas such as Resilience and Livelihoods, Health and HIV/AIDS, Education, Child Rights and Governance,
LI-WAY is a five-year programme implemented by a consortium of partners composed of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (lead), Mercy Corps, Techno Serve and Save the Children with the financial support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction, improved gender relations and social stability in Addis Ababa. And the specific objective is to increase incomes of 200,000 poor people (50% women and 75% youth) through increased access to wage and/or self-employment opportunities. The programme uses Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach to guide the design and implementation of its interventions.
Currently LI-WAY identified four sectors which are implemented by each consortium partners. Accordingly, SNV leads on Micro Enterprise (ME), Mercy Corps leads on Labour Market, Techno Serve leads on Growth Sector and Save the Children leads on skill development Market Sector.
Recently, Save the Children International has entered in to agreement and started working with four TVET partners (The partners are from private, civil society organization and public TVET colleges). With the partners, Save the Children International (SCI) agreed to pilot deliverables under various work streams which have their own learning outcomes. Now, Save the Children under LI-WAY program would like to outsource research service that follow up, assess and produce learnings on each TVET post graduate start-up support package.
The overall objective of this amendment agreement is to create joint accountability mechanism that indicates the collaboration of Save the Children and the implementation partners/ Misrak polytechnic college and Kirkos manufacturing College for implementing.
You can get full description of the TOR fro the link below
Terms of Reference for Consultancy skil gap.pdf
Eligibility criteria for the selection of the consultant
With the support of Save the children LI-WAY programme, Kirkos manufacturing college and Misrak polytechnic colleges in Addis Ababa will hire a consultant (team of consultants) with a strong record in conducting study in TVETs, knowledge of trainers’ skill development, and strong communication skills.
The consultant should have:
Eligibility criteria.