ETHIOPIAN CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT (ECDD)
TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) FOR CONSULTANCY
SERVICES TO PRODUCE A GUIDE/MANUAL ON INCLUSIVE RESOURCE CENTER MANUAL
INVITATION TO BID
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Development Organization established in 2005 and reregistered at Agency for Civil Society Organizations as Ethiopian Development Organization with Certificate no. 0321 under the Proc. No. 1113/2019. ECDD is working with other organizations to promote and facilitate the inclusion of persons with disabilities and disability issues in mainstream service delivery and development programs envisioning an Inclusive Ethiopia where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens.
ECDD is in partnership with Cheshire Services Ethiopia (CSE) with the support of Light for the World Netherlands and Lillian Fund is implementing a project entitled: EmployAble II: Inclusion of Youth with Disabilities into Wage and/or Self-employment through appropriate and relevant technical and soft skills Training in Ethiopia.
The project has the following three result areas:
1. Result 1: Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) colleges, local polytechnics and non-formal apprenticeship, and skills development centers in the target area deliver scalable model of easily accessible, affordable and market-driven vocational and technical education where at least 70% of the youths with disabilities in that area benefit.
2. Result 2: Scalable evidence and best practice of TVET-to-work transition and employment support programs for youth with disabilities in the target area are developed and where 70% of those enrolled join and are in the wage or self employment twelve months after the project ends.
3. Result 3: Evidences and best practices developed under result 1 and 2 are documented, analyzed and lessons learnt are shared with DPOs and other strategic partners. Further, policy briefs are developed for evidence-based advocacy by DPOs to influence national and local TVET and employment policies and increased recognition amongst communities of the value of skills development for youth with disabilities.
One of planned activities under this project is to develop a Guide/Manual on Inclusive Resource Center manual for FTA both in Amharic and English. The manual will be used as:
SCOPE OF WORK
The scope of the services required under this consultancy includes the following:
1. Review the current selected TVET resource centers and identify the major gaps in its resource center accessibility to Persons with disabilities; develop list of checklists to monitor accessibility of centers; other countries experience
2. Prepare list of specifications for accessible resource materials for TVETs so as to enable inclusiveness of purchased items by FTA;
3. To create a model, accessible, Resource Center of knowledge and expertise that can support other TVETs in the Cluster to mainstream youth with disabilities.
4. Physical arrangement; staff facility; ensuring information and communication materials accessiblity
5. The manual should cover the following major topics, among others:
a) Principles and modalities of inclusive resource centers in the context of TVET;
b) Concept of Inclusive Resource Center;
c) Approaches in promoting Inclusive Resource Centers (IRC);
d) Practical steps, methods and strategies for creating Inclusive Resource Centers (IRC);
e) Methods to cascade inclusive approach to regional level TVET Bureaus;
f) Strategies to renovate the existing resource centers to be inclusive;
g) Opportunities, challenges and way forward to promote inclusive resource centers;
h) Inclusive facilitation skills and techniques to implement Inclusive Resource Center
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPLICANTS
Interested firms or individuals are required to submit:
Documents in hard copy must be submitted within 10 working days from the announcement date in a sealed envelope in person to the ECDD Office located behind Dreamliner Hotel, Meskel Flower Road.
TIME FRAME
1. The first draft of the manual shall be submitted to ECDD in hard and soft copies within 30 days after the signing of the agreement
2. The final edited manual shall be delivered to ECDD in hard (3) and soft copies not later than 15 days after receipt of comments from ECDD on the first draft.
1. First installment of 20% of the total agreed fee upon the signing of the agreement.
2. Final installment of 80% of the total agreed fee after the submission and acceptance of the final manual by ECDD.