Background and Context
SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia is a non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational charitable child welfare organization. For the last 49 years, it has been working on adressing the needs of children who have lost parental care and those who have not getting sufficent parental care and also strengthening the capaciies of caregivers for better care and support of children.
We partner with donors, communities, governments and like-minded organizations to reach the children who need support, when emergencies strike, we focus on providing humanitarian assistance, care and protection for children and families in collaboration with the government organizations.
Due to different factors ,in Amhara National regional state, there are about 1.4 million children are not getting suffcient parental care and required different supports.
Among the different factors contributing to vulnerability of children specialy in recent years are due to the northern war and : poverty.Mainly poverty is a significant barrier to achieving even the most basic needs of such children where their caregivers are unable to support their children basioc needs and children are coming to be either dropout from schooling due to alck of parental support or engaged on some economic activities to supplement families income and becoming at isk of school dropout and different child abuse challenges. The war in the northern part of Amhara region is mainly affceting areas of North Wollo,Waghimra and southWollo zones including historical sites such as lalibella town where the the baseline survey to be conducted.
Purpose of the Baseline survey
The primary objective of this baseline survey is to set bench mark for each objective, and result areas in line with the projects logframe which help to measure the results/changes/ following the project interventions.
Specific objectives
The baseline survey has the following specific objectives;
Scope of the Study
The assessment will be conducted in four kebeles of Lalibela town and will mainly focus on target families and their children, community structures such as community care and support coalitions(CCSCs), saving and credit cooperatives(SACCOs) and public schools
Outputs and Deliverables
Required Skills, Qualifications and Experiences of consultant firm