TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) Development of Policy Monitoring and Analysis Tool – Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)
Consultancy and Training, Development and Project Management
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)
“ECDD envisions an inclusive Ethiopia, where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens”.
In 2005 several individuals in Ethiopia came together to discuss how to address the challenge of more effectively meeting the needs of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia, and ensuring their access to mainstream service delivery as well as development programs. They decided to create a new type of Ethiopian organization, one that would promote and facilitate disability inclusion, but not by providing disability or rehabilitation services to individuals. They decided to create an organization that would reflect, in its structure and programs, certain core values: majority governance by persons with disabilities and family members, gender equality, and positive bias (affirmative action) in the employment of staff. Finally, rather than create a membership organization of persons with disabilities, they decided to create an association composed of prominent individuals, both professionals with and without disabilities, 50% women, reflecting different aspects of society.
Thus the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) was born and registered with the Ministry of Justice in December 2005. Following the Charities and Societies Proclamation of 2009, ECDD was re-registered by the Charities and Societies Agency on 6 December 2012, as an Ethiopian Residents Charity, Registration No. 0321. By 2012 ECDD Association membership had grown to over 60 members and its staff had increased to 18 full-time employees, over half of whom are persons with disabilities.Today ECDD has a staff of 42 persons with branch offices in Mekele, Tigray Region and in Hawassa in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State, and Local Disability Advisors in Afar, Somali and Oromo Regional States.
ECDD works collaboratively with other organizations to promote and facilitate “disability inclusive development” in Ethiopia – the inclusion of disability issues and persons with disabilities in mainstream government and non-governmental service delivery and development programs.
ECDD action reflects the following core, cross-cutting organizational and operational principles and values:
- Disability Rights: Fundamental human rights of persons with disabilities, as specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Non-discrimination: Non-discrimination on the basis of disability, age, gender, religion, ethnicity, or any other basis in its membership, staff, and programs
- Equal opportunity: Affirmative action, for qualified persons with disabilities and women, in recruitment, training, advancement and retention of staff
- Inclusion: Accessible premises, events, information and communications in all its action
- Integrity: Accountability and transparency in its program activities and finances
- Professionalism: Commitment to staff development and the competence and excellence of its full-time and part-time staff, and interns and volunteers
- Stewardship: Safe-guarding of community resources on behalf of those it serves
- Learning: Commitment to knowledge, learning and change as an organization in collaboration with its partners
- Family: Team spirit and sense of belonging among its personnel
Background
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 currently implementing a project entitled “Disability Rights for an Increased Voice and Empowerment (DRIVE)” funded by the European Union and Light for the World International under the Civil Society Fund III Program with the overall objective of improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the promotion of disability rights and inclusion.
In 2019, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) along with the Federal TVET Agency published a guideline for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET. The general objective of this guideline is to ensure that individuals with disabilities have education and training opportunities equal to persons without disabilities, through the development of disability-inclusive education and training in the country’s public and non-public TVET institutions. Thus, ECDD would like to develop a monitoring and analysis tool for this guideline.
2. MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
Developing policy tracking tools and analyzing the implementation of the FDRE TVET Guideline for inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET (2019).
3. FUNCTIONS / KEY RESULTS EXPECTED
The consultant will be responsible for performing the following activities:
(A) Developing Policy Tracking Tools;
(B) Analyzing Implementation of the Guideline for inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET;
(C) Identifying Action Points;
(D) Producing guideline review report with possible recommendations;
(E) Validating the final Analysis in the presence of stakeholders.
4. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
The key deliverables of the assignment are summarized as follows:
· Preparing draft inception report and a work plan;
· Final Inception Report which will incorporate comments from ECDD and relevant
partners;
· Develop first draft policy/guideline tracking tools;
· Submit the final Policy/ guideline tracking tools;
· Review the guideline with the developed tools to identify the potential implementational gaps of the guideline in reference to the UNCRPD;
· The gaps observed, achievements made, challenges that occurred, and lessons learned in the implementation of the guideline should be stated;
· Present the report on a validation workshop;
· Provide Final Report in English on time.
5. DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The assignment will be implemented within 30 Calendar Days starting from signing a contract document. Payment shall be made upon submission of deliverables as per the following millstones, and approval by the ECDD.
6. SELECTION CRITERIA
The Technical and Financial Proposals will account for 70% and 30% respectively of the selection criteria, broken down as follows:
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CRITERIA |
SCORES |
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TECHNICAL PROPOSAL: |
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Experience related to the task |
15% |
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Qualifications of team member(s) |
15% |
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Disability Inclusion related experience |
10% |
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Methodology |
30% |
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BUDGET PROPOSAL: |
30% |
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Total |
100% |
7. MODE OF PAYMENT
Mode of Payment
In ETB via bank transfer or Cheque payment.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE
(A) Demonstrated level of expertise in developing policy-tracking tools
(B) Experience working with the Ethiopian TVET System and working on disability inclusion areas.
(C) MA in Special Needs Education with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience.
(D) Analytical and methodological skills and ability to organize ideas, texts, data collection, presentations and produce analytical documents and reports.
(E) Experience in developing various tools of assessment for policies, guidelines, and similar documents previously.
