Cambodia Consultant - Final Evaluation of the Safety for Children and their Rights OnLine (SCROL) Programme
- Career Category: Consultancy
- Location: Phnom Penh
Objectives of the services required
TdH NL seeks a Country Consultant to conduct the evaluation in Cambodia, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with the stated objectives. The consultant will adapt and implement evaluation tools, collect and analyse data, engage with local stakeholders (including children), and produce a 30 page comprehensive report—all while maintaining ethical standards and cultural appropriateness throughout the assessment.
Specific objectives
- Adapting Tools and Methodology:
- Translates and adjusts the evaluation tools and methods to fit the local language and cultural context.
- Ensures the methodology is accessible to the needs of all stakeholders involved, including children
- Data Collection and Analysis:
- Conducts primary data collection (e.g., KAP survey, interviews, focus groups) and analyses it to assess progress against project indicators.
- Country-Specific Reporting:
- Prepares a detailed evaluation report and a summary presentation for their country, covering goals, outcomes and outputs, and incorporating stakeholder feedback.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Engages local stakeholders (e.g., children, youth, communities) to ensure participation and ownership of findings.
- Facilitate child and youth advisors to provide feedback and advice at key stages of the assignment, e.g., finalisation of tools, data collection with children, and interpretation of findings.
- Quality Assurance and Consistency:
- Facilitate a validation workshop of the country-level findings with project stakeholders
- Ethical and Safeguarding Compliance:
- Ensures data collection adheres to ethical and safeguarding standards, including informed consent, confidentiality, mitigation of safeguarding risks and reporting.
- Analysis and Reporting:
- Produces a 30-40-page concise report and a summary presentation synthesising outcome-level findings from Cambodia, offering a programme-wide perspective.
Bidder Eligibility
- The consultant engaged to undertake the assignment must fulfil the following requirements:
- At least a Master's degree in a relevant area such as child protection, development studies, sociology, etc.
- At least 6 years of experience in leading project evaluations, including endline studies, with at least one on the theme of sexual exploitation of children.
- Demonstrated experience with mixed methods and participatory methodologies, including with children and youth.
- Experience in providing training to data collection teams.
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to child safeguarding principles and experience integrating safeguarding considerations into evaluation methodologies.
- Expertise in sexual exploitation of children, child protection, child rights, rights-based approach and gender.
- Advanced level of English and Cambodia with demonstrated cultural sensitivity and understanding of local child protection norms and practices.
- High professional competency to produce and analyse statistical and qualitative data and to write accessible reports
- The consultant must adhere to the TdH NL Integrity Framework; therefore, as a condition of entering into a consultancy agreement, the individual/firm must:
- Read and Sign the TdH NL Code of Conduct
- Read and Sign the Annexe 2 Conflict of Interest Policy Declaration.
- Read and Sign the TdH NL Ethical Content Policy
