Inclusive Family Planning MEL Consultancy

Call for Expressions of Interest

Inclusive Family Planning MEL Consultancy

Anticipated timeframe: March 2025 to September/October 2025

Location: Kaduna, Nigeria 

Background for project work

The Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Inclusive Family Planning (IFPLAN) project is a four-year project funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. The project runs from January 2022 to December 2025 and has a budget of approximately £2.9 million. The project seeks to reduce unmet family planning needs and increase access and use of modern contraceptives for both men and women living with disabilities in four local government areas in Kaduna State.

Sightsavers is the project lead in a consortium with BBC Media Action. Disability partners for the project are the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), the national umbrella body of persons with disabilities in Nigeria, and the Network of Women with Disabilities (NWD), which brings together Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPD) focusing on empowering women and girls with disabilities. The project also collaborates with the Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA), which is responsible for conducting the project baseline survey, impact assessment, and process evaluation.

The project aims to contribute to the reduction of unmet need for family planning and increased access to and use of available modern contraceptive methods by people with disabilities in the target project areas.

What this project work will focus on

Sightsavers will be commissioning a consultant to create three high-quality learning products that will serve as a resource for both internal team development and external cross-learning purposes. Focussing on the Inclusive Family Planning project over a period of 8 months.

Key responsibilities

To understand the IFPLAN project, develop a workplan and protocols for learning products, collection and analysis of participatory data, collaboration and stakeholder engagement, timely delivery of the consultancy work.

The consultant should be based in Kaduna and should be conversant with Hausa language.

Timeline

The work will commence in March 2025 and conclude in September/October 2025.

Consultant’s expertise

·         Successful track record in conducting social research

·         Proven working knowledge in inclusive healthcare approaches and theories

·         Strong participatory and qualitative social research skills, including design, data collection and analysis

·         Experience conducting research with potentially vulnerable populations

·         Understanding of SRHR, disability and mental health (desirable)

·         Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English. Fluency in local languages (Hausa) desirable.

·         Residence in Kaduna is desirable although not compulsory

Payment Terms

The agreed budget will be discussed at interview. Consultants with a proven track record in the above will be procured to undertake the project through an expression of interest process. Full details of the project, Scope of Work, Outputs/ Deliverables and budgets can be found within the attached ToR.

How to express your interest:

To express your interest to undertake this assignment, please read the ToR and complete our Expression of Interest (EoI) which can be found via the application link.

The EoI response should include roles and responsibilities of the consultants and number of days input, as well as a proposed workplan and indicative budget, including team members’ daily rates for the assignment and any other anticipated expenses.  Interested bidders are also requested to include an example of previous similar work.

The deadline to submit your EoI is Sunday 9 March 2025 at 23:30pm GMT UK.

Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 17 March 2025 onwards.

Please note due to the high volume of applications anticipated it is possible that only successful applicants will be contacted. We reserve the right to close this ad early.

Selection Criteria:

Sightsavers is committed to running a fair and transparent tender process, and ensuring that all bidders are treated and assessed equally during this process. Bidder quotation responses will be evaluated against Essential Criteria, Capability Criteria, Sustainability Criteria and Commercial Criteria.  These criteria have been especially created to help SCI determine which bidder is able to offer the best