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Final Evaluation of SEAS of Change Phase II Project

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1. About Plan International

Plan International Thailand has been working in Thailand since 1981 to help build a just society using

a Child-Centered Community Development approach that puts children’s best interests as its top priority.

We work with children, young people, public/private partners, communities, and families. Our aim is

to drive positive changes that further children’s rights and gender equality at the local, national

and global levels. We use our knowledge and experience, together with the power and ability of children,

to address the root cause of problems affecting children including poverty, violence, exclusion,

and discrimination.

2. Project Background

Stopping Exploitation through Accessible Services or SEAS of Change Phase II funded by Sida CIVSAM from July 1, 2019-June 30, 2022 (3 years). The phase II project builds on the previous SIDA-funded SEAs of Change project, and aims at developing a strengthened civil society in Thailand and Cambodia that effectively enables migrant children and youths to claim their rights, and proactively influences government migration and social protection policies both in-country and across borders.

The project has cross-country elements and activities in both Thailand and Cambodia in each outcome. In Thailand, the SEAS Phase II project will continue in Rayong, Trat , Samut Sakhon and Bangkok, in Cambodia, the project works in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Battambang. The project is aligned with the Child Protection programme area in Thailand country strategy and the project is working in partnership with the 2 implementing partners in Thailand namely Labour Protection Network Foundation (LPN) and Foundation for Rural Youth (FRY) and the other 2 partner organizations in Cambodia consist of Cambodia Against Child Trafficking Networks (CA) and Banteay Srei (BS).

Civil society will be strengthened through awareness-raising, assessments, and technical capacity building in areas such as gender, M&E, and child protection. However, and perhaps more importantly, the project will work to create an enabling environment for civil society by training organizations and groups on how to influence and lobby effectively. In addition, networks of civil society will be supported and encouraged to work in concert to claim migrant’s rights. Finally, the project will work to link civil society to governments and the private sector to influence governments’ migration and social protection policies and increase transparency and accountability of the public and private sector in both source and destination countries.

3. Evaluation Focus

3.1 Key areas of program areas to explore:

Scope of this assessment will be to assess the scope of the project's Logframe and M&E Framework, which will be assessed in accordance with the six MERL Standards: Relevance (past and future), effectiveness, sustainability, efficiency, child rights, gender and inclusiveness focus, impact, when the assessment results are compared with the project's Baseline results, the details of the scope of the assessment are as follows.

            3.1 Purpose of the Evaluation

The purpose of the final evaluation is to examine the process of implementing the SEAS II project as a cross-border project between Cambodia as a source country and Thailand as a destination country. The key program areas to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the programs and whether the program goals and objectives have been accomplished to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. It also to review the results under each outcomes to what extend reach the target.

_{This final evaluation will be compared between baseline and final evaluation result based on each outcome indicators, not compared at output level.}

            3.2 Evaluation Criteria

• Effectiveness: the extent to which, and the reasons behind, the achievement (or not) of the project’s objectives, and whether these are leading to unintended (positive or negative) consequences for anybody involved or affected by the interventions.

• Sustainability: the probability of continued long-term benefits to the target populations after the project has been completed. This might include the resource and capacity of partners or beneficiaries to continue the intervention after phase out.

• Relevance: the extent to which the interventions and their approaches were suited to the priorities and policies of the people and communities they were intended to benefit.

• Efficiency: the extent to which financial resources were used economically and efficiently, potentially including cost-benefit ratios and alternative programming approaches

• Child rights, gender, and inclusion: the extent to which the project applied gender and inclusion sensitive approaches and explicitly aimed for results that improve the rights of children and young people and gender equality.

• Impact: to establish causal attribution to any observed positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects observed.

            3.3 Evaluation Questions

Please see full details from attached TOR.

4. Methods for Data Collection and Analysis

This final evaluation has applied the Mixed Methodology in the research process. The Mixed Methodology research process is a process that integrates both quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to obtain comprehensive and complete information. The quality data collection process will be conducted by using primary and secondary data collection methods with the following methods. The analysis report will be disaggregate data by age (10-below 15, 15-below 18 and 18-below 25), gender and provinces;

Desk research, Focus group discussion (FGD), Key informant interview (KII), Case study (at least 3 cases) and Questionnaire Survey.

5. Key Deliverables and Timeline.

Start from May to September’ 2022, Please see full detail as attached TOR.

6. Expected Qualifications

• Applicants can be an independent consultant team or researcher (s) from a university/research institute or consultancy firm based in Thailand or Cambodia.

• Demonstrated strong understanding of migration context, child protection, gender equality and international development and familiarity with cross-border collaboration projects.

• Significant professional background in conducting social research relating to international development, child protection, gender equality and cross-border collaboration project, with experience in conducting survey research of this nature and analyzing findings.

• Excellent writing skills in English

• Previous experience in conducting similar work for INGOs or international donors will be preferred

7. Applications

Interested applicants should provide a proposal covering the following aspects:

• Detailed response to the ToR with proposed methodology

• A work plan detailing how the work will be done and how the objectives above will be met, including proposed timelines

• CVs of the researchers and the names of at least two references (these should be clients for whom you have conducted previous research with).

• Example of previous work

• Detailed budget, including daily fee rates, expenses, etc.

Please send your application to supornchai.nawataweeporn@plan-international.org by 22 April 2022 referencing “Final Evaluation SEAS II Project” in the subject line, and including support documents as outlined.

*Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early. We reserve the right to extend the closing date at any time.