Capacity Training for Girl Ambassadors at Girl Hub

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Position: Girl Ambassadors’ Training.

Reporting line: Girl Hub Nigeria Senior Insight and Strategy Manager

Location: Abuja Nigeria

Company: Girl Hub Nigeria

1. Introduction

Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Nike Foundation and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), based in the UK, currently operating in three African countries, and with plans to open in India and elsewhere. Some international travel will be required.

The Nike Foundation is a powerful agent for real change and poverty alleviation in the developing world. The Foundations’ focus is on adolescent girls – its investments are centered on programmes and initiatives that enable young girls to realize their potential and transform their world, so unleashing a ripple effect of change. The work of the Nike Foundation is designed to get girls on the global agenda and drive resources to them; ensuring ideas become real solutions that deliver tangible and sustainable results.

In this way, the Nike Foundation fuels the girl effect (www.girleffect.org) - the unique potential of 250 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.

The Girl Ambassadors (GAs):

GAs are a cohort of 40 girls in 3 states aged between 16 -24 identified through GHN local partners in Kano and Kaduna to champion girls issues by being the voice of girls and representing girls in a way that brings their context to programming tables. In addition, GAs are expected to provide advice where relevant in designing girl-centered activities. There is a plan to expand in future to Jigawa State. The plan is to establish 60 girl ambassadors across the states mentioned.

Jigawa, Kano and Kaduna are states located in the northern part of Nigeria, where GHN is focusing its intervention.

Objectives:

Girl Ambassadors will be girl champions capable of bringing girls’ voices into important meetings and eventsGirl Ambassadors’ knowledge and ability to represent girls will position Girl Hub as the ’go-to’ Organization on issues of adolescent girlsTo create a resource within Northern Nigeria so that other partners can leverage the Girl Ambassadors for research, insights, and monitoring and advisory purposes.Girl Ambassadors will help remove barriers to reaching girls.Girl Ambassadors will develop authentic insights from girls.Girl Ambassadors will maintain a wide network of girls with a potential to have an extensive reach

2. Scope of Work

Girl Hub Nigeria requires the services of an agency/organization with experience in peer-to-peer research and working with adolescent girls, to build the capacity of 60 Girl Ambassadors in Northern Nigeria.

The Girl Ambassadors are located in three different states; therefore the agency will be responsible for working out how best to impart knowledge to participants in split locations.

Where we are:

GHN currently have a cohort of 40 girls.

20 girls undertook the first technology enabled (TEGA) research by using mobile devices to get real time data in Kano and Kaduna. To keep the momentum, we need to build on what has already been done, guard against not reaching girls by building and maintaining a cohort of girl advisers, monitors, researchers and champions who can bring a level of expertise to the table.

The strategy:

Build the capacity of Girl Ambassadors to respond to popular demand for knowledge and awareness of girls’ context in at least three states of Northern Nigeria.Up-skill TEGAs to enhance there research skills using the mobile technology to link to the global Girl Effect Mobile as a learning hub for how girls might use mobile technology.Build confidence of Girl Ambassadors to monitor GHN programmes on CAAG (Collective Action for Adolescent Girls), Safe spaces (Marriage Prep) and other programmes.Equip the Girl Ambassadors to present back to adult audiences by building their confidence in articulating their points.Equip the girls to take safety and security measures and to develop the level of awareness on how they work to mitigate potential risks.

Who can be a Girl Ambassador – girls in Kaduna, Kano, and Jigawa states?

Aged between 16-24In school or completed at least secondary school.Is interested in working with girls.Has parental consent if below 18.Understands Northern Nigeria context.

What is in it for girls?

Equipped with knowledge and skills on girls issues, basic research methods and monitoring techniques.Potential to be leveraged by other organizations for participatory monitoring and learning.Build the confidence of girls to develop the new narrative for northern Nigeria girls.Represent girls’ voices as girl champions in programme design meetings, workshops and public events.

Evidence for this work:

Girl Hub Rwanda Girl research units have been a key resources in gathering evidence.

Girls Ambassadors in Nigeria have attended the WIE Africa event and have brought great awareness to the issues of northern Nigeria girls. There has been a follow up request to Girl Hub since then to collaborate on girl centered issues.

A research organization had worked with the Girl Ambassadors recently to validate findings from the research on Most Vulnerable Girl Strategy research.

Short Term Approach:

· Equip girls with basic social research skills (Focus groups, photo voice, and radio reporting, basic ethnography).

· Develop GH App for Girl Hub Nigeria for social research that will support the Technology Enabled Girl Ambassador’s work including identifying cheaper devices that are made for the development world. It will therefore be cheap, less conspicuous and safer to carry.

· Develop a calendar for a one-year plan

Medium Term

· Link up with existing organizations that have relationships with girls for the overall management of the girls

· Introduce facilitation skills to enable them to present back proficiently to an adult audience

· Build the capacity of the managing organizations to manage the team of girls from all aspects including health and safety

· Equip Girl Ambassadors and build their confidence to respond to the growing demands for their skills while maintaining the balance and connection to their peers and girls at the lowest 40 percent wealth quintile.

Long term:

· Introduce girls to partner across Nigeria as girl advisers.

· Organize programs that showcase the power working with girls to reach girls.

· Integrate TEGA into GEM.

· Ongoing building of girls’ capacity using the Insight tool kit.

Work with Partners to build and mentor

GHN has existing partners in Northern Nigeria with whom we have established working relationships in the area of research, safe spaces prototyping, community sensitization and managing of 30 girl ambassadors for the TEGA research.We currently have PRHI, AYDI and Zee Bee.GHN will embark on identification and contracting additional local organizations to recruit more Girl Ambassadors particularly in Jigawa

GH roles:

Girl hub Nigeria will build the capacity of the girls on qualitative research methods such as focus groups, 1-1 meetings, and observations. GHN will also enable the girls to conduct technology-enabled research and participatory M&E.Girl hub Nigeria will work with the organizations/consultants to recruit and, sustain regular meetings and activities to build the girls’ confidence to work within and outside their communities.Girl hub Nigeria will provide technical support and materials to facilitate building the girls’ skills on research, confidence building and feedback mechanisms.GH will ensure parental support for the activities and will adhere to girls safeguarding policy (GSP), parental consents for each participating girls.

Managing organization/consultant’s (AYDI, PRHI and ZeeBEE) Role:

Recruit and manage Girls’ Ambassadors on behalf of Girl hub.Organize and set up safe meeting venues with girls. Liaisons with community to ensure gatekeepers are well informed and are supportive of girl ambassadors.Work with closely with GHN to plan and implement training, monitoring and research activities.Organize refreshments and ensure stationeries are available for working with girlsAct as chaperon during out of location trip with girls by Girl Hub.Develop budgets and timeline of activities for sign off by Girl HubMaintain the code of conduct for working with girls and ensure girls comply with girls’ safe guarding policy.

Girls’ Role:

Become Girl Ambassadors by representing girls’ voices.Commit to working with Girl Hub and partners as young advisers and researchers.Attend trainings and events relevant to building their capacities in providing insights on different contexts for the Arewa GirlMaintain behaviors and views that represent promoting the Arewa girl.Maintain the connection with their peersComply with Girl Hub girl safe guarding policies, rules and regulations.

Expected Outcome:

60 Girl Ambassadors established and acting as advisers within which there is the TEGA (Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors).Curriculum for training young people as researchers developedGirl confidence, interpersonal skills and capacity built.Girl Hub has available resources to tap into for information and for partners’ programme design and developmentTool Kit for training girls developed.A local organization collaboration is secured to support Girl Ambassadors capacity building in country.

Key Skills and Experience

At least five years’ experience in similar scope of work.Experience in innovative facilitation skills for optimum participation for young people.Experience in peer- peer research.Strong interpersonal, communication and advocacy skillsExcellent report writing, presentation and communication skills.High attention to detail and ability to adapt to changing situationsExcellent oral, written, presentation and communications skills in English.Good knowledge of working with young people.

Deliverables

· Detailed training curriculum to cover the capacity needs of the Girl Ambassadors

· Have developed a suitable partnership with a local institution to train Girl Ambassadors in line with set criteria.

· Detailed training plans including ‘how’ it will be delivered and timeline for delivering the capacity building in line with set criteria and a baseline needs assessment.

· Build capacity of three mentoring organization to be able to work with Girl Ambassadors in line with capacity needs

· A curriculum, facilitation guide for Girl Ambassadors and a tool kit for training Girl Ambassadors that meet international standard. This will be matched against other Girl Hub reports.

· A final report.

Time Frame:

The period for this training is expected to cover the Girl Hub calendar year of FY 15, which ends in May 2015.

Key Milestones:

Trainings should be delivered in the 3rd and 4th (December 2014 to May 2015) quarter of the year.A final report to be submitted by May 2015 in line with GHN report structure guidance and to an international publication standard. .

PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF BIDS

Applications for this consultancy close on the 30th of September 2014.

All bids must be typewritten and presented in the following format:

a) Cover letter: A one-page cover letter signed by responsible official of the bidding agency/consultant. The letter must contain the name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and other relevant contact information of the bidder.

b) Introduction: A brief overview of the assignment as understood by the bidder and a brief statement of the bidder’s overall technical approach.

c) Detailed technical proposal: A detailed plan for accomplishing the tasks as described in the scope of work, including a description of:

Plan to address split site location of participantsRecruitment process for Local organizationTraining plan for field teamsContingency plans in case of problems in the field e.g. bad weather, security challenge etc.Process of developing training curriculum and toolkit for training Girl Ambassadors How quality control measures will be instituted

d) A timetable for completion of major activities, including persons responsible for each activity, completion dates, and a schedule of deliverables.

e) Capability statement: background and other relevant information that qualifies the consultant/agency to undertake such an assignment. Experience with similar projects and in using the techniques specified above should be provided. The bidder must also indicate the individual staff members assigned to this project and their relevant experience.

f) Budget and Budget Justification: A detailed line-item budget in MS Excel for completing the activities proposed under the technical proposal. A justification in a narrative format should accompany the budget to explain how each budget line item was established. The budget will include (but is not limited to):

Agency management fees (where applicable)Training costsField work costsAccommodation costsTransport costsSupplies,Material development costsReport writing cost

g) Recent work: A copy of recent work – a sample of one good report of recently (not more than 2 years ago) conducted work.

h) Annexes: Any documents, such as curriculum vitae or other information, which the bidder thinks will assist the proposal review team in evaluating the proposal may be attached as annexes.

Length of proposal:

Sections (b) through (e) must not exceed 10 pages, single spaced, minimum 12-point font (in Calibri, Times New Roman or Arial). Budgets should be provided in Excel format. Applications that exceed the page limit or those not conforming to these guidelines will not be processed.

SUBMISSION OF BIDS

Complete proposals (electronic copy) must be submitted no later than 17:00 hours on 30 September 2014 by email to: Amina Adamu Aliyu at Amina.adamualiyu@girlhub.org and include “Capacity Building for Girl Ambassadors” on the subject line of the e-mail.

CONTACT INFO

If you have any questions concerning this request for bids, please contact Amina Adamu at Girl Hub Nigeria at Mercy Corps office at No. 5 Peka Close, off Buchannan Crescent, off Ahmadu Bello way, Wuse II, Abuja or via this email amina.aliyuadamu@girlhub.org

GHN reserve the right to add or delete information, or otherwise amend the contents of this TOR during the period of preparation of bids. GHN reserves the right to extend the period specified for presentation of bids. GHN reserve the right not to make any award if it so chooses, for whatever reason. GHN reserve the right to replace the selected agency for the second wave.

All bids once submitted, shall constitute firm offers and may not be retracted for a period of ninety (90) days following their submission. It is understood that bidders assume the cost of preparation and submission of proposals.

EVALUATION OF BIDS AND SELECTION OF CONTRACTOR

GHN will establish a technical review team to assess all proposals in terms of the following criteria:

Experience

Overall experience of the agency 10 points

Experience in work 15 points

Expertise & experience of proposed team 10 points

Quality of references provided by previous clients 10 points

TOTAL EXPERIENCE 45 points

Proposed work plan

Training Plan 5 points

Quality of training proposal 10 points

Split site training plan 10 points

Measures adopted for quality control 5 points

Timeline 5 points

Budget 15 points

Quality of written language 5 points

TOTAL WORKPLAN 55 points

GHN plans to award the contract to the bidder that offers the best value, cost, and all other factors considered. GHN reserve the right to reject any and all bids received and to award no contract as a result of this TOR. GHN will not pay or reimburse agency/consultant for bids submitted.

QUESTION

A question and answer session is set up for 25th September to enable us address any emerging queries or clarify any grey areas at 11.00-13.00pm and 3.00-4,00pm Nigeria time. To ensure your queries are addressed adequately, you are required to forward your questions in advance on or before 22nd September 2014 before close of business.

Submit your queries to Fatima Sada on this email: fatima.sada@girlhub.org

How to apply:

PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF BIDS

Applications for this consultancy close on the 30th of September 2014. Submissions

All bids must be typewritten and presented in the following format:

a) Cover letter: A one-page cover letter signed by responsible official of the bidding agency/consultant. The letter must contain the name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and other relevant contact information of the bidder.

b) Introduction: A brief overview of the assignment as understood by the bidder and a brief statement of the bidder’s overall technical approach.

c) Detailed technical proposal: A detailed plan for accomplishing the tasks as described in the scope of work, including a description of:

Plan to address split site location of participantsRecruitment process for Local organizationTraining plan for field teamsContingency plans in case of problems in the field e.g. bad weather, security challenge etc.Process of developing training curriculum and toolkit for training Girl Ambassadors How quality control measures will be instituted

d) A timetable for completion of major activities, including persons responsible for each activity, completion dates, and a schedule of deliverables.

e) Capability statement: background and other relevant information that qualifies the consultant/agency to undertake such an assignment. Experience with similar projects and in using the techniques specified above should be provided. The bidder must also indicate the individual staff members assigned to this project and their relevant experience.

f) Budget and Budget Justification: A detailed line-item budget in MS Excel for completing the activities proposed under the technical proposal. A justification in a narrative format should accompany the budget to explain how each budget line item was established. The budget will include (but is not limited to):

Agency management fees (where applicable)Training costsField work costsAccommodation costsTransport costsSupplies,Material development costsReport writing cost

g) Recent work: A copy of recent work – a sample of one good report of recently (not more than 2 years ago) conducted work.

h) Annexes: Any documents, such as curriculum vitae or other information, which the bidder thinks will assist the proposal review team in evaluating the proposal may be attached as annexes.

Length of proposal:

Sections (b) through (e) must not exceed 15 pages, single spaced, minimum 12-point font (in Calibri, Times New Roman or Arial). Budgets should be provided in Excel format. Applications that exceed the page limit or those not conforming to these guidelines will not be processed.

SUBMISSION OF BIDS

Complete proposals (electronic copy) must be submitted no later than 17:00 hours on 30 September 2014 by email to: Amina Adamu Aliyu at Amina.adamualiyu@girlhub.org and include “Capacity Building for Girl Ambassadors” on the subject line of the e-mail.

CONTACT INFO

If you have any questions concerning this request for bids, please contact Amina Adamu at Girl Hub Nigeria at Mercy Corps office at No. 5 Peka Close off Buchannan Crescent Wuse II Abuja or via amina.adamualiyu@girlhub.org.

GHN reserve the right to add or delete information, or otherwise amend the contents of this TOR during the period of preparation of bids. GHN reserves the right to extend the period specified for presentation of bids. GHN reserve the right not to make any award if it so chooses, for whatever reason. GHN reserve the right to replace the selected agency for the second wave.

All bids once submitted, shall constitute firm offers and may not be retracted for a period of ninety (90) days following their submission. It is understood that bidders assume the cost of preparation and submission of proposals.