Background
GOAL has been operational in Kenya since 1995 implementing integrated child empowerment and protection (CEP), health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and livelihoods programing. Since its inception, CEP programming has been the core of GOAL Kenya’s operations. Since 2012 GOAL has directly impacted the lives of 238,767 vulnerable children and youth living in urban informal settlements in Nairobi and hard to reach, disaster-affected populations such as pastoralist communities in Marsabit.
GOAL aims to bridge the gap between policies and guidelines developed by the government at national and county levels, and programming for vulnerable children and young people at community level. GOAL works to bring evidence from community level (including community challenges and priorities) to inform policy development/review and roll out, service design and service delivery.
Through partnership with local implementing partners (LIPs), and in collaboration with Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and Department of Children’s Services (DCS), GOAL is currently supporting 151 schools, seven Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs), 63 Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) and 1,800 parents to strengthen child violence detection, prevention and response mechanisms, reaching a total of 75,400 children. In collaboration with the MoH, GOAL and its LIPs have strengthened the operational and technical capacity of 29 Community Health Units (CHUs), benefitting 101,500 households.

Integrated Action to End Child Violence
In 2013, GOAL Kenya began it implementation a three year European Union funded ‘Integrated Action to End Child Violence’ that sought to eradicate all forms of violence against children. GOAL Kenya as lead agency delivers a set of interventions in partnership with the following organisations; Life Skills Promoters (LISP), Mukuru Slums Development Projects (MSDP) and Horn of Africa Development Initiative (HODI). The operational areas of the programme include Mukuru, Korogocho, Kariobangi, Dandora informal settlements in Nairobi County and Marsabit Central Sub County in Marsabit County.
The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to the eradication of all sorts of violence against children in extremely marginalized communities in Kenya. The specific objective of the programme is to improve the capacity of marginalized/vulnerable households, institutions, and communities in Nairobi’s informal settlements and Marsabit Central Sub County to detect, prevent and respond to any form of violence against children, and improve rehabilitation of child victims of violence.

The intervention has six specific results which a baseline survey “Integrated Action to End Child Violence Baseline Survey Report: Nairobi and Marsabit Action area” conducted in 2014 established benchmarks for four out of the six specific objectives. The six specific objective indicators are:
1. % of children, parents and families with improved life skills that enable the participants to reduce their vulnerability to child violence
2. % of beneficiaries who have secured employment (including self-employment)
3. % of community groups with increased capacity to mitigate child violence risks, and recognize and respond to child violence incidences
4. % of schools and institutions with increased capacity to mitigate child violence risks, and recognize and respond to child violence incidences
5. of functional referral systems in the target areas
6. of good practices and lessons learnt, disseminated to influence coordination and policy environment on issues of child violence

Child violence has been noted to have a devastating effect on the development of a child mentally, socially and physically. Result one is aimed at providing life skills to extremely vulnerable children, their families and communities in a bid to improve their capacity to recognize, combat and overcome child violence. Activities include planning and conducting of consultative meetings with key stakeholders, training of teachers and staff in schools, SCIs and CCIs, training of peer educators and establishment of peer education social clubs and also the provision of advocacy programmes to prevent violence against children.
Meanwhile, result two intends to achieve the strengthening of livelihood capacity through improved income opportunities for parents and children which has the ripple effect of reducing pressure on parents, reduced levels of domestic violence, increased support for victims and the development of positive coping mechanism for life changes. In the spirit of striding towards addressing the link between poverty and violence, the action is using training programmes to impart vocational, apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, and business management skills to young people and parents of extremely vulnerable children and youth. The participants receive in-kind capital for business start-up with access to income generating activities and also through the apprenticeship and mentorship programmes, their employability is increased manifold.
Result three is aimed at improving the capacity of community groups to recognise, mitigate and respond to incidences of child violence. This outcome is based on the premise that violence against children is not random neither is it perpetuated by strangers but well known individual(s) who are close and at times have personal ties to the victims . More specifically, the resulting effect of such violence is that victims of childhood violence engage in drug and alcohol abuse as well as risky sexual behaviour. The aim of the intervention is to train the community on how to prevent the different forms of child abuse, how to identify abusers and report abuse to the appropriate community structures. Owing to the broad spectrum of the community; the capacity of local leaders (chiefs, their assistants, community opinion leaders, voluntary children officers) is built to achieve this goal.
Result four is geared towards strengthening the capacity of schools and child protection institutions in mitigating and responding to child violence. On account of this, SCIs, CCI’s, school heads, children, parents, care givers, school staff, Ministry of Education, Department of Children’s Services and Provisional Administration are among the key stakeholders sensitized and trained on the effects of child violence and the governmental standards set to link institutions to relevant networks thus strengthening the capacity of schools and institutions to mitigate and respond to child violence.
Result five aims to establish and /strengthen referral systems and networks to support sustainable and effective rehabilitation of victims of child violence. The identified gap here is that authorities are not sensitive to the particular needs of child victims of violence consequentially resulting in ineffective referral and rehabilitation services.
The final result six has the objective of ensuring knowledge sharing on good practices and lessons learnt to inform child protection policies. Certainly, through the implementation of the programme, a unique opportunity was provided for the strengthening and implementation of child protection policy and advocacy issues.

Purpose of Consultancy
The objective of the consultancy will be to identify and document good practice and learning garnered from the implementation of the ‘Integrated Action to End Child Violence’ to enable GOAL and its partners to disseminate the same to key stakeholders in children’s sector including Department of Children’s Services, Ministry of Education, Civil Registration Services at national and County levels and other non-state actors.

Scope
The project is operational in Nairobi and Marsabit Counties reaching out to 151 schools, 63 Charitable Children’s Institutions, seven Statutory Children’s Institutions and targeted communities in Nairobi’s informal settlements (Mukuru, Korogocho, Dandora and Kariobangi) and Marsabit Central district.

Activities
• Conduct desk review of the following documents developed during the programme as a first step to identifying best practises including but not limited to: Integrated Action to End Child Violence Mid-Term Program Evaluation Report, National Plan of Action for Children 2015-2022, Nairobi and Marsabit County Children’s Service Providers Directories, Let us Keep our Children Safe, Draft Positive Discipline Handbook and Day Care Centre Guidelines for Nairobi County.
• Development of an inception report
• Develop research tools to identify good practises and learnings from interventions carried out during the Action
• Collect data on learning from key stakeholders (including but not limited to Department of Children’s Services, Ministry of Education, targeted institutions and other non-state agencies) from Nairobi and Marsabit field sites
• Analyse the qualitative data generated from key informant interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with targeted beneficiaries
• Draft a final report on the analysis
Expected outputs/ deliverables:
• A short inception report including a detailed work plan, list of key informants to be interviewed, data collection tools and outline interview questions – one week after signing contract.
• Submit first draft report to GOAL Kenya for feedback after which a final copy of the report will be prepared and will only be accepted by GOAL Kenya when all comments have been adequately responded to.
• Submit the final copies of the report in 2 bound-hard copies and a soft copy in MS word and PDF.
• Submit complete data set and codebook and all original recordings and transcripts of qualitative and raw quantitative data.

Time frame for consultancy
From 1st December to 20th December, 2016

Required Skills and Experience:
• Minimum of a post graduate degree in psychology, sociology, Psycho-social sciences, anthropology
• 5- 10 years’ experience in child protection
• Experience in identification and documentation of good/ best practices
• All team members have valid certificate of good conduct from Kenya Police

Interested and qualified consultants should submit their expression of interest containing and including the following documents:
Technical proposal
• Methodology and approach to be used in undertaking the assignment
• Work plan with timelines
• Evidence of relevant hands on experience related to the assignment in the recent past
• Contacts of organizations previously worked for.
• Curriculum vitae of key personnel
• References from previous evaluations undertaken

Financial proposal
• Consultant’s professional fee charges for the whole exercise in Kenya shillings
• Other relevant and allowable costs e.g. travel
Submission of proposals
The expression of interest document should be submitted in soft copy to allbids@ke.goal.ie Kindly use the consultancy title, “Documentation of good practices in child protection” as the subject of the application email. The closing date for all submissions is 25th November, 2016.
Evaluation and award of consultancy
GOAL will evaluate the proposals and award the assignment based on technical and financial feasibility. GOAL reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal received without giving reasons and is not bound to accept the lowest or the highest bidder.
Reporting lines
The Consultants will be reporting to GOAL Kenya Director of Programmes and liaise with GK Child Protection and MEAL teams.

HOW TO APPLY:
The expression of interest document should be submitted in soft copy to allbids@ke.goal.ie Kindly use the consultancy title, “Documentation of good practices in child protection” as the subject of the application email. The closing date for all submissions is 25th November, 2016.