Tupange Request for Expression of Interest for Consultancy Services for a Family Planning Situation Analysis in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu

TUPANGE is a five year project whose goal is to increase and sustain contraceptive use among the urban poor in Kenya. The project is implemented by Jhpiego and its consortium partners Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), Marie Stopes International, National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) and Pharm Access Africa.

TUPANGE is looking for a highly competent, qualified and experienced Kenyan-based consultant/consultancy firm with technical expertise and capacity to conduct a family planning situation analysis in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.

The situation analysis will detail:

1. The “landscape” of facility-based and community-based reproductive health/family planning services
2. Community perceptions on utilization of RH/FP services
3. The social and political context for RH/FP,
4. The advocacy, regulation, coordination and policy environment of FP services and
5. A comprehensive analysis of local implementing partners working on RH/FP and related issues in the selected urban centers.

The consultant/consultancy firm is expected to undertake the following tasks:

1. Carry out a desk-review of documents including national policies and strategies, plans, demographic health surveys, national service provision assessments and other relevant documents,
2. Submit a report, detailing the situation analysis design, methodology, tools, work plan schedule and budget to carry out the assignment in each city to TUPANGE,
3. Develop a sampling design and data collection & management protocol,
4. Facilitate recruitment and training of field staff and pre-testing of data collection tools,
5. Co-ordinate collection of data, and its entry into a suitable platform for cleaning and analysis,
6. Analyze and interpret the findings,
7. Develop and submit the first draft of the situation analysis report by 5th November 2010 and debriefing to TUPANGE and
8. Submit the final situation analysis report.

The entire situation analysis should be conducted within a period of not more than 21 working days.

Requirements:

Eligible consultants/consultancy firms should:

• Have proven experience in similar assignments with other reputable development organisations
• Have a good conceptual understanding of issues relating to reproductive health in Kenya
• A demonstrated high level of professionalism and ability to work independently
• Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills, both oral and written.

Submission

Interested consultants/consultancy firms are requested to submit their expression of interest stating their capability, proposed workplan, proposed budget, curriculum vitae of lead consultant, contacts of three referees and a short description of similar projects undertaken.

Expression of Interest must be submitted no later than 1700 hours on September 30, 2010 by email to the Project Director at HR-Kenya@jhpiego.net and include “EOI to Conduct a Family Planning Situation Analysis in Kenya” on the subject line of the e-mail.

TUPANGE is not bound to accept any proposal or give reasons for its decision.