REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL- (RFP -ETH- 2015 – 9117378)

OPEN for Local firm/company with the Team Leader have an international experience. 

1: Topic:Consultancy services:To Conduct Participatory Gender Review for Ethiopia County Office (ECO CPD 2011-2015) for period of 3 months. 

UNICEF Ethiopia Office is seeking Request for Proposals (RFP) from Local Firm/Company/Organisation with a composition of a Team Leader having an international experience - to Conduct Participatory Gender Review for Ethiopia County Office. 

2: Background: UNICEF reiterated its commitment to gender quality and the empowerment of women and girls in many of its policy and programme documents and implementation as well as organizational practices. The UNICEF mission statement (1996) expresses that the organization aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities’. The promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is central to the mandate of UNICEF emanating from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 

3. Objectives. Conduct Participatory Gender Review for (ECO)

4. Experience and qualification:  The team leader should be a gender expert with an advanced university degree in social sciences, gender, international development or related field with at least 10 years of experience in evaluation and gender assessments with good understanding and knowledge of participatory methodology and familiar with UNICEF mandate, policies and country programme processes and areas of work, and UN programming and strategies in least the team leader should have an international experience.

Interested and eligible bidders from local organizations are invited to collect the complete tender documents by sending an email to Mr. Sebastian Muzuma (smuzuma@unicef.org) or Mr. Deresse Damte (ddamte@unicef.org) Starting on Friday 27-Feb-2015. Proposals are to be submitted to UNICEF Ethiopia Office on or before 9.00 am (East African Time) 13-March-2015 (Friday). Please quote the RFP nr. 9117378 In all your correspondences. Due to the nature of the bid, there will be no bid public opening for this offer. UNICEF reserves the right to accept or reject part or all of any or all bids.

ADDRESS:  UNICEF Ethiopia, UNECA Compound, NOF Building, 2rd floor Supply Section,  Attn. Mr. Sebastian Muzuma / Mr. Deresse Damte, P.O.BOX 1169, TEL: +251-11 518 4233 / 4167, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.