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Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)

Disability Rights for Increased Voice and Empowerment (DRIVE) Project

TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)

Development of Policy Monitoring and Analysis Tool

1.    Background

Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Development Organization established in 2005 and reregistered at Agency for Civil Society Organizations as Ethiopian Development Organization with Certificate no. 0321 under the Proc. No. 1113/2019. ECDD is working with other organizations to promote and facilitate the inclusion of persons with disabilities and disability issues in mainstream service delivery and development programs envisioning an Inclusive Ethiopia where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens.

ECDD is currently implementing a project entitled “Disability Rights for an Increased Voice and Empowerment (DRIVE)” funded by the European Union and Light for the World International under the Civil Society Fund III Programme with the overall objective of improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the promotion of disability rights and inclusion.

In 2019, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) along with the Federal TVET Agency published a guideline for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET. The general objective of this guideline is to ensure that individuals with disabilities have education and training opportunities equal to persons without disabilities, through the development of disability-inclusive education and training in the public and non-public TVET institutions in the country. Thus, ECDD would like to develop a monitoring and analysis tool for this guideline.

2.   MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

Developing policy tracking tools and analyzing the implementation of the FDRE TVET Guideline for inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET (2019).

3.    FUNCTIONS / KEY RESULTS EXPECTED

The consultant will be responsible for performing the following activities:

(A) Developing Policy Tracking Tools;

(B) Analyzing Implementation of the Guideline for inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET (2019).

(C) Identifiing Action Points, and

(D) Producing guideline review report with possible recommendations

(E) Validating the final Analysis in the presence of stakeholders.

4.    EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

Key deliverables of the assignment are summarized as follows:

·         Preparing draft inception report and a work plan;

·         Final Inception Report which will incorporate comments from ECDD and relevant partners;

·         Develop first draft policy/guideline tracking tools;

·         Submit the final Policy/ guideline tracking tools;

·         Review the guideline with the developed tools to identify the potential implementational gaps of the guideline in reference to the UNCRPD

·         The gaps observed, achievements made, challenges occurred, and lessons learned in the implementation of the guideline should be stated

·         Present the report on a validation workshop;

·         Provide Final Report in English on time.

5.    DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The assignment will be implemented within 30 Calendar Days starting from the signing of a contract document. Payment shall be made upon submission of deliverables as per the following millstones, and approval by the ECDD.

6.    MODE OF PAYMENT

1.    REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

 (A)  Demonstrated level of expertise in developing policy tracking tools

(B) Experience working with organizations working on disability issues.

(C) MA in Special Needs Education with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience.

(D) Analytical and methodological skills and ability to organize ideas, texts, data collection, presentations and produce analytical documents and reports.

E) Experience in developing various tools of assessment for policies, guidelines and similar documents previously.