Maldives: INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTANT- Evaluate the Single Parent and Foster Care Social Protection Schemes in the Maldives

UNICEF Maldives has supported National Social Protection Agency in its social protection program throughout the current country program, in terms of increasing SP services, better targeting and monitoring of the implementation of the Social Protection Programme. Hence, it is pertinent that an evaluation of the single parent allowance and foster parent allowance be undertaken at this point in time, so as to (a) inform the progress made in implementing the Social Protection Programme, (b)the challenges faced and how they can be addressed, (c)how the SP can be scaled up or increase coverage and (d) to inform enhanced partnership and leverage more funding of child sensitive SP

For this purpose, the UNICEF Office in the Republic of Maldives is seeking to hire a reputable international research institution to Evaluate the Single Parent and Foster Care Social Protection Schemes in the Maldives

Attached please find the following documents.

· RFP (Request for Proposal)- this will provide all the necessary information with regard to the bid submission process, kindly note that all bidders are supposed to submit the complete bid submission form as in page 3 of this document.

· Annex B: Terms of Reference for the contract.

· Annex C- Technical Evaluation criteria.

· Annex D- Price Schedule -

All interested parties please submit the proposals via email to snathif@unicef.org Subject line: Bid submission for RFP-2019-9151308

For bid to be completed the following should be submitted:

1. Bid form on page three of the RFP document.
2. Technical proposal
3. Annex D – Price proposal along with a detailed breakdown of expenses.

Kindly notes that the deadline for submission is on 26^h August 2019 at 15:00 hrs (Local time).

Please don’t hesitate contact by Email (snathif@unicef.org) or phone (+960 7990053) for any questions or clarifications