Development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Community Safety Strategy

CARIBBEAN, BERMUDA AND LATIN AMERICA CRIME STOPPERS INC

IMPROVED CITIZEN SECURITY IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN

CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MONITORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Caribbean, Bermuda and Latin America Crime Stoppers Inc. (CBLACS) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent US$132,242.00 towards the cost of Improved Citizen Security in the Eastern Caribbean Project and intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under a contract for which this invitation is issued. Payments by CDB will be made only at the request of CBLACS and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Financing Agreement. The Financing Agreement prohibits withdrawal from the financing account for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import, to the knowledge of CDB, is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. No party other than CBLACS shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

CBLACS, now wishes to procure consultancy services to undertake the research, analysis and technical work in Barbados and St. Kitts & Nevis to assist project beneficiaries in developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework to track programme outcomes and to support achievement of the consultancy’s objective, stated below.

The objective of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to project communities to develop, through wide stakeholder participation, a culturally-appropriate and gender-responsive Community Safety Strategy with an Action Plan to be used in implementing crime prevention and/or reduction measures. The Consultant will be required to:

(a) Review the Project’s objectives;

(b) Identify the range of data and information required to appropriately monitor and evaluate the Project;

(c) Identify the relevant, measurable, appropriate, unambiguous gender-responsive indicators of project outputs and outcomes and impact on project beneficiaries. Some of these may be proxy indicators;

(d) Design the M&E system to track and analyse project performance;

(e) Identify suitable persons to be trained in the conduct of fieldwork, and in the techniques of data input and analysis (including gender analysis) and provide the necessary training;

(f) Recommend the human resources, materials, equipment and methodologies that should be employed in operating the M&E system; and

(g) Present the system to stakeholders in a sensitisation workshop, demonstrating the identification, collection, analysis and reporting of data and information.

The duration of the assignment is expected to be 12 months.

CBLACS now invites interested eligible individual consultants to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.

Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:

(a) the persons are citizens or bona fide resident or residents of an eligible country; and

(b) in all cases, the consultant has no arrangement and undertakes not to make any arrangements, whereby any substantial part of the net profits or other tangible benefits of the contract will accrue or be paid to a person not a citizen or bona fide resident of an eligible country.

Eligible countries are member countries of CDB.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of CDB’s Guidelines for the Selection and Engagement of Consultants (2011), setting forth CDB’s policy on conflict of interest.

In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to qualifications and experience on similar assignments including:

• At least a Master’s degree in Sociology, Criminology, or a related social science.

• At least five years’ experience in social research, or a Bachelor’s Degree in the subject areas above and at least 10 years’ relevant experience.

• Specialist training and/or experience in M&E, impact evaluation, with expertise in the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data and the development of gender-responsive indicators.

All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Caribbean time) Monday to Friday.

The original and one hard copy of the Expressions of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than noon on July 6, 2015 and one hard copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below. The sealed envelope containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services Development of an M&E Framework”.

Following the assessment of submissions, the most technically capable and appropriately experienced applicant will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. CBLACS reserves the right to accept or reject late applications or to cancel the present invitation partially or in its entirety. It will not be bound to assign any reason for not short-listing any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.