Ogaysiis Muhiim Ah : Shaqooyin ka Banaan Hay’adda Save the Children, PL Program.

Save the Children, Puntland Program

 Terms of Reference for

Primary School Needs Assessment for “Education is Light” Project

1. BACKGROUND

Save the Children International (SCI) is a charitable child rights focused organization working to secure a world where the rights of all children are recognized and respected. SC has had a working association with Somalia since the 1950s. It established offices in Somaliland in 1979 and has since then maintained a continuous physical presence except for a brief interruption in 1990. In Puntland, SC started operating and providing support in different sectors since the Tsunami incident without interruption and works in partnership with the government and other development partners in Somaliland/Puntland to strengthen indigenous institutions and hence improve the delivery of education, protection and healthcare services to children, particularly in under-served areas.

SC on one hand provides alternative basic education services to the children of Somalia including disadvantaged hard to reach children who find it difficult to join formal schools for varied reasons. On the other hand, SC supports formal schools in terms of quality education delivery through capacity development of teachers, incentive support, sanitary promotion, scholastic materials and other related interventions.

Save the Children and two other consortium members (Care & ADRA ) have secured funds from EC to implement the Education Sector Development Programme “Education is Light project” which is intended to support Strengthened delivery of effective BE/SE/ABE/TVET/NFE education services addressing the populations¡¦ needs in Puntland

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Overall objective of the project is to contribute to a sustainable, cohesive education system offering relevant services to the majority of the relevant age groups in Puntlandi.

. This TOR is developed to guide the Primary school need assessment survey of the project and site identification process.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHOOL NEEDS ASSESSEMENT SURVEY

The objectives of the school need assessment survey are:

1. To assess the overall needs of the targeted schools of the 12 districts which the projects will support by focusing on the following areas:

„h The access learning environment

„h Teaching and learning materials

„h Community participation

„h Teachers and education personnel

„h Life skills

2. To come up verified school needs with prioritization and necessary support

3. To mobilize urgently as per the result of the assessment, the needed interventions ( support)

4. SCOPE OF THE ASSESSMENT and expected outcome

The assessment will seek to accomplish but not be limited to the following;

1. Collect school level data, needs assessment of the targeted schools for site selection and M&E planning

2. Make diagnosis of the Local community commitment and willingness to support and show ownership of the schools in extending sustainable bottom up support during the project implementation period.

3. Identify and recommend appropriate support needed by the assessed schools and recommend the suitable sites where new schools to be established, upgrade and renovate the existing schools

4. To recommend the most effective project delivery approaches based on lessons learnt and good practices from the practical experience of partners with due consideration to the implemented projects in the past.

5. The commitment of the local community in contributing towards the sustainability of the newly constructed Schools properly evaluated and practical feedback obtained for taking smart decisions in regard of implementing this new project successfully and meet the expected results

Conducting Preliminary briefing and discussion of the assessment tool

The education staff of consortium members and members of MoE directors of departments and TA as well as other educationists had convened a meeting at MoE meeting hall which was opened by the minister of MoE to review the tool developed for conducting school need assessment and finally the participants of the meeting validated and endorsed the tool after making some corrections.

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3. MAJOR ASSESSMENT OUTPUTS

The assessment aims at producing the following outputs:

„h Thoroughly assessed and identified actual needs of the primary schools of the project 12 targeted districts

„h Baseline values for project indicators against which future measurements of outcome/impact related changes of the project established

„h Detailed school need assessment findings (report) and recommendations for selection of project supporting sites (districts, communities and schools) and specific interventions in selected schools (upgrading, renovating,).

4. ASSESSMENT METHODS

. A combination of different methods will be used as outlined below.

a) Consultation/participation of government educational authorities at different regions/districts for the school needs assessment (District, village as per the school lists provided by the MoE

b) Undertake field data collection using by :

„h Semi structured key informant interviews with the respective REOs/DEOs as well as the head teachers and other MOE authorities at national level to find out information relating: i) number of villages within the schools¡¦ catchment area, ii) Main Economic/Livelihood activity of the community, iii) The access learning environment

iv)Teaching and learning materials

v)Community participation

vi) Teachers and education personnel

o Site observation

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5. KEY CONSIDERATIONS DURING THE ASSESSMENT

„h ABE program interventions that have been previously supported by SC implemented Projects (ISPABE, SIBES and APES, Scaling up of level five learners) will be given priority in identifying the project sites for the sake of building on t the already existing work of SC.

„h The situation of existing primary schools will be assessed to establish needs for expansion, renovation, and facilities such as play grounds, latrine pits ,furnishing and educational inputs among others

„h Government priorities will be considered during selection (once report is produced, final appraisal of sites and recommendations of where to to support will be made jointly with the MOE)

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6. ASSESSMENT IMPLEMENTATION TEAM WILL CONDUCT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT EXERCISE AS INDICATED BELOW

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Budget breakdown for the primary school needs assessment

Cost of hired vehicles:

It is agreed that the school needs assessments will be conducted by 4 teams as indicated below:

Team 1- Bargal, team 2-Bossasso, team 3- Sanag, sool, Cayn & mudug and team 4-Nugal and karkar. The 4 teams need 4 vehicles.Therefore,3 vehicles will be hired for 3 team. Whilethe team assessing Nugal and karkar will use SC Garowe office vehicle and Garowe office will use temporary hired vehicle during the absence of that vehicle.The number of days that the hired vehicles will be used is indicated in the below table:

Perdiums for the 4 teams