REQUEST FOR QUOTATION

RFQ Nº UNFPA/EGY/RFQ/25/022

Bid is open for Firms & Individual Consultants

UNFPA hereby solicits a quotation for the following service:

“Evaluation Assessing Social Norms Around Maternal Health, Women and Girls RH and Addressing GBV & HPs”

UNFPA is seeking to hire a consultancy firm that can perform / undertake an evaluation assessing social norms around maternal health, women and girls’ reproductive health and addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Harmful Practices (HPs) as per the attached detailed ToRs.

Objective and scope of work:

UNFPA is seeking a qualified consultant/firm to conduct an evaluation assessing social norms around maternal health, and women and girls’ reproductive health and addressing GBV and HPs.

The evaluation will assess the Country Programme’s contribution to achieving development results at the country level, including constraining and facilitating factors of programme design and performance. The evaluation will apply appropriate methodology for assessing principle cross-cutting elements of equity and vulnerability, gender equality and human rights in the programmes/projects of this cycle. It will be based on the guiding principles, norms and standards for evaluations adopted at UNFPA.

The purpose of the evaluation is to:

1.       Assess the current social norms interventions influencing maternal health and reproductive health decisions and behaviours of women and girls.

2.       Examine how the current social norms interventions contribute  to either the persistence or the mitigation of GBV and harmful practices in the targeted communities.

3.       Identify key influencers, decision-makers, and power dynamics affecting norm reinforcement or change.

4.       Identify existing good practices and success stories from the field and share findings with UNFPA

5.       Inform the design and implementation of the programme.

Deliverable(s); Please review detailed deliverables attached as Annex II – TORs

1.        Inception Report - detailing the research methodology including sampling procedures, data collection tools, data analysis plan and detailed work plan and schedule with the PowerPoint presentation of the inception report. The PowerPoint presentation will be delivered to present the contents of the inception report and the agenda for the field phase. Based on the comments and feedback of the ERG, the evaluation consultant/company will develop the final version of the inception report.

2.        Draft report for comment and feedback with the PowerPoint presentation for debriefing meeting with the CO and the ERG. The presentation provides an overview of key emerging findings of the evaluation at the end of the field phase. It will serve as the basis for the exchange of views between the evaluation consultant/company, UNFPA CO staff (incl. senior management) and the members of the ERG who will thus have the opportunity to provide complementary information and/or rectify the inaccurate interpretation of data and information collected

3.          Produce an acceptable quality of the final evaluation report with the PowerPoint presentation of the evaluation results. The presentation will provide a clear overview of the key findings, conclusions and recommendations to be used for the dissemination of the final evaluation report in addition to cleaned-up datasets in EXCEL format

Timing / Schedule

Contract duration: Mid July-October 2025

I.            Instructions for submission

Proposals should be prepared based on the guidelines set forth in Section III above, along with a properly filled out and signed price quotation form, and are to be sent by email to the contact person indicated below no later than : Monday 30 June 2025 at 14:00 PM Cairo Time][1].