Expression of Interest

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)

To Conduct Project Baseline, Midline and Endline for STEM II    

Mercy Corps is an international, non-governmental humanitarian relief and development agency that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping to build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to support people, communities and organizations that can bring about positive change. 

Mercy Corps has been implementing Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls in Kailali (STEM) program in Kailali district of Far western region since June 2013 funded by DFID under Girls Education Challenge and fund managed by PwC. The project aims to improve the life chances of marginalised girls in Kailali district by creating a supportive environment towards girls education. This is done through a series of activities including community awareness campaigns, formation of after school girls’ clubs, providing business and vocational trainings and access to finance to out of school girls, and building capacity of schools, teachers, parents and the communities. STEM II will work with the same 30 treatment and 13 control schools from STEM I, where evaluation will focus on an approach that enables the project to measure and see changes that can be rigorously attributed to the project intervention. For this, the project will use a quasi-experimental design whereby the change happening in the control group will provide the counterfactual scenario to the interventions in STEM II. 

Mercy Corps Nepal invites applications from qualified evaluators to evaluate the project impact. Only firms/organizations with proven experience in rigorous evaluation studies in education are eligible to apply.  Please visit nepal.mercycorps.org to download terms of reference and tender documents.  

Firms/Organizations interested in working as the External Evaluators for STEM II program shall submit tender in a sealed envelope with date, signature and stamp by August 23, 2017 not later than 4:30 p.m. at the Mercy Corps office at Sanepa Chowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. The envelope should be clearly marked with “Sealed Tender for STEM II External Evaluation.” The tender received after mentioned date and time will not be considered.  Please register your submission of tender at the front desk of Mercy Corps office.

GEC Programme documentations: Grant Recipient Handbook, Evaluation Guidance, Logframe and Workplan guidance; and GEC Project documentation – Project Logframe, Project Full Application, Project MEL Framework shall be provided to the bidder upon email request at np-consultancy@mercycorps.org

Only shortlisted organizations will be contacted for further process. Canvassing at any stage of the process shall lead to automatic disqualification of the application.  Mercy Corps reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals without assigning any reason.