Yayasan Plan International Indonesia Need Consultant For W4W Project

 

TERM OF REFERENCE E-LEARNING COURSE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT Plan International Indonesia – W4W! November 2018

 

1. Background

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Yayasan Plan International Indonesia currently is presently implementing its country strategic 4 (CS4) for five years covering fiscal year 2018 to 2022, where the country objective has been defined as “to identify and facilitate the removal of obstacles that prevent children from enjoying their rights and participating fully in Indonesian society”. Plan will address five key child and youth rights issues, contributing to the implementation of the SDGs, four of which particularly affect girls and young women. The issues will be addressed through Programme Objectives anchored on the global outcome areas: Learn, Lead, Decide and Thrive. LEARN Program focus in providing equal opportunities for girl and young women to secure decent jobs, aim to support the overall objectives of Plan International Indonesia. Plan International Indonesia targeted around 1,000,000 marginalized girls and young women will be reached from about 1,000 villages in two eastern and five Javanese provinces. LEARN will contribute in reaching out around 63,000 youth (70% girls; 44,100 marginalized girls and young women), and 22,500 Families in 200 villages. In addition to that, the program will also target 200 private sector companies (Including 50 private Technical Vocational Education Training providers - TVETs, Micro Finance Institutions - MFIs, PNGOs) in 10 districts from 7 provinces through its Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) initiatives.Gender inequalities in the region’s labour market are slowing the transition towards inclusive growth. Estimates suggest that the region loses up to $77 billion per year due to gender gaps in education and women’s limited access to employment opportunities, education and financial services. While women’s performance in various Asian labour markets may vary, women overall are under-represented in formal employment and over-represented in unemployment rates, low-skilled, low-paid and unpaid work. One of the project under LEARN program that is focuses on employment; Wired for Work (W4W) project targets vulnerable youth, especially women, in Indonesia and the Philippines. Indonesia needs an average of 3.2 million additional skilled workers per year, while budget allocations for non-formal (vocational) education are limited, leaving a significant number of youth untrained. This is reflected in a youth unemployment rate of 17.8%. Approximately 8.7 million women are unemployed compared to 6.1 million men, while poor women are likely to be unpaid workers (27% of women compared to 6% of men). Plan Indonesia will target areas where the program can build on existing engagement with the private sector and will benefit of employment opportunities for vulnerable youth,in hospitality, retail and ICT sector. In the Philippines, youth unemployment stands at 12.8% for young men and 14.5% for young women, making up 76% of the total unemployed. Young people face a persistent challenge of jobs mismatch, where their education or training does not match market demand. Despite making up half of the total population^[1], prevailing gender norms affect the participation of young women in the labour market, with young women representing only 39% of the total youth workforce in 2016^[2]. The Philippine government’s aims to create opportunities for youth industry with industry-led skills development, by improving access to and quality of TVET programs for unemployed youth, and targeting 2.3 million jobs generated from the industry by 2022.

1. Goal AND objectives

The overall goal is to create e-learning platform that are consists of soft skill and technical skill training courses with blended models technique for youth. The purpose of this assignment is to develop a robust  and high quality e-learning courses for the Wired for Work project that being implemented by Plan Indonesia in 3 locations (Jakarta, Semarang and Lombok) focus on vocational training for youth to prepare them for the employment world. The needs of e-learning courses creation is to develop the most suitable form of courses and training technique that is align with the target audience.

The key components and outcomes of the project are as follow:

No.	Component	Outcomes
1	Private sector engagement	·       Youth (particularly young women) have increased market demanded skills through digitally enhanced learning solutions and are empowered to engage in high quality youth employment opportunities
2	Youth Skills Development and Empowerment	·       Alignment of market needs and supply ·       New employment opportunities are created for vulnerable youth
3	Enabling environment for youth employment, by strengthening alliances and networks	·       Government agencies, TVET institutions, development banks and other key stakeholders are influenced to adopt digitally enhanced skills training delivery
4	Program Quality and Innovation to leverage impact	·       YES!DIGITAL solutions; digital ecosystem design to support the Youth Employment have been used across Asia

 

1. the key stakeholders that will be involved

The intended users of the documents are Plan staff involved in project implementation..

1. Scope of Work (for external consultant)

Plan Indonesia will provide the following:

1. The Project proposal and log frame
2. Other related project documents or previous relevant documents or reports.  
3. Organize for debriefing meetings before and after the exercise

The consultant will be responsible for timely delivery of the outputs and deliverables. More specifically the consultant will:

1. Create high quality e-learning courses and ensure the courses up and running well in the platform to be accessed by youth.
2. Work in close collaboration with Plan staff and partners in order to define specific information and evaluation.
3. Ensure the courses is conducted in line with the principles outlined in Plan’s Child Protection Policy.
4. Ensure to incorporate gender and inclusive perspective into the e-learning course design
5. To keep all information provided by Plan International Indonesia as well as the findings and the creation of the product and research/evaluation confidential.

5.Indicative Timeline

20 December 2018 –  10 June 2019

The research party is responsible for the arrangement of all travel and interviews if needed.

Deliverable	Completion Date
Content, method and strategy development	15 January 2019
Content development	15 February 2019
Courses production	1 May 2019
E-learning courses workshop	10 May 2019

 

 

 

 

 

6.Ethical and child protection statements

The consultant team and Plan International staff have to adhere to Plan International Child Protection Policy. The consultant team must follow Ethical Principles for involving human subjects in a research and obtain written/ verbal consent from the human subjects. Permission from elder must be sought if the children under 18 years are involved as subjects. Signed informed consent of each child and his/ her parents need to take after explaining purpose of the study and its usage. Training on this will be part of the training provided for the survey team.

7.Selection criteria OF CONSULTANT

The e-learning courses has to be developed by a high qualified consultant with strong capacity in producing high quality e-learning courses. Consultant interested in submitting a proposal should have the following criteria:

1. At least 5 years of experience and background in technology education and skills of creating training curriculum, modules and production of e-learning courses.
2. Proficient in both English and own local language (oral and written)
3. Good communication skills, with ability of explaining complex problems or concepts in simple and understandable language.

8.Submission Protocol (for external consultant)

First step: Consultant send application to: Nindita.kanti@plan-international.org and cc. to Ronald.stefanus@plan-international.org with subject line: “Expression of Interest_ E-learning course consultant W4W!_Name of applicant” before 5 PM, 14 December 2018 by enclosing the following required documents:

1. Organizational Profile (for institutional consultant) or a CV (for individual consultant).
2. Portfolio (related to this scope of work).

Seconds Step: Based on received documents, Plan International Indonesia will shortlist candidates and invite them for interview session. Plan International Indonesia will afterwards proceed with selecting and appointing a consultant.

Only shortlisted consultant will be contacted for recruitment