UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking a qualified institution to conduct a Review of Alternative Care in Thailand: Policy to Practice with special focus on Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (CABA).
Purpose of Assignment:
The purpose of the assignment is to capture more accurate and detailed information regarding children in various forms of alternative care in Thailand, as well as the legal, policy, management/oversight environment surrounding them in order to plan and program more strategically in the area of alternative care, and simultaneously contribute to the global evidence base for international recommendations on alternative care.
The review will cover the following types of alternative care for children (under the age of 18):
1. Residential care (e.g. orphanages) – registered and unregistered
2. Foster care
3. Kinship care (i.e. children cared for by extended family members)
While the scope of the review will focus on all children in alternative care settings, special focus will be placed on children affected by HIV/AIDS in these settings. Providers of care to be covered through the review will include Government and private sector providers of residential care (e.g. orphanages) as well as foster care.
Information from this review will be shared with national stakeholders in Thailand as well as international colleagues associated with the global study on alternative care. Findings and recommendations will feed into improved programme and policy environments in the area of alternative care, and contribute to defining workplans for future work in this area in Thailand.
The review is expected to take approximately 10 months to complete.
Travel is expected to approximately 5 provinces in Thailand for purposes of the scoping exercise and subsequent data collection. As such, each of the provinces will likely be visited at least twice, once for the scoping exercise, and once for data collection purposes.
Response Requirement:
As part of our evaluation process, the bidder will be requested to submit the following documents together with the proposals:
- Background information on the institution and its qualifications
- Company registration documents
- Proposal detailing how the institution will fulfill the TOR, including proposed methodology and approach
- CV(s) of the proposed individual(s)/team
- List of previous assignments/projects with relevant or similar nature of services (to be completed in the attached template) including experience working with non-profit organization
- Price proposal (using the attached template)
Proposals must be received at the specified address by latest 10.00 hours (Bangkok time) on 5th February 2014.
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