EXTENDED - Installation of WIFI in various school locations in Samoa (Upolu and Savaii)

Earlier in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread across the globe, Samoa quickly closed its borders and schools. Since April 2020, UNESCO has assisted Samoa in connectivity, training, and other training support in making education available through multimedia methods (radio, television, and online through the internet). The Government of Japan responded to the request made by Samoa Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture (MESC) with support from UNESCO. The focus of the ICT in Education project in Samoa will be on marginalized schools due to geographical location, cover low socio-economic status, have gender imbalance, and include children with disabilities. This selection is essential to ensure that the project helps bridge the digital divide in education and ensure that most marginalized students are not left behind.In addition, the project responds to Samoa’s need;

• to connect more schools to the regional online learning management platform;
• to help production of increasing curricular contents in multimedia formats (radio, television, and online);
• for training of teachers and school administration at the school level as well as, training of students and parents to manage multimedia education and
• to make available individual devices to the schools, and development of a system for their use by the students for online learning.

To support the connecting of project schools (20 in total, located across both Savaii and Upolu  to the regional online learning management system as well as the effective use of project provisioned devices, a Firm is sought to provide services and goods necessary to facilitate the on-site installation, set-up and testing of WiFi, networking and security equipment across each school site. 

For full information, please refer to the detailed TOR document.