LRPS- 2023-9181833 Public Finance for Children (PF4C) Cost Benefit Analysis

UNICEF Thailand  has now issued a Request for Proposal in reference to LRPS-2023- 9181833  to   seek for  a qualified institution to conduct public finance for children (PF4C) cost benefit analysis.

Background

 The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued General Comment No.13 on the protection of children from all forms of violence (CRC/C/GC/13) in 2011, stressing that States parties have a role to play in implementing legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect children from all forms of violence. The general comment transforms the concept from child protection that focused on problem-solving for specific groups or issues or problems, which is a more reactive approach, to a preventive and holistic approach, by considering both the children and their environment, using a Protective Environment Framework.

The Department of Children and Youth (DCY) of the Ministry of Social Development manages a number of core functions under the Child Protection Act, 2003 (B.E 2546), including National Child Protection Committee and the Child Protection Fund. As per the provision of the Child Protection Act, the Royal Thai Government sets aside an annual budget for the “Child Protection Fund” for use as capital for providing assistances, welfare protection, and behavior promotion for children and families, as well as kinship and foster families.

Since funding is critical to ensure the delivery of child protection services, the analysis of special child protection funding (Child Protection Fund, Kinship Grant, and Foster Grant) will provide the necessary background required to improve the services in the child protection system. Using Public Finance for Children (PF4C) can enhance the persuasiveness of advocacy messages for child protection and contribute to better plans and budgets for scaling up systems and implementing services.

Objectives, Purpose & Expected results

The overall objective is to highlight the importance of the three special funding arrangements related to child protection (child protection fund, kinship care grant, foster care grant) and how they have contributed to the well-being and protection of children from 2018-2022. The exercise aims to look at how effectively these funding arrangements have been used to achieve the results spelt out in the Child Protection Act, Regulations for Kinship Care Grant and Regulations for Foster Care Grant.

Location and Duration

The contract duration is planned for May to November 2023 to allow sufficient time for completion of all deliverables as

It is expected that the team will travel to areas outside Bangkok for fieldwork as per the methodology and tools finalized for this assessment. All international and domestic travel costs should be budgeted and included in the total lump sum value described in the financial proposal. The selected institution will be responsible for making its own travel arrangements. When relevant and necessary, UNICEF may facilitate the logistics arrangement for field visits in coordination with the relevant government counterparts

For full details, please refer to the attached Terms of Reference.

This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system (UNGM).

By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html .

In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission.

 Please note that in order to access the full-set of tender documents through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (1) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (2) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering.

Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated.

All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log-in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.

Should you have any questions against this solicitation, please submit your queries to Puntita Sookchareon at psookchareon@unicef.org with CC to: jbehr@unicef.org ,  osrimanotham@unicef.org  and tkamtabnam@unicef.org- no later than 14th April 2023 so that all queries could be clarified and circulated to all bidders before the deadline.

We look forward to receiving your proposals within the given timeline.

Best regards,

UNICEF Supply team