Country-led Evaluation of the Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit in the Philippines from 2014-2023

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of services for the Country-led Evaluation of the Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit in the Philippines from 2014-2023 The Philippines is an archipelagic country in south-east Asia, composed of 7,107 islands across three main islands groups: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, covering a total area of 300,000 km with 236,000 km of coastline. The Philippines is divided into 17 administrative regions. One of the regions is Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, which was formed in January 2019. In 2020, the Philippines had an estimated population of 109 million with an annual growth rate of 1.63 per cent in the period 2015 – 2020 The purpose of the country-led formative evaluation shall be two-fold: (1) To generate evidence to inform the areas of improvement to strengthen the implementation of CFLGA to better support the LGUs in achievieng better results for children in the Philippines; and (2) To generate lessons learned about what works and does not work to inform the future design and implementation of the policy framework and institutional strengthening of the CFLGA as a performance monitoring/audit system to promote child-friendly governance. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. 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 tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) 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 particular 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.