Consultancy for Endline Evaluation of Catch Up Education Programme in Northwestern Province, Zambia

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Evaluation of Catch-Up Education Programme in Northwestern Province 2026. BRIEF BACKGROUND The purpose of this evaluation is to undertake a rigorous summative assessment of the Catch-Up Programme (Improving Quality of Learning) in North-Western Province. It will systematically examine the programme’s relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability over the 2024–2026 programme cycle. The evaluation will generate robust evidence on learning outcomes, programme implementation, and system-level strengthening to inform policy decisions, potential scale-up, and long-term sustainability of the programme in other provinces. OBJECTIVES • Assess the effectiveness of the Catch-Up programme on learning outcomes, examining whether and how the programme improved learning, particularly among vulnerable learners. • Evaluate the programme’s contribution to system strengthening, determining the extent to which it enhanced teacher practices, promoted data use, and strengthened the Ministry of Education’s capacity to manage and apply education data. • Assess the programme’s impact on equity and inclusion, exploring how effectively it supported the participation and learning of vulnerable children. • Examine the sustainability and potential for institutionalization of programme interventions, considering whether programme approaches and innovations can be maintained and scaled within existing education systems. IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.