Children’s Rights & Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) is seeking a qualified consultant/firm to conduct a regional evaluation of the Adolescent Girls Power Program in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania & Ethiopia.
Scope of Work Includes:
• Assessing girls’ self-confidence, life skills & decision-making
• Evaluating policy engagement & the cluster model
• Reviewing sustainability of program outcomes
• Documenting 8 most significant stories of change
Who We’re Looking For:
• 10+ years research/evaluation experience
• Strong background in adolescent girls’ programming
• Expertise in mixed-methods & ethical child-safeguarding research
• Proven publication and data analysis skills (SPSS/STATA)
📅 Deadline: 28th November 2025
📨 Submit proposals to: info@crvpf.org
For full details & to apply, see the information below
Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)
TOR for Consultancy Services to evaluate the Adolescent Girls Power Program
Request for Proposals
General description of tasks and objectives to be achieved
1.0 Background information
The Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) is a regional intermediary organization that provides grants and capacity strengthening support to local NGOs and Community Organizations. CRVPF promotes children’s Rights and Social Justice issues by working with Community Organizations targeting young people in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia. CRVPF’ s vision is to ensure children and young people are safe from violence including sexual violence where they live, learn, play, and work.
CRVPF promotes a cluster partnership model encouraging 2-4 community organizations working in one geographic location with a common grant to prevent violence and sexual violence against children and young people. CRVPF believes proximity to the community is critical to prevent violence in family, school, and community settings. CRVPF has three grant-making programs which include the Prevention of Violence against Children (PVAC), Adolescent Girls Power Program (AGPP), and Empowering Youth through Data and Community Development (EYDCD). CRVPF’ s strategic approach to violence prevention states that violence is a cross-cutting issue in the lives of children, and adolescent girls, and the interventions should be focused on family, community, and school settings.
About Adolescent Girls power Program (AGPP)
CRVPF received periodic grants from Novel and TIDES since 2018 to support the implementation of the Adolescent girl’s power program aimed at building power for adolescent girls. The goal of the program was to ensure that Adolescent Girls have power to transform themselves and change structures that deny them choice and power to make better decisions. Adolescent girls are powerful. Yet, many are born into societies where patriarchal norms stifle their rights and opportunities. This entrenched gender inequality and harmful social norms fuel violence and sexual violence, which in turn leads to early pregnancies, child marriages, limited access to education and numerous other challenges.
The program creates dialogue between different actors to foster critical, intersectional thinking amongst practitioners, and supports national and regional sites of solidarity in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia by promoting the “girls-only safe space model with specific objectives that include;
- Contribute to shifting the power in Philanthropy, building relationships of trust with implementing partners. This may also include developing participatory grant making models that work to put decision making powers in the hands of girls and community.
- Centering adolescent girls in the work to shift power, focus on learning rooted deeply in girl’s realities potential and inherent of power.
- Building a movement that will help girls raise their voice and make better choices on life.
Under the program, CRVPF has supported 15 cluster partners comprising 44 community organisation operating in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia through provision of grants and capacity strengthening. The expected outcomes of these grants include
- Increased safe spaces for adolescent girls to build their self-confidence and self-worth.
- Strengthened life skills for girls to enable them to make informed decisions to pursue new opportunities.
- Girls influence the priorities and actions on issues impacting their lives
- Increased information sharing and knowledge among adolescent girls to enhance right choices and decisions affecting their lives.
- Strengthened organizational leadership and governance
- Strengthened system for engaging decision makers and influencers to use evidence in policy formulation
- Increased engagements of Policy makers at National, community and school level on issue of children and adolescent girls
- Strengthened community structures & linkages among AGPP clusters in the country and across the region
However, it’s not yet clear whether this support has made the relevant changes desired in the lives of girls, and the key lessons so far. Thus, there is a need for an external consultant to support the CRVPF-AGPP Program to assess and document the impact, relevancy and sustainability of the program.
Description of the assignment
2.0 Overall objective and purpose
The overall objective of the assignment is to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the program interventions and document most significant stories showing changes made in the lives of adolescent girls because of the AGPP program. The results from this assessment will be used to draw lessons that will inform programming for girls.
2.1 Specific objectives
- To assess the level of self- confidence and self-worth acquired by adolescent girls through the AGPP program over the last six years.
- To assess how skills attained by adolescent girls influenced their decision making on life choices and pursuit of new opportunities.
- To assess how effective engagement of policy makers on issues affecting adolescent girls in community and district/Kabare/County level impacted policy and legislative reforms.
- How effective is the cluster approach contributing to change in the community and the institutional development of organisations within the cluster.
- How sustainable are the results of the AGPP program interventions are at community.
- Document 8 most significant stories showing changes made in the lives of adolescent girls because of the AGPP program. Two stories per country.
3.0 Methodology
The consultant will be required to develop an appropriate methodology that is technically sound and share all tools with Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) before field engagement.
The tools must be able to collect both quantitative and qualitative data and must be friendly to adolescent girls and other stakeholders.
The tools shall be participatory and will be administered at community and district level and with policy makers.
In addition, the consultant will be required to develop an analytical plan that specifies each data type/information to be collected, corresponding indicators, and sampling methodology and measurement criteria.
The proposed methodology should be clear and relevant to the context of the project location as well as the specific indicators.
Methodology should include clear ways of documenting changes from the target areas.
4.0 Target Population
The target population for this assignment includes adolescent girls (10-25years in and out of school), their parents, teachers, leaders in the community, government officials and thematic organizations in the selected project areas.
5.0 Expected deliverables
- A technical & financial proposal with a clear interpretation of the TORs, methodology, work plan, budget (in UGX & USD).
- An inception report that includes a refined methodology, tools, and work plan as agreed on with CRVPF in discussions following award of contract.
- Develop and translate the evaluation procedure, data collection instruments and consent forms based on the evaluation plan that will have been developed (translations will be into the relevant languages)
- Train the evaluation team members on the evaluation procedure and on conducting the research
- Conduct the evaluation assessment based on the procedure
- Analyze the data collected
- Write an initial report of the evaluation results and present the results to stakeholders to validate the findings
- Presentation of report in reflection and learning meeting
- Write and submit a final comprehensive evaluation report approved by CRVPF in hard copies and electronic copies
- Raw data softcopies in any agreeable statistical packages.
Note: CRVPF shall be the owner of the study including the data generated from the research. The contractor may not use the research results without written permission from CRVPF.
The consultant will be required to develop an appropriate mixed methods methodology that is technically sound and share all tools with Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF). The tools must be able to collect both quantitative and qualitative data and must be friendly to the target populations and participatory in nature.
6.0Schedule of Key Deliverables
| Deliverable | Due Date |
| Application deadline | 28th November 2025 |
| Evaluation Inception report developed and shared | 12th December 2025 |
| Data collection exercise | 12th January 2026 |
| Draft Evaluation report produced | 9th February 2026 |
| Validation reflection meeting | 24th February 2026 |
| Final Evaluation report produced | 17th March 2026 |
6.1 Duration of the Evaluation:
The proposed duration for this exercise is 60 working days from the time of signing contract.
7.0 Responsibilities of CRVPF
- Providing the Terms of Reference for the assignment and relevant AGPP program documents.
- Linking the consultant to CRVPF partners.
- Organize validation, reflection and learning meeting.
9.0 Qualifications and experience of the consultant
The selection of the consultant/firm will be based on the quality of their proposal (incl. methodologies, work plan, tools, qualifications, time schedule, CV), their financial offer, the relevant educational background and experience of the applicants, their familiarity with project related topics, and their experience in adolescent girls interventions. The researchers should have the following experience:
- The consultant/firm should have at least ten (10) years ‘experience of conducting project baselines, evaluations, and research with at least 2 projects related to Adolescent girls interventions from international donor scopes.
- In particular, the consultant should have evidence of having knowledge and or carried out comparative studies.
- The consultant/firm should have a team with good knowledge in statistical concepts.
- Proven publication records
- Solid methodological and research skills
- Excellent and demonstrated understanding of ethical issues in research, including child safeguarding.
- Fluency in English and at least research associates who are fluent in the native languages of the different target areas.
- Ability to write clearly and concisely in English.
- Committed, competent and with good attitude.
- Proficiency in data analysis software such as SPSS, STATA etc.
10.0 Management & Supervision of the assignment
The consultant shall report directly to the AGPP Regional Program Coordinator and MEL Coordinator.
11.0 Payment details
Payment to the consultant will be in 3 instalments: 50% after presentation of acceptable inception report and relevant invoices, 20% after the presentation of an acceptable draft report and other relevant invoices and 30% after presentation of an acceptable final Evaluation report to CRVPF.
13.0 Consultancy fee
- This will depend on the financial proposals of the applicants; however, it should be noted that the consultancy fee will be negotiated after selection.
- The fee shall include withholding taxes.
- The fee shall not include costs for the validation meeting logistics.
14.0 Application process
Interested candidates will be expected to provide the following documentation:
- Detailed Technical proposal in response to TOR, with specific focus on interpretation of TORs, technical approach, methodology, and work plan to be used and key selection criteria.
- A brief description of the Consultants’ organization and an outline, proof of recent experience of the Consultant on assignments of a similar nature is required.
- Financial proposal should indicate; detailed budget breakdown based on expected daily rate, reimbursable expenses, consumables, consultancy fee, all relevant costs, applicable taxes as well as withholding tax etc.
- Company profile or CV including a minimum of 3 references, Names and CVs of individuals or team members proposed, highlighting their experience, and their roles in the achievement of the assignment
- Consultants should submit copies of registration certificates, recent tax clearance certificate and other necessary documents.
15.0 Application Information:
Interested individuals /consulting firms should submit their expression of interest with details of their work plan, proposed methodology and budget to info@crvpf.org Deadline for submission is Friday 28th November 2025.
Disclaimer: Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) work with NGOs and CBOs towards safeguarding the rights of children. We need to keep children safe, so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for this assignment. All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check.
Please note that an attempt to bribe will lead to automatic disqualification.