Consultancy: Project Evaluation

Consultancy Announcement

Project Evaluation

The Guidance and Training Center for the Child and Family (GTC) was founded in Bethlehem in 1994 to provide mental health services, special education services and training for Palestinian children and families. 

The GTC follows a holistic approach to meet the needs of the children and families and support healthy social, cognitive, emotional and educational development. The GTC focuses not only on the problems of the individual and families, but on the environment that they live in and how the cultural context affects them. As part of this approach the GTC nurtures relationships with parents and families, schools, governmental and private organizations.

The GTC is seeking to recruit a consultant to implement a mid-term external evaluation for the project entitled “Providing Mental Health Services to Children, Youth and Women in Bethlehem Area”

The evaluation aims at obtaining an external, independent assessment of the implementation of the project so far. The evaluation should investigate the impact, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and sustainability of the project, and provide the GTC with feedback and recommendations that will contribute to improved activities implementation to reach the intended project’s goals and objectives.

Key qualifications of the evaluator

This evaluation will require the services of an expert with the following qualifications:

1. Proven previous experience in conducting evaluations.
2. Academic degree in a mental health related field.
3. Expertise in the field of mental health.
4. Knowledge in civil society co-operation and development cooperation.
5. Understanding of the cultural and political context in Palestine.
6. Excellent command of Arabic and English.

Content of the evaluator’s offer

The content of the evaluator offer should include the following sections:

Financial proposal

Please refer to the full Terms of Reference.

Please submit the offer and proposal in English by email to [email protected] by September 23, 2018.