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Expression of Interest - Details

Eoi Name:
Consulting Services For Research Agenda
Pack #:
MOE/GES/CS/02/16
Post Date:
06th April, 2016
Submit Date:
19th April, 2016
Tender Cat:
Consultancy Services
Agency:
-
Industry:
General
Description:
The Government of Ghana has obtained World Bank funding to support the Government’s strategy to improve secondary education in Ghana. The Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP) approved for an amount of USD 156 million with a project development objective to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low-performing senior high schools in Ghana. The project has two components:
• Component 1: Support to increase access with equity and quality in senior high schools (USD 140.1 million). This component will employ a results-based financing modality to increase access with equity and quality in underserved districts and low performing schools.
• Component 2: Management, research, monitoring and evaluation (USD 15.9 million). This will be a traditional investment lending to support implementation of the project, monitoring and evaluation activities, verification of results and research activities. The SEIP will be implemented over a five-year period from May 2014 to November 2019. The Ministry of Education (MOE) is the implementing agency with implementation at school level overseen by the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The consulting services (“the Services”) are to employ the services of a firm to provide a programmatic research agenda to: (i) to address strategic issues in line with the Government’s secondary education program, (ii) to contribute building sector performance monitoring capacities and to contribute to evidence-based policymaking. A strong emphasis is placed on collaboration with and capacity building of local institutions and in bridging the research-policy divide. The MOE/GES plans to contract a research firm to undertake robust and outcome-based research with sound methodologies that will provide evidence on secondary schools in four key policy areas:
• Improving access and equity towards a progressively free SHS
• Improving learning outcomes in Science and Mathematics
• Improving quality through cost effective teacher training programs
• Improving efficiency of secondary education services through changes in central, local and school-based management practices
The Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, the implementing agencies, on behalf of the Government of Ghana, now invite eligible consulting firms, including joint ventures (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications, relevant experience and appropriate resources to perform the Services. The short listing criteria are:
• Core business and number of years in business
• Organizational capacity
• Technical and research capacity/experience
• Availability of appropriate research skills
• Researchers’ experience in similar assignments including Mathematics and any Science-related area
• Researchers’ experience in working in similar conditions and environments.
Interested firms should provide sufficiently detailed information to allow assessment of their qualification and experience.
Source of Funds:
-
Region:
National
District:
Not Applicable
Contact Person:
The Director, Supplies & Logistics Division, Ghana Education Service Box M45, Accra-Ghana
Email :
seipmoe@yahoo.com
Tel :
+233(0)249331015/+233(0)208110079
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