Invitation to Tender for Family-based Care Program Evaluation

Services Required

CIF is seeking for an external consultant or consulting agency who experienced in project evaluation to evaluate the FBC program. The work will be carried out between April-June 2024. The evaluation will assess as below:

• Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of CIF’s FBC program in increasing children in safe and loving families:
• Children well preserved with stable and healthy families (biological/kinship families)
• Foster children well-cared in the foster family, moving to permanency
• Children with disabilities and chronic health problems become inclusive within their communities
• Children supported show improvement in overall well-being
• Capacity of families in providing care to children especially connecting children to the services (health, rehabilitation, education etc)
• Assess the level of commitment of families preserving children in their care (biological family, kinship family, foster care family) to keep children (especially children with disabilities) in families and not RCIs.
• Assess level of understanding, prioritization and support of the relevant gov’t stakeholders at the sub-national level especially the local authorities on family-based care for children especially children with disabilities, including collaboration with CIF.
• Assess the level of CIF’s contribution to the reduced number of children in institutional care in Cambodia.
• Identify gaps and recommendations towards future program design and promoting sustainability among all stakeholders

This process is anticipated to require both primary and second data collection/analysis including travel to the provinces.