Deadline: 14-Nov-22
In order to create a more supportive environment that can guide marginalized and disadvantaged young people in making career decisions, Transparency Maldives is seeking services of an expert to develop a streamlined and consolidated handbook for career guidance counsellors and other relevant service providers through identifying challenges and opportunities within existing frameworks and building capacities to ensure maximum reach to young people who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
Objectives, Scope and Description of Activities
The primary objectives of the consultancy services to develop a Handbook on Career Guidance for youth who are socially and economically disadvantaged are:
- To build on the discipline and practices of career guidance and career counselling in the Maldives by building the theorical understanding of career guidance, practical approaches, and contextualized interventions for youth who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
- To improve and broaden the knowledge and capacities of services relating to career planning and development and build the capacity of career guidance related service providers.
- To develop and offer tools for connecting with local resources and assistance to support vulnerable youth in actively managing their career path, setting objectives, and making decisions.
- To develop a book of reference and practical resources such as training manuals, selfassessment questionnaires, and exercises which can be used in designing, managing, and implementing various career guidance services by a multitude of stakeholders.
- To train facilitators to effectively deliver career guidance, career preparation skills and self-development, with a sensitivity to at-risk and vulnerable youth by guiding vulnerable individuals through various educational, vocational, entrepreneurial, and psychosocial interventions.
- To identify and recommend the best modalities of engagement and career guidance. Engagement to include state actors, employers, educational institutions, career institutions, CSOs, and private institutions.
Key tasks to be accomplished:
- Proposing an outline for the career guidance handbook a. Propose an outline of a career guidance handbook based on international best practices, with Maldivian cultural sensitivity, focusing on youth who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
- Develop a detailed career guidance handbook a. Develop a detailed career guidance handbook based on the finalized outline and scope, including the theoretical understandings, skills test and aptitude assessment tools, facilitator training manual (including facilitator guides, training materials) and monitoring, evaluation and learning tools for the program.
- Train facilitators to implement career guidance services and programs a. Train facilitators to design and implement career guidance services to youth who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
- Revise and finalize the career guidance handbook a. Based on stakeholder input, facilitator feedback and client feedback, bring necessary revisions and finalize the handbook.
Deliverable Timeline (tentative)
- Submit proposed outline of a career guidance handbook based on international best practices. (15 days)
- Produce the Career Guidance Handbook including various skills and aptitude assessment tools facilitator training manual (including facilitator guides, training materials), and M&E tools for the program. (40 days)
- Conduct facilitator trainings for relevant stakeholders and career guidance service providers. (15 days)
- Finalize the career guidance handbook and training manuals, including assessment tools and M&E tools based on the feedback from client and facilitators training. (10 days)
Eligibility Criteria
- To ensure that TM does not subcontract to vendors that have been debarred, suspended or proposed for debarment, and to prevent against supporting vendors determined to have committed or pose a significant risk of committing actions of terrorism that threatens national, and US interests, all apparently successful applicants will be checked against the US Government’s Excluded Parties List. As such, TM will perform a search for the applicant’s name on the Excluded Parties List.
- Offerors shall provide all proposal documentation in English.
- TM will also consider all information about the proposed vendor of which it is aware and all public information that is reasonably available to prior to awarding the project. TM will also require all vendors (excluding individuals) to submit Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS1) number for any subcontract over under US$25,000. DUNS registrations and active Systems SAM2 registration will be required for all vendors (above the value of US$25,000) prior to signing the contract. Details of SAM registration.
For more information, visit https://transparency.mv/downloads/tm-rfp-2022-018/