Request for Proposal (RFP) at the Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

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The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) invites interested and qualified consultant(s) to indicate interest by tendering RFP documents for the following works:

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 130 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents.

For over 75 years, our mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic social teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person. Although our mission is rooted in the Catholic faith, our operations serve people based solely on need, regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity. Within the United States, CRS engages Catholics to live their faith in solidarity with the poor and suffering people of the world.

Applications are invited for:

Title: Request for Proposal (RFP) - Family Strengthening Package (Approach, Guidance and Tools)

Preamble

As part of its Vision 2030 agency strategy, CRS is investing in six strategic change platforms to achieve results at scale. One of these key strategic change platforms is Strengthening Families-Thriving Children Strategic Change Platform 5 (SCP5). This Strategic Change Platform is a bold initiative to support vulnerable children to thrive in safe, healthy, and nurturing families, create more resilient and supportive communities, and work with our Catholic partners, civil society and governments to establish policies and systems that strengthen families.

Purpose
CRS is seeking qualified candidates to produce a Family Strengthening Package that includes CRS’s approach, guidance and tools to support family strengthening programming, including for children with disabilities, being implemented by CRS country programs around the globe.

The Consultant will refine and articulate CRS’s family strengthening approach and develop accompanying guidance and tools. The Consultant will:

Build upon Changing the Way We Care’s Family Strengthening Framework through work with the technical teams and other key stakeholders to expand upon and refine definitions, principles, approaches, frameworks and activities/interventions which encompass CRS’s family strengthening approach based on a review of internal and external materials and resources and relevant published and grey literature.
Reference Changing the Way We Care’s Family Strengthening Framework to articulate CRS specific and recommended approaches and interventions at the primary/universal, secondary and tertiary prevention levels including community level interventions that raise awareness, promote social connectedness/cohesion, reduce stigma and change/influence social norms and behavior.
Identify existing and, as needed, adapt/develop guidance and tools for stand-alone family strengthening programming to be used throughout the project management cycle (design, start-up, implementation, and closeout or exit/ transition strategy). Some examples of tools include:
- Design phase- tools to identify drivers/risks of family separation that the program aims to address; tools to identify and map existing and needed workforce and services (both formal government and CSO services and community support resources and mechanisms); tools/guidance to help decide what specific combination of interventions to implement (household economic strengthening, positive parenting, peer support, case management, early childhood development, nutrition support, etc.)
- Start-up phase- tools for participant identification and selection, risk assessments,referral network mapping, workforce capacity assessment, etc.
- Implementation phase- tools/guidance to identify and assess participants in need of more intensive services (tertiary level); tools/guidance for ‘case management lite’
- Closeout phase - tools to support the development of exit/transition strategies that are planned for during the design phase and updated throughout the project management cycle until the exit/transition phase.
Develop, in collaboration with the MEAL Senior Technical Advisor, a monitoring and evaluation framework including clearly articulated indicators, tools and guidance for family strengthening programming.
Make recommendations as to how to address programming gaps in CRS’s approach to family strengthening for prevention of separation and in support of separated children’s (re)integration into the care of their family or family-based alternative care.

Key Working Relationships

The consultant is expected to work with the following individuals internal and external to CRS:

Senior Technical Advisor (STA) for Family Strengthening and Alternative Care
SCP5- IFS Program Manager
SCP5 and CTWWC teams and other CRS staff involved in family strengthening programming (i.e. Disability inclusion, ECD, etc.)
Social Services Director and Social Service Department team members

Application Closing Date

28th January, 2022.

Submission of Documents

All proposals must be received by CRS via emil at: kathleen.mackin@crs.org

Click Here (PDF) for a detailed description of the RFP.