Consultancy - Delhi Learning Lab

**Consultancy to conduct a Baseline Study for **_Delhi Learning Lab_** in India**:
**About Restless Development.**:
Restless Development is a global agency for youth-led development. We support young people to demand and deliver a just and sustainable world for all. We work to make sure young people have a voice, a living, sexual rights and are leaders in preventing and solving the world’s challenges. We listen to young people, our work is led by young people and together we help young people make lasting change in their communities and countries.

In India, Restless Development is registered as Student Partnership WorldWide India Project Trust (SPWIPT). Restless Development delivers programmes in Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Odisha and Delhi at present. During the last 6 years, we reached out directly to over 1,500,553 young people across these states. Restless Development works through the model of young volunteers and youth led networks that lead and deliver transformative change.

**Project background**

For young people - sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) form an important basis of their lives, whether they are sexually active or not. In 2012, India made several commitments to improving its family planning goals, with the aim of including family planning into its goal to achieve Universal Health Coverage. The key commitment included reducing unmet need by improving access to voluntary family planning services, and supplies and information, as well as expanding the contraceptive methods available, and scaling up usage of current methods. With significant unmet need of contraception and low condom use, adolescents (especially adolescent girls) are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. This in turn leads to lessened productivity, increased likelihood of unsafe abortions, morbidity and mortality. In addition, the Government pledged to integrate services focused on adolescent health and maternal health. The policy acknowledged that there was an unmet need for contraception and low condom use, particularly among adolescent girls, who were at a higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. There is an urgent need to take a multi-pronged approach to support young people in accessing information, services and products on SRH without having to face bias and stigma. The initiatives that work _with _young people and not _at _them have been reported to have received positive response from youth since this approach inherently considers youth as stakeholders and leaders in the process.

**About The Role**:
**About You.**:
The consultant should meet the following requirements for this assignment.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Evaluation experience at least 5 years in conducting external evaluations, with mixed
- methods evaluation skills and having flexibility in using non-traditional and innovative evaluation methods.
- Advanced degree in relevant disciplines such as Gender Studies, Sociology or related disciplines.
- Expertise in gender and human-rights based approaches to evaluation and issues of girls’ education, child rights and child rights violations.
- Strong leadership and management track record, as well as interpersonal and communication skills to help ensure that evaluation is understood and used
- Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Strong English report writing skills and a track record of producing high quality publications (at least one of them should be shared with Restless Development to verify the quality of her/his work).
- In-depth knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment
- A strong commitment to delivering timely and high-quality results, i.e. credible evaluation and its report that can be used
- Good interpersonal and communication skills in English and Hindi, and an ability to express ideas and concepts concisely and clearly to ensure that the evaluation is understood and used.

**How To Apply**:
Offers must include:

- Name, address and telephone number of the consultant/ Team leader.
- Consultant(s) CV
- A list of the previous studies/researches developed by her/him, including the link to be able to review them (if this is already included in the CV, it wouldn’t be necessary to attach it separately).
- Technical offer/ Expression of Interest
- Financial proposal (consultancy fees).