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INSTITUTIONAL CONTRACT

1. Title of the assignment: Development of Adolescent Strategy to develop specific and targeted actions across
sectors and to scale-up meaningful participation of young people in key programme milestones and
partnerships through existing platforms.

2. Background and Justification:

Indonesia is home to nearly 85 million children, including 46 million adolescents (age 10-19 years) who are growing
in number every day. Children and young people are directly affected by the decisions made by their parents,
communities and government in terms of education, health and employment, but they are often excluded from
relevant decision-making processes of which they have every right to be a part. The participation of adolescents
in decisions affecting them is a right that is rooted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by
Indonesia, and reflected in the country’s Child Protection Law no 35 from 2014.

UNICEF is committed to putting adolescents and their initiatives at the forefront of its work. UNICEF believes that
when young people are involved in program planning and design, interventions are more sustainable and
successful. At global and regional level, adolescent and youth-led programmes and initiatives are being modelled
and supported. Strengthening coordination and cross-sectoral programming for adolescents is an essential
component of the Country Action Plan 2021–2025, with the aim of contributing to their safe transition into
adulthood and realizing Indonesia’s long-term development future. Further, UNICEF Indonesia commits to utilising
lessons learned and evidence from field implementation to influence the Government and to support children and
adolescents in realizing their right to participate in decisions affecting them, in line with new UNICEF Global
narratives to support youth-led action. This includes capacity-building of subnational partners to work with
adolescents in a participatory and inclusive manner. However, more needs to be done to ensure that adolescent
participation is meaningful and leads to tangible results.

In 2017 UNICEF published An Overview of Promising Practices in Adolescent Programming in Indonesia by UNICEF
and in 2022 UNICEF Indonesia conducted a Situational Analysis on Child and Adolescent Participation and Civic
Engagement in Indonesia. This analysis identified several barriers and enablers to adolescent meaningful
participation, and proposed recommendations to improve the landscape for young people. These
recommendations include conducting knowledge sharing and creating avenues for dialogue, designing targeted
interventions to create safe and empowering spaces for engagement, and facilitating youth-led research on
alternative platforms for decision-making.

UNICEF Indonesia intends to develop an Adolescent Strategy which outlines specific and targeted actions across
sectors, that promote adolescents' health, nutrition, learning and skills, participation as well as protection against
violence, exploitation, abuse and harmful practices. Further, the strategy will outline how to approach meaningful
adolescent participation to enable young people to participate in program milestones and across different sectors.
This is necessary to effectively support the government in implementing the above recommendations and to
identify opportunities to scale up adolescent work in the country. The strategy intends to support adolescents,
UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia to achieve this, with clear actions and recommendations for each. The
services of an international institution will lead in developing an adolescent strategy which outline the Theory of
Change on how UNICEF Indonesia will advance such programming and while scaling-up meaningful participation
of young people in key programme milestones, with a particular focus on youth-led initiatives. The strategy will

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be developed in co-creation with adolescents and young people, including those from vulnerable backgrounds, to
ensure that their priorities and needs are strongly reflected in the strategy. The strategy needs to apply a gender
integrated approach to ensure both boys and girls have equal access to opportunities for meaningful participation.

3. Purpose of the assignment:

The main purpose of this consultancy will be to assist UNICEF Indonesia to develop, through co-creation with and
participation of adolescents and young people and technical experts across setors, a comprehensive Adolescent
Strategy for the Indonesia Country Office, in line with SDG objectives, the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
the country’s Child Protection Law and UNICEF programmatic and strategic guidance. The purpose of the strategy
is to develop specific and targeted actions across sectors, that promote adolescent development and participation.
The consultancy will co-create a set of actions/projects that can be easily implemented and adopted to different
local contexts in Indonesia and complementing existing initiatives and programs.

• Scope of Work:

Guide the Indonesia Country Office through an adolescent-centred co-design process to develop the adolescent
strategy. The strategy will contribute to strong civic engagement and mobilisation of adolescents, equip them with
21st century skills to boost their talents and ensuring a healthy and safe environment.
• Desk Review: Document review based on adolescents and children situation analysis, situation analysis
on child and adolescent participation and civic engagement, national and international legal and policy
landscape: what are the existing challenges and opportunities and what strategies/programs are in place
to address/leverage them? What funding mechanism would be suitable for implementing this plan,
review of best practices from other countries regarding adolescent-led initiatives; review of existing
outcome and output level indicators available at global level to measure participation to feed into the
M&E framework

• Initiative and platform mapping: Mapping of current initiatives that are responding to needs of young
people and adolescents (including vulnerable adolescents, e.g. who are out-of-school, not in education,
employment or training (NEET)) versus the needs outlined in curricula and extracurricular activities (gap
analysis). Map out platforms (both formal and informal) and stakeholders across the country where
children, adolescents and young people engage to influence decision making. Identify which
adolescents/children/young people have access to what type of platforms (e.g. most vulnerable
adolescents, where can they access decision making platforms) and what opportunities are available for
adolescents to build their skills to participate in such platforms

• Co-creation Workshops: Facilitate co-creation workshops in five field offices to develop the strategy with
adolescents and young people, as well as with technical experts across a range of different fields and CSO
representatives. The co-creation workshops will be facilitated according to programming principles for
meaningful adolescent engagement (see Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent Participation and
Civic Engagement).

• Consultative process: Conduct a consultative process with UNICEF staff, government partners and CSOs
to develop the strategy and present key deliverables to the UNICEF Reference Group. The consultative
process needs to clarify UNICEF’s comparative advantage with regards to Adolescent work.

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• Comprehensive Strategy: Deliver a comprehensive strategy that will achieve the desired change (incl.
Theory of Change) to strengthen adolescent development and participation, including an M&E framework
(with links to existing M&E tools and frameworks) with benchmarks for internal (e.g. institutional
strengthening) and external stakeholders (e.g. sustainability and utilization of adolescent kit into wider
platforms and activities)

• Accountability Framework: Develop an accountability framework as part of the strategy to ensure that
progress is monitored and reported, and that the strategy is adapted as necessary (e.g. input into the
existing Mitra Muda framework/Adolescent sounding board)

• Capacity building of adolescents and stakeholders: Build capacity of adolescents and young people, as well
as of other stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation and commitment to the strategy

4. Methodology:

The strategy takes into consideration the following principles:

1. Adolescent agency
2. Integrated approaches
3. Data, evidence and advocacy
4. Partnerships
The international institution is requested to lead the local partner remotely, as no travel will be required on the
part of the international institution. All field travel, events and work with young people shall be organised by the
in-country partner, with technical support and leadership from the international team.
Further methodological guidance will be discussed and finalized at the inception phase. UNICEF will set-up a
reference group for quality assurance of the strategy development.
Interested bidders are invited to propose detailed methodology and work plan to carry out the necessary tasks as
part of their technical proposals (max. 10 pages). Technical proposals and financial proposal will be assessed
through a competitive selection process that consists of open advertisement and desk review.
Travel to 5 field office locations is required (2 days per FO): Makassar, Surabaya, Jayapura, Aceh and Kupang FOs.
The bidder is required to include the estimate cost of travel in the financial proposal, taking into account that i)
travel cost shall be calculated based on economy class travel, regardless of the length of travel and ii) costs for
accommodation, meals and incidentals shall not exceed applicable daily subsistence allowance (DSA) rates, as
promulgated by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC). Unexpected travels shall also be treated as
above.

5. Timing/duration of contract:
The consultancy is expected to start in May 2023 and end in December 2023.

6. Deliverable and payment schedule

Task Deliverable Deadline Percentage
Payment
Scope of action plan as well as Inception report 5 June 2023 10 %
methodology for strategy co-creation
process developed

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Document review based on adolescents Desk review 26 June 15%

and children situation analysis, situation 2023
analysis on child and adolescent
participation and civic engagement,
national and international legal and
policy landscape

Initiative and platform mapping

Facilitate co-creation workshops in five Co-creation workshop report 15 August 25%
field offices to develop the strategy with summarizes the 5 workshops 2023
adolescents and young people, as well as and key discussion points and
with technical experts across a range of recommendations from
different fields and CSO representatives consultations with different
Consultations with UNICEF staff, stakeholders
Government counterparts and CSOs

Full strategy developed and validated, Presentation and validation 15 October 25%
including budgeted plan, M&E framework of strategy with adolescents 2023
and accountability framework and stakeholders

Final strategy

Capacity building of adolescents and Materials developed to raise 19

adults, incl. through awareness raising awareness and strengthen November
materials and communication capacity on the strategy 2023

Dissemination and launch Dissemination activity (TBD) 30 25%

conducted with and for November
adolescents and stakeholders 2023
7. Qualifications Required for the institution:

UNICEF is looking for an international institution who can deliver high quality outputs. The interested institution
should work with a local partner/local institution to together execute this assignment. Preference will be given to
international-national teams with experience in adolescent development and participation related interventions.

Conducting this assignment requires at least 10 years of specialised expertise in adolescent and development
participation, which will inform the development of the strategy. The international institution is expected to lead and
work with local partnerships/consultants (incl. young people) in Indonesia for the design and execution of the
assignment (e.g. through existing Mitra Muda Network). The institution team will need to:

- Be led by a well-qualified (post graduate degree in sociology, anthropology, or other related behavioural and
social science field) team leader with proven experience (at least 10 years) in strategic planning, and analysis,
program design of the youth and adolescents’ sector; and previous working experience in designing state of
the art, complex, multi-sectorial and innovative programs
- Small team (3 persons max.) that guide the local partner
- Excellent collaboration, consultation and facilitation skills

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- Demonstrated strategy development and writing skills

- Experience in development financial costing and scenarios as well as identification of financial mechanisms to
finance large scale youth and adolescent programmes would be considered an asset
- Experience leading a team in different countries and directing the co-creation process
- Work in collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Have evidence of excellent written, analytical and communication skills in English

The national partner will need to:

- Have at least 5 years of experience working on adolescent participation and development programming
- Excellent collaboration, organisational and facilitation skills
- Hands-on experience working with young people
- Have a competent team, with experience using co-creation and human centred design approaches and who
are able to communicate in English
- Work in collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

8. Evaluation Criteria:
CATEGORY MAX MIN
POINT PASSING
POINT
Overall response
• Completeness of proposal and
• Overall concord between terms of reference and proposal 10

Quality of technical proposal

40
• Robust methodology offered for Strategy Development process on
meaningful adolescent participation, including for the co-creation
process and workshops in five field offices and the capacity building
process on the strategy
• Realistic and well thought-out action plan
• Clearly assigned roles and responsibilities between international
institution and local partner/team

Experience and expertise international institution and local partner 20

• Be led by a well-qualified (post graduate degree in sociology,

anthropology, or other related behavioural and social science field)
• Demonstrated strategy development and writing skills
• Experience in development financial costing and scenarios as well as
identification of financial mechanisms to finance large scale youth and
adolescent programmes would be considered an asset
• Experience leading a team in different countries and directing the co-
creation process

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• Have a competent team (both international and local partner), with

experience directly working with adolescents and using co-creation and
human centred design approaches
• Have evidence of excellent written, analytical and communication skills
in English
TOTAL TECHNICAL PROPOSAL 70 49
*The bidder has to meet this minimum passing point for the Technical Evaluation
in order to be considered further for the Financial Evaluation
PRICE/FINANCIAL PROPOSAL 30
Financial proposals should be all-inclusive, including costs for fees, travel, sub-
contracts and other necessary expenses.
TOTAL MARKS 100

9. Supervision: Reports to the Adolescent Development and Gender Specialist

10. Supply Plan Ref. No:

7.5.4.1

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