IBTCI Third Party Monitoring Organizations Consultancy Opportunities

International Business and Technical Consultants Inc. (IBTCI) Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS) is seeking Third Party Monitoring (TPM) organizations to provide independent monitoring, verification, and confirmation of funded development programs throughout Somalia (Somaliland, Puntland, Mogadishu and South/Central Somalia) under a large third party monitoring contract. 

The TPM award would be for 7 months, from January 2015 to July 2015.

The organization will be responsible for conducting the following activities:

• Regular monitoring site visits to a range of programs being implemented in Somalia,
• Thorough primary data collection, questionnaires, focus groups, and verification of presence and progress.
• Provide on-time delivery of consolidated as well as individual monitoring reports.

Requirements and selection criteria:
 

1) The organization must demonstrate extensive relevant technical experience in gathering data, conducting interviews and facilitating focus groups with community level beneficiaries in Somalia, and must have tested experience in the use of various data collection techniques and expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

2) The organization must have established offices and organization registration in Somalia.

3) The organization must demonstrate strong capacity to access and monitor programs in different regions of Somalia, including Somaliland, Puntland, Mogadishu, and South/Central Somalia.

4) The organization should ideally provide written references from current or previous clients that attest to their competency in the requested monitoring services.

To apply:
 

Please submit a capabilities statement highlighting the organization’s technical staff, ability of the organization to scale up staff and consultants to meet the requested demand for monitoring services, and must be able to demonstrate geographical presence, office locations in Somalia and outreach capacity for executing third party monitoring activities in all regions of Somalia with past performance with reference contact information to dotieno@ibtci.com no later than Sunday, November 30 at 5 PM (1700 hours) Nairobi time.