Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking to appoint a supplier to effectively manage and deliver the ‘’Girls Education South Sudan 2 (GESS2)” programme in South Sudan. The GESS 2 Programme is part of the DFID South Sudan Essential Services Team (EST) portfolio. GESS 2 seeks to build on the successes of the 5,5 year duration Girls Education South Sudan (GESS) programme which ends in September 2018. GESS provided a range of interventions — Cash transfers paid to girls, capitation grants to support schools, initiatives designed to improve the quality of education, research, support to girls through mentoring and learning groups and large scale behavioral change interventions specific to the importance of girls’ education. the objective of GESS II implementation is to ensure the provision of equitable, accessible and essential support to the Education Sector in South Sudan, with particular emphasis on girls. The supplier will manage the delivery of all parts of the GESS2 programme alongside providing specialist technical assistance on priority areas such as girls, gender and disability inclusion. The supplier may form agreements with implementing partners to deliver activities on the ground. The programme will have nationwide coverage across all 10 former states irrespective of Government of South Sudan or In Opposition (IO) control. The 10 former states are Central Equatoria, Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, Lakes, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Unity State, Upper Nile, Warrap, Western Bahr El Ghazal and Western Equatoria, The supplier will be required to provide effective programme management and specialist technical assistance. The supplier will be required to manage the disbursement of cash based grants up to the value of 40 125 000 GBP.