Adolescent Girls Initiative Action Research Programme – Kenya.

Descriptions

DFID Kenya is seeking to appoint a Service Provider (either a single organisation or a consortium) to design and deliver an Adolescent Girls' Initiative Action Research Programme in Kenya (AGIARP). The purpose of this research programme is to test combinations of interventions for vulnerable adolescent girls in the areas of health, wealth creation, education and prevention of violence, to establish which combination has the greatest impact and is the most cost-effective. The SP will both deliver these interventions and undertake the associated research. It is envisaged that AGIARP will last for six years, including an inception phase of 9 months. This action research programme will target girls in the age group 10-14 based on the rationale that investment in adolescent girls, if made early, and before they start dropping out of school at age 13-14, will break the downward spiral into early pregnancy, early marriage and intergenerational poverty. The intended outcomes are a) improved policy, legislation and budget allocation for adolescent girls and b) a replicable, scalable and value for money package of interventions for adolescent girls aged 10-14. DFID is committed to working with adolescent girls in the poorest communities. Interventions and research will be carried out in two geographical locations where adolescent girls' indicators are lowest i.e. the northern arid lands and poor urban areas. While the research will focus on these two geographical areas, the research outputs will have relevance nationally and potentially regionally/internationally. The inception phase will involve the design of both the research and action programme of interventions for adolescent girls. The outputs from the inception phase are the design of a quality action research programme (as laid out in a fully costed proposal), which also includes design of the intervention programmes supporting adolescent girls. The intervention design will ensure at least 10,000 adolescent girls will benefit from different combinations of interventions with a view to establishing which combination is the most effective, replicable and scalable and represents the best value for money. Whilst DFID will issue a contract for the full programme duration, progression to the Implementation Phase will be subject to satisfactory delivery of the inception phase deliverables, strong performance of the service provider and DFID's agreement to the proposal (including final costings) for the implementation phase. Please register with DFIDs supplier portal for further information on this opportunity https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice