UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier for the provision of Consultancy services for Impact Evaluation of the Children in Families initiative, Zambia. FURTHER BRIEF BACKGROUND PURPOSE: Aims to assess the overall performance and effectiveness of the CIF and the CIF+ programme in strengthening the alternative care system in Zambia. OBJECTIVES: • To evaluate the effectiveness of strategies and interventions implemented under the CIF and CIF+ initiatives, including the prevention of and response to family separation, reintegration, and support to kinship, foster, and adoption care as well as strengthening case management systems and practices. • To assess the relevance, coherence, and quality of coordination mechanisms among key implementing partners and the extent to which roles and responsibilities were clearly defined and executed. • To assess the progress made in strengthening Zambia’s alternative care system in Zambia, including the shift from institutional care to family-based care, and determine whether the CIF and CIF+ programmes were implemented as designed or deviated—and why. • To analyze the impact of both the CIF and CIF+ initiative on key outcomes under the four pillars of the initiatives. • To generate lessons learned and recommendations that inform future programming, support sustainability, and guide the scale-up of childcare reform efforts IMPORTANT NOTE: This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.