End-of-project Evaluation Consultant for Vn02-019: Health and Wellbeing for Students

**BACKGROUND**

ChildFund Vietnam is the representative office of ChildFund Australia - an independent international development organisation that works to reduce poverty for children in developing communities.

ChildFund Australia is a member of the ChildFund Alliance - a global network of 11 organisations which assists almost 23 million children and their families in 70 countries. ChildFund Australia is a registered charity, a member of the Australian Council for International Development, and fully accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which manages the Australian Government’s overseas aid program.

ChildFund began working in Vietnam in 1995 and works in partnership to create community and systems change which enables children and young people in vulnerable situations, to assert and realise their rights.

Poor reproductive and sexual health and mental health outcomes of adolescent school students in Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province remain a challenge that needs to be addressed through appropriate intervention and requires support from parents, schools, communities as well as provincial and district level health and education departments.

ChildFund Vietnam’s findings related to the sexual and reproductive health of school students in Hoa Binh province revealed that there were some unintended pregnancies in students in the last two years. Both male and female students does not dare to share reproductive health problems with parents and teachers because these are sensitive issues to share, and female student normally faced with seriously than male students. Communication information on reproductive health is not available and children lack information about safe supporting services. Furthermore, girl students are afraid of objections and social stigma including criticism from parents and teachers, objections when sharing sensitive things, curiosity not being appreciated etc., so they often go to underground/ unqualified abortion clinics or go to private health facilities for checks or abortions, as a result the health sector does not have enough information and statistics. Effects of accessing inappropriate content using phones and televisions: when school children face stressful educational environment in schools, they tend to drop out of school, and as a result they have more time to be busy with phones and televisions, play games and access inappropriate content and misleading information on the internet.

This project addresses the issues by building capacity of the school teachers, health staffs and parents to support secondary school students in having improved social and emotional wellbeing; improved knowledge, skills and help-seeking behaviour when it comes to their sexual, reproductive and mental health. It establishes core students groups and building their capacity (knowledge and skills) on social and emotional skills, SRH and mental health topics. In addition, the project strengthen the coordination mechanism between schools and health facilities to provide advanced support to the secondary school students.

**Project locations**:The project has been being implemented across Tan Lac, Muong Bi, Muong Hoa and Van Son communes in Phu Tho Province. They used to be Ngoc My, Phu Cuong, Phu Vinh, Suoi Hoa, Ngo Luong, and Quyet Chien in Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh province before the national merge.

**Project goal**:to improve sexual reproductive health and social and emotional wellbeing of secondary school students through strengthened coordination mechanism between schools and health facilities.

**PURPOSE**

The purpose of this evaluation is to measure the extent to which the project goal and outcomes have been achieved and provide recommendations for how technical approaches and project implementation could be improved for new project design in the future. The results of evaluation and reports may also be shared back with project stakeholders and government in the interests of learning and accountability.

The evaluation should consider below criteria:

- **Project management**:This evaluation will identify areas of improvement in all aspects of project management.
- **Relevance**:is the intervention doing the right things?
- **Effectiveness**:is the intervention achieving its objectives?
- **Efficiency**:how well are resources being used?
- **Impact**:what difference does the intervention make?
- **Sustainability**:will the benefits last?
- **Cross-cutting issues**:has the program/project considered inclusion of vulnerable groups, gender sensitivity, and child safety integration?

**SELECTION CRITERIA**

To carry out the assignment, the consultant team (or consultant) should meet the criteria as follows:
**Team leader**
- Relevant qualifications associated with psychology/social and emotional learning or social science, social work or education.
- Knowledge and experience of Vietnam’s current child protection and education situations.
- Proven experience in working with co