0. Preamble
These Terms of Reference (ToR) describe the tasks of the Consultant necessary for the execution of the services. However, this list of tasks and activities can by no means be considered as the complete and comprehensive description of the Consultant’s duties.
It is rather the Contractor’s responsibility to thoroughly study the ToR and the scope of services. In consultation with his/her supervisor, the Consultant should critically review the fields of action and ideas outlined below and develop an appropriate proposal, including necessary adjustments and modifications on the basis of own professional judgements and experience in similar projects.
The Contractor has to take into account the general situation in the country and in the Project area and particularly the conditions and constraints related to infrastructure, accessibility, transport, accommodation, administration and security.
Above all, the Consultant should keep in mind the obligation to follow the most efficient approach, the need to strictly maintain the time schedule of the submission of the deliverables and the scope of the proposed consultancy budget. It is understood that the Consultant should perform all work necessary to fulfil the objectives of the Project under the direct supervisor of his/her supervisor.
1. Scope of services
The German Government is supporting reform processes in the Jordanian education sector through a Development Policy Loan (DPL) provided by KfW German Development Bank to the GoJ represented by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC). Based on defined triggers/indicators to be implemented by the MoE, the loan has been provided to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) as budget support. The reform process is accompanied by a political dialogue between the GoJ and the German Embassy and is supported technically and administratively by the German Financial Cooperation Programme Management Unit (PMU) which is integrated into the Development Coordination Unit of the Ministry of Education.
The DPL aims at supporting reforms in the MoE and related entities to improve Facility Management and Maintenance (FM/M) in Jordanian public schools. A Policy Matrix serves as the core document of the reforms to improve FM/M in Jordanian public schools. The Matrix has been jointly endorsed by the Ministers of Education, Planning and Finance.
These ToR refer to Trigger 2 of the DPL Policy Matrix and aim at utilising qualitative data generated by MoE’s annual quality surveys by the Educational Quality & Accountability Unit (EQAU) with regard to facility management of schools.
In order to fully utilise the EQAU assessment – which will feed directly into the assessment of the KPI #26 of the Education Strategic Plan (ESP) 2018-2022 and future iterations of the ESP – also for the purposes of monitoring implementation of the DPL, a specific Trigger has been introduced into the DPL to monitor the prerequisite for expanding the annual surveying by EQAU to capture particular issues related to facility management and maintenance of schools.
In August 2020, the KfW funded an assignment which supported the EQAU with a consultant who developed and designed a monitoring framework for FM with newly introduced descriptors and a tool of multiple choice to represent the condition of schools in three main domains in addition to a perceptual feedback and survey as follows:
• School Infrastructure Condition (50%)
• Health and Safety (10%)
• School Policies and Procedures to Sustain the School (20%)
• Perceptional feedback and survey (20%)