Skills for Employment (SET) is a Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) supported programme implemented in Tanzania. It aims to improve the employment and employability of youth and young women and mothers through skills development. In its bid to strengthen training providers (TPs) capacity and in response to their request; the SET project seeks to support TPs in strengthening of organization’s data management capacity. These terms of reference (TOR) is for facilitation of the training on data management system aspects with a practical relevance to the result-based project. Including supporting TPs to improve their data management processes, storing data, using data for planning, and organizing and maintaining the data created and collected by an organization among other things to facilitate an evidence based marketing of their services. 

2. Objectives of Assignment
SET is working with a total of 25 TPs supporting skills development in the agriculture sector. All TPs are members of an informal platform involved in the implementation of ongoing training. The overall objective of this consultancy is to facilitate training on data management and MRM with relevance to the TPs and their activities. 

3. Specific objectives
The activity aims to strengthen data management on TPs program and activities by:

• Review current TPs data processes, type of data collected, data quality, disaggregation and discrepancies ensuring that gender aspects are sufficiently covered.
• Support TPs to understand ways to maintain their projects data and quality checks.
• Increasing the capacity of TPs staff and partners in data collection, storing, analysis,interpretation, reporting and management in TPs program and activities.
• Propose best ways for TPs to manage project data include online data collection i.e. mobile data collection.
• Support TPs in the use of data for internal management, external communication and marketing.

4. Scope of work:
The development of data collection tools, and MRM plan will include evaluation and visiting respective TPs, review their existing data collection, management process and reports. The consultant will undertake the following specific tasks:

• Conduct a desk review of existing data collection relevant documents, reports and conduct consultations with TPs to assess the achievements and identify best practice, the key challenges and gaps relating to MRM system in their activities and organisation.
• Support TPs to draft MRM plan and data collection tools in alignment with the following:

                        a) The requirements of different donors;
b) Coherence and alignment with the confidentiality and international standard;
c) Due consideration to all assumptions and risk management in their working environment;
d) Ensure that TPs data collection and analysis is covering all gender aspects of relevance for the TPs operation and continued development.

• Present the draft of data collection tool to TPs, discuss and collect their comments before finalisation;
• Facilitate that TPs data collection will facilitate their operation, external communication and their marketing activities;
• Facilitate a three days practical training session to TPs staff on data management system in a workshop that will be organised by SET;

5. Duration and Placement:
A total of 25 working days have been allocated for this assignment which will include a 3days for the training workshop. The consultant should be available for the assignment in the period between 03 rd of September 2020 to 02 nd of October 2020. 

6. Deliverables: