Invitation to Tender (ITT)

Technical and Managerial support for Strengthening Climate Resilient

Systems for Sustainable Delivery of SCRS-WaSH
Expected tasks CARE’s experiences
Task 1  Conducting/assessing/water inventory at Zone (South Gonder and Central Gonder,
Strengthening the delivery West Gojjam) and woreda (all woredas in South Gondar zone, West and East
systems or management setups of Belessa Woredas of central Gondar Zone and North Mecha in West Gojjam Zone)
selected rural multi-village water
level rural and semi urban and urban level water supply schemes management
supply schemes in the SCRS
WaSH intervention regions setups from different dimensions, including the governance and accountability
system; management models; sustainable service delivery; etc.
 Assessing regional (Amhara region) level water supply systems spare part supply and
demand-existing structures, affordability, accessibility, challenges, etc.
 Implementing community score card (CSC) as accountability tool in WASH service.
Since 2007, CARE has implemented CSC in Addis Ababa, Amhara and other regions
of the country in various programs like Health, Livelihood, WASH, etc. The WASH
program of CARE Ethiopia implementing community score card (CSC) since 2011 in
three districts of Amhara region namely Estie (3 kebeles), West Belessa (10 kebeles)
and East Belessa (10 kebeles) Woredas of South Gonder and central Gonder Zone
respectively.  
 Currently, CARE is a thematic lead on WASH governance and capacity building for
‘Sustainable WASH program’ which is implementing from 2019-2024 and extended to
2030 to achieve woreda wide WASH coverage in Farta, North Mecha and Dera
Woredas of Amhara region with consortium organizations such as World Vision,
Wateraid, CRS, FHE, IRC WASH, CDC, Stanford university, etc.
 Piloting and supporting WASHCo legalization. CARE is the only organization piloting
and working on legalizing WASHCos in Amhara region. To date, CARE supported
and enabled more than 500 WASHCos legalized in South Gonder and central Gondar
Zones.
 Provide inputs, participate and revising the existing related guidelines, manuals and
strategic documents at national and region (Amhara) and support in addressing the
identified gaps. CARE is a member of national WASH Multi Stake Forums (MSF) and
national WASH NTD Integration Task force and Technical Working Groups, and
highly contributed in developing, revising and implementing WASH related strategy,
manual, guideline, etc.
 Plan, develop and implement multi village piped schemes in Amhara, Afar and
Oromiya regional states, along with strengthening the systems.
 Document, review and share good practices of WASH service delivery management
models (community managed service models with WASHCos, SSA (100% household
investment led service delivery model, Cost effectiveness and efficiency of WASH and
NTD integration approach/model, 30-40% of community contributions on community
managed WASH investments; the participation and leadership position of women in
sustaining WASH service management; etc) and consolidate good lesson learning
and recommendations to inform the task of strengthening the delivery units.
 Suggest, define and implement WASH service management models (community
managed, household led managed, rural utility (in Afar) etc) based on the analysis
and trends on water supply schemes types, context of the intervention areas,
complexity of the scheme and other key elements of sustainability and make a
recommendation of the preferred model.

Task 2
Support women and youth groups
to be organised as Small and
Micro Enterprises (SMEs) to
provide water supply facilities
maintenance and spare parts
supply services
Task 3
Formulate a sustainable financing
strategy for the WaSH sector and
support its implementation
Task 4
Piloting innovations to build the
 Conduct and share assessment of the existing WASH service delivery systems and
gather information on the context and establish a base line based on the key
permeants like the service delivery management models for Solar water supply
systems, RO/desalination plants water supply systems in Afar, Amhara, Oromia, etc
 Develop and implement a costed capacity building plan for the preferred WASH
service delivery management model and implement the approved plan to strengthen
the various systemic elements to adequately and sustainably deliver the service.
CARE is pioneer on developing and implementing the operation and maintenance
system of water supply schemes through trained ‘local artesian’ in rural water supply
service delivery model in Amhara and Afar, which is scaled-up and implementing by
government and other WASH actors, mainly in Amhara region.
 Identify the key stakeholders to establish clear understanding of the broader context
and roles and responsibilities of the various actors in the service delivery to identify
weaknesses and challenges and address through improvement measures. CARE is
experienced in establishing and in placing project steering committees (PSC) at
regional, Zone and Woreda levels and work with through conducting regular review
meetings and joint field monitoring visits.
 Develop an adaptive monitoring system which includes real time monitoring of service
delivery (in Afar) to understand implementation alongside piloting innovations such as
smarter water systems that trigger maintenance before failure.
 Strengthen the governance, and the accountability system including the regional
support, zone and woreda teams and community engagement platforms-CSC, PSC,
community reflection meetings (defining the key stakeholders in the governance and
management set up including communities; identifying the required skills and
capacities for the key stakeholders in the governance and accountability system and
developing a capacity building plan for the identified needs and implement to
strengthen the accountability system at different levels including the community
engagement platforms).
 Develop and deliver systems to protect the water resource base to ensure year-round
water availability at the source point and catchment areas through watershed/NRM
works around the catchment areas.
 Develop and monitor key indicators that enable measurement of the changes and the
progress of the delivery units or management setups over the programme period and
beyond.
 Conduct spare parts supply chain analysis at regional level
 Train some care takers responsible for operation and maintenances of water supply
schemes-train 2 (50% female) scheme care takers for each water supply scheme and
provide O&M kits and guidelines.
 Train operators for large scheme water supply schemes (solar systems, water supply
with generators, OR, grid systems)
 Establish and support spare part supply groups at woreda levels
 Train, organize and support youth and female graduate students on entrepreneurship
and enabled them to in supplying spare parts and other construction works
 Training, organize and support youth and women on energy saving stove production,
sanitation marketing
 Train, organize and support youth sanitation marketing groups
 Training, organize and support youth rope pump producers
 Work with Micro finance Institutes/ACSI for WASH financing-SSA, sanitation
marketing, rope pump production
 Assessment of the potential and associated challenges and barriers related to access
private sector supply of Menstrual
Hygiene Products to tackle
specific constraints which is the
absence of affordable, good
quality menstrual hygiene
products on a sustainable basis
Task 5
Deep Dive Learning Evaluation
for continued adaptive learning
to affordable and quality supplies of menstrual hygiene products and impacts on girls’
education
 Sensitize, mobilize and awareness creation activities on MHM to school girls, their
parents, boys and communities
 Set selection criteria and identifying target schools for MHM interventions
 Promotion and distribution of sanitary pads-reusable pads
 Production of sanitary pads from locally available materials
 Train and support school teachers on pads production
 School WASH interventions-sex disaggregated sanitation facilities including for
sanitary pad changing; and water supply
 Establish, train and support school WASH clubs
 Establish, train and support MHM/girls clubs
 Train female teachers on MHM counseling
 Providing counseling services on MHM to girls
 Advocate and assign counseling and resting rooms for MHM
 WaSH intervention regions ensuring complementarity with support to the institutional
WaSH component under the financial aid.
 Procure and pilot the innovative MHM products supplies to the targeted programme
schools together with Mariam Saba pad production factory.
 Define MHM key indicators and establish baseline data to measure progress and
impact against milestones and targets.
 Train, and support scheme caretakers and technicians to ensure the continuous
maintenance and functionality of water supply schemes.
 Establish, organize, train and support spare part suppliers
 Train government staffs/experts on O&M at region, zone and district levels-solar,
generator, OR, etc
 Provide O&M kits to trained scheme care takers and technicians