TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR MID-TERM EVALUATION Promotion of Quality Childcare, Protection, Youth and Community Empowerment in Banadir Location (2025–2027)

SOS Children’s Villages is a global federation of 118 national SOS Children’s Villages associations, working in more than 2000 programme locations worldwide. We work together with a single vision: every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security.

We provide long-term, [family-like care](http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/what-we-do/alternative-childcare) for children who have lost parental care (alternative care service), and we work with vulnerable families and communities to help [strengthen](http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/what-we-do/family-strengthening) them and prevent child abandonment (family strengthening service, FS). SOS family like can have different forms such as SOS families where small groups of children are cared for in a family-like environment, foster families, small group homes and crisis intervention (short-term care).

SOS Children’s Villages Somalia is a non‑governmental social development organization that has been active in the field of children’s rights since 1985, committed to addressing the needs and concerns of vulnerable children and young people throughout the country. As a member of the global SOS Children’s Villages federation, the organization works in the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), ensuring that every intervention upholds children’s rights to care, protection, participation, and development. SOS Children’s Villages Somalia provides alternative care for children who have lost parental care, supports vulnerable families and communities to prevent unnecessary family separation, and advocates for child rights across Somalia.

For more than 40 years, SOS CV Somalia has implemented a comprehensive range of programs in Alternative Care (AC), Family Strengthening (FS), Education, Youth Empowerment, and Health Services. The Banadir Programme is one of the organization’s largest operational hubs and delivers diverse services including Family-Like Care (FLC), Foster Family Care (FFC), Kinship care, and Supervised Independent Living (SIL). It also provides Early Childhood Development (ECD), primary and secondary education, health and nutrition services, WASH support, youth employability training, and entrepreneurship development. Humanitarian protection services, including support for unaccompanied and separated children and GBV survivors, form a critical part of its emergency response mandate.

The organization’s work in Banadir and across the country is guided by international and national frameworks, including the UNCRC, the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, the Somalia National Development Plan (NDP‑9), and priority Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8). Programme implementation is also aligned with the SOS Federation Strategy 2030 and the SOS Care Promise, which collectively guide efforts to ensure that children grow up in a safe, caring family environment and are supported to realize their full potential.

The evaluation will examine project organization, implementation performance, and delivery quality across all service areas, including alternative care, education, youth empowerment, family strengthening, and emergency child protection. It will assess the functionality and quality of partnerships with government ministries, community-based organizations, UN agencies, and other stakeholders, distinct from the formal partnership agreement addressed under 2.4. The evaluation will also assess how risks including insecurity, safeguarding concerns, staff capacity gaps, and operational disruptions have been identified and managed throughout the implementation period, and will identify strengths, operational bottlenecks, and areas where internal systems may require strengthening to ensure continued delivery of high-quality services.