Consultancy services for the Social Development Centers Performance Criteria (Reposted)

The Ministry of Social Affairs assumes appropriate to improve the SDCs services within a reform-based plan to develop the institutional framework of the social development centers (SDCs). The plan aims at delivering high-quality integrated primary social and health services, and promoting local development. Thus. it will lead to better response to the local needs and build the trust of the communities towards the SDCs of MoSA.

The "National Programme for Local Socioeconomic Development" is working towards strengthening the SDCs capacities by implementing results-based interventions that will contribute to the SDCs scaling-up. The main activities are Web-based networks to link the SDCs with MoSA, SDCs Geolocalization, and social service-providers-mapping.

For the improvement of the SDCs, MoSA considers that it is necessary to set up a performance criteria for the SDC, including engineering standards guidelines taking into consideration the SDC role and the emerging needs at local level.

The subject of this contract is the provision of social and public health consultancy to develop the performance criteria that will be adopted by MoSA and implemented in some SDCs before being extended to all SDCs of MoSA in different Lebanese areas.