Period: 21 working days
Staring Date: By 10th March 2017
Main Objective:
The Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Human Rabies in Kenya 2014-2030 ‘Makueni County Pilot Project’ is a 5-year project that was launched on World Rabies Day 28th September 2014 in Makueni County by the Governor Professor Kibutha Kibwana. It aims at piloting the strategies outlined in the national strategy and generate learnings that will be used to inform further scale-up across the country. We are looking to undertake a mid-term evaluation of the project. Designed to allow World Animal Protection and the Makueni County Government to have a systematic assessment of the design, implementation and the results of the rabies elimination pilot project in order to ascertain the effectiveness, efficiency, impact and gaps of the project thus far.
Reporting to: Companion Animals Campaign Manager
Purpose of Evaluation:
The current mid-term evaluation has an important timing for the project to reflect on the Outcomes. It will also be important for development of the learnings for improvement of upcoming activities, as well as for the identification of potential strategies for the sustainability of outcomes of Project activities , especially the continuous mass vaccination, community awareness/ participation and school children education.
The evaluation should build upon the baseline and monitoring data, providing an opportunity for more in-depth analysis and understanding as to why certain intended (or unintended) outcomes are/are not achieved. Moreover, this mid-term evaluation will provide the opportunity for accountability towards the project stakeholders, as well as important learning for the project teams and partners.
The mid-term evaluation results will offer the possibility to use the findings for:
- Assessing the contribution towards the outcomes achieved by the project so far;
- Learning from best practices for improving the influencing of the project, as well as learning towards the development of the ZDU national roll out strategy
- Providing recommendations on focal areas such as policy/ bylaw development, Mass dog vaccination, school education work, Community awareness and extension services in dog welfare (husbandry) and arguments for Makueni County government to ensure sustainability of project.
- Accountability towards stakeholders at large (government county/national, donor, community and the private sector), to identify key lessons in order to improve the current and future strategies and programmes.
Knowledge and skills
The required skills and competences for the elevator are:
- A masters or professional qualification relating to Monitoring, Evaluation or at least 5yrs experience in undertaking M&E. A degree in Veterinary Medicine and or Project Management would be an added advantage
- Experience with multisectoral ‘One health’ Programmes (Desirable).
- A proven record in delivering effective and professional evaluation results (Essential).
- Excellent communication, analysis, writing and report presentation skills in English (Essential).
- Capacity to carry out field research in a county setting;
- Knowledge and awareness of the Kenya National and Global drive to eliminate dog mediated human rabies. Also welfare knowledge on dogs (Desirable).
How to apply:
Kindly request for the ‘Terms of Reference’ which includes the background, objectives, key questions, scope and methodological approach, schedule, logistics and deliverables, evaluation responsibilities and management arrangements, dissemination requirements, selection process of the evaluator and expectations for evaluation proposal by sending a request to [email protected] or RaphaelOmondi@worldanimalprotection,org.
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