End-line Evaluation For Integrated Lifesaving Assistance For Drought & Conflict-Affected Populations In Somalia/Somaliland 106 views0 applications

• Title of Consultancy :  End-line Evaluation For Integrated Lifesaving Assistance For Drought And Conflict-Affected Populations In Somalia/Somaliland Under OFDA

SCI Contracting Office :Save the Children,Hargeisa, Somaliland
Period of Consultancy: July, 2019
Consultancy type required :Individual or Firm.
Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs :The consultant will cover for the cost related to Logistics arrangements, food, accommodation and all other cost associated with the assignment.
Taxation Provisions: Consultant shall be responsible for all Taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office named above
Travel requirements :The consultant will cover the travel costs (tickets) and arrange local travel to field sites.
Security requirements :Consultant will comply with standard Save the Children Security procedures, including the completion of SCI online security training prior to travel to Somalia.
Qualification and Experience
• Be a holder Relevant Masters level education experience and training in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Agro-economics, Public Health, and/or related fields. A team with a combination of at least two of the fields will have an added advantage.
• At least 5 years’ experience in conducting similar work. SC-Somalia is interested to verify related assignments conducted in the past 2 years.
• Considerable track record and proven experience in quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Be fluent in English, have adult learning skills, Presentation skills and high organizational skills. Prove of ability to contextualize the training will be an added advantage.
• Can independently travel to Somaliland and Somalia
• Thorough knowledge on the relevant thematic areas and Somalia/Somaliland context
• Excellent report writing skills
Evaluation Criteria: The consultant must meet the above required qualifications and experience.

Application Procedure :Interested consultants should submit their applications via email to [[email protected] ].
The applications should be submitted in PDF format as one document comprising Technical and Financial sections as detailed below.
• A technical proposal with a detailed response to the TOR, with specific focus on the scope of work, methodology to be used and key selection criteria.
• Initial work plan based on the methodology outlined, and indication of availability
• A financial proposal detailing the daily rate expected but not including accommodation, transportation, stationary, research assistances and all other cost related to this assignment.
• Company profile or CV including a minimum of 3 references
• A sample of previously conducted similar studies.
• Detailed budget breakdown based on expected daily rates.

Applicants should also indicate the date they are available to start working on the consultancy
All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered for the assignment.
Only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.

Closing date for Applications :Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the email address provided above on 27th July 2019.
Shortlisted candidates will be requested for an interview.

TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)

Introduction

Save the Children (SC) has worked in Somalia/Somaliland since 1951 and has provided emergency assistance since 1970 whenever there has been need. In 2016, SCI directly reached 600,936 children. Each year about 650,000 people benefit from our longer term development work in Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Education, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Child Protection and Child Rights Governance.

With support from USAID/OFDA, SC is implementing a one-year program targeting 95,000+ including 55,000+ internally displaced people (IDP) in AWDAL (Somaliland), BARI and NUGAL (Puntland), and BAY (South Central Somalia).

Project Objectives
The main objective of the program is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crisis or that are food insecure.

The program has the following sector specific objectives;

 Health: Increased access to primary healthcare for affected families
 Nutrition: Increased access to interventions aimed at preventing, identifying and treating acute malnutrition among children and PLW
 WASH: Targeted children and families affected by drought have improved access to safe and adequate water and sanitation services and hygiene messages to reduce the risk of disease transmission
 Agriculture and Food Security: Protect productive assets among drought affected host and IDP communities.
 Economic Recovery and market systems: Restore productive assets and livelihood opportunities among drought affected resident and IDP communities
 Protection: Increased protection of children from harm, violence, exploitation and abuse

Geographical Coverage and targets

SC is implementing an integrated approach; health and nutrition sites, WASH, protection, agriculture & livelihoods services targeting the most affected populations within; Lughaya, Zeila (Awdal), Iskushban, Qardho, Banderbelya (Bari), Dangaroyo (Nugal), Baidoa (Bay). Further live saving health, nutrition and WASH services will also target the most vulnerable within Dinsoor and Bardale (Bay) and Borama (Awdal). In Bari, Nugaal and Awdal SC is also implementing FFP program.

Table: Beneficiary breakdown by location

Purpose of the end line Survey

1. The objectives of the final evaluation are to:
2. • Evaluate to what extent the response has fulfilled its objectives and the technical strength of the program.
3. • Evaluate the accountability of the response to the affected population.
4. • Recommend improvements for the continuation of the response or recovery.
5. • Asses Relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and impact criteria will be used; and also the coverage, coordination, consistency, and protection of the intervention
6. • To document lessons learnt for future programming and impact/case studies

Scope of Assignment

The consultant (s) will design and conduct the end line survey and will also present the findings to SC, Program Director OFDA/FFP, technical team and other stakeholders. The consultant shall have to carry out the following and other specific activities during the end line survey process:
 Review of key documents that include the proposal documents, Project proposal, MEAL plan and work plan, project periodic reports, activity reports, monitoring reports, like treatment monitoring report and livelihood restoration monitoring reports, .
 Design of end line survey
o Produce an inception report with a detailed work plan and methodology to be used with respect to the quantitative household survey, provide a description of how data will be collected including the sampling frame, data sources, analysis plan and drafts of data collection tools such as questionnaires
o Develop an implementation plan for qualitative data collection including tool such as Key Informant Interview guides and focus group discussions.
 In close collaboration with SC, the consultant should lead development of data collection toolsConduct training of enumerators and supervisors
 Conduct data collection
 Present initial results to SC and agree on way forward
 Conduct final presentation in collaboration with SC.

1. End line Methodology

Detailed design of the end line methodology will be done by the consultant. The design should take into account that not all activities are implemented in all locations though each location receives at least two thematic interventions. Mostly quantitative method will be employed during the end line survey through a household questionnaire to collect data that would provide extent of impact for the project. Quantitative method will be mostly employed during the end line survey through a household questionnaire to collect data from caregivers or household heads or observations at the household. The consultant will also conduct desk reviews and key informants to collect institutional based indicators from health facilities and public institutions. Several focus groups discussions will be held to compliment the findings of the quantitative survey and to provide more information on underlying issues that the program team can later utilize in implementing interventions. Due to community sensitivity on issues related to hygiene and infant young feeding practices (IYFP), the consultant will be encouraged to recruit mostly female enumerators from Somalia who can better gather this information from mostly anticipated women respondents.

1. Program Indicators to be assessed and reported

Note that some of these data can be obtained through secondary data collection but it’s important to note that all program indicators should be reported on against baseline and targets.

The program intends to assess the following principal indicators from OFDA;

1. Percentage of pregnant women who have attended at least two comprehensive antenatal clinics
2. Percentage of newborns that received postnatal care within three days after delivery
3. Percentage of births assisted by a skilled attendant at birth
4. Percentage of pregnant women in their third trimester who received a clean delivery kit
5. Percentage of CHWs conducting public health surveillance
6. Percentage of community members who can recall target health education messages
7. Proportion of infants 0-5 months of age who are fed exclusively with breast milk
8. Proportion of children 6-23 months of age who receive foods from 4 or more food groups
9. Average liters/person/day collected from all sources for drinking, cooking, and hygiene
10. Average number of users per functioning toilet
11. Percent of households targeted by latrine construction/promotion program whose latrines are completed and clean
12. Percent of people targeted by the hygiene promotion program who report using a latrine the last time they defecated
13. Percent of people targeted by the hygiene promotion program who know at least three (3) of the five (5) critical times to wash hands
14. Percentage of beneficiaries reporting net income from their livelihood
15. % of people reporting improvements in their feelings of well-being and ability to cope at the end of the program
16. Evaluation Process

The End line will be carried out in conformity with the standard operating guidelines in the MEAL approach for SC. The end line assessment will use mostly quantitative method though some qualitative information is still expected to be collected to explain some indicator estimates. The applicants are therefore expected to elaborate on the end line methodology that they will follow in their technical proposal.

2.1 End line Inception Report

The successful Consultant will prepare a detailed End line Inception Report that will describe understanding of the Terms of References, detailed methodology and work plan. The inception report will include the indicator matrix which will detail how all project indicators shall be assessed, specifying the tools to be used. The report will be approved by Save the Children and will act as a key guiding document to the conduct of the end line survey.
2.2 Work plan

The consultant will prepare a plan that will operationalize and direct how the whole exercise will be carried out. SC Somalia staff will be involved in providing input into design and review of tools, workshop agenda, and the report. The work plan will clearly describe the timing for;
a. The development of End line tools
b. End line design workshop with stakeholders
c. Recruitment and Training of research assistants including pretesting
d. Fieldwork (Data collection and Analysis)
e. Delivery of the indicator table results
f. Report writing and dissemination of results.

2.3 Geographical and beneficiary targeting

The exercise will be carried out in AWDAL (Somaliland), BARI and NUGAL (Puntland), and BAY (South Central Somalia). The program is targeting 95,000+ including 55,000+ internally displaced people from the areas. A detailed breakdown of specific activities by area will be provided to the consultants shortlisted for inception report submission.

3.1 Expertise of the consultants

The following are minimum requirements for the team/consultant to be considered for carrying out the assignment

1. Relevant Masters level education experience and training in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Agro-economics, Public Health, and/or related fields. A team with a combination of at least two of the fields will have an added advantage.
2. At least 5 years’ experience in conducting similar work. SC-Somalia is interested to verify related assignments conducted in the past 2 years.
3. Considerable track record and proven experience in quantitative and qualitative methods.
   3.2 Team members’ other responsibilities

The members shall be responsible for the following:
 Adhering to all terms/conditions stipulated in their contracts including SC child safeguarding policy.
 Obtaining their health insurance
 Adhering to the agreed time-frames with regard to all activities outlined in the timeline
 Consultant’s own laptops/computers to be used during the assignment

3.3 Deliverable

Roles and Responsibilities

• The consultancy will be contracted by and report to Save the Children. The project team, country office MEAL staff and technical advisors will provide all the necessary support for the end-line evaluation process. They will provide project documents and will provide technical assistance (e.g. avail any other documents and information needed etc).
• Consultant will be responsible in the recruitment of the enumerators required for the survey.
• The consultant will develop a detailed work plan for the assignment including a training plan for the End line survey and conduct a full enumerator training for all survey participants
• The consultant will manage pilot test in specific selected clusters, analyze the data and give feedback before starting data collection.
• The consultant will lead in the collection of all data ensuring quality control measures are in place.
• The consultant will hold a dissemination workshop of the final report with SC staff and partners
• Develop a study protocol (to be agreed upon with the SC OFDA program and MEAL team)
• Document a written case study (at least one) as part of the report

The potential consultant will be expected to complete the assignment in 35 days (including development of study protocol and implementation plan/timeline, literature review, inception report, development and pre-testing of data collection tools/instruments, training of assessment team, data collection of final evaluation, analysis, validation and report writing).

The consultants will be responsible for the following deliverables:

Output Due Date
Technical and Financial Proposal July, 2019
Inception report with all tools July, 2019
Training of enumerators and data collection including case study 4th August, 2019
Indicator table showing final values for each BL/FE indicator, level of statistical significance, and confidence intervals 8th August, 2019
Draft report including a study protocol 8th August, 2019
Two printed and two electronic copies of the final reports in English 11th August, 2019
Dissemination results of end line to stakeholders 14th August, 2019

Deliverable

• Training and data collection proposal
Develop a proposal for the training and data collection including the budget for the whole exercise plus the consultancy fee.
• Training report/ Reflection report.
A report detailing the content of the training. Composition of the participants and key observations (reflections from the training).

SCI Somalia Responsibilities

The SCI Somalia will be responsible for the following:

• Ensure effective coordination of the end line to support the consultants in undertaking their assignment.
• Approve inception report
• Providing input into the tools developed, and end line design.
• Provide consultants with literature review materials/necessary documentations.
• Link consultants to relevant stakeholders
• Reviewing analysis of the data collected prior to the documentation of the final report
• Review draft report
• Approve and sign off final report draft

Ownership of Research Data/Findings

All data collected and report findings for this study shall remain the property of the SCI Somalia.

Budget and Payment Schedule:

The consultant is expected to provide a detailed budget for carrying out the study in US Dollars including consultancy fees.

Plan for dissemination and learning
SCI-Somalia will organize meetings with various stakeholders at community and district levels to provide feedback on/disseminate findings from the end line. This will also provide an opportunity for the stakeholders to identify and agree on targets adjustment and policy issues to be taken forward based on findings from the assessment. The consultant (s) shall present the findings and SC shall lead the discussion on joint planning.