Terms of Reference: Action for Change Project End-Term Evaluation Consultancy – CBM Global, Kenya 44 views0 applications

The consultant reports to: (“Manager”)

Country Programme Manager, CBM Global Kenya

Description of consultancy

Final Evaluation of the “Actions for Change (A4C) Project,” implemented in Kajiado West Sub-County, Kenya.

1. Background and rationale

CBM Global Disability Inclusion is a dual mandate and partnership-based organisation working alongside people with disabilities in the world’s poorest places to fight poverty and exclusion and transform lives. Driven by Christian values, we seek out and work with the most marginalised in society, irrespective of race, gender, age or religion, recognising the equal worth of every individual. Drawing on over 100 years’ experience and world-leading expertise in disability-inclusive development and humanitarian action, inclusive eye health, mental health and psychosocial disabilities, CBM Global works with partners to break the cycle of poverty and disability, treat and prevent conditions that lead to disability and build inclusive communities.

Vision: An inclusive world in which all people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.

Mission: Fighting to end the cycle of poverty and disability.

CBM Global works to implement development and humanitarian projects in partnership with organisations of persons with disabilities in the areas of Inclusive Development, Humanitarian Action, Inclusive Eye Health & Neglected Tropical Diseases and Mental Health & Psychosocial Disabilities. We work in over 20 countries, investing in long-term, authentic partnership with the Disability Movement and maximising our impact through a coordinated mix of inclusive community-based programmes, local to global advocacy and delivering disability inclusion technical assistance to other organisations.

About the Project

The Actions for Change (A4C) project is implemented by Northern Nomadic Disabled Persons Organization (NONDO) in partnership with, and support from CBM Global Disability Inclusion. The project has been under implementation from July 2023 to March 2026 in Kajiado West Sub-County, Kenya, covering the wards of Keekonyokie, Magadi, Iloodokilani, Ewuaso Oo Nkidong’i, and Mosiro.

The project builds on CBM Global’s long-standing engagement with NONDO and responds to persistent exclusion of persons with disabilities in pastoralist and nomadic contexts. Kajiado West has historically experienced marginalisation in development planning, weak Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) coordination, limited representation of persons with disabilities in decision-making spaces, and low access to sustainable livelihoods. These challenges are compounded by harmful cultural beliefs, gender inequality, climate vulnerability, and limited technical and organisational capacity among grassroots OPDs.

The A4C project adopts an Inclusive Development and Social Action for Change approach, aiming to strengthen a vibrant and resilient OPD movement capable of influencing inclusive development, policies, and resource allocation at community and county levels. The project integrates OPD capacity strengthening, advocacy and movement building, inclusive media engagement, livelihood support, and institutional strengthening of the implementing partner.

The overall objective of the project is to increase meaningful participation and representation of persons with disabilities in decision-making processes to promote disability inclusion in development in Kajiado West Sub-County.

The project has three result areas:

1. Empowered communities of persons with disabilities meaningfully engaging in development processes.
2. A vibrant and resilient OPD movement leading change for inclusive communities.
3. Strengthened organisational capacity of NONDO for quality and sustainable programme delivery.

As the project approaches completion, CBM Global seeks to commission an end-term evaluation to assess project performance, outcomes, contribution to change, and to generate lessons to inform future CBM Global advocacy, CBID, and OPD-strengthening programming.

2. Purpose

The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive end-term evaluation of the Actions for Change (A4C) project, assessing progress and performance against planned results as outlined in the project design documents, logframe, and budget, as well as identifying initial and emerging impacts of the project.

The evaluation will also analyse underlying causes and contextual factors contributing to targets that were not fully achieved and identify enabling and constraining factors influencing project implementation.

The evaluation is expected to generate key lessons on:

• Factors contributing to or hindering meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in community and county-level decision-making.
• Effectiveness of OPD capacity strengthening, movement building, and advocacy approaches.
• Inclusion of OPDs and persons with disabilities in county governance, planning, and development processes.
• Contribution of livelihood interventions to economic resilience of OPDs and their members.
• Sustainability of OPD-led advocacy and inclusive development outcomes.
• Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI): differential impacts of the project on women, men, girls and boys with disabilities, based on analysis of data disaggregated by gender, age and disability, and intersectional barriers affecting participation and outcomes.

The evaluation must provide evidence-based, credible, reliable, and useful findings. Results will be used to inform future inclusive development, advocacy, OPD engagement, and institutional strengthening initiatives by CBM Global and partners.

The consultant is expected to apply a participatory and consultative approach, ensuring close engagement with OPDs, OPD champions, community members, county government departments, NCPWD, implementing partner staff, CBM Global, and other relevant stakeholders in Kajiado County.

At a minimum, the evaluation will explore:

1. The overall performance of the project with reference to its respective strategy, objectives, quantitative and qualitative indicators defined by the project documents and the implementation arrangements
2. The coordination both internally, between CBM Global and NONDO, and externally with OPDs and the County Level actors
3. Inclusiveness and accessibility of the project for persons with disabilities and under-represented groups.
4. How, and to what extent, the response ensures accountability to affected people, in particular (but not exclusively) regarding the strengthening of local capacity, the avoidance of negative effects and the effectiveness of communication, participation and feedback.
5. Draw lessons, derive good practices, and formulate recommendations, generating evidence to inform operational and strategic decision-making in inclusive health and wellbeing, health systems strengthening, livelihoods and economic empowerment, OPD engagement and advocacy.

3. Scope

The evaluation will cover all components and activities within the A4C Project over the project period (July 2023 to March 2026). It will cover project documents including design documents, activity, narrative and financial reports, mid-term review report, and all documentation captured during the project, among other project documents. In this regard, the successful consultant/s will be required to assess the project results, review the methodological approaches, and capture the lessons learned. Additionally, the evaluation should explore the strengths and weaknesses of the project and highlight the factors influencing the effective and efficient (as well as ineffective and inefficient) implementation of project activities and their contribution towards the realization of the project objectives and overall goal. Also, the evaluation should determine what other results (positive and negative, intentional, and unintentional) can be identified in the project. Based on the assessment, the evaluation should draw conclusions regarding the outcomes and overall goal of the project, as well as identify good practices, and formulate recommendations for similar future projects.

The anticipated scope of work includes, but is not necessarily limited to assessing the following:

1. The relevance of project design, scope and priorities, including an analysis of the validity of objectives, project components, implementation, and project’s achievement against expected results defined in the project documents.
2. An in-depth review of the implementation of various project components with a view to identifying the level of achievement of the planned project outputs, the contribution to institutional development and sustainable human capacities and in cases of not effective achievement, and analysis of the underlying reasons with recommendations for improvements.
3. Assessing the project cycle management (technical capacity and management experience of the implementing partner) in achieving the expected results, project components, including cross-cutting issues disability inclusion, gender equality and social inclusion, safeguarding of children and adults-at-risk. It would also explore monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning through M&E framework and program quality framework, as well as project visibility to donors, partners and the public.
4. Project risks and considerations in relation to the project approach or delivery of project activities, including risks that materialized, and measures put in place to cope with the risks, taking into consideration safeguarding, safety and security
5. Partnership, participation and stakeholder engagement particularly looking at the engagement of OPDs, persons with disabilities and the wider disability movement. This should include roles and responsibilities, capacity in relation to engagement in design and delivery of the project, and the level of participation of stakeholders in the achievement of the desired outcome, as well as the effectiveness of such participation.
6. Recommendations for future direction, strategies and areas of project focus as per the findings, including general lessons learned and best practices that can be considered in the planning and design of future institutional strengthening interventions for the government and partners.

Apart from the above, project’s mid-term results should be rated in the following aspects:

• Relevance: The extent to which the intervention objectives and design respond to beneficiaries, global, country, and partner/institution needs, policies, and priorities, and continue to do so if circumstances change.
• Efficiency: The extent to which the intervention delivers, or is likely to deliver, results in an economic and timely way.
• Effectiveness: The extent to which the intervention achieved its objectives, and its results, including any differential results across groups.
• Impact: The extent to which the intervention has generated or is expected to generate significant positive or negative, intended, or unintended, higher-level effects.
• Sustainability: Assess the likelihood of results becoming sustainable with specific focus on capacity and ownership over the process.
• Coherence: The compatibility of the intervention with other interventions in a country, sector or institution.

4. Timeframe and duration

The consultancy is expected to take no more than 20 days, between February and March 2026, and a final report to be shared before the end of March 2026. This timeframe includes inception meetings, data collection visits, partner site visits, validation meetings, draft and final versions of the report.

5. Expected Deliverables

The following are the expected deliverables from the consultant (each subject to approval by the consultancy manager.

1. An Inception Report in CBM Global template with a detailed evaluation plan (max 4 days after signing of contract)
2. Draft Data collection tools prior to fieldwork
3. First Draft report and Presentation of findings in a validation workshop
4. Submission of 2nd Draft Report incorporating input from first presentation for validation (within a week after 1st presentation)
5. Submission of the final report in CBM Global templates (PDF, Word and PPT packages) – templates to be provided by approving manager.
6. An easy-read version of the report for community sharing.
   1. Evaluation consultant’s short CV
   2. Terms of Reference of the evaluation
   3. List of persons/organizations consulted
   4. List of literature/documentation reviewed
   5. Evaluation work plan executed
   6. Findings synthesis table with performance rating
   7. Data collection tools and questionnaires

In addition, the report should have the following online links as annexes:

6. Place/ location of service delivered

This is an evaluation to be carried out in the project site of Kajiado West Sub-County, Kajiado County, and the partner site in Nairobi County.

7. Required Expert Profile

Key qualifications required to perform this consultancy include:

1. Academic Qualification and/or expertise in M&E, Development, health, livelihoods, or related fields.
2. Demonstrated track record of carrying out similar type of evaluations.
3. Experience in designing participatory and inclusive evaluation methodologies.
4. Good intercultural skills and experience.
5. Fluent in English and Kiswahili.
6. Team composition able to facilitate a fully inclusive and accessible evaluation.

Candidates with disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Safeguarding and Ethical Considerations

The consultant(s) will be required to adhere to CBM Global’s Safeguarding Policy throughout the assignment, including child safeguarding and safeguarding of adults at risk.

The consultant(s) must:

1. Sign and comply with CBM Global’s Code of Conduct prior to commencement of the assignment.
2. Ensure all evaluation activities are conducted in a safe, inclusive and respectful manner.
3. Apply ethical research standards, including informed consent, confidentiality and the do-no-harm principle.
4. Promptly report any safeguarding concerns arising during the assignment through CBM Global’s established safeguarding reporting mechanisms.

8. Fees & Payment schedule

CBM Global will pay the consultancy fee according to the schedule below:

• 50% Upon submission and acceptance of an Inception report
• 50% Upon submission and acceptance of the final report.

All deliverables have to be approved by the CBM Global Programme Manager.

NOTE: All expenses related to the assignment, that are not consultancy fees, shall be borne by the organization, and will be paid to the consultant upon presentation of related receipts and related reconciliation documents, but should be factored in the financial proposal and budget presented.