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BACKGROUND AND PROJECT OVERVIEW

BBC Media Action has been successfully delivering our ‘Somali Women Towards Economic Empowerment
and Transformation’ (SWEET) project funded by NORAD under the Norwegian Grant scheme for Women’s
Rights and Gender Equality since October 2018 and ended in February 2023. This intervention seeks to
contribute towards the following impact ‘Somali women including women from marginalised groups, are
able to take part in and benefit from business activities in the formal and informal market’. The project
has four elements a) Getting to grips with the implicit and explicit, visible and invisible barriers that
different women face to economic participation and empowerment b) Multimedia and communication
outputs where we don’t just see women, we hear them c) Comprehensive training programme and
business development support services reaching the most marginalised and excluded groups d) Stronger
linkages between trained women and local business community and financial services to enhance impact,
local ownership and sustainability. The project was designed to increase men’s support to women’s
economic empowerment and women’s financial literacy and confidence to participate actively in business
activities and break into the informal and formal business sector.
The situation for women in Somalia remains very challenging and has got worse with coronavirus. The
pandemic has an overwhelming negative impact on the livelihoods of Somali women including those who
were already marginalised. As set out in our original proposal, there are religious and cultural norms
determining women’s engagement in the public sphere which make it challenging for women to take
advantage of economic opportunities. The purpose of this document is to solicit for a consultant to
conduct an end line evaluation for the project in country.
PROJECT RESULT AND IMPACT
The project was designed to contribute to the following long-term outcomes:

  1. Husbands, fathers, and influential men support women’s economic rights and empowerment.
  2. Women in and/or interested in breaking into the informal business sector are financially literate
    and confident to participate in business activities.
  3. Women in the informal business sector have the knowledge and capability to break into the
    formal business sector at all levels.
    These outcomes will contribute the overall project impact: Somali women, including women from
    marginalized groups, are able to take part in and benefit from business activities and the formal and
    informal labour markets. This impact will seek to contribute to NORAD’s objective: ‘Ensure that women
    have full economic rights and equal opportunities to participate in the labour market’.
    2
    KEY PROJECT RESULTS
    Production of a weekly national radio magazine programme, ‘Making Waves’ broadcast on BBC Somali
    Service and localized programmes on six local radio stations across Somalia. In this aspect, BBC Media
    Action broadcast 153 national Making Waves programmes on BBC Somali Service while local six partners
    broadcast 673 localised programmes during the implementation period.
    Capacity building of six partner stations. Training focussed on editorial and ethical skills and women’s
    rights and gender equality in the media sector and supporting the production of high quality, locally
    contextualised multi-media outputs on women’s economic rights and empowerment.
    Local Somali civil society organisation Shaqodoon, in partnership with BBC Media Action, implemented
    the business development training. They were responsible for designing and delivering a training
    programme for women with small businesses targeted at 220 women and a further 180 women from
    marginalized and excluded groups involved and/or interested in breaking into the informal business
    sector. The objective of the training sessions was to help the women acquire soft skills and financial skills,
    knowledge of how to transition into the labour market, as well as linking and connecting beneficiaries to
    potential business mentors, local business community/networks and financial institutions.
    OBJECTIVE FOR THE FINAL EVALUATION
    The final evaluation will have the following specific objectives:
    • To review the relevance of the project and its approaches in the context of the development need
    and potential of the intervention areas.
    • To verify the efficiency and effectiveness of the results achieved by the project and trace the
    changes observed in the lives of the target beneficiaries, as a result.
    • To critically examine the project theory of change and logframe continuing validity of the
    assumptions on which the project’s likely impact was based.
    • To analyse sustainability of the project initiatives from the point of view of local stakeholders
    including target beneficiaries.
    • To assess level of the intended synergies/integration/complementarities as well as the
    coordination of the project interventions with other similar initiatives.
    • To draw lessons and give respective recommendations for NORAD and BBC Media Action as
    necessary.
    FOCUS OF THE FINAL EVALUATION
    The final evaluation will investigate the following questions:
  4. Present level of relevance
    • The level of relevance of the project to the real problems, needs and priorities of the intended
    target groups and beneficiaries?
    • How appropriate are the project objectives?
    • To what extent is the project design consistent with the local situation and the coherence of
    activities?
    3
    • How responsive and flexible is the project document to problems identified during proposal
    development and up to the final evaluation?
    • How much the context of the project intervention changed since the proposal was developed and
    how has this affected implementation?
    • What are the key issues in the new context of the intervention area in particular and the country
    in general that needs to be taken into account in future for such projects?
  5. Efficiency of implementation:
    • Availability and of means / inputs provided or available on time and at planned cost to implement
    activities as well as monitored regularly to allow cost-effective implementation of activities.
    • To what extents are activities implemented as scheduled, and to what extent are implemented at
    planned or below planned cost?
    • How regularly and well are activities monitored by the project and corrective measures applied
    as necessary?
    • Efficiency of implementation of local partner business skills development training programme?
  6. Effectiveness to date:
    • The progress of the project to date towards attaining the project purpose/outputs in terms of the
    quality of results. The extent that project progress contributes towards achieving already
    identified key project result indicators.
    • Whether the planned benefits have been delivered and received, as perceived by all key
    stakeholders (including women and men and specific vulnerable groups).
    • Satisfaction of the beneficiaries and other stakeholders in terms of timely availability of inputs
    (materials, finance, and human resources), quality of results (respect for standards), cost
    effectiveness, and overall project implementation progress as per schedule.
    • How have unintended results affected the beneficiaries positively or negatively and could this
    have been foreseen and managed?
    • Whether any shortcomings were observed due to a failure to take account of cross-cutting or
    over-arching issues such as gender, environment etc during implementation.
  7. Impact prospect
    • If any unplanned negative effects on the target groups / beneficiaries occurred or are likely to
    occur and to what extent did the project management take appropriate corrective measures?
    • How can opportunities in the changing context be taken into account to ensure successful project
    impact?
  8. Potential sustainability
    • The level of financial /economic viability of the project initiatives: to be supported institutionally,
    affordable for the target beneficiaries; institutions for financial / economic responsibilities, etc.
    • What will be the likelihood of sustainability of the project initiatives after the end of the project
    support; and is there a phase-out strategy defined and are there clear and detailed plans for its
    implementation?
    4
    • How well is the project contributing to institutional and management capacity? Project partners
    being properly trained to facilitate handover of the project – technically, financially and
    managerially.
    • Wherever relevant, cross-cutting issues such as gender equity, environmental impact, and good
    governance; were appropriately accounted for and managed from the outset of the project.
  9. Value added:
    • To what extent the project objectives, targeted beneficiaries, timing, etc is complementary and
    co-ordinated as well as creating actual synergy (or duplication) with similar on-going intervention
    of the respective target areas.
    THE SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE FINAL EVALUATION
    • In-depth review of the project document (Special condition, General conditions, Description of
    activities and all Annexes); implementation progress reports (Annual report), reports produced
    by BBC Media Action’s Research and Learning team.
    • Hold debriefing meetings with all project stakeholders BBC Media Action, Shaqodoon, local
    partner stations and where possible with NORAD team and the beneficiary communities.
    • Field visits (direct observations) to Hargeisa office and project activity sites (including focus group
    discussions and participatory assessment with the targeted beneficiaries and project staff, and
    collection of additional material through semi-structured interviews).
    • Submission of the final evaluation report with clear recommendations.
    FINAL EVALUATION CONSULTANT CRITERIA
    Essential
    • University degree in a Business, Economic Empowerment, Development Studies, Community
    Development relevant discipline with a minimum six (6) years of relevant professional experience
    in media and development projects/programmes planning, implementation and
    review/evaluation of commensurate development projects, and a solid consultancy reputation.
    • Demonstrated ability to assess complex projects/programmes and draw forward looking
    conclusions and recommendations.
    • Proven experience in evaluation of media projects and capacity development initiatives as well as
    qualitative and quantitative research evaluations.
    • Knowledge of cross cutting issues.
    • Strong interpersonal, communication and project management skills.
    • Able to communicate and write effectively in English.
    Desirable
    • Ideally, s/he should have experience working in Somaliland and Somalia and be based in the
    country.
    Ablility to communicate fluently in Somali would be an asset.
    • Knowledge of NORAD procedures/compliance would be an asset.
    ASSIGNMENT DURATION
    The Final Evaluation consultancy assignment will take a maximum of 12 days, including the preparation
    and submission of the final evaluation report, and is scheduled to begin on the 20th of April 2023 or earlier
    with the following indicative breakdown:
    • Inception phase: document review and briefing in Hargeisa with BBC Media Action, Shaqodoon,
    local partner stations and NORAD representatives if possible (3 days)
    • Field phase: project sites visits, briefing/debriefing (6 days)
    • Synthesis Phase: presentation of draft report and preliminary findings/ debriefing with BBC
    Media Action, Shaqodoon, local partner stations and NORAD representatives where possible.
    Preparation and submission of the final evaluation report (3 days)
    Total maximum days 12 days

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
Please e-mail your proposal, including an itemised budget with the names of at least two references for
which your organisation has carried out similar work to:[email protected]
THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS IS 5:00 PM (EAT) 30th March 2023

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BBC Media Action, formerly known as the BBC World Service Trust, is the BBC's international development charity, funded independently by external grants and voluntary contributions. The purpose of the organisation is to use media and communication to reduce poverty, improve health and support people in understanding their rights. It works in partnership with the BBC World Service and other local media and development partners in over 35 developing and transitional countries around the world.

The charity was founded in 1999 and grew out of earlier BBC initiatives, including a charity called 'Marshall Plan of the Mind'. This was set up to encourage high standards of journalism in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

The charity is funded by external grants and voluntary contributions and works with many media, non-governmental, academic and donor organisations around the world. In November 2011, the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) announced a five-year grant of £90m to the charity.

In December 2011 the name was changed to BBC Media Action.

In 2011 there was controversy in America over the American government's discussion of funding the BBC World Service Trust to combat censorship in China and censorship in Iran

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BACKGROUND AND PROJECT OVERVIEW

BBC Media Action has been successfully delivering our ‘Somali Women Towards Economic Empowerment and Transformation’ (SWEET) project funded by NORAD under the Norwegian Grant scheme for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality since October 2018 and ended in February 2023. This intervention seeks to contribute towards the following impact ‘Somali women including women from marginalised groups, are able to take part in and benefit from business activities in the formal and informal market’. The project has four elements a) Getting to grips with the implicit and explicit, visible and invisible barriers that different women face to economic participation and empowerment b) Multimedia and communication outputs where we don’t just see women, we hear them c) Comprehensive training programme and business development support services reaching the most marginalised and excluded groups d) Stronger linkages between trained women and local business community and financial services to enhance impact, local ownership and sustainability. The project was designed to increase men’s support to women’s economic empowerment and women’s financial literacy and confidence to participate actively in business activities and break into the informal and formal business sector. The situation for women in Somalia remains very challenging and has got worse with coronavirus. The pandemic has an overwhelming negative impact on the livelihoods of Somali women including those who were already marginalised. As set out in our original proposal, there are religious and cultural norms determining women’s engagement in the public sphere which make it challenging for women to take advantage of economic opportunities. The purpose of this document is to solicit for a consultant to conduct an end line evaluation for the project in country. PROJECT RESULT AND IMPACT The project was designed to contribute to the following long-term outcomes:

  1. Husbands, fathers, and influential men support women’s economic rights and empowerment.
  2. Women in and/or interested in breaking into the informal business sector are financially literate and confident to participate in business activities.
  3. Women in the informal business sector have the knowledge and capability to break into the formal business sector at all levels. These outcomes will contribute the overall project impact: Somali women, including women from marginalized groups, are able to take part in and benefit from business activities and the formal and informal labour markets. This impact will seek to contribute to NORAD’s objective: ‘Ensure that women have full economic rights and equal opportunities to participate in the labour market’. 2 KEY PROJECT RESULTS Production of a weekly national radio magazine programme, ‘Making Waves’ broadcast on BBC Somali Service and localized programmes on six local radio stations across Somalia. In this aspect, BBC Media Action broadcast 153 national Making Waves programmes on BBC Somali Service while local six partners broadcast 673 localised programmes during the implementation period. Capacity building of six partner stations. Training focussed on editorial and ethical skills and women’s rights and gender equality in the media sector and supporting the production of high quality, locally contextualised multi-media outputs on women’s economic rights and empowerment. Local Somali civil society organisation Shaqodoon, in partnership with BBC Media Action, implemented the business development training. They were responsible for designing and delivering a training programme for women with small businesses targeted at 220 women and a further 180 women from marginalized and excluded groups involved and/or interested in breaking into the informal business sector. The objective of the training sessions was to help the women acquire soft skills and financial skills, knowledge of how to transition into the labour market, as well as linking and connecting beneficiaries to potential business mentors, local business community/networks and financial institutions. OBJECTIVE FOR THE FINAL EVALUATION The final evaluation will have the following specific objectives: • To review the relevance of the project and its approaches in the context of the development need and potential of the intervention areas. • To verify the efficiency and effectiveness of the results achieved by the project and trace the changes observed in the lives of the target beneficiaries, as a result. • To critically examine the project theory of change and logframe continuing validity of the assumptions on which the project's likely impact was based. • To analyse sustainability of the project initiatives from the point of view of local stakeholders including target beneficiaries. • To assess level of the intended synergies/integration/complementarities as well as the coordination of the project interventions with other similar initiatives. • To draw lessons and give respective recommendations for NORAD and BBC Media Action as necessary. FOCUS OF THE FINAL EVALUATION The final evaluation will investigate the following questions:
  4. Present level of relevance • The level of relevance of the project to the real problems, needs and priorities of the intended target groups and beneficiaries? • How appropriate are the project objectives? • To what extent is the project design consistent with the local situation and the coherence of activities? 3 • How responsive and flexible is the project document to problems identified during proposal development and up to the final evaluation? • How much the context of the project intervention changed since the proposal was developed and how has this affected implementation? • What are the key issues in the new context of the intervention area in particular and the country in general that needs to be taken into account in future for such projects?
  5. Efficiency of implementation: • Availability and of means / inputs provided or available on time and at planned cost to implement activities as well as monitored regularly to allow cost-effective implementation of activities. • To what extents are activities implemented as scheduled, and to what extent are implemented at planned or below planned cost? • How regularly and well are activities monitored by the project and corrective measures applied as necessary? • Efficiency of implementation of local partner business skills development training programme?
  6. Effectiveness to date: • The progress of the project to date towards attaining the project purpose/outputs in terms of the quality of results. The extent that project progress contributes towards achieving already identified key project result indicators. • Whether the planned benefits have been delivered and received, as perceived by all key stakeholders (including women and men and specific vulnerable groups). • Satisfaction of the beneficiaries and other stakeholders in terms of timely availability of inputs (materials, finance, and human resources), quality of results (respect for standards), cost effectiveness, and overall project implementation progress as per schedule. • How have unintended results affected the beneficiaries positively or negatively and could this have been foreseen and managed? • Whether any shortcomings were observed due to a failure to take account of cross-cutting or over-arching issues such as gender, environment etc during implementation.
  7. Impact prospect • If any unplanned negative effects on the target groups / beneficiaries occurred or are likely to occur and to what extent did the project management take appropriate corrective measures? • How can opportunities in the changing context be taken into account to ensure successful project impact?
  8. Potential sustainability • The level of financial /economic viability of the project initiatives: to be supported institutionally, affordable for the target beneficiaries; institutions for financial / economic responsibilities, etc. • What will be the likelihood of sustainability of the project initiatives after the end of the project support; and is there a phase-out strategy defined and are there clear and detailed plans for its implementation? 4 • How well is the project contributing to institutional and management capacity? Project partners being properly trained to facilitate handover of the project - technically, financially and managerially. • Wherever relevant, cross-cutting issues such as gender equity, environmental impact, and good governance; were appropriately accounted for and managed from the outset of the project.
  9. Value added: • To what extent the project objectives, targeted beneficiaries, timing, etc is complementary and co-ordinated as well as creating actual synergy (or duplication) with similar on-going intervention of the respective target areas. THE SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE FINAL EVALUATION • In-depth review of the project document (Special condition, General conditions, Description of activities and all Annexes); implementation progress reports (Annual report), reports produced by BBC Media Action’s Research and Learning team. • Hold debriefing meetings with all project stakeholders BBC Media Action, Shaqodoon, local partner stations and where possible with NORAD team and the beneficiary communities. • Field visits (direct observations) to Hargeisa office and project activity sites (including focus group discussions and participatory assessment with the targeted beneficiaries and project staff, and collection of additional material through semi-structured interviews). • Submission of the final evaluation report with clear recommendations. FINAL EVALUATION CONSULTANT CRITERIA Essential • University degree in a Business, Economic Empowerment, Development Studies, Community Development relevant discipline with a minimum six (6) years of relevant professional experience in media and development projects/programmes planning, implementation and review/evaluation of commensurate development projects, and a solid consultancy reputation. • Demonstrated ability to assess complex projects/programmes and draw forward looking conclusions and recommendations. • Proven experience in evaluation of media projects and capacity development initiatives as well as qualitative and quantitative research evaluations. • Knowledge of cross cutting issues. • Strong interpersonal, communication and project management skills. • Able to communicate and write effectively in English. Desirable • Ideally, s/he should have experience working in Somaliland and Somalia and be based in the country. Ablility to communicate fluently in Somali would be an asset. • Knowledge of NORAD procedures/compliance would be an asset. ASSIGNMENT DURATION The Final Evaluation consultancy assignment will take a maximum of 12 days, including the preparation and submission of the final evaluation report, and is scheduled to begin on the 20th of April 2023 or earlier with the following indicative breakdown: • Inception phase: document review and briefing in Hargeisa with BBC Media Action, Shaqodoon, local partner stations and NORAD representatives if possible (3 days) • Field phase: project sites visits, briefing/debriefing (6 days) • Synthesis Phase: presentation of draft report and preliminary findings/ debriefing with BBC Media Action, Shaqodoon, local partner stations and NORAD representatives where possible. Preparation and submission of the final evaluation report (3 days) Total maximum days 12 days

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Please e-mail your proposal, including an itemised budget with the names of at least two references for which your organisation has carried out similar work to:[email protected] THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS IS 5:00 PM (EAT) 30th March 2023

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