Consultant – Endline Evaluation - Readvertised
Requisition ID: req47975
Job Title: Consultant – Endline Evaluation - Readvertised
Sector: Measurement
Employment Category: Consultant
Employment Type: Part-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes
Location: Nigeria
Work Arrangement:
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disasters, oppression, and violent conflict in 42 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation, and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights. IRC assists people from harm to home. IRC began work in Nigeria in 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In Nigeria, IRC is working in the sectors of Health, Protection and Rule of Law (ProL), Nutrition, Environmental Health (EH), Women’s Protection and empowerment (WPE), Education, Child Protection, Economic Recovery and Development (ERD), and Governance.
The International Rescue Committee in Partnership with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is implementing the Integrated Emergency, Recovery and Resilience Response for Crisis-Affected Persons in MMC and Jere, Borno State project funded by USAID/BHA in Northeastern Nigeria. The response is aimed at providing immediate humanitarian assistance to 323,241 displaced and host populations in Borno state, through an area-based approach.
The consortium partners leverage the expertise of each other to deliver a multi-sectoral, area-based response by providing integrated interventions across the following sectors: Health, WASH, Nutrition, Food Assistance, Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), Economic Recovery and Market Systems (ERMS), Protection and Shelter and Settlements to meet the most immediate and lifesaving needs of IDPs, host communities and returnees in MMC and Jere LGAs in Borno State as well as addressing ongoing, protracted needs, and supporting early recovery through capacity building, the strengthening of existing health systems and community-based structures and increasing the ownership of life-saving, life-sustaining, and life-building services by local authorizes, service providers, and communities to ensure sustainability. The Activity coordinates its approach with the state government and other key actors in the NE. The project mainstream safe programming and ensure the process of selection criteria is participatory and adheres to the “Do No Harm” principle.
The two-year project started March 1, 2022, and will run through to February 29, 2023. It is herein proposed that the Consortium partners will jointly conduct an End-line review to assess the extent to which the project contributed to achieving its proposed results, contribute to improving the lives of the project beneficiaries, assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the project to learn from the processes of activities delivery and use the findings to affect the course of project intervention and evaluate lessons learned for future programming.
Scope of work
IRC Deputy Director for Programs/Consortium Lead will be responsible for the overall management of the assignment, with the MEAL Coordinator/Senior Consortium MEAL Manager being responsible for the coordination of day-to-day consultancy processes and working closely with the consultant. The IRC Technical Coordinators will provide technical oversight and guidance over the tools and methodology being used for the consultancy and the final report.
The independent consultant will carry out the analysis according to the ToR and will include necessary conflict sensitivity tools and exercises to meet study objectives. Some of these tools and areas of inquiry include but are not limited to, the following: (a) secondary literature review/desk research, (b) Key informant interviews, (C) focus group discussions, (D) observations (e) Data analysis etc. A detailed methodology, including the design of data-collection tools and formulation of specific questions, will be developed by the consultant. An Endline Evaluation management team will manage and oversee the evaluation and, with the evaluators, ensure that it upholds the IRC Management Policy for Evaluation. The Endline Evaluation management team will consist of four people not directly involved with the operation: three of which are from Consortium partners and MMC and Jere Consortium Lead.
The evaluation team will consist of up to four (two from IRC and Two from a consultancy firm) people: one external evaluator with knowledge of the local context who will provide an independent, objective perspective as well as technical experience on evaluations. The external evaluator will be the primary author of the evaluation report. S/he will not have been involved or have a vested interest in the Consortium operation or context being evaluated, and will be hired through a transparent recruitment process, based on professional experience, competence and ethics, and integrity for this evaluation. The team will be gender balanced and should comprise as many indigenes as possible (or at least one team member must be an Indigene of the northeast). In addition, one evaluation team member should have a Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) in emergency background, ensuring that the IRC Minimum Standard Commitments on Protection, Gender, and Inclusion in Emergencies are followed and implemented throughout the evaluation process. Each evaluation team member must be briefed on and sign the IRC Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy. During recruitment, screening and background checks on team members are mandatory. Ideally, the team leader or one of the representatives should have regional knowledge/experience and speak Hausa, and ideally, all candidates will have some experience with evaluation practices. Ideally, the team leader will have experience in training others on how to collect and store data ethically.
The purpose of this project evaluation is to assess the achievements of the project vis-à-vis the project goal, objectives, and outcomes and take learnings from the intervention. The outcome of the evaluation will also be used to establish the basis for learning as well as form part of accountability both for the MMC/Jere Consortium team and for the donor (USAID/BHA). The evaluation will provide recommendations that will be used for future project design in the target areas including newly accessible areas. The evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the implementation strategy and the results. This encompasses the project's execution methods, potential for replication, and its long-term viability. The assessment will gauge the realization of project outcomes, its adaptability for broader implementation, and the efficacy of the integration approach. The evaluation will additionally suggest opportunities for enhancement and knowledge acquisition. To fulfill these aims, the evaluation will concentrate on the following essential areas (evaluation questions).
Below are Evaluation questions in line with the IRC Evaluation Guideline to assess the project achievement in terms of its Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, coherence, and sustainability. In addition to these survey questionnaires, will share with the consultant.
The indicative objectives of the evaluation study based on the RCEESI+E framework is given below:
RCEESI+E Proposed Sub-Objectives of the Evaluation Study
Relevance
To assess the relevance and rationale of the projects, and the mechanisms/ modalities in place in the Board, in realizing its objectives.
To assess the conformity of the Board and its programs/ schemes with the best practices in vogue to address the objectives of the schemes and scheme sub-components for the board.
To assess the relevance of the implementation mechanisms/ modalities in place to identify leakages.
Coherence
To assess whether the project sector components of the MMC/Jere Cconsortium are synergetic with each other, thus, adequately addressing inter-linkages within the BHA’s program activities.
To assess if there are any conflicts/ trade-offs with other programs/Sectors.
Effectiveness
To assess the outputs achieved against the targets and inputs, and to identify project processes leading to successes and failures.
To identify the gaps and challenges in achieving the targets and implementation of the project.
To analyze successes and challenges of the Consortium in monitoring, adoption of best practices, activity planning, accountability, and transparency measures, etc.
To examine the use of technology, monitoring, evaluation, transparency, and accountability measures to avoid leakages in the implementation of schemes.
To document scalable/ replicable practices and innovative processes built by the MMC/Jere Consortium team.
Efficiency
To assess the efficiency of the different sectors and processes involved in the project implementations (including institutional and human resource capacity, and monitoring mechanism).
Sustainability
To assess the economic, social, and environmental sustainability/ viability of various sectors that are implemented by the MMC/Jere Consortium.
To assess whether the assessed impacts of the project are sustainable even without the intervention/ after the project period.
To study the sustainability of the monitoring and accountability mechanisms created at the grassroots level.
Impact
To assess outcomes achieved against the baseline and targets.
To study the impact of the project and programs of the MMC/Jere Consortium against its objectives and their roles.
Equity
To examine the accessibility and availability of the project to the poorest clients’ households across the MMC and Jere LGA, Borno state, NE Nigeria
To assess the coverage of clients belonging to vulnerable and disadvantaged sections including women, children, old and young.
Deliverables:
1. The content and the structure of the final analytical report with findings, and recommendations covering the scope of the assessment should meet the requirements of the BHA including the following:
I. Inception Report
- Inception workshop
- Preliminary desk review
- Develop data collection plan and tools.
- Write inception report.
II. Comprehensive Desk Review
- Conduct an in-depth literature review.
III. Data collection
- Refine tools based on the desk review.
- Disseminate online survey.
- Train enumerators
- Conduct KIIs and FGDs
IV. Reporting
- Data cleaning and analysis
- Organize and hold a remote workshop (presentation of preliminary findings and conduct sensitization on conflict and context analysis)
- Draft report writing
- Organize and hold remote workshops to present findings and recommendations and co-develop work plans.
- Final report writing
Payment Rate and Schedule:
The payment rate open agreed, the payment will be done open completion of the service.
Qualifications
The consultancy is open to individuals or teams of national and international expert consultants with specialist knowledge and research expertise in multisectoral humanitarian response assessment such as Multisectoral Need Assessment (MSNA), In-depth Evaluation, and research studies . The consultants should have the following qualifications, skills, and experience:
master’s degree in Humanitarian/Development Studies, Statistics, Education, Economics, Social Sciences, or any other relevant studies.
Relevant bachelor’s degree with extensive expertise, knowledge, and experience working in humanitarian or development fields preferably in Northeast Nigeria.
Proven experience in conducting project-level evaluations in multi-sector as the sole evaluator or the head of the evaluation team.
Previous experience in Humanitarian Emergencies, project management, monitoring, and evaluation experience preferably in Northeast Nigeria is an added advantage.
Strong cross-cultural communication and facilitation skills.
Strong and proven research and analytical skills.
Experience with research/evaluation in emergencies, particularly in sensitive environments.
Provide 3 sample evaluation reports of previous projects.
Proven familiarity with the context of Northeast Nigeria, geographical region, and/or culture of the focus population.
A relevant 5 years of significant experience in conflict sensitivity analysis and ethical qualitative research and analysis on conflict issues, causes, or approaches to conflict transformation (essential).
Proven experience in conducting context and conflict analysis and development of tools for the integration of Conflict sensitivity-related dynamics into the strategic and operational framework.
Conflict sensitivity expertise in complex humanitarian contexts, preferably in sub-Saharan Africa
Fluent in English, written and oral as well as proficiency in local language from NE Nigeria is an advantage.
Excellent writing skills and ability to articulate the linkage between findings, analysis, and program recommendations.
Flexible attitude towards receiving feedback.
All applications should be submitted through the email : NGHR.ConsultantsApplications@rescue.org
The closing date for applications is 31st Jan 2024
Note: Applications lacking any of the above requirements will not be considered.
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Job Title: Consultant – Endline Evaluation - Readvertised
Sector: Measurement
Employment Category: Consultant
Employment Type: Part-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes
Location: Nigeria
Work Arrangement:
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disasters, oppression, and violent conflict in 42 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation, and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights. IRC assists people from harm to home. IRC began work in Nigeria in 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In Nigeria, IRC is working in the sectors of Health, Protection and Rule of Law (ProL), Nutrition, Environmental Health (EH), Women’s Protection and empowerment (WPE), Education, Child Protection, Economic Recovery and Development (ERD), and Governance.
The International Rescue Committee in Partnership with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is implementing the Integrated Emergency, Recovery and Resilience Response for Crisis-Affected Persons in MMC and Jere, Borno State project funded by USAID/BHA in Northeastern Nigeria. The response is aimed at providing immediate humanitarian assistance to 323,241 displaced and host populations in Borno state, through an area-based approach.
The consortium partners leverage the expertise of each other to deliver a multi-sectoral, area-based response by providing integrated interventions across the following sectors: Health, WASH, Nutrition, Food Assistance, Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), Economic Recovery and Market Systems (ERMS), Protection and Shelter and Settlements to meet the most immediate and lifesaving needs of IDPs, host communities and returnees in MMC and Jere LGAs in Borno State as well as addressing ongoing, protracted needs, and supporting early recovery through capacity building, the strengthening of existing health systems and community-based structures and increasing the ownership of life-saving, life-sustaining, and life-building services by local authorizes, service providers, and communities to ensure sustainability. The Activity coordinates its approach with the state government and other key actors in the NE. The project mainstream safe programming and ensure the process of selection criteria is participatory and adheres to the “Do No Harm” principle.
The two-year project started March 1, 2022, and will run through to February 29, 2023. It is herein proposed that the Consortium partners will jointly conduct an End-line review to assess the extent to which the project contributed to achieving its proposed results, contribute to improving the lives of the project beneficiaries, assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the project to learn from the processes of activities delivery and use the findings to affect the course of project intervention and evaluate lessons learned for future programming.
Scope of work
IRC Deputy Director for Programs/Consortium Lead will be responsible for the overall management of the assignment, with the MEAL Coordinator/Senior Consortium MEAL Manager being responsible for the coordination of day-to-day consultancy processes and working closely with the consultant. The IRC Technical Coordinators will provide technical oversight and guidance over the tools and methodology being used for the consultancy and the final report.
The independent consultant will carry out the analysis according to the ToR and will include necessary conflict sensitivity tools and exercises to meet study objectives. Some of these tools and areas of inquiry include but are not limited to, the following: (a) secondary literature review/desk research, (b) Key informant interviews, (C) focus group discussions, (D) observations (e) Data analysis etc. A detailed methodology, including the design of data-collection tools and formulation of specific questions, will be developed by the consultant. An Endline Evaluation management team will manage and oversee the evaluation and, with the evaluators, ensure that it upholds the IRC Management Policy for Evaluation. The Endline Evaluation management team will consist of four people not directly involved with the operation: three of which are from Consortium partners and MMC and Jere Consortium Lead.
The evaluation team will consist of up to four (two from IRC and Two from a consultancy firm) people: one external evaluator with knowledge of the local context who will provide an independent, objective perspective as well as technical experience on evaluations. The external evaluator will be the primary author of the evaluation report. S/he will not have been involved or have a vested interest in the Consortium operation or context being evaluated, and will be hired through a transparent recruitment process, based on professional experience, competence and ethics, and integrity for this evaluation. The team will be gender balanced and should comprise as many indigenes as possible (or at least one team member must be an Indigene of the northeast). In addition, one evaluation team member should have a Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) in emergency background, ensuring that the IRC Minimum Standard Commitments on Protection, Gender, and Inclusion in Emergencies are followed and implemented throughout the evaluation process. Each evaluation team member must be briefed on and sign the IRC Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy. During recruitment, screening and background checks on team members are mandatory. Ideally, the team leader or one of the representatives should have regional knowledge/experience and speak Hausa, and ideally, all candidates will have some experience with evaluation practices. Ideally, the team leader will have experience in training others on how to collect and store data ethically.
The purpose of this project evaluation is to assess the achievements of the project vis-à-vis the project goal, objectives, and outcomes and take learnings from the intervention. The outcome of the evaluation will also be used to establish the basis for learning as well as form part of accountability both for the MMC/Jere Consortium team and for the donor (USAID/BHA). The evaluation will provide recommendations that will be used for future project design in the target areas including newly accessible areas. The evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the implementation strategy and the results. This encompasses the project's execution methods, potential for replication, and its long-term viability. The assessment will gauge the realization of project outcomes, its adaptability for broader implementation, and the efficacy of the integration approach. The evaluation will additionally suggest opportunities for enhancement and knowledge acquisition. To fulfill these aims, the evaluation will concentrate on the following essential areas (evaluation questions).
Below are Evaluation questions in line with the IRC Evaluation Guideline to assess the project achievement in terms of its Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, coherence, and sustainability. In addition to these survey questionnaires, will share with the consultant.
The indicative objectives of the evaluation study based on the RCEESI+E framework is given below:
RCEESI+E Proposed Sub-Objectives of the Evaluation Study
Relevance
To assess the relevance and rationale of the projects, and the mechanisms/ modalities in place in the Board, in realizing its objectives.
To assess the conformity of the Board and its programs/ schemes with the best practices in vogue to address the objectives of the schemes and scheme sub-components for the board.
To assess the relevance of the implementation mechanisms/ modalities in place to identify leakages.
Coherence
To assess whether the project sector components of the MMC/Jere Cconsortium are synergetic with each other, thus, adequately addressing inter-linkages within the BHA’s program activities.
To assess if there are any conflicts/ trade-offs with other programs/Sectors.
Effectiveness
To assess the outputs achieved against the targets and inputs, and to identify project processes leading to successes and failures.
To identify the gaps and challenges in achieving the targets and implementation of the project.
To analyze successes and challenges of the Consortium in monitoring, adoption of best practices, activity planning, accountability, and transparency measures, etc.
To examine the use of technology, monitoring, evaluation, transparency, and accountability measures to avoid leakages in the implementation of schemes.
To document scalable/ replicable practices and innovative processes built by the MMC/Jere Consortium team.
Efficiency
To assess the efficiency of the different sectors and processes involved in the project implementations (including institutional and human resource capacity, and monitoring mechanism).
Sustainability
To assess the economic, social, and environmental sustainability/ viability of various sectors that are implemented by the MMC/Jere Consortium.
To assess whether the assessed impacts of the project are sustainable even without the intervention/ after the project period.
To study the sustainability of the monitoring and accountability mechanisms created at the grassroots level.
Impact
To assess outcomes achieved against the baseline and targets.
To study the impact of the project and programs of the MMC/Jere Consortium against its objectives and their roles.
Equity
To examine the accessibility and availability of the project to the poorest clients’ households across the MMC and Jere LGA, Borno state, NE Nigeria
To assess the coverage of clients belonging to vulnerable and disadvantaged sections including women, children, old and young.
Deliverables:
1. The content and the structure of the final analytical report with findings, and recommendations covering the scope of the assessment should meet the requirements of the BHA including the following:
I. Inception Report
- Inception workshop
- Preliminary desk review
- Develop data collection plan and tools.
- Write inception report.
II. Comprehensive Desk Review
- Conduct an in-depth literature review.
III. Data collection
- Refine tools based on the desk review.
- Disseminate online survey.
- Train enumerators
- Conduct KIIs and FGDs
IV. Reporting
- Data cleaning and analysis
- Organize and hold a remote workshop (presentation of preliminary findings and conduct sensitization on conflict and context analysis)
- Draft report writing
- Organize and hold remote workshops to present findings and recommendations and co-develop work plans.
- Final report writing
Payment Rate and Schedule:
The payment rate open agreed, the payment will be done open completion of the service.
Qualifications
The consultancy is open to individuals or teams of national and international expert consultants with specialist knowledge and research expertise in multisectoral humanitarian response assessment such as Multisectoral Need Assessment (MSNA), In-depth Evaluation, and research studies . The consultants should have the following qualifications, skills, and experience:
master’s degree in Humanitarian/Development Studies, Statistics, Education, Economics, Social Sciences, or any other relevant studies.
Relevant bachelor’s degree with extensive expertise, knowledge, and experience working in humanitarian or development fields preferably in Northeast Nigeria.
Proven experience in conducting project-level evaluations in multi-sector as the sole evaluator or the head of the evaluation team.
Previous experience in Humanitarian Emergencies, project management, monitoring, and evaluation experience preferably in Northeast Nigeria is an added advantage.
Strong cross-cultural communication and facilitation skills.
Strong and proven research and analytical skills.
Experience with research/evaluation in emergencies, particularly in sensitive environments.
Provide 3 sample evaluation reports of previous projects.
Proven familiarity with the context of Northeast Nigeria, geographical region, and/or culture of the focus population.
A relevant 5 years of significant experience in conflict sensitivity analysis and ethical qualitative research and analysis on conflict issues, causes, or approaches to conflict transformation (essential).
Proven experience in conducting context and conflict analysis and development of tools for the integration of Conflict sensitivity-related dynamics into the strategic and operational framework.
Conflict sensitivity expertise in complex humanitarian contexts, preferably in sub-Saharan Africa
Fluent in English, written and oral as well as proficiency in local language from NE Nigeria is an advantage.
Excellent writing skills and ability to articulate the linkage between findings, analysis, and program recommendations.
Flexible attitude towards receiving feedback.
All applications should be submitted through the email : NGHR.ConsultantsApplications@rescue.org
The closing date for applications is 31st Jan 2024
Note: Applications lacking any of the above requirements will not be considered.
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