Job Description

• Background Information

Save the Children (SC) in partnership with local partner Somali Peace Line (SPL) has been supporting the most vulnerable families in 7 drought, locust, Covid-19 and conflict affected Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and host communities in Abudwak district, Galgadud region of Somalia. The project aims to preserve the life, dignity, rights and access to basic services of girls and boys and their families affected by multiple shocks. The project will address the most urgent food and non-food basic needs through multipurpose cash assistance in addition to protection services to prevent hunger, malnutrition, poor health and engagement of negative coping strategies particularly gender-based violence (GBV). This will be achieved through providing monthly Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) to 738 vulnerable HHs, with a focus on targeting HHs with persons or children with disabilities. Protection services and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) will be built on the centrality of protection and will be implemented in collaboration with SPL, Daryeel Disability Organizations (a local Organization for Persons with Disabilities) and local authorities and communities. The project will use the Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Common Approach (RF4BN CA) that combines cash transfer with complementary interventions (cash plus) to ensure that cash has a maximum impact on children and gives mothers access to finance. The project builds the economic resilience of the target families by supporting mothers/female caregivers to establish Voluntary Saving and Loan Associations (VSLAs), training them on basic business skills and support on the development of their own businesses. The project also integrates the following core child protection components: Psychosocial and positive parenting support for children and parents/caregivers; providing operational support for two Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) to provide girls and boys multi-sectoral services (gender-sensitive unstructured psychosocial support (PSS), sports and recreation activities, life skills, and awareness raising); child protection (CP) case management services for highly vulnerable girls and boys including those with disabilities affected by violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect, including child survivors of GBV; mobilizing communities to prevent and respond to child protection harms including risks of grave violations against children in conflict; strengthening coordination among protection actors and building capacity including use of Child Protection Information Management System+ (CPIMS+).

The project directly reached 7,911 beneficiaries (girls 3,086, boys 2,586 women 1,125 men 1,114). 15 % of beneficiaries will be children and adults with disabilities.

The overall project objective is to “Drought, conflict and covid-19 affected vulnerable children and their families, including persons and children with disabilities, have improved access to protection and basic needs assistance through integrated cash and child protection interventions”.

The project has two Result areas:

Result 1: Improved capacity of vulnerable households, including households with persons and children with disabilities to cover their basic needs through the provision of unconditional cash transfers, establishment of VSLAs, and complementary IYCF awareness activities

Result 2: Girls and boys including children with disabilities are better protected in families and their communities through child protection prevention and response actions

1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE EVALUATION

The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the performance of the project and capture project achievements against the pre-set objectives and document challenges, and best practices to inform future similar programming. The project will

be evaluated using the OECD DAC criteria which assesses the relevance, effectiveness efficiency, sustainability, impact, well-coordinated, and gender-sensitivity and disability inclusiveness of the project).

2.1 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• To evaluate the project’s performance and achievements vis-à-vis the project’s overall objectives, project indicators in the logical framework, and the baseline data for the indicators gathered at the start of the project.

• To evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, coherence, scalability/replicability, and gender sensitivity and disability inclusiveness of the project.

• Collect qualitative and quantitative data on the impact of this program including benefits of a cash plus approach with activities such as Cash Transfer, VSLA, IYCF messaging, and integration sectors including case management support (family tracing and reunification (FTR), psychosocial support (PSS), referrals), Parenting without Violence (PwV), and Child Friendly Spaces activities, and collect case studies that demonstrate change in the lives of children.

• Recommend improvements for the longer-term resilience intervention strategy for the same or similar intervention areas and/or communities.

• To document the unintended impact of the project (negative and positive impacts).

1. KEY QUESTIONS

The following key questions will be explored at a minimum during the evaluation:

1. RELEVANCE

1. To what extent did the intervention objectives consistent with the needs and priorities of the beneficiaries, including particularly vulnerable children?

2. Was the design of the project the most appropriate and relevant to the program approach and strategy?

3. EFFECTIVENESS

4. To what extent did the project attain its objectives and results described in the project proposal?

5. What good practices, success stories, lessons learnt, and replicable experiences or strategies have been identified in the project implementation which have proven to be effective for replication/scale-up?

6. What were the major underlying factors (internal and external) influencing the achievement or non-achievement of the results within the project implementation?

7. Were the activities and results of the project consistent with the overall objective? And to what extent?

8. C) EFFICIENCY

9. Did the project use the financial and human resources as per the project document to deliver the intended results?

10. Were the interventions timely/were there any delays in the implementation of the project activities?

11. Were the resources (funds, technical support from SCI/SCF, use of Save the Children common approaches, partnerships and divided roles & responsibilities between SCI and partners) used well?

12. D) IMPACT

13. To what extent did the project have an impact on the targeted beneficiaries?

14. What are the key short-term and long-term changes produced by the project, positive or negative and what are the key factors behind these changes?

15. Document the impact of the project in the form of stories/case studies.

16. E) SUSTAINABILITY

17. Which mechanisms already existed, and which have been put in place by the project to ensure results and impact, policy coordination mechanisms, partnerships, and networks are sustainable beyond the project period?

18. To what extent has the capacity of beneficiaries (institutional and/or individual) been strengthened such that they are resilient to external shocks and/or do not need support in the long term?

19. To what extent target population, including children and persons and children with disabilities, were included in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project?

20. To what extent will the project be replicated or scaled up at local or national levels?

21. What were the major factors which influenced the achievement or non-achievement of sustainability of the project?

22. F) COHERENCE

23. To what extent does this project coherent with other similar interventions carried out in the target districts either by SC or partner SPL?

24. To what extent does the project compatible with other interventions which have similar objectives implemented by other NGOs, INGOs, and UN agencies in the target locations?

25. To what extent this project complements other actors’ initiatives and help filling gaps of assistance?

26. To what extent does the project coherent with the line ministry’s plans and policies?

27. How have the project activities been coordinated within different stakeholders including the Government Line Ministries, project committees and other organizations (LNGOS, INGOS, UN) in the target area to achieve overall objective

28. G) GENDER EQUALITY AND DISABILITY INCLUSIVENESS

29. To what extent has the project been gender-sensitive or transformative in design and implementation as per SCI Gender Equality Guidance?

30. What concrete measures were taken in the project to increase gender equality and reduce gender inequalities?

31. What concrete measure were taken in the project to increase disability inclusiveness and reduce.

32. H) INTEGRATION OF CASH TRANSFER AND CHILD PROTECTION PROGRAMMING

33. What have been the key benefits and drawbacks of combining cash support with cash-plus activities and combining cash transfers and child protection programming?

34. What has worked and what has not worked in key components of integrated cash transfer and child protection programming, such as in beneficiary targeting? Why have these approaches worked or not worked and how could they be improved to achieve better child protection outcomes for beneficiaries?

35. METHODOLOGY

The End-line evaluation will employ a mixed-method outcome-based evaluation, looking both at the intended and unintended impacts of interventions in the Abudwak districts in Galgadud region. As a result, the evaluation will use a mix of qualitative and quantitative.

The methods to be used for the End-line evaluation will be participatory to make the activity a positive learning process. The consultant will work with the advice and directions of the Save the Children technical team. Save the Children is child-sensitive organization therefore, Girls and boys will be consulted by using child-friendly and gender-sensitive methodologies; special attention needs will be put in ensuring that boys, girls, women, and persons with disabilities (both adults and children) will be able to participate. Everybody's participation will be voluntary, meaningful, safe, and inclusive.

The consultant should fully understand the nature of the assignment and propose and develop a compatible data collection methodology based on the project objective and result framework. the consultant should also justify their proposed methodology and explain why he/she/they prefer it.

The primary data and data analysis process will be disaggregated by gender, age, and disability by using Washington Group short set questionnaire. Draft findings will be presented to the project team and key partners to validate.

1. CONSULTANT ROLE AND EXPECTING DELIVERABLES

The consultant is expected to perform through 3 phases –inception, data collection process, reporting and dissemination. Some key activities during these phases include an adaptation of some pre-developed tools and development of some extra research tools, training data collectors, document review, data collection, analysis/interpretation, report writing, and presentation to key stakeholders. The evaluation will have the following key phases:

Phase I - Desk study: Review of documentation and elaboration of field Study

The lead consultant/evaluation team will review relevant documents from section 6 below (Reference material). Based on this review, they will produce an inception report which will include an elaborate plan of the evaluation that will include but not limited to study, methodology, and sampling strategy of the data collection plans etc. The evaluation will only proceed to the next stage upon approval of the inception report. An appropriate inception report format will be provided to the selected consultant.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

• Project narrative proposal and the logical framework

• Baseline Report

• Project monitoring and evaluation plan

• Monthly and Quarterly Reports

• Minutes from monthly meetings between SCF and project team and the project mid-term review meeting minutes

• PDMs

• Project MEAL reports

• GBV assessment report

• Case management reports

• Training reports

• Project narrative reports

• Pre- and post-test reports for positive parenting groups and children’s groups

Phase II: Field Data Collection

This phase of the evaluation will seek to collect primary data on the key evaluation questions explained under the evaluation criteria. The consultant will use the agreed plan, methodology, tools and sampling strategies from phase 1 to conduct the fieldwork.

Phase III – Data analysis and production of evaluation report

The team will draw out key issues in relation to evaluation questions and produce a comprehensive report.

As a minimum, the evaluation process will include the following key steps:

• Review of relevant literature related to the project (list of reference materials provided below) and draft an inception report before the evaluation exercise in the field.

• Application of appropriate data collection tools (e.g. questionnaire, checklist, etc.) for interviews and focus group discussion;

• Data analysis and Evaluation Report writing; and

• Presentation of key evaluation findings;

• Dataset, photos, GPS and case studies.

1. REPORTING

The consultant will maintain daily contact with the SCI team assigned to manage the monitoring activities. The collected data will be analyzed on daily basis by the consultant and given feedback to the teams.

A final report with main text of maximum of maximum 40 pages excluding the cover page, table of contents, abbreviations, and annexes. The draft report should be delivered in a soft copy in English. References should be fully cited after all important facts and figures. The report should be structured as follows

• Front page with the title of the report, project and SC CO name, date, and authors of the report

• Table of contents

• List of abbreviations used

• Executive summary (3-4 pages) that presents the key points of the different sections

• Brief background and description of project

• Objectives and the intended use of the evaluation

• Methodology and limitations of the evaluation

• Findings, including a table presenting the progress of the project objectives and results and their respective indicators against the baseline data

• Conclusions & Recommendations

• Challenges, lessons learnt and suggested actions for the way forward with timelines and responsible

• Annexes

• Tools used

• Evaluation schedule

• List of people interviewed or consulted

• Bibliography of the documents reviewed

• Terms of Reference for the evaluation

• Summary table of indicators baseline vs progress of its achievements

6.1 TIME FRAME

The consultancy work will last approximately 30 days including induction and travel days. The days will start by the date the contract is signed.

6.2 TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Consultancy fee: The consultant will come up with his/her own rate which will be subject to negotiation within the bounds of donor requirements and set standards of SC in Somalia the consultant is expected to estimate all relevant costs for the exercise, including costs for data collectors, vehicle rent, venue, stationary, standardization test and accommodation while undertaking activities related to this assignment.

1. CODE OF CONDUCT

Save the Children's work is based on deeply held values and principles of child safeguarding, and it is essential that our commitment to children's rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff and other people working for and with Save the Children. Save the Children's Code of Conduct sets out the standards to which all staff members must adhere, and the consultant is bound to sign and abide by the Save the Children’s Code of Conduct.

A contract will be signed by the consultant before the commencement of the action. The contract will detail terms and conditions of service, aspects of inputs, and deliverables. The Consultant will be expected to treat as private and confidential any information disclosed to her/him or with which she/he may come into contact during her/his service. The Consultant will not, therefore, disclose the same or any particulars thereof to any third party or publish it in any paper without the prior written consent of Save the Children. Any sensitive information (particularly concerning individual children) should be treated as confidential.

An agreement with a consultant will be rendered void if Save the Children discovers any corrupt activities have taken place either during the sourcing, preparation, and implementation of the consultancy agreement.

1. ETHICS AND CHILD SAFEGUARDING

The consultant is obliged to conduct the research in an ethical manner making sure children are safe at all times. The consultant should seek the views of various stakeholders, including children. Efforts should be made to make the research process child-centered and sensitive to gender and inclusion. The consultant must respect the rights and dignity of participants as well as comply with relevant ethical standards and SC’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. The research must ensure voluntary, safe, and non-discriminatory participation and a process of free and un-coerced consent. Informed consent of each person (including children) participating in data collection should be documented.

A contract will be signed by the consultant before the commencement of the action. The contract will detail terms and conditions of service, aspects of inputs, and deliverables.

Property right:

All data that will be collected should be considered as SCI properties and can’t be used for other purposes.

Skills and Qualifications

How to apply

Application Procedure and Requirement

Candidates interested in the position are expected to provide the following documentation:

• A technical proposal with a detailed response to the TOR, with a specific focus on the scope of work, methodology, and timelines, and how the participation of children and persons and children with disabilities in the evaluation will be ensured.

• Initial work plan and an indication of availability.

• A financial proposal detailing the daily rate expected including accommodation, transportation, stationery, data collectors, research assistance, and all other cost related to this assignment. (Operational and consultancy fees).

• Company profile or CV including a minimum of 3 references.

• At least two previously conducted similar studies.

1. Contract Management and reporting arrangements

SCI will contract a potential consultant or Firm with special needs background to conduct the End line Evaluation of SOMSCFMFAHUM2022

HOW TO APPLY:

Applications can be submitted by either:

Electronic Submission via ProSave (Recommended)

• Submit your response in accordance with the guidance provided in the below document:

• Bidders are encouraged to apply via Ariba system. Please request the Ariba link via email sending your company profile and Business registration certificate/CV. Please address your request to apply via ProSave to css.logistics@savethechildren.org

Electronic Submission via Protected Email box (Optional)

• Email should be addressed to somalia.sstenders@savethechildren.org

• Note – this is a sealed tender box which will not be opened until the tender has closed. Therefore, do not send tender related questions to this email address as they will not be answered.

• The subject of the email should be “PR207476- End line Evaluation of SOMSCFMFAHUM2022–

‘Bidder Name’, ‘Date’’.

• All attached documents should be clearly labelled so it is clear to understand what each file relates to.

• Emails should not exceed 15mb – if the file sizes are large, please split the submission into two emails.

• Do not copy other SCI email addresses into the email when you submit it as this will invalidate your bid.

Your bid must be received, no later than 26th November 2022

Bids must remain valid and open for consideration for a period of no less than 60 days

Emailsomalia.sstenders@savethechildren.org