Call for Consultancy - End of Project Evaluation of the Integrated & Climate Smart Innovations for Agro-pastoralist Economies and Landscapes in Kenya’s ASAL (ICSIAPL) Project at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

Deliverables

The following are the key outputs for this assignment:

• Inception report: should be a maximum of 10 pages, detailing the methodology/approach to be used; checklist for document reviews, the schedule of activities; the tools for data collection and workplan.
• Draft end term report: should be logically structured, contains evidence-based findings, lessons, conclusions, and recommendations devoid of irrelevant information to the overall evaluation. The report should respond in detail to the specific evaluation questions described and should be maximum of 20 pages exclusive of annexes.
• Validation: Powerpoint presentation highlighting key findings for review and validation by the project teams/stakeholders in a workshop.
• Final report, including summarized findings with key recommendations presented in pdf and word soft copies and 4 printed and well bound copies.

Ethical considerations

• The evaluation team will safeguard the rights and confidentiality of information providers, interviewees, and stakeholders by ensuring compliance with legal provisions and codes governing collection and reporting of data. The evaluator and team will agree to sign data processing agreement which shall be provided by SNV.
• Evaluation team will ensure security of information of this assignment in accordance with GDPR compliance. The information, knowledge and data gathered in this process must also be solely used for the evaluation and not for other uses. Where video coverage and photo shooting are involved, informed consent must be signed.

Qualifications 

• A master’s degree in the field of economics, livestock production, NRM/range management, or other closely related fields.
• Over 10 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis in areas of value chain analysis, result-based management evaluation methodologies.
• Knowledge of climate smart and or resilience building programs with measurement of resilience sensitive indicators.
• Experience applying SMART indicators and reconstructing or validating baseline scenarios; competence in adaptive management as applied to integrated landscape management, fodder, beef, and dairy value chain development with market systems approach.
• Experience in conducting EU, DGIS funded project surveys including household studies, agricultural value chain analyses, Mid-term, and End term evaluations especially in ASALs contexts.
• Experience in implementing evaluations with field logistics and guiding enumerators to assure high quality data as an asset.
• SNV uses LogAlto as an offline data collection tool and the consultant is expected to use this tool.  SNV will provide access at no cost to the consultant.