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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR PROJECT ENDLINE EVALUATION
RFP No.: SNV/EO2/002/2024
OPENING DATE: April 23, 2024
CLOSING DATE: May 10, 2024
CLOSING TIME: 5PM – KIGALI TIME
DESCRIPTION: TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR PROJECT ENDLINE EVALUATION
PROJECT: REgenerative Agricultural Practices for Improved Livelihoods and Markets, REALMS
DURATION: June to August 2024
DONOR: IKEA Foundation
PLACE OF ASSIGNMENT: Kigali including field visits to Western Rwanda and Western Kenya
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Offerors responding to this ToR must include the following as part of the proposal submission:
SNV Background
SNV the Netherlands Development Organization is a global development partner working in more than 25 countries in Asia and Africa. In Rwanda, SNV has been working for more than 30 years to improve people’s livelihoods by strengthening the capacities of public and private sector organizations and catalyzing partnerships. It does so by helping to realize the national development goals in three sectors: Agri-Food; Renewable Energy; and Water. SNV supports development in these sectors by working with the government, civil society, and private sector organizations.
The REgenerative Agricultural practices for improved Livelihoods and MarketS (REALMS) project started in November 2020 and will end in October 2024. Overall, the project aims to improve livelihoods of 10,000 smallholder farmers (5,000 famers in Western Rwanda and 5,000 farmers in Western Kenya) by creating conditions for the adoption of regenerative agricultural practices. Both project areas are characterised by high population growth and increased demand for food, increasingly degraded lands, fragile landscapes and weakened livelihoods.
The project approach follows three interlinked outcome pathways to contribute to long-term change:
Outcome 3: Improved enabling environment, favourable to market-driven regenerative agriculture through the promotion of relevant solutions, establishing minimum standards, enforcing quality control, prohibiting malpractice, and ensuring fair competition are crucial. REALMS’s entry point is Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) using evidence-based advocacy. The CSOs can be key actors to influence policies and practices and ensure long-term advocacy is in place and locally owned, long after the project finalises. The evidence for lobby and advocacy generated by two research partners in both countries who investigated various RA practices scientifically using participatory research approaches
Following its nearly four years of implementation (2020 – 2024), REALMS will be phasing out its activities by October 2024, the four months following from November 2024 to Feb 2025 have been reserved for reporting and final closure of project. The project is now commissioning an evaluation to verify the project’s impacts/outcomes and derive the key lessons learned. A focused set of OECD/DAC criteria shall be used as the guidelines for the project final evaluation to look at the project’s relevance, effectiveness, coherence and potential for sustainable scalability. Lessons learned from the project will inform project partners and the donor IKEA Foundation on how to integrate REALMS learnings into other ongoing or planned programs. The primary audience of this evaluation will be REALMS project partners, the IKEA Foundation as well as other relevant development partners and programs.
The project is therefore seeking an external team of evaluators or a firm to undertake the Project endline evaluation to ensure an objective view and assessment. Ideally, the consultancy team should demonstrate a proven track record of evaluating similar projects. The endline evaluation aims to achieve the following objectives:
The evaluation will utilize the Baseline, Mid-Term Review, and other relevant project MEL documents.
The endline evaluation should answer the following questions:
Sub-questions:
The following project strategies will be reviewed;
Sub-questions:
The consultancy team is expected to design and facilitate a final reflection workshop to disseminate, triangulate and reflect on the evaluation findings among all the main stakeholders
The final project evaluation will adopt a mixed-methods approach, integrating both qualitative and quantitative data collected from primary and secondary source.
The evaluation is expected to commence in June 2024 and the final report shall be submitted by 30th August 2024.
The review will be conducted over 3months (approx. 50 working days) broken down as follows:
Applicants for this evaluation assignment should meet the following requirements:
The following selection criteria will be applied:
Attributes
Maximum Score/100
Understanding ToR
5
Experience in conducting similar assignment and team composition
15
Technical Proposal
50
Financial Proposal
30
Interested candidates should send the following documents and clearly stating the position title to email: rwandaprocurement@snv.org by the closing date of 5:00pm (Kigali time), Friday 10th May 2024:
Only short-listed applicants meeting the requirements stated above will be contacted for an interview.
Vetting
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Data Protection assurance
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If you are selected and offered employment, the Personal Data you have provided will be used by SNV for the purpose of this bidding administration. If you are unsuccessful on this occasion to secure tender with SNV, SNV will retain your Personal Data for required period for the purpose of any future internal or external audit.
[1] Relevance – “The extent to which the objectives of a development intervention are consistent with beneficiaries’ requirement, country needs, global priorities and partners’ and donors’ policies”.
[2] Coherence – “The compatibility of the intervention with other interventions in a country, sector or institution”
[3] Effectiveness – “The extent to which the development intervention’s objectives were achieved, or are expected to be achieved, taking into account their relative importance”.
[4] Sustainability – “The continuation of benefits from a development intervention after major development assistance has been completed. Probability of long-term benefits. The resilience to risk of the net benefit flows over time”.
[5] The Evaluation Reference Group comprises of PMs and MELs from SNV and IKEA Foundation.
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