The Somalia Drought Joint Response is a crisis response project that has a total budget of EUR 2.5 million for 6 months to provide life-saving assistance to severely drought affected populations. The project started on 28th January 2022 and is phasing out at the end of July 2022. The project that is implementing under the auspice of drought response consortium is implemented in several regions in Somalia including Lower Juba, Bay region and Bari region.
The drought response project is implemented through a consortium of Dutch Relief Alliance members. The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) is a coalition of 14 Dutch aid organisations in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).[1] The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) partners with the DRA by funding Joint Responses. The structure of the DRA enables participating NGOs to respond to major international crises in a timely and effective manner. The rising number of humanitarian disasters around the world has placed an increased burden on international aid organisations. The global increase in the number of armed conflicts – and the deepening complexity of these conflicts – is also adding to the severe strain on the existing humanitarian system. The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) was established to meet these challenges. Improved cooperation and coordination between NGOs enable them to better respond to major international crises in a timely and effective manner. The DRA members collaborate in humanitarian interventions – delivering greater impact than members operating independently.
1.3 The project overview.
Title
Dutch NGO’s Joint Humanitarian Response for the Somalia Drought
Goal
JR is to provide 111.008 severely drought affected people with life-saving and life-sustaining humanitarian assistance.
Project Results.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Hygiene Promotion – WSH-R1: Number of people having regular access to soap to meet hygienic needs
Excreta Disposal – WSH-R2: Number of people having access to dignified, safe, clean and functional excreta disposal facilities
Water Supply – WSH-R4: Number of people having access to sufficient and safe water for domestic use
Hygiene Promotion (awareness) – WSH-R6: Number of people reached with hygiene promotion/awareness raising activities
Food security and livelihood.
Short-term livelihood support – FSC-R1: Number of people provided with resources to protect and start rebuilding livelihood assets
– Provision of seed and farming input packages and livestock support (with provision of goats/shoats and grass seeds), as well as climate resilient agriculture training
Availability of, access to and consumption of food – FSC-R2: Number of people enabled to meet their basic food needs
– Provision of three-monthly rounds of food voucher-for-work assistance for vulnerable households (following the MEB recommendation for food transfers)
Multi-purpose cash.
Unconditional and unrestricted cash – CSH-R1: Number of people benefitting from unconditional and unrestricted cash
– Provision of unconditional cash transfer for 2829 households. Partners will align their transfer values with the Cash Working Group’s recommended value per region for the drought response.
Partners
SCI (Partnering with GREDO)
CARE (Partnering with WASDA)
Oxfam (Partnering with WASDA and ADESO)
Tearfund/World Concern (Partnering with WRRS)
IRC (Partnering with KAALO)
Target Area
Map of the target areas can be downloaded from Here
The end line evaluation will be implemented during the months July-August 2022 over a period of 6 weeks. The scope of the evaluation is the entire drought response project, encompassing all project components as listed in the project description of the background section. The project time frame considered is from 28th January to 27th July 2022. The project design involved determining the significance of joint programming to respond to emergency crisis and partnering with national/local actors to improve the agency and project delivery. The evaluation will include review of the project design by critically assessing the project implementing approach and project documents. The evaluator will also analyze project management processes including the implementation strategies, monitoring and exit strategies. Additionally, the extent to which the project results have been achieved, partnerships established, and capacities built will be assessed.
The endline evaluation will be undertaken in all the project target areas. This is to ensure the exercise is participatory and consequently covers all the project sectors i.e FSL, WASH and Protection. The lead agency will assess the accessibility and security situation of the project target areas before starting of the field data collection exercise.The detail of the project target areas is as below.
Region
District
Partner
Bari region
Bender beyla/ Iskushuban
OXFAM/ADESO
Qardho
IRC/KAALO
Bay region
Burhakaba/Bardale
SCI/GREDO
Lower Juba
Kismayo
OXFAM/WASDA
Afmadow / Badhade
CARE/ WASDA & WORLD CONCERN/ WRRS
The overall objective of this end-line evaluation is to understand and document the main results and changes brought on by the Drought joint response project to the lives of the project beneficiaries. The specific objectives of the evaluation include:
The consultant would employ a combination of selected OECD/DAC Evaluation criteria and other criteria for program review such as local humanitarian leadership, accountability and gender equality and timeliness.The evaluation questions are however suggestive and evaluation managers will welcome further inputs and improvements from the consultants during the initial stage of the evaluation exercise. The selected criteria and accompanying questions for review are as indicated below.
Evaluation Criteria
Key Question
Relevance/appropriateness
Measures the extent to which the objective of the response has been achieved. In particular
Efficiency
Efficiency concerns how well the project transformed the available resources into achieving the intended objectives and creating the outcomes observed, and the quantity, quality and timeliness of associated outputs. Comparison should be made against what was planned. More specifically;
Effectiveness
How far the project’s specific objectives were achieved. The analysis of Effectiveness will focus on issues such as:
Sustainability
This will focus on the need to ensure that the activities of a short-term emergency nature are carried in a context that takes longer term into account.
Other criteria
Local humanitarian leadership
Timeliness
International standards
Gender equality
Accountability
While Oxfam suggests consideration of the following mixed-methods methodology in order to collect the relevant data, the consultant is expected to determine the final methodological approach for presentation and approval during the inception phase. Final approval will be made by Oxfam through Program and Consortium Coordinator and the evaluation manager.
The evaluation is expected to be based on the findings and factual statements identified from review of relevant documents including the project proposal, project documents, and the project progress reports In addition, the consultant will also review Partnership manuals, strategies and policies and procedures. Oxfam will provide the external expert with all available project documentation at the beginning of the consultancy.
The consultant will also undertake field visits to the project areas and interview various stakeholders including partner project field staff, consortium focal points, government officials, target beneficiaries etc. Participation of stakeholders in the evaluation should be maintained at all times, reflecting opinions, expectations and vision about the contribution of the project towards the achievement of its objectives.
The methodology must consider participants’ safety throughout the evaluation (including recruitment and training of research staff, data collection / analysis and report writing) as well as research ethics (confidentiality of those participating in the evaluation, data protection, age and ability-appropriate assent processes) and quality assurance (tools piloting, enumerators training, data cleaning).The above-described methodology is indicative; the consultant is expected to provide a detailed methodology and work plan when preparing the inception report.
DELIVERABLE
DESCRIPTION
TIMEFRAME
INCEPTION REPORT
Must contain:
Within 5 days from the start of the contract
DRAFT
REPORT
At the end of 3 weeks of Engagement/ Start of the consultancy.
FINAL
REPORT
Final report will:
The final report will consist of the following sections as a minimum:
Within one week of receiving feedback and approval of draft report
Power point presentation
The consultant is required to develop and submit a high quality and precise power point presentation to be presented by the consultant and shared with the wider audience such as partner agency field staffs, donor and government stakeholders.
In the last week of the evaluation period.
The consultant will directly report to Oxfam MEAL coordinator during the entire period of this engagement with matrix supervision by Program and Consortium coordinator, and closely work with partner agencies program managers as well as M&E focal point persons.
The specific requirements for this assignment are hands on experience with evaluating a joint response program implemented through partnership between international and national partners and proven and documented knowledge on evaluating multi-sectoral integrated emergency response. other requirements are as detailed below.
[1] The DRA members are: CARE Nederland; Cordaid; Dorcas; Oxfam Novib; Plan International Nederland; Help a Child; Save the Children; SOS Children’s Villages The Netherlands; Stichting Vluchteling; Tearfund NL; Terre des Hommes; War Child; World Vision; and ZOA.
Individuals/firms that meet the above requirements should submit an expression of interest (EOI) to SOM-Consultancies@oxfam.org latest 27th July 2022, which should include: –