Application Deadline: April 15th, 2022

Background

Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH-NL) is a child rights organization dedicated to stopping child exploitation. In East Africa, Terre des Hommes Netherlands works in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. We support child victims of exploitation with education, psychosocial support, legal assistance, shelter, job opportunities, and medical care; while at the same time targeting highly vulnerable children, who are at risk of being exploited, in our prevention activities.

• Our Vision: Terre des Hommes Netherlands works towards a world where all children have a decent life and can grow up to be independent adults. A world in which children are no longer exploited. We will continue our work until this is accomplished.
• Our Mission: Terre des Hommes Netherlands prevents child exploitation, removes children from exploitative situations, and ensures these children can develop themselves in a safe environment.

Terre des Hommes Netherlands TdH NL has been operational in Ethiopia since 2007 and has a long-standing development cooperation work experience in Ethiopia. Terre des Hommes supports vulnerable Internally Displaced People who flee their homes and host communities’ due conflict.

TdH NL is an active member of the Child protection and Gender Based Violence area of responsibility, Protection Cluster at national level while at the regional level we actively engage with the emergency coordination task force. 

Currently, TdH works in Amhara region, North Showa Zone, 2 administrative woredas and 2 town administration in a range of activities with a focus on providing humanitarian assistance and creation and promotion of protective environment for displacement affected communities under the project titled as a “Comprehensive Child Protection (CP), Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Mental Health and Psychosocial support (MPHSS) support for victims of conflict of North Shewa Zone (Amhara Region)”.

The project implementation started on the 1st of Nov 2021 and will come to an end on the 30th of April 2022 with funding from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). TdH has a plan to conduct an endline evaluation of the project through a qualified consultant. 

Evaluation purpose and use

This evaluation is designed to provide documented evidence of changes brought about by the intervention. Moreover, the evaluation should specify good practice and lessons learnt to TdH that can be shared to other stakeholders and the recommendation can be used to improve future project design. TdH-NL and the funding agency of this project will be the prime users of findings of the evaluation.

 Evaluation objectives

The broader objective of the endline evaluation is to understand how and to what extent project activities achieved the stated outcomes above including contribution of the project to achieving overall access to protection and PSS services of the target population.

The specific objectives of the endline evaluation are:

• Assess the outcomes of the project activities underneath each project objective, including both intended and unintended outcomes, both positive and negative
•  Assess and identify critical internal and external factors (including but not limited to the current COVID-19 context) that have contributed to, affected, or impeded project achievements, including how TdH NL has managed these factors
•  Identify and articulate lessons learned, good practices, and concrete recommendations to inform future program design for similar projects in this context.

Evaluator (s) Competencies, Experience and Skill requirements

The evaluator (s) engaged to undertake the assignment must fulfil the following requirements: The team for this assignment will comprise of the consultant who will have overall responsibility of designing, implementing and coordinating the entire process guided by the TOR. The required skills and expertise are as outlined below:

Job Requirements

Qualifications/experiences required

• Academic/professional qualifications in areas relevant to the consultancy and Monitoring and evaluation
• Technical expert on Protection Programming in IDP and Refugee setting specifically CP, GBV and MHPSS programming.
• At least 5 years demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and conducting evaluations of humanitarian and/or emergency programming, preferably working with refugees and/or forcibly displaced populations
• Experience conducting and facilitating interviews and group discussions in cross-cultural contexts
• Experience designing and implementing beneficiary-based survey.
• Excellent and demonstrated understanding of ethical issues in research, including child protection, GBV and MHPSS.
• Capacity to use mobile data collection for data collection, and analysis of survey results.
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills (concise and clear reporting, good presentation of data and sources of information)
• Excellent research and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English and Amharic languages required
• Evaluator’s capacity statement describing how they meet required qualifications and competencies and how it will help them meet the assignment and CV.
• A previous endline survey report drafted by the consultant
• A detailed financial proposal that includes professional fees including travel cost TdH might provide travel at field level.
•  Renewed consultancy license

How to Apply

Application process and timeline

TdH-NL Ethiopia Country Office invites interested individuals and companies to submit the following application documents:

• Technical proposal (max. 10 pages) outlining their motivation for the application, the methodological approach on how to conduct the assignment, and the resources required (documents, survey questions, FGD and KII checklists, etc).
•  A proposed activities schedule/ Work plan with a time frame.
• Copy of the CVs of the evaluator (s) who will undertake the Endline Evaluation.
• Recent copies of similar evaluation reports (at minimum two reports) conducted by  the applicant and a recommendation letter from an NGO who the consultant has worked with before (not more than 12 months old).
• Financial proposal detailing evaluators itemized fees in ET BIRR for data collection and administrative costs.

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria can receive the Terms of Reference on request by email b.aberra@tdh.nl. Applicant when submitting the Technical and Financial proposals electronically in PDF format, addressed to Terre des hommes NL, subject line clearly marked “End line Evaluation RRM project" via email to: ethiopia@tdh.nl.