Food Security Outcome Evaluation GOAL Uganda
TERMS OF REFERENCE: HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY OUTCOME EVALUATION
For full TOR please email: astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)
A brief introduction to the Household Food Security intervention
GOAL Uganda supports a number of partners to provide household food security for people living with HIV in Bugiri district and for vulnerable communities in Abim and Kalongo districts. The objectives of the HHFS intervention in all areas of operation are the same and the following quantitative indicators are used for measuring change (these are the core indicators; information on supplementary indicators were collected also):
• % of beneficiaries reporting an increased number of meals consumed per day (disaggregated by location, gender, length of beneficiary in the programme, partner and number of meals)
• % of beneficiaries reporting an increased consumption of each food group (disaggregated by the location, type of food group, gender, age and partner)
• % of beneficiaries report eating 3 or more food groups per meal (disaggregated by number of meals, previous years’ beneficiaries & current)
• % increase in number of beneficiaries able to save seeds for planting in the subsequent harvest (disaggregated by amount of seed, beneficiary gender, age, length in programme)
• % of beneficiaries reporting 25% increase in crop yield (disaggregated by location, gender, type of crop)
• % of beneficiaries report 20% increase in livestock (disaggregated by location, livestock given and offspring, gender of beneficiaries)
The successful candidate will be provided with the HHFS intervention strategy, to familiarize themselves with the content and a basis from which to interpret the data which has already been collected from beneficiaries or is in the process of being collected (during mid-October and early November) for this year.
Aims of the assignment
GOAL Uganda intends to hire a consultant to conduct an outcome evaluation of its HHFS activities as well as conduct a causal assessment after analysis of the data, in order to be able to correlate the findings with its programme interventions. The evaluation should identify the strengths, weakness and effectiveness of methods, strategies and methodology employed in our programme (as well as our measurement of progress) and bench mark it against best practice as well. Findings from this evaluation will be used to improve our strategy but most significantly to measure the outcomes of its HHFS interventions thus far.
Key objectives of the evaluation
1. Describe the beneficiary’s progress on indicators and determine the programme’s contribution to these observable effects.
2. Provide specific recommendations for the improvement of our food security programme approach, strategy and measurement with specific reference to the findings, our implementation and management, the need and local context/situation and the latest best practice.
Scope of Work
Key tasks of this consultancy include (this may not be the full list; consultant may have to engage in more than the specified activities to meet the assignment objectives ):
• Briefing meetings regarding content and methodology of this consultancy. This may be either one or two meetings in Kampala with select GOAL staff; those that will be involved in this assignment.
• Familiarization with the district KAPBs, HHFS strategy, previous outcome evaluation, pertinent project documents – i.e. partner proposals, monitoring tools and data, progress reports, annual reports – and outcome evaluation questionnaires: baseline and follow up. The consultant shall also, at this time, start to conduct a desk review for reviews, strategy documents, similar evaluations, need assessment documents from the programme implementation site areas, etc.
• Quality controlling of final data set (i.e. perform specific cross check logical functions prior to start of descriptive statistics analysis)
• Analyze existing baseline and follow-up data in relation to the above mentioned indicators (follow-up dataset also includes information from 2010 beneficiaries so that dataset and report will be provided to the consultant as well ). GOAL will communicate the important disaggregations that should be highlighted in the report and considerations when interpreting the gathered data. The consultant must compare and contrast any findings with secondary or district level data (use of our district KAPBs as a minimum, for example) where such comparisons and contrasts are will add value in understanding strengths or weaknesses in our approach etc.
• Conduct a causal assessment, through fieldwork, to contextualize, explain and substantiate quantitative performance on indicators. This component will include formation of fieldwork tools and protocols.
• Submission of draft report for review in response to the two key objectives of this evaluations and response to comments on the draft when finalizing the report.
• Continuous element: Research other HHFS related evaluations from Uganda and/or around the world and identify best practices, specifically regarding implementation, strategy, measurement of change and outcomes, etc. GOAL strongly encourages the consultant to work plan meetings with counter-parts with colleagues from other organisations implementing similar project in order to be able to share lessons with and learn from each other.
Expected Outputs
• Inception report detailing the work plan against a timeline and resources required to perform corresponding tasks
• Finalised research protocols and tools for fieldwork, list of documentation, evaluations, reports to reference in the report, outline of final report (this to be done after the quantitative analysis)
• Draft report summating the findings on the two key objectives. Consultant must also prepare one case study (1 page).
• Final report that outlines progress made in relation to set objectives / indicators mentioned above; qualitative findings explaining the progress (or lack thereof if that is the case) including unintended (positive or negative) outcomes of the programmes, best practice examples for implementing, monitoring, evaluating and documenting HHFS interventions, recommendations on the existing food security strategy with specific reference to the latest best practice
• Presentation summarizing the content of the evaluation report – for further dissemination within GOAL Uganda. A presentation template will be provided as well as examples generated in previous years.
• Final and cleaned raw data, including any pertinent documents generated through the data verification and cleaning processes. This point encompasses the safe harbor as well as safe return of all documents or property belonging to GOAL Uganda as provided or generated by the process, including the submission of documentation generated through a desk review pertaining to HHFS.
• Two case studies, generated during qualitative causal assessment stage.
Tasks & Timeline under this consultancy
The consultancy is scheduled last approximately 23 days, starting 17th November and ending no later than 22nd December 2011. Please see full TOR for breakdown of tasks.
Deadline for submission
The proposals are due at 8:00am on Monday 14 November. No late submission (after 8:00am) will be accepted. Proposals are to be submitted electronically to astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie . The preferred consultant will be notified of their success within a week of the deadline.
For full TOR please email: astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)
For full TOR please email: astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)
A brief introduction to the Household Food Security intervention
GOAL Uganda supports a number of partners to provide household food security for people living with HIV in Bugiri district and for vulnerable communities in Abim and Kalongo districts. The objectives of the HHFS intervention in all areas of operation are the same and the following quantitative indicators are used for measuring change (these are the core indicators; information on supplementary indicators were collected also):
• % of beneficiaries reporting an increased number of meals consumed per day (disaggregated by location, gender, length of beneficiary in the programme, partner and number of meals)
• % of beneficiaries reporting an increased consumption of each food group (disaggregated by the location, type of food group, gender, age and partner)
• % of beneficiaries report eating 3 or more food groups per meal (disaggregated by number of meals, previous years’ beneficiaries & current)
• % increase in number of beneficiaries able to save seeds for planting in the subsequent harvest (disaggregated by amount of seed, beneficiary gender, age, length in programme)
• % of beneficiaries reporting 25% increase in crop yield (disaggregated by location, gender, type of crop)
• % of beneficiaries report 20% increase in livestock (disaggregated by location, livestock given and offspring, gender of beneficiaries)
The successful candidate will be provided with the HHFS intervention strategy, to familiarize themselves with the content and a basis from which to interpret the data which has already been collected from beneficiaries or is in the process of being collected (during mid-October and early November) for this year.
Aims of the assignment
GOAL Uganda intends to hire a consultant to conduct an outcome evaluation of its HHFS activities as well as conduct a causal assessment after analysis of the data, in order to be able to correlate the findings with its programme interventions. The evaluation should identify the strengths, weakness and effectiveness of methods, strategies and methodology employed in our programme (as well as our measurement of progress) and bench mark it against best practice as well. Findings from this evaluation will be used to improve our strategy but most significantly to measure the outcomes of its HHFS interventions thus far.
Key objectives of the evaluation
1. Describe the beneficiary’s progress on indicators and determine the programme’s contribution to these observable effects.
2. Provide specific recommendations for the improvement of our food security programme approach, strategy and measurement with specific reference to the findings, our implementation and management, the need and local context/situation and the latest best practice.
Scope of Work
Key tasks of this consultancy include (this may not be the full list; consultant may have to engage in more than the specified activities to meet the assignment objectives ):
• Briefing meetings regarding content and methodology of this consultancy. This may be either one or two meetings in Kampala with select GOAL staff; those that will be involved in this assignment.
• Familiarization with the district KAPBs, HHFS strategy, previous outcome evaluation, pertinent project documents – i.e. partner proposals, monitoring tools and data, progress reports, annual reports – and outcome evaluation questionnaires: baseline and follow up. The consultant shall also, at this time, start to conduct a desk review for reviews, strategy documents, similar evaluations, need assessment documents from the programme implementation site areas, etc.
• Quality controlling of final data set (i.e. perform specific cross check logical functions prior to start of descriptive statistics analysis)
• Analyze existing baseline and follow-up data in relation to the above mentioned indicators (follow-up dataset also includes information from 2010 beneficiaries so that dataset and report will be provided to the consultant as well ). GOAL will communicate the important disaggregations that should be highlighted in the report and considerations when interpreting the gathered data. The consultant must compare and contrast any findings with secondary or district level data (use of our district KAPBs as a minimum, for example) where such comparisons and contrasts are will add value in understanding strengths or weaknesses in our approach etc.
• Conduct a causal assessment, through fieldwork, to contextualize, explain and substantiate quantitative performance on indicators. This component will include formation of fieldwork tools and protocols.
• Submission of draft report for review in response to the two key objectives of this evaluations and response to comments on the draft when finalizing the report.
• Continuous element: Research other HHFS related evaluations from Uganda and/or around the world and identify best practices, specifically regarding implementation, strategy, measurement of change and outcomes, etc. GOAL strongly encourages the consultant to work plan meetings with counter-parts with colleagues from other organisations implementing similar project in order to be able to share lessons with and learn from each other.
Expected Outputs
• Inception report detailing the work plan against a timeline and resources required to perform corresponding tasks
• Finalised research protocols and tools for fieldwork, list of documentation, evaluations, reports to reference in the report, outline of final report (this to be done after the quantitative analysis)
• Draft report summating the findings on the two key objectives. Consultant must also prepare one case study (1 page).
• Final report that outlines progress made in relation to set objectives / indicators mentioned above; qualitative findings explaining the progress (or lack thereof if that is the case) including unintended (positive or negative) outcomes of the programmes, best practice examples for implementing, monitoring, evaluating and documenting HHFS interventions, recommendations on the existing food security strategy with specific reference to the latest best practice
• Presentation summarizing the content of the evaluation report – for further dissemination within GOAL Uganda. A presentation template will be provided as well as examples generated in previous years.
• Final and cleaned raw data, including any pertinent documents generated through the data verification and cleaning processes. This point encompasses the safe harbor as well as safe return of all documents or property belonging to GOAL Uganda as provided or generated by the process, including the submission of documentation generated through a desk review pertaining to HHFS.
• Two case studies, generated during qualitative causal assessment stage.
Tasks & Timeline under this consultancy
The consultancy is scheduled last approximately 23 days, starting 17th November and ending no later than 22nd December 2011. Please see full TOR for breakdown of tasks.
Deadline for submission
The proposals are due at 8:00am on Monday 14 November. No late submission (after 8:00am) will be accepted. Proposals are to be submitted electronically to astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie . The preferred consultant will be notified of their success within a week of the deadline.
For full TOR please email: astiglic@ug.goal.ie and cc-ed to jnmaher@ug.goal.ie and gmasendi@ug.goal.ie (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)
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