Project title: Addressing health, nutrition and protection needs of vulnerable populations in Dollow, Luuq, and Belethawa districts of Gedo region, Somalia.
Proposed assessment dates: 1st January to 28th February 2023
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Trócaire is an Irish organisation that works in partnership with communities in over 20 countries to
Since 1992, Trócaire Somalia has been providing comprehensive, safe, and inclusive humanitarian and development programme in the Gedo region of the Southern Somalia by integrating health, nutrition, WASH, protection, resilience, and basic education to address needs among the most marginalised and vulnerable people during emergencies and building resilience of communities to prepare for and mitigate future emergencies.
Trócaire’s work is best understood as taking a long-term developmental approach in a complex emergency, creating the conditions for recovery, by linking relief and development. In Somalia and particularly in the Gedo region, Trócaire’s continues to implement quality, sustainable and harmonised health, nutrition, WASH, education, and food security programmes to address acute livelihood and humanitarian needs.
1.2 Overview of the Project
This project aimed to improve health, nutrition and protection needs of the population in Dollow, Luuq and Belethawa districts of Gedo region. The intervention was to complement existing health, nutrition, and protection services with a view to improving existing health and nutrition gaps to reach more vulnerable and harder to reach populations in the region.
The project’s purpose therefore was to enhance access to quality health care, nutrition, and protection services to marginalised and vulnerable populations with extreme poverty index. Overall, the project intended to ensure improved integrated community case management (ICCM) model, integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) and clinical response to gender based violence in remote and hard to reach zones coupled with perennial droughts and decreased livelihoods.
The key activities of the project included:
Project beneficiaries included:
Overall Project Goal
To contribute to reduced morbidity, mortality, malnutrition rates and protection risks of vulnerable and marginalized girls, women, boys and men in drought affected and hard to reach areas in Luuq, Dollow, and Belet Hawa Districts in Gedo Region of Somalia.
Project Specific Objectives
1.3 The Rationale for the Evaluation
As the project ends, a final evaluation is being commissioned to assess the project progress towards achieving its objectives.
The evaluation will be required to track and ascertain progress against the outcomes of the project towards achievement of the overall goal of the project, identify lessons learnt, good practices and provide concrete recommendations for future similar interventions, to enhance adaptive programming.
1.4 Main Stakeholders of the Evaluation
The evaluation will involve participation of various stakeholders at various levels to draw lessons, gather data on impact of the interventions, identify challenges and successes and triangulate all information gathered. Stakeholders that will be involved include Trocaire staff, target beneficiaries/community members, community health workers, ICCM supervisors, MOH and local authorities of Dollow, Luuq, and Belethawa districts.
2. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES
Evaluation Objectives:
The objective of the evaluation will be to:
The evaluation will be guided by the project’s specific objectives and commitments in the proposal document and log-frame.
Expected Results:
It was envisioned that by the end of the project period:
3. KEY EVALUATION QUESTIONS
Specific Questions
Relevance
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Sustainability
Impact
Accountability
Organizational Capacity
Gender equality and disability and minority inclusiveness
Integration of Health, Nutrition, and protection programming
4. METHODOLOGY
The evaluation will be conducted in Gedo region, Somalia in Dollow, Belethawa and Luuq Districts. The evaluation will employ both qualitative and quantitative methodologies for example document review, in-depth survey with beneficiaries and their families, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and observation. These methods will ensure comprehensive gathering information from beneficiaries, the community, and relevant stakeholders and proper triangulation throughout the process. The data will be analysed and reported in line with the logical framework and commitments in the project proposal. Potential consultants will be expected to design a detailed methodology in their technical proposals outlining how the evaluation would best be undertaken.
5. SCOPE OF WORK
The consultant will be responsible for:
Expected tasks and outputs will include:
6. REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
7. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The evaluators should:
All products arising from this evaluation will be owned by Trocaire. The evaluators will not be allowed without prior authorization in writing to present any of the analytical results as his or her own or to make use of the evaluation results for private publication purposes.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications for interested candidates should present an application as follows:
NB: The consultant is required to undertake all costs pertaining to the evaluation including travel and hiring of enumerators (the consultant shall hire from a pool of Trocaire-trained enumerators).
The application should be submitted to procurement-som@trocaire.org indicating ‘Trócaire Somalia, Final Evaluation for the ECHO Project’ as the subject. Deadline for submission is Close of Business on 30th November 2022.
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