DEADLINE: 8TH FEBRUARY, 2021
OXFAM
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION
TITLE: CONSULTANCY ON PROACT END OF PROJECT EVALUATION
RFQ NO: REQ02313
PROJECT TITLE: IMPROVING FOOD/NUTRITION SECURITY AND RESILIENCE OF VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS IN DISASTER AND CONFLICTS AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN ADAMAWA AND KEBBI STATES OF NORTHERN NIGERIA
DONOR: EUROPEAN UNION (EU)
EVALUATION TIME FRAME: FEBRUARY TO MARCH, 2021
(1.0) Background of the project
Oxfam is an international confederation of 19 organisations working in over 95 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice around the world. Each organization (affiliate) works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts. Oxfam’s stated goal is to ensure vulnerable people’s needs are met (saving lives and ensuring sustainable livelihoods), transform attitudes about women’s rights and supporting more active citizenship and a more accountable state and private sector. By adopting a rights-based approach and in solidarity with communities, Oxfam works with partners, public and private sector institutions to achieve a fairer economy with increases in incomes for the poorest and more effective support to those affected by crisis; and to change public attitudes so the rights of women are respected, to achieve a more accountable state and private sector institutions; and a stronger civil society in which women and men know and can claim their rights.
Oxfam, in partnership with Christian Rural & Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN) and Development Exchange Centre (DEC), is implementing a 60 month Project funded by the European Union and Oxfam in Adamawa and Kebbi States of northern Nigeria. The Project is titled “European Union Support to Food Security and Resilience in Northern Nigeria (PROACT)”, and is being implemented across more than 70 rural communities in 7 Local Government Areas of the two States (4 LGAs in Adamawa and 3 LGAs in Kebbi).
PROACT has been strengthening the capacities of about 70,000 rural households who rely on agriculture and natural resource-based livelihoods through best practice knowledge transfer, household/productive assets accumulation, financial inclusion services, linkages to market systems, climate change adaptation, and social safety programs among others. There has been some reported evidence of increase in productivity and improved wellbeing among project participants in the 70 rural communities. PROACT interventions have contributed to an improved food security situation across the communities, as more foods are produced for household consumption and for enhanced household income generation. Now in its fifth year of implementation, PROACT has demonstrated that resilience programming targeted at rural populations should be multi-dimensional and comprehensive enough to stimulate far reaching change process for vulnerable households.
The overall objective of PROACT is to improve food/nutrition security and resilience of vulnerable households in disaster and conflicts affected communities in Adamawa and Kebbi States of northern Nigeria. Its specific objectives are:
(1) Rapid improvement in livelihoods, food security and early recovery for targeted vulnerable farmers and host communities including women and youth in Adamawa and Kebbi States;
(2) Strengthened resilience, preparedness towards risks and natural resource utilisation for targeted vulnerable small holder farming communities in Adamawa and Kebbi States.
(3) Improved strategic linkages for food security and nutrition, and support to local market systems in each State.
(4) Improved response capacity of government towards social protection, early warning systems and strengthened local frameworks towards resilience building.
(2.0) Purpose of the evaluation:
The purpose of this evaluation is to assess project performance against the evaluation criteria: project design relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, M&E systems, other cross cutting issues, etc.
The End of Project (EoP) evaluation results will give the possibility to use the findings for:
- Assessing the contribution in terms of outcomes achieved by the project;
- Identify Learning on best practices and stories of change;
- Providing recommendations on focal areas such as sustainability of the outcomes and methodology for further replications amongst others;
- Accountability towards stakeholders at large (government, donor, farmer representative bodies, civil society and the private sector;
The users of the EoP evaluation are:
- Project teams, partners and governments (state and national): they will use the results and recommendations derived from the EoP evaluation to improve the future programs for greater impact;
- European Union: EU may use the results for accountability and other project design purposes.
The EoP has an additional purpose of drawing lessons and developing recommendations for Oxfam and the EU that may help for improving the selection, enhancing the design and implementation of similar future projects and activities in the country and on a global scale upon project completion. The EoP report should include examples of good practices for other projects in Northern Nigeria
The evaluation team should provide an analysis of the attainment of the main objective and specific objectives and project indicators set targets.. Through its assessments, the evaluation team should enable the Government, Oxfam and other stakeholders and donors to verify prospects for development impact and sustainability, providing an analysis of the attainment of SDG goals, project objectives, delivery and completion of project outputs/activities, and outcomes/impacts based on indicators.
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CLOSING DATE: 8th Feb 2021
