Background: DCA has provided life-saving support to conflict affected communities in North East Syria (NES) since 2015 through the delivery of shelter, NFIs, food security, multipurpose cash, protection, and humanitarian mine action (HMA) support. With funding from the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), DCA provides monthly Cash for Food (C4F) support to approximately 5,200 households in order to address the food needs and improve the well-being of conflict affected families in target areas.
Evaluation purpose: The overarching objective of the final evaluation focuses on the assessment of the appropriateness, timeliness, relevance, and overall effectiveness of the intervention to achieve its objective of enabling vulnerable and displaced HHs to meet their food needs through the distribution of cash for food, both supporting HH access to essential goods and services while also stimulating local markets in conflict-affected urban communities. Additionally, the evaluation will aim to assess outcomes of the project in line with project indicators (as detailed below).
Objective of evaluation:
- Achievements of the activity in relation to the goal, sector objectives, and targets;
- Relevance of cash for food as modality for improving food security amongst vulnerable HHs in NES, including its value in providing a transition to medium term resilience building.
- Process evaluation against PANEL principles (participation, accountability, non-discrimination, empowerment and linking to rights);
- Best practices, lessons learned, strengths, and challenges in the activity design;
- Changes - expected and unexpected, positive and negative - were experienced by the targeted beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
Evaluation Criteria: The evaluation will be informed by and structured around the OECD/DCA criteria with questions framed to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of actions and achievements.
Applicants Requirements:
- External evaluator requirements:
Essential:
- University level education in research related field for principal Consultant
- Background in the Middle East (NES will be preferred)
- Fluency in English and Arabic is required (Arabic for assistant consultant is acceptable, in case)
- Experience evaluating USAID funded programmes focusing on food security and cash-based interventions.
- 5 to 8 years of experience working in and knowledge of emergency contexts
- Proven experience in conducting programs evaluations or research (at least 6 previous projects)
- Demonstrated experience in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis techniques, especially in emergency operations.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to clearly synthesize and present findings, draw practical conclusions, make recommendations and to prepare well-written reports in a timely manner.
- Experience in undertaking field-based research/evaluations
- Experience with gender sensitive programming and knowledge of gender-sensitive evaluation methods
- Willingness to travel to the field (given the specific context);
Preferential requirements:
- Experience working in NES would be advantageous, but not required.
- Proven experience in providing interactive trainings on cash assistance programming
How to apply
ALL Interested bidders may obtain the RFP Dossier in English at no cost by requesting the package from the emails below:
mota@dca.dk or
miwu@dca.dk
RFP documents will be available from 23 May, 2022.