Provision of Consultancy Services Tender, Afghanistan - 76819623

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Country : Afghanistan

Summary : Provision of Consultancy Services

Deadline : 14 Jan 2023

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 76819623

Document Ref. No. : RFP-AFG- 013

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : Public

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Request for proposals are invited for Provision of Consultancy Services.

Closing Date: 14 Jan 2023

Type: Consultancy

Terms of Reference for Danish Refugee Council (DRC), an evaluation of the outcomes under UNDP ABADEI

The evaluation seeks to gain further insights and assessment of the outcome indicators of the project which is further described in following sections.

Country Office

DRC Afghanistan

Project Area

Afghanistan, all area offices and relevant field offices in East, South, Central and West

Consultancy timeline

The evaluation will be commenced in January 2022, with the final report due on March 1, 2023. DRC will give the consultant with the required information to create a table containing the tasks, timelines, and deliverables for which the consultants will be responsible and accountable, as well as those involving DRC, and indicating who is responsible for completing each assignment.

Introduction
Project

DRC started implementing the Area Based Approach to Development Emergency Initiative (ABADEI) in mid-March 2022. The project aims to promote shock-affected households- self-reliance and community resilience through an area-based program integrating basic needs, economic recovery and protection assistance with peacebuilding and social cohesion initiatives. DRC addresses exacerbated vulnerabilities through appropriate basic needs response, while transitioning a sub-set of the most vulnerable target households to economic recovery assistance. The project is expected to end by March 2023.

The intervention is fully aligned with UNDP-s overarching ABADEI strategy and priority activities, providing community-level solutions which complement urgent humanitarian interventions. In line with the ABADEI timeline, in this first phase of the program (06 - 12 months), DRC focused primarily on the preservation of basic human needs and on the safeguarding of essential services and livelihoods. However, the project is also designed to link emergency support with medium-term interventions, by leveraging market-based approaches and the long-term impact of the construction, repair and rehabilitation of key community infrastructure and of conflict-mitigation interventions. This approach, compared to more fragmented programming, is more likely to reduce the impact of recurrent shocks and stresses in target communities and supports local peacebuilding efforts that are essential for development to be sustainable. Leveraging DRC-s technical expertise, established presence in the target locations and over a decade of experience implementing community-driven integrated programs in Afghanistan, the intervention primarily contributed to ABADEI Outcomes 2, 3 and 4, namely community livelihoods and local economic activities are safeguarded; farm-based livelihoods are protected from natural disasters; and community resilience and social cohesion are strengthened. In support of UNDP priorities for Afghanistan, the project contributed to protecting the hard-won development gains of the last twenty years, including progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are now in jeopardy of being lost.

Main objective: Promote shock-affected households- self-reliance and community resilience through area-based program integrating basic needs, economic recovery and protection assistance with peacebuilding and social cohesion initiatives.

Specific objectives:

Safeguard community-based livelihoods and local economic activities

Protect farm-based livelihoods from natural disasters

Improve community resilience

Project Activities

The project activities included:

Under ABADEI Outcome 2: local level private sector support (technical and financial support to MEs and SMEs)
Under ABADEI Outcome 3: construction, repair and rehabilitation of disaster resilient infrastructure
Under ABADEI Outcome 4: conflict analysis, conflict management trainings to local actors, participatory and inclusive community safety planning, youth empowerment programmes, legal counselling services awareness, capacity building to legal practitioners and local counsellors, and explosive ordnance risk education (EORE)
While the intervention is directly aligned with ABADEI Outcomes 2, 3 and 4, the project design also addressed ABADEI Outcome 1 by promoting food security through emergency and livelihoods support, as well as the provision of essential services through the participatory selection of infrastructure for rehabilitation via cash for work.

DRC in Afghanistan

DRC has worked in Afghanistan since the 1990s, through Humanitarian Mine Action, and expanded its scope and reach of programming in 2011 to provide multi-sector and holistic packages of assistance. We currently work in four regions of the country (West, East, South and Central), focusing on the most vulnerable and at-risk of conflict and natural disaster-affected populations, including IDPs, host communities and documented/undocumented returnees.

Under the Strategy 2025, DRC Afghanistan will implement a comprehensive programme aimed at increasing protection and enhancing inclusion across Emergency, Protection, Economic Recovery, Shelter & Settlements, Camp Coordination and Camp Management, and Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding sectors. Due to the unpredictability of the Afghan context, DRC will maintain capacity to respond to sudden and large-scale emergencies, while also promoting the transition to long-term recovery programming.

DRC is a lead Protection actor in Afghanistan where it is implementing a range of general protection services. These include psychosocial support, legal counselling and awareness as well as support to obtaining civil documentation, protection monitoring. DRC is also co-leading the protection cluster in two provinces (south and west) and has a growing presence at the main border crossings between Afghanistan and neighbouring countries, where teams provide Explosive Ordinance Risk Education (EORE) as well as limited protection support in terms of operating a call center for the reunification of families of individuals arriving at the border and supporting in referrals as needed.

DRC mission in Afghanistan currently operates across 18 provinces from four Area Offices and one Country Office. The mission includes more than 1, 000 staff, for a projected portfolio of approximately 50 million USD for 2022.

Scope And Focus of The Evaluation

Scope
The end of project evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the project implementation strategy and the results. This will include the implementation modality, coordination, beneficiary participation, accountability and feedback mechanisms applied for the project, replication, and sustainability of the project. The evaluation will include a review of the project design and assumptions made at the beginning of the project development process. Project management, including the implementation strategy; project activities, will assess the extent to which the project results have been achieved, capacities built, and cross cutting issues of mainstreaming gender, human rights, and social cohesion have been addressed. It will also assess whether the project implementation strategy has been optimal and recommend areas for improvement and learning. In order to achieve these objectives; will focus on the areas in the following section.

The Evaluation Questions

The following key questions will guide the end of project evaluation:

Evaluation Criteria

Relevant questions

Relevance and appropriateness

Were the primary objectives viable? Were these realistic?
Was the project relevant to the identified targeted groups- needs? If not, how well has the project adjusted to them?
Were the inputs and strategies identified, and where they realistic, appropriate and adequate to achieve the results?
Effectiveness

To what extent did the project achieve its overall objectives?
What and how much progress has been made towards achieving the overall results (impacts, outcomes and outputs) of the project (including contributing factors and constraints)?
What significant changes has the project brought about? Where has it done well enough? and where has it underperformed? Why have there been fewer accomplishments in some areas, if any? What were the reasons?
Where there any differential results across the different targeted groups?
Efficiency

Did the actual or expected results (outputs and outcomes) justify the costs incurred? Were the resources effectively utilized?
What factors contributed to implementation efficiency?
Are there more efficient ways and means of delivering more and better results (outputs and outcomes) with the available inputs? Could an alternative strategy have obtained better results?
How efficient were the management and accountability structures of the project?
What are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the project implementation?
Have project resources and activities been delivered in a timely manner?
Impact

Has the intervention caused a significant change in the lives of the intended beneficiaries (individuals, households and/or communities depending on the intended outcomes and nature of the different activities)? what changes have occurred in the target population that may be attributable to project activities? How could the impact/results be strengthened further?
What activity or combination of activities yields the greatest outcomes or impact?
Has the intervention led to higher-level effects (Infrastructures, norms or systems including market systems)?
Did the intervention appropriately supported all the intended target groups, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable?
Is the intervention transformative? does it create enduring changes in norms - including gender norms- and systems, whether intended or not?
Is the intervention leading to other changes, including “scalable” or “

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