Recruitment of an International Consultant for the Final Evaluation of the ABC Project Tender

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Country : Niger

Summary : Recruitment of an International Consultant for the Final Evaluation of the ABC Project

Deadline : 15 Jan 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 29662968

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Maison des Nations Unies BP 11 207 Tel. + 227 20 731 300 / + 227 20 73 47 00 Fax. + 227 20 72 36 30 Niamey
Niger
Email :registry.ne@undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Recruitment of an International Consultant for the Final Evaluation of the ABC Project.

background

In accordance with the monitoring and evaluation policies and procedures of UNDP and GEF, all medium and large-scale projects supported by UNDP and funded by the GEF must be subject to a final evaluation at the end of implementation. implemented. In accordance with the ABC project document, a final evaluation is planned after the end of the project. These terms of reference (TOR) set out the expectations of a final evaluation (TE) of the project "Regionalization of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) in Niger" (PIMS4790).

The Government of Niger has obtained from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), under the GEF Operational Program on "Adaptation to Climate Change", the financing the operational phase of the Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Regionalization Project. The formal signing of the financing agreement took place on August 21, 2014.

The long-term goal of the project is to strengthen the resilience of rural communities to the adverse effects of climate change and to develop more resilient local economies. The interim goal is to? Strengthen the responsiveness and adaptation capacity of municipal administrative / technical services to enable the generation of a critical mass of community resilience to climate change and to achieve a more climate resilient economy in the Maradi region.

The specific objectives of ABC Maradi are as follows :

· the reinforcement of the response and adaptation capacities of deconcentrated and decentralized technical and administrative services at the municipal level; and

· promotion and dissemination of resilient practices, technologies and measures at the local level in adjacent municipalities.

The ABC Project intervenes in the Maradi Region notably in (7) communes of which five (5) of the Department of Dakoro namely Ajekoria, Azagor, Dakoro, Korahane, Roumbou, and two (2) of the Department of Bermo: Gadabéji and Bermo .

In short, ABC Maradi is an urgent and immediate adaptation project to climate change and benefits from bilateral and multilateral co-financing for the implementation of adaptation activities by several community actors, technical services and the State. The GEF supports the strengthening of the capacities of all local actors (municipalities, local communities, technical services, socio-professional actors, etc.) to fight effectively against the effects of climate change. GEF funding aims to link the initiatives of multiple partners and actors (synergy and partnership), with a view to promoting local action and strengthening integrated adaptation activities of vulnerable communities affected by climate change impacts. climate change in the project area.

The main expected results of the project are:

· The necessary information and relevant climate risk management tools are made available and adopted by the communal authorities, technical services and community organizations (CBOs and NGOs) in the 7 priority communes of the Maradi Region;

· Community measures and resilient sources of revenue are scaled up, disseminated and implemented in the 7 communes prioritized in the Maradi Region.

The first effect strengthens the capabilities and key means of climate risk management and provides the necessary information on these risks at the departmental, communal and local levels. It builds an enabling institutional environment for scaling up and disseminating resilient community activities and practices, and for securing more resilient local economies and livelihoods within the region's 7 intervention communes. Maradi. The second effect directly supports the implementation and adoption of these resilient community activities and practices. These two effects, and their respective outputs, are therefore related to each other.

The Regionalization of Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Project in Niger is implemented by the National Council for the Environment for Sustainable Development (CNEDD). The operative mechanism of the Project includes:

A Project Management Unit (PMU), based in Dakoro and Bermo, composed of: the coordinator, 2 Experts / Monitoring-evaluation, 1 Administrative and Financial Officer, 1 Communication Officer, 1 Administrative Assistant, 2 Drivers, 2 guards and 1 orderly

The final evaluation will be conducted in accordance with guidelines, rules and procedures established by UNDP and the GEF as outlined in the UNDP Evaluation Guidelines for GEF-funded Projects.

The objectives of the evaluation are to assess the achievement of project objectives and to draw lessons that can improve the sustainability of the benefits of this project and promote overall improvement of UNDP programs.




Duties and Responsibilities

The evaluation team will consist of an international team leader consultant and two national consultants (an institutional expert with local development skills, and an agroeconomics expert with climate change adaptation skills). Consultants should have previous experience in evaluating similar projects. Experience with GEF-funded projects is an advantage. The selected evaluators must not have participated in the preparation or implementation of the project and must not have a conflict of interest with the project activities.

The respective roles can be as follows:

· International consultant: Head of mission of the final evaluation. Responsible for the conduct of the mission. Responsible for writing the report.

· National Consultant (institutional or local development expert ): Responsible for the institutional analysis, the engagement of the partners, the conduct of the beneficiary surveys, questions on the management of the project, cooperation processes between partners, COFOs, and similar aspects.

· National Consultant (agroeconomics expert): Responsible for technical aspects of the project, investments, technical activities in community-based adaptation, natural resource management, restoration of degraded lands, and environmental and community impacts .

The international consultant in collaboration with the selected national consultants must produce the following documents which will each time be validated by a technical committee:

· A startup report :? presenting the evaluation methodology and clearly explaining how the proposed approach will provide the answers to the questions and help to achieve the evaluation objective. The note should contain the data collection tools (quantitative and qualitative), the analysis plan with an evaluation matrix reflecting the evaluation criteria and questions. The methodology will also include a proposal for a detailed timeline of activities and the submission of deliverables. This document will be the first basis on which the team of consultants and the evaluators will agree. This important document will be examined and validated by the technical committee that will be set up.

· A first draft of the report will be presented to gather feedback from stakeholders. The consultant team will incorporate comments received at the end of the presentation.

· A final report - which will contain an executive summary with a brief description of the context, the objectives of the evaluation, an overview of the methodology, the main findings, conclusions and recommendations.

The team will work under the supervision of Team Leader Resilience to conduct the evaluation.

Approach and evaluation method :

A comprehensive approach and methodology for conducting final evaluations of UNDP-supported and GEF-funded projects has developed over time. The evaluator should articulate evaluation efforts around the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact, as defined and explained in the UNDP guidelines for conducting final evaluations of projects supported by UNDP and financed by the GEF. A series of questions covering each of these criteria have been drafted and are included in these terms of reference of the terms of reference. The evaluator must modify, complete and submit this table ( Appendix C ) as part of an initial evaluation report and attach it to the attached final report.

The assessment must provide factual information that is credible, reliable and useful. The evaluator should adopt a participatory and consultative approach that ensures close collaboration with government counterparts, in particular with the GEF Operational Focal Point, the UNDP country office, the project team, the UNDP technical advisor- GEF based in the region and key stakeholders. The evaluator will have to carry out a field mission in the seven intervention communes of the project at the level of the Maradi region namely Roumbou, Azagor, Korahane, Adjekoria, Dakoro, Gadabedji and Bermo . Interviews will take place at a minimum with the following organizations and individuals:

· Project staff (Coordinator and Project Team);

· representatives of the SE / CNEDD and UNDP;

· members of the Steering Committee;

· contractors responsible for the execution of major project components;

· representatives of local stakeholders;

· representatives of projects and programs in the intervention area;

· representatives of relevant NGOs;

· representatives of the technical services;

· beneficiary populations ?;

· representatives of municipalities and other territorial constituencies and stakeholders who are not directly involved in the project who may have lived or hoped to live through its impacts.

The evaluator will review all relevant sources of information, such as the project document, project reports, including the PCR / RMP and other reports, project budget revisions, the mid-term review, prog

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