Role of the Consultant

The consultant will be engaged through a service agreement and will be required to undertake the following;

• Desk review of the project documents to understand the design
• Develop the sample design for the End line survey and any qualitative data collection
• Design/adapt/refine (as appropriate) the end line data collection tools – both quantitative and qualitative. The indicator data will be disaggregated appropriately into gender, age, literacy level, sub-county etc.
• An inception report detailing how the Endline evaluation will be conducted and presented to HiHEA.
• Conduct a pre-test of the tools and finalize, incorporating changes
• Identify and train the field supervisors and enumerators
• Plan the field work logistics
• Prepare survey implementation and questionnaire user guide documentation e.g. enumerator supervision manuals, etc.
• Supervise survey implementation and ensure quality control
• Clean and analyze all datasets
• Document at least one success story (most significant change story)
• Assess the project’s initiatives contributions to outcomes against Hand in Hand’s theory of change
• Write a concise End-line evaluation report, compiling the findings of both qualitative and quantitative datasets, and using the HiH evaluation report template provided.
• Submit raw, cleaned, and worked datasets to HiH in .xlsx or .csv format
• Submit the report in English for review and feedback
• Hold a validation workshop
• Incorporate feedback from HIHEA and HiH SWE.
• Submit a final report

Consultants Requirements

HiH EA requests consultants to submit proposals to respond to this Terms of Reference as outlined above. We expect the consultancy firm or consultant to demonstrate the skills and experience outlined below (or equivalent):

• The lead consultant must have a background (atleast a Masters degree) in Social sciences, Project management, Community development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, and other closely related fields.
• The consultant should have significant experience (atleast 10 years) in conducting social-economic evaluations in Kenya. Experience in conducting social returns on invest (SROI) will be an added advantage.
• The evaluation team must have the capacity to ensure that gender equality is taken into account in all aspects of the evaluation (i.e. design, data collection, analysis and reporting) and thematic knowledge (e.g. agriculture, micro-finance, market linkages, value chains, etc.).
• Strong and proven participatory qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and analytical report writing skills.
• Proven track record on working with digital data collection approaches.
• Proven capacity to assess unintended consequences of a project for different categories of stakeholders.
• Knowledge, familiarity and experience of field work and data collection in rural areas of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.

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