EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO UNDERTAKE ENDLINE EVALUATION FOR SOMREP RFSS PROJECT Full Time

BACKGROUND

World Vision is a relief, development, and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities. We work with community members, supporting them to overcome poverty and injustice. Our aim is to lift poor and marginalised households out of the vicious cycle of dependence by addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to environmental and socio-economic shocks*.*

ABOUT SOMREP

The Somali Resilience Program (SomReP) is a resilience building consortium which aims to address the underlying causes and impacts of vulnerability to climatic shocks and other related stressors. Following the Somali famine of 2011, NGOs and donors came together to share best practices to develop a multi-sector, multi-year, area-based program with graduation pathways which bridge the humanitarian-to-development nexus. The consortium undertakes layered and sequenced interventions which build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity at household, community, state and system levels. The program targets the ultra-poor across livelihood groups, including agro-pastoralists, pastoralists, fisher-folk and IDP and host communities with a special emphasis on women, youth, persons with disabilities and the marginalized.

SomReP works in the sectors of disaster risk management, climate smart agriculture, productive assets development, natural resource management, basic health/nutrition services, shock responsive safety nets, green technologies, economic empowerment and market systems development. It is an iterative, learning consortium which measures the impact of resilience interventions and employs evidence to adapt approaches, scale effective interventions and promote understanding of best practices at local, regional and international levels with civil society, government and academia. The consortium hosts the Response Innovation Lab (SomRIL), an outward-facing innovation brokerage which convenes NGO, private sector, and government challenge-holders and local, regional and global solution-providers to identify innovations and adapt them to solve Somali problems.

PROJECT BACKGROUND

The Riverine & Pastoral Food System Strengthening (RFSS) project implementation phase spans from June 2023 up to June 2025 and targets 5 districts which are Dolow, Bulo Burte, Jowhar, Luuq and Afgoye, in partnership with COOPI, DRC, CARE, ACF and WVI. The project seeks to work towards enhancing sustainable food production and the resilience of food systems in Somalia. Aligned to the core strategic outcomes of the EU, SomReP will: (i) Increase production capacity of smallholders by investing in a combination of actions that scale access to irrigation, strengthen producer groups and provide access to quality extension services; (ii) Increase access to markets, by supporting the expansion of systems to provide access to prevailing market prices, thereby enabling open access to information and empowering producers to negotiate for fair and competitive pricing of commodities. The action further seeks to enhance access to early warning systems that provide a seasonal agricultural value chain advisory, as well as ensuring that shock responsiveness and gender sensitive social protection systems are in place through SomReP’s Community Driven Resilience Approach (CDR). This enables risk-informed decision making among farming communities and ultimately contribute to improved governance, strong social cohesion and contingency planning and the institutional sustainability of food systems in Somalia.

In addition to ensuring cross cutting issues are taken into consideration, in terms of implementation of infrastructural activities, SomReP undertakes prior assessment to inform the risk of damaging the natural resources as well as increase awareness on the importance of preserving natural resources and environment. SomReP builds on partners’ experience in participatory conflict analysis, conflict resolution as well as the Do No Harm approach by continuously working with the target communities in identifying key sources of conflict and peace, particularly relating to the use of natural resources. In so doing, SomReP engages with the communities, the Village Development Committees and local leaders to help identify areas of conflict sensitivity and ensures collaboration with various federal level and member state level government ministries to ensure that project activities are informed by not only the Do No Harm principles but also the Somalia Conflict Early Warning Early Response Unit and which contributes to conflict prevention.

PURPOSE OF THE ENDLINE EVALUATION

The scope and focus of the Endline evaluation is to explore the outcomes and impact of the RFSS project, in order to facilitate an understanding amongst the consortium programme staff and stakeholders of the extent to which the envisaged change has been realized. Specifically, the assessment seeks to:

RELEVANCE: Assess the relevance of the interventions in addressing the needs of the communities, identifying emerging needs and possible contextual changes that may affect the relevance of interventions and inform future adaptations of intervention typologies.

EFFECTIVENESS: Establish the extent to which the consortium has achieved its purpose and delivered on intended outputs and outcomes in relation to resilience programming and the programme strategic framework.

IMPACT: Assess the impact of the project with particular focus on establishing changes that have occurred as measured by resilience capacity indices and indicators provided for in RFSS project logical framework.

SUSTAINABILITY: Document the extent to which communities will likely continue to benefit from interventions post implementation period, including their capacity to maintain benefits and adapt to future challenges.

LEARNING AND ADAPTATION: Capture lessons learned and best practices with special focus on resilience building and sustainability

More information about the objectives of the evaluation and application details will be provided in the Terms of Reference document upon expression of interest.

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