Terms of Reference for Evaluation
Name of Partner Organisations: Sabatia Eye Hospital and AGC Tenwek Hospital
Project start and end dates: 01-11-2021 to 31-03-2025
Evaluation Purpose: To comprehensively assess the project period examining the project’s achievement of its primary goal of strengthening of eye health systems to generate learning for future programming, policy development, and scaling of successful interventions.
Evaluation Type: Final Impact Assessment
Contracting organisation: CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V
Contact person: David Munyendo
Primary Methodology: Mixed Methods as appropriate
Proposed Start date: 25th April 2025
End date: 30th June 2025
Anticipated Evaluation Release Date: 30th June 2025
i. Project Description
About CBM
Feasibility Study and Mid-Term Review
A feasibility study was conducted at the beginning of the project and key gaps were noted in areas including but not limited to inadequate infrastructure and equipment, low demand for eye services, inadequate eye health work force, weak eye health governance in the county and inadequate financing in the county.
In 2024, CBM’s Inclusive Eye Health department conducted a mid-term review of the project which highlighted great progress towards strengthening eye health systems in the target counties.
Detailed reports shall be availed to the successful candidate.
The final evaluation shall provide evidence of the achievements of the project following an analysis of the OECD DAC criteria. As an innovative approach has been used, i.e. Peek technology for eye screenings, the focus shall lie in the assessment of its effectiveness, efficiency and equity. The stakeholders want to understand how the use of Peek technology was able to enhance overall eye health services in the target Counties. It is also important to assess how far ophthalmic care in the communities and schools was improved and how the County level health governance was strengthened.
iii. Scope of the evaluation
The evaluation will cover the full period of implementation from November 2021 to March 2025 and will cover areas including but not limited to project design, planning, implementation and monitoring. The evaluation should cover aspects such as data management, screening, treatment, referrals, project governance, stakeholder involvement including persons with disabilities, project monitoring, reporting and resource utilisation.
The VIP is multi sectoral and therefore the evaluation will cover all processes implemented in the community, in schools and in target health facilities, as well as with Education Assessment and Resource Centres and the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. In addition, the evaluation will assess how Peek Technology supported the project implementation especially with regards to screening and referral.
The evaluation team is likely to face absence of key stakeholders during evaluation period as a challenge.
v. Target audience and learning
The evaluation team will present the findings to the stakeholders including CBM, County Government and partners. The learnings from the evaluation report will be utilised by various stakeholders including County and National Government Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Implementing partners Tenwek and Sabatia, Peek Vision, CBM and BMZ.
The questions shall be based on the OECD DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability.
In addition, all evaluations assess aspects around the CBM Programme Quality Principles (PQF document to be provided to consultants after contract signature), namely:
a. COHERENCE – The extent the project aligned with the needs on the ground
b. EFFECTIVENESS – The extent the project has achieved its objectives.
Training and Capacity Development:
Outreach and treatment activities
c. EFFICIENCY – How well have resources been planned and used?
d. Time Efficiency:
e. IMPACT – What difference did the project make?
Human Resources: To what extent did the project contribute to strengthening sustainable human resources for eye health capacity?
Health Information Systems: How has use of technology improved delivery of services while considering below:
Service Delivery
To what extent has the project improved quality in:
Access to Essential Medicines and Supplies
To what extent has the project improved the supply chain?
Health System Financing
Sustainability Analysis: To what extent has the project impacted on:
Leadership and Governance
Policy Impact: to what extent has the project resulted in;
f. SUSTAINABILITY – Will the benefits last?
g. Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
h. Equality and inclusion/gender equality
The consultant is expected to design the conduct of this evaluation within the given circumstances (geographical, political, time frame) and context of Bomet and Vihiga Counties. During the entire process the below mandatory mechanisms must be adhered to:
A detailed methodology shall be provided as part of the inception report and discussed before implementation. In consultation with the implementing partner, the persons and groups to be interviewed or consulted during the evaluation shall be provided.
In addition, the consultant is expected to specify how stakeholders shall be included in the data collection and analysis, in the formulation of recommendations. It is expected that the findings and recommendations are fed back to them thus the consultant will have to detail specific meetings, discussions, workshops, presentations.
It is expected that the consultant will use a Mixed Methods Approach, incl. qualitative and quantitative assessments.
Commissioning responsibility
The Country Director will be responsible for contracting. The responsible staff from CBM, including country office staff and the Inclusive Health Initiative Technical Advisor will review and approve the methodology and all final deliverables.
Management Responsibility and Logistics
CBM will take lead in ensuring the consultancy is fully supported. The implementing partners Sabatia Eye Hospital and AGC Tenwek Hospital will assist the consultant with provision of needed project documentation, booking interviews and organizing meeting venues. The partners will coordinate with CBM to identify sign language interpreters as needed. The consultant will be responsible for all logistics arrangements necessary for project site visits and related activities. All costs related to the consultancy will be included by the consultants in the budget including estimated logistics cost.
Evaluation Team
Required core team composition:
The consultant is expected to deliver the following:
Week 1:
The first payment installment shall be made upon approval of the inception report.
Week 2-6:
The second payment installment shall be made upon delivery of the draft report.
Week 6 – 8:
The report should be presented in the standard evaluation report format of CBM (max. 25 pages) plus annexes and with at a concise summary (max 3 pages) in English. Please note that all background material shall be delivered, including questionnaires, surveys (in anonymised form) etc. in the form of an Annex.
The consultant must confirm that the reported work is their own personal intellectual creation and that they have not created substantial parts of the deliverables by using AI systems.
The final payment installation shall be made upon approval of all deliverables.
The evaluation will take 46 days details to be discussed later
Expressions of Interest shall be submitted by 14th April 2025to ([email protected] ) and shall include:
Only complete applications will be considered. CBM may ask for references and/or examples of previous work and reports during the recruitment process. CBM reserves the right to terminate the contract in case the suggested and agreed upon team members are unavailable at the start of the evaluation and no adequate replacement can be provided.
Each team member, incl. interpreters, enumerators etc. need to fully comply with and sign CBM’s and the partner organisation’s Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy as well as commitment to data security and privacy.
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