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The consultant reports to:
CBM Global Disability Inclusion – Kenya (CBM Global Kenya PM).
Description of consultancy
Baseline study to support project progress management and indicator tracking.
1. Background and rationale
About CBM Global Disability Inclusion Kenya
CBM Global is a dual mandate and partnership-based organization working alongside people with disabilities in the world’s poorest places to fight poverty and exclusion and transform lives. Driven by Christian values, CBM Global seeks out and works with the most marginalized in society, irrespective of race, gender, age or religion, recognizing the equal worth of every individual.
With over 100 years of experience, CBM Global is known for its expertise in disability-inclusive community development and humanitarian action, inclusive eye health, and community mental health. It partners with local organizations to break the cycle of poverty and disability, treat and prevent conditions that lead to disability, and build inclusive communities.
CBM Global implements development and humanitarian projects through a coordinated mix of inclusive community-based programmes, local-to-global advocacy, and technical assistance to other organizations.
Vision: An inclusive world in which all people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.
Mission: Fighting to end the cycle of poverty and disability.
About IcFEM and Dreamland Mission Hospital
InterChristian Fellowships’ Evangelical Mission (IcFEM-Mission) is an indigenous Christian Missionary organization based in Kimilili town, Bungoma County. The mission seeks to deliver holistic, Christ-centred community transformation. Its vision is to be a movement of God’s people functioning locally to catalyse sustainable development from a Biblical perspective.
IcFEM operates through three broad objectives: Evangelism, Community Development, and Ministry to the Needy, with six strategic pillars. A cornerstone of its work is the Dreamland Mission Hospital, which provides comprehensive healthcare as part of IcFEM’s commitment to community well-being.
The hospital exemplifies IcFEM’s emphasis on combining holy living with hard work in practical service to God and humanity, while being deeply rooted in Scripture (Matthew 28:18–20).
About the BELIEVE Project
The BELIEVE Project (Bungoma Enhancing Localized Inclusive, Efficient, Vision Engagement) is a collaborative initiative between CBM Global and IcFEM Mission. It seeks to augment, complement and support ongoing county government efforts to address critical gaps in eye health by strengthening inclusive, comprehensive eye health services in Bungoma County, while reinforcing community-led development and disability inclusion.
This project is rooted in the shared values of CBM Global and IcFEM that promote human dignity, striving for justice, compassion, and stewardship. It represents a holistic model that integrates medical, social, and spiritual transformation.
Project Goal and Objectives
Goal: To reduce the burden of preventable blindness and improve overall well-being in Bungoma County through inclusive eye health services.
Specific Objectives:
- Improve access to inclusive and equitable eye health services for rural communities.
- Integrate health and development services through community outreach and systems strengthening.
- Empower community-led advocacy initiatives with a strong focus on persons with disabilities and local ownership.
- Strengthen IcFEM’s institutional capacity to sustainably deliver quality, inclusive health services.
To effectively monitor, track and document needed progress with relevant trackers, this survey will provide the baseline data against which the monitoring and final evaluation will be based.
2. Purpose and Deliverables
The purpose of this consultancy is to:
- Design and conduct a baseline survey/study in Bungoma County in support of an inclusive eye health project.
- Generate baseline data to support gender, age and disability-sensitive project implementation
- Present this data to the relevant stakeholders in a validation meeting
- Present both a full baseline and an easy-read version of the report to CBM Global and IcFEM.
Deliverables will include:
- Inception report
- Draft and field-tested data tools
- Draft Baseline Report
- Final Baseline Report with Annexes including tools, Consultancy firm’s profile, ToR, list of respondents reached, and assignment workplan.
- Easy-read version.
3. Scope
The consultancy assignment will confine itself to the project result areas and activities as described within the project design documents (to be shared with the final bidder).
4. Timeframe and duration
The Consultancy should take between 15-21 days, starting end of May-Early June and end before end of June 2025 when the final report should be shared. The timeframe will include an inception meeting, visits to the project sites, visit to the implementing partner IcFEM Mission, a validation meeting to present the draft findings, before submission of the final report and relevant attachments. A dissemination session with CBM Global, IcFEM Team and Bungoma County Health Management Team will be expected.
5. Place/ location of service delivered
Bungoma County for the fieldwork and validation exercises, remote for rest of deliverables.
6. Required Expert Profile
Key qualifications required to perform this assignment include but are not limited to:
- A minimum of a post-graduate University degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, M&E, Disability Inclusion, Health Sciences, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated track record of carrying out similar type of studies (samples MUST be attached).
- Experience in participatory methodologies of research, gathering and synthesizing different perspectives, and packaging research outputs for diverse stakeholders.
- Experience producing work for health-focused institution (preferably eye health) based in Kenya.
- Fluent in English and Kiswahili.
7. Payment schedule
CBM Global will pay the consultancy fee according to the schedule below:
- 50% upon submission and acceptance of an Inception report.
- 50% upon submission and acceptance of the final report.
How to apply
Application documents with organizational profile, clear methodology, detailed workplan, CVs of key members of the study team, and detailed budget should be sent by email to CBM Global through [email protected] and cc: [email protected] with the Subject: “Believe Project Baseline – CBMG Kenya” by 1700 hours East Africa time on/before 26th May 2025. If you do not hear from us after 2 weeks after the closing date, please note that your application was unsuccessful. Any bids received after the stated time and date will be automatically rejected. Proposals that do not follow the guidelines above will be rejected automatically, including proposals from individual consultants. There shall be no canvassing accepted, and given the number of applications we receive, if you have not heard from CBM Global by 6th June your bid was unsuccessful.
Data and confidentiality: Any data collected related to this assignment, including the data and final reports will be full property and copyright of CBM Global Disability Inclusion, and may not be published by a third party without written permission. All information is processed with due regard to confidentiality and ethical considerations to be accountable to our communities, service users, partners, and other stakeholders.
Safeguarding: CBM Global is an adult and child safeguarding organization committed to preventing all forms of harm and protecting children and at-risk adults from all forms of abuse. As such, CBM Global expects its workers, partners, consultants and all other individuals or persons associated with its work to be committed to ensuring a safe environment for children. Any violation of this policy will result in the termination of the contract. Read about the CBM Global safeguarding policy here
