CALL FOR CONSULTANCY
CARE Ethiopia is a non-political, non-religious and independent humanitarian organization working in collaboration with various stakeholders to fight against poverty and support vulnerable community group.
CARE Ethiopia’s mission is to work with poor women and men, boys and girls, communities and institutions, to have a significant impact on the underlying causes of poverty in Ethiopia
Program Description
The Feed the Future Ethiopia – Livelihoods for Resilience Activity is a five-year USAID-funded project running from December 5, 2016 through December 3, 2021. The Livelihoods for Resilience Activity supports PSNP households to build resilient livelihoods with improved food and nutrition security, even in the face of shocks and stresses. The project works closely with the livelihoods component of the Government’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), and targets PSNP households in 27 woredas of Amhara, SNNP, and Tigray regions. The purpose of Livelihoods for Resilience is to enable 97,900 chronically food insecure households to graduate with resilience from the PSNP.
Learning agenda
Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) are at the heart of the Livelihoods for Resilience Activity. The project’s very design builds on the learning from the Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development (GRAD), and seeks to learn further in order to further refine both the design and the implementation approach, for greater resilience impact. Key learning agenda topics are related to the key themes of the project: resilience, women’s empowerment, financial inclusion, and youth empowerment, with an additional question on project layering and sequencing as a reflection on some of the project’s implementation approaches and contexts.
Specific objectives of the Assignmen
The objectives of this assignment are to:
· Advise the project on research methodologies, sources of research expertise, and other topics relevant to successful implementation of the project’s CLA plan
· Draft scopes of work/terms of reference for the research, studies and reviews, with input and feedback from relevant advisors and CLA teams (teams of project staff focusing on key learning questions)
· Collect, consolidate, and provide feedback on study designs, questionnaires, etc. developed by consultants, contractors or others involved in special studies
· Follow up with consultants on progress vis-à-vis agreed timelines, etc.
· Collect, consolidate, and provide feedback from advisors and CLA teams on draft reports
· Assist in capturing learning, framing documentation (e.g. summarizing learning in learning briefs), etc. for dissemination per the project’s communications plan.
For each of these, the CLA Consultant is expected to be a thought leader, and to include his/her own analysis, but also to encourage and incorporate feedback and reflection from members of the relevant CLA teams.
Deliverables
The Consultant will produce and deliver the following:
1. Detailed scopes of work, likely to include, but not be limited to:
· GRAD sustainability study, including a survey of graduate households
· Positive deviance analysis
· Social and behavior change analysis
· WEAI study
· Assessment of defaulter households
· Randomized assignment of VESAs to different types of MFI linkages
Scope of work topics may be changed at the guidance of the Chief of Party/Deputy Chief of Party, as the CLA plan evolves over time. These scopes of work will include proposed methodologies, schedules, consultant requirements, etc.
2. Consolidated, high-quality feedback on inception reports, study methodologies, questionnaires.
3. Regular updates and learning briefs on CLA activities.
A task order will be created for each discrete job, with an estimated number of days associated with each task.
Timeframe
The complete set of tasks to be performed under this contract are expected during the period October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019, with the possibility of extension. The consultant will provide up to 150 days of work during the contract period.
Minimum Qualification and experience:
For this consultancy service, the individual must have:
· Fluent (native) English skills and excellent writing and editing skills
· Strong understanding of monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies, preferably including econometrics and statistics
· Degree in relevant field
The Consultant must be based in Addis Ababa and must be legally allowed to work in Ethiopia. (Having a valid work permit/business license).
The Consultant is expected to submit his or her CV to CARE Ethiopia as outlined below.