Amref Health Africa is the premier African-led international health development organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa to bring critical health services to remote communities, Amref Health Africa in the intervening years has broadened its mission to include training of some 500 thousand community health workers and managing the design and implementation of health development projects in more than 30 countries across Africa. With a focus on women and children, Amref Health Africa strives to overcome the most critical health challenges facing the continent: maternal and child health, HIV & TB, malaria, clean water and sanitation and surgical and clinical outreach. Amref Health Africa has offices in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, South Sudan, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda as well as in Europe and North America.
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia has been implementing different health development projects in different zones of the Afar region since 2004. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) program are one of the pillars being implemented in Afar mainly in zone one and three districts of the region.
In February 2017 Amref health Africa in Ethiopia entered a partnership agreement with Amref Spain to implement the Spain WASH project in zone three districts of Afar Region. Since then the project has been implementing different WASH activities in Argoba, Dulecha and Gewane districts.
Overview of the Project
Amref Health Africa has been implemented a WASH project entitled “Integrated WASH and Livelihood for Pastoralist Communities of Afar, Zone Three” funded by the generous support of Spain government. It is being implemented in three districts of zone three such as Argoba, Dulecha, and Gewane Woredas. The project has three expected core results: Improved sustainable access to WASH service, Increased agricultural and livestock production and productivity and Strengthened planning and management capacities
Implementing partners: Afar regional Health Bureau, Afar regional Water resource Bureau, Afar regional pastoral and agriculture development Bureau and Bureau of Finance and Economy Development
The evaluation team should be composed of at least 4 members with the qualification of master’s degree and above to undertake this evaluation. The team should be composed of environmental health or water engineering, economists, agriculturalist, statisticians, and public health professionals. The consultant should have 4 and above experience of relevant work experience on similar interventions so far.
The evaluation teams will have the responsibility to show issues not specifically mentioned in ToR if this was necessary to obtain a more complete analysis of the intervention. It should be made clear to the potential evaluation teams in the ToR that the AECID will carry out a review of these TOR after the submission of their proposal, and that from this review changes can be made to the ToR that will guide the evaluation