Consultant(s) for End of Project Evaluation - BMZ Project

World Vision Vietnam is looking for the Vietnamese or foreign consultant(s) to fill the following vacancy:

Consultant(s) for End of Project Evaluation - BMZ Project

Deadline for application: September 5th, 2022.

For detailed Job advertisement, terms of reference please find on the attached file HERE.

Background

Nam Giang is one of the poorest districts of Quang Nam province. The district’s current poverty rate is approximately 52%, over five times higher than the national rate (9.8%). There are 12 communes, of which seven have a poverty rate above 70%. The majority of local residents belong to one of several ethnic minority groups. The largest groups are Katu and Gie T’rieng, which make up 57.86% and 21.18% of the population respectively.

In November 2019, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development awarded a grant to the partnership of World Vision and the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) to implement a project titled ‘Associated agriculture for long-term income stabilization of ethnic minorities and equal integration in community development in Nam Giang District, Quang Nam province. The overall objective is to: “Improved livelihood and equal integration in community development for ethnic minority households in project Area through creating sustainable income of poverty”. As the project will close in December 2022, an external consultant will be hired to conduct an evaluation of the project in October and November 2022.

Purpose and targeted Audiences of the Evaluation

The purpose of this evaluation is:

• To evaluate the level of accomplishment, effectiveness and sustainability of the project interventions according to project objectives and indicators.
• To help WVI-Vietnam, CRD, local partners and communities to draw lessons learnt and provide them with practical recommendations for improving future interventions.

The targeted audience for the evaluation will include black pig breeding households, local project partners, and the project implementors. Specific targets include:

• Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD)
• Center for Agricultural Techniques at Nam Giang District .
• Vet network at 5 target communes
• Leaders and members of collaborative groups, animal husbandry groups and cooperative
• World Vision Vietnam in Nam Giang district

Scope of the consultancy

In coordination with WVI-Vietnam, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:

• Review relevant project documents.  
• Develop and reach a consensus on the evaluation plan, which indicates a timeline, particularly methodologies applied (quantitative and qualitative methods) and proposed sample size, data analysis method and plan, report outline, quality control methods, logistics, and other related issues upon discussion with project team. The plan will be developed to address specific objectives as listed above.
• Conduct field testing for the data collection tools. 
• Provide training for field data collectors, including ethical and gender aspects and covering protocols/guidelines to ensure anonymity and confidentiality of interviewees. 
• Supervise the data collection process in the field, applying relevant methods of quality control.  
• Analyse the quantitative and qualitative data, explicitly indicating the gender, ethnicity and disability features.
• Support WVI-Vietnam and project partners to organize a validation workshop to share the initial findings to attain comments/feedbacks on the draft report.
• Complete the final report, taking into account the comments and feedbacks from WVI-Vietnam and partners and send a revised report to the project team for final review. 
• Prepare a presentation of the endline findings for a dissemination workshop.

Timeframe

The consultancy is expected to commence on September 25th 2022. The final evaluation report is to be submitted no later than November 30th 2022.

Budget

The maximum budget for this consultancy is USD 4,200.  This consultant fee includes meals, personal income tax and excludes transportation and accommodation. 

Consultant Qualifications, Experience, and Competencies:

The successful consultant(s) should have the following qualifications:

• The consultant(s) should possess extensive work experiences (minimum five years) at senior level and in-depth knowledge on socio-economic and agri-livestock field and conducting assessments, baseline and evaluation surveys. Other team members should also possess educational background and work experiences in the livestock and/or agro-marketing. Team composition with member experienced on intensive statistical data analysis (by SPSS or Stata). 
• Strong professional experience in planning, design, management, M&E of development projects is preferred.  
• Experience in final evaluation for development project, the samples of evaluation report conducted by the consultant(s) should be attached with the proposal.
• Experience in working with the Ethnic minority people. 
• The consultant should have more insights of animal husbandry system in Central Vietnam generally and Quang Nam province particularly.
• Able to work with project staff and stakeholders at different levels.
• A strong commitment to delivering timely and high-quality results.
• Excellent track record in designing and conducting quantitative and qualitative research, analysis and evaluation.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills to clearly synthesize and present findings, draw practical conclusions, make recommendations and to prepare well-written reports in a timely manner
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Vietnamese (in case of a consultant team, at least one team member must fulfill this criterion).

Interested candidates will be asked to send an application package in English containing:

• Curriculum Vitae for all the consultants and proposed capacity of any complementary staff (CVs submitted should of staff that will be on this assignment). An expression of interest letter of no more than 4 pages, outlining how a consultant/ a team of consultants meets the selection criteria.
• Names, addresses, telephone numbers of three organizations that will act as professional referees. 
• A technical proposal for the evaluation, including proposed approaches, outlined timeframe, frameworks and detailed methodologies, sample size, logistics, and personnel
• A financial proposal that indicates the fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs. The offer must ensure that costs consists of consultant fees (meals and tax included).

Applications must be sent to: wvv[email protected] by 17h00, 25 August 2022 Vietnam time.