Consultancy Service for Project Evaluation

TOR FOR PROJECT EVALUATION

1. Background

Church World Service (CWS) is an American non-governmental organization that has supported Vietnam since 1954 with projects mainly focusing on improving health services and access to clean water and sanitation, child nutrition, education for ethnic minorities and disaster relief.

CWS Vietnam New Integrated Development and Essential Action (New IDEA) program is a multi-sector initiative designed to help ethnic minority communities in rural mountainous areas to address challenges they face in attaining their right to dignified wellbeing.

With funding from WOC and Alstom for Expanding/Enhancing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (E² WASH), CWS Vietnam in partnerships with communities, including local government duty bearers and quasi-government Women’s and Youth Unions, key interventions will prioritize community mobilization for safe and quality  access to water, which will support improved hygiene and sanitation, alongside increased focus on waste management in schools, clinics and communities to achieve the below objectives:

• Communities have enhanced knowledge of positive sanitation and hygiene behaviors
• Communities have improved access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure

2. Justification and scope of the evaluation

The project with funding from WOC and AF will be completed in coming months. As such, CWS will ask a consultant team to evaluate project results and impact, including health impact (for example in relation to water borne diseases, skin disease, etc.) achieved during 2021-2022.

Scope of the evaluation:

• Relevance of projects’ activities and approaches in addressing project participants’ needs and rights in WASH
• Project achivement, results and impact, including health impact (for example in relation to incidence of water borne diseases, skin disease, etc.)  
• Participation and involvement of project partners and participants, including elderly people
• Satisfaction of the project participants
• Project challenges and proven best practices and lessons learned
• Sustainability of project results
• Project impact stories and quality photos showing positive change from the participants

Location of the evaluation:

• Than Uyen district of Lai Chau province - Ta Mung, Ta Hua and Khoen On communes
• Chiem Hoa district of Tuyen Quang province - Trung Ha and Tri Phu communes

3. Methodology and expected timeframe

The consultants are asked to design a proposal with detailed method for the evaluation, including toolsand field survey schudule for data and information collection to enable project participants to join in in-depth interviews (IDI) and focus group discussion (FGD) as described in the below table:  

The consultants will work closely with CWS Vietnam team to develop and finalize proposal, the tools, and detailed field survey schedule. This said the checklist, in-depth interview and focus group discussion templates developed by the consultants will be reviewed by CWS Vietnam team before the evaluation starts.

4. Qualification requirement:

The consultants qualification requirements for the evaluation

• Solid knowledge and practical experience in WASH/CLTS/ODF
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Experiences in the design and development of project evaluation proposal and tools
• Good communication skillin organizing participatory activities
• Experiences in working with ethnic minorities,especially those in the northern mountainous area of Vietnam

Interested candidates please send the application form, proposal and detailed CVs of the  evaluation team to [email protected] and cc [email protected] no later than 10 September 2022.