REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(Individual/Firm Consultant for a Project Final Evaluation)
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Cambodia has implemented Best Community Household Opportunities through Improved Community Empowered Solutions “Best CHOICES” project in 50 rural villages of the Bakan district, Pursat Province with funding from Department of Foreign Affair and Trade (DFAT) Australia and ADRA Australia. The project focuses on improvements in Maternal and Child Nutrition and includes clean water and livelihoods promotion components in addition to health behavior change interventions.
ADRA is seeking a consultant to carry out a Project Final Evaluation from the 1st week of March to end of March 2025. Consulting Services will include, but are not limited to the following tasks. A full TOR is accessible through the link here: Full TOR
Scope of Work:
The work of the Final Evaluation Consultant will consist of the following points and is intended to be conducted directly by the consultant:
- Review project proposal, reports, the results of the baseline, midterm and final quantitative survey conducted, in December 2019, January 2022, and January 2025 by the local project survey team and the results of baseline and annual participatory evaluations (PEs Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5) conducted by local facilitators guided by the project team and develop a detailed final Evaluation plan/inception report.
- Review the initial quantitative and qualitative results of the final survey and PEs for qualitative verification and further in-depth study.
- Design in-depth interview tools and conduct in-depth interviews with key informants from staff, community implementation partners, and government stakeholders to collect data for analysis
- Design and conduct focus group interviews or KII with both female and male beneficiaries.
- Analyze information and data from points A, B, C and D above, and facilitate discussions with project staff and higher-level stakeholders on the initial results and potential recommendations.
Consultant qualifications:
The project Final Evaluation Consultant and or Consultant Team (up to 3 persons) should come with the following skills and experience in Cambodia:
- At least 8 years of work in implementation of community based rural development projects in the Health, WASH, Livelihood, and Gender Empowerment sectors.
- Have quality, verifiable, experience in conducting qualitative data collection and analysis for community development programs with an international perspective.
- Be aware of and have access to major government strategies and trends in the relevant intervention areas.
- Ability to quickly analyze project proposals, reports, and field documents and formulate detailed plans along with the ability to function independently without major oversight or direction after initial objectives are established.
- Have interpersonal participatory communication and facilitation skills that are effective in gathering balanced, useful, quality information from both project staff, implementation partners and community beneficiaries including government partners.
- Be efficient and clear in preparing reports (in English) and have his or her own laptop computer for use in the evaluation and write-up.
- Be able to provide examples of recent work completed.
Available at time of Contracting:
- Project Proposal
- Project annual and Quarterly Reports
- Baseline Survey Results
- Midterm Survey Results
- Final Survey Results
- Annual Participatory Evaluation results (PE)
- Budget.
All Expressions of Interest and Experience Statement in the Full TOR) should be sent to [email protected] or submitted in person to the ADRA Cambodia office or same email by 5:00 PM, February 21, 2025. (C/O) Mr. Leang Rithy, ADRA Cambodia, House 4, Street 554, Toul Kork, Phnom Penh.
For further information call p. 023 880 693 m. 012 265 870
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