EXTERNAL EVALUATION

Yayasan Datafahea Nias, is seeking for qualified external evaluator. Kindly read the ToR below and send your CV along with evaluation proposal to e-mail address as mentioned in the ToR.

Farmers Empowerment Program for Family Income Improvement

Background

The Biouti villagers with 485HH (1,194 male and 1,220 female) in sub-district Idanogawo Nias have limited access to knowledge and skills to develop their livelihood activities. They have been living under a very poor and difficult economic situation for many years. The tsunami of December 26, 2004, and its aftershock earthquake in March 2005, has worsened this situation by inflicting further damage to their fragile economic infrastructure and created massive losses in their materials and assets. The problems facing Biouti Village are the continued use of traditional agricultural and animal husbandry practices, the decreasing productivity of rubber trees, and the lack of access to markets. As a result of the low productivity and high prices for goods, the main problem is seen as low income and low purchasing power. This increases the villagers’ vulnerability and prohibits them from meeting their families’ daily needs.

Lutheran World Relief (LWR) in partnership with Yayasan Datafahea (YDT) as implementing partner have been implementing the “Farmers Empowerment Program for Family Income Improvement Project” since August 2008. The project divided into two phases, first phase from August 2008 – September 2009 and the second phase from October 2009 to September 2011.

The project goal is to improve livelihood skills and assets to improve incomes, while the project’s objectives are:

Improve the skills and increase the assets for 124 HH in farming activities and 254 HH in animal husbandry for 38 months through trainings and the supply of necessary inputs to increase their production and incomesEstablishment of (1) Self-help group (SHG) to buy and process the farming products (corn) locally, so that the corn farmers can receive better prices for their harvest; and process and sell the corn as animal feed so that the animal husbandry group can get access to feed at lower prices during the project life and after.

At this second phase, YDT working with community, local government and local leader with target beneficiaries as follow:

124 HH Corn Farmers254 HH Pig Farmers7 Farmers Group and 1 Self Help Group

As the project will finish on September 2011, YDT planned to have evaluation on the second phase. To make sure the unbiased of the process, it was decided that YDT will hire a consultant as the external evaluator.

Objective

The objective of the evaluation will be as follow:

To identify project achievement To identify the success, failure and lesson learnt of the project implementationTo identify progress, action had been taken based on previous evaluation

Methodology

The methodology will be as follow:

Interview

Activity will conducting with deep interview, where individual, beneficiaries group, village government, project implementator and others instance participated.

ObservationObjective group discussion

Review Document

Or any other methodologies that proposed by the evaluator.

The evaluation should assess the project achievement with reference to its:

1. Relevance

2. Efficiency

3. Effectiveness

4. Sustainability

5. Impact

The evaluation process will be started at 12 of September with 7 (seven) days in the field at maximum and the evaluation draft report should be submitted by 23 September. The report should be submitted based on LWR-YDT evaluation report format in Bahasa and English.

Evaluator Recruitment Process

The evaluator should have the qualification as follow:

Demonstrated experienced working as program evaluator with NGO minimum five years.

Familiar with participatory approach in program evaluation

Experience working with humanitarian NGO at least for three years.

Experience in livelihood sector is a plus

Experience working in Nias is a plus

Skilful in report writing

Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia both verbal and written is essential

The external evaluator responsible to:

Develop evaluation proposal for YDT based on ToR Conduct the evaluation processEnsure the data quality Analyse data, get feedback and cross check if necessaryProvide the evaluation report based on LWR - YDT format

Considering the beneficiaries in Biouti village who more comfortable speak in Nias rather than in Bahasa, the evaluator is encouraged to have evaluator assistance who can speak local dialect. YDT will not provide or assist the process with the translator, to avoid bias during data collection. On selected evaluator’s request, YDT can refer evaluator candidates to be selected.

Renumeration

Evaluator will receive transportation (flight in economy class)to and from Nias, accomodation during in field, perdiem and consultation fee.

Interested candidate should send the CV and evaluation proposal to to budi_nias@yahoo.co.id with cc to lwrindonesia1@gmail.com by August 21, 2011.