General Information
ADRA Indonesia is seeking for
service of an experienced independent consultant to carry out the project
evaluation for the first year of project implementation as summarize below.
Title:Consultant – INSTINCT Evaluation (Year 1)
Duty Station:Gorontalo Regency, Gorontalo (INSTINCT Project)
Responsible to:Country Director
Coordinates with:Program Director and Finance Director
Duration:September 23, 2013 up to October 11, 2013
Closing date: August
31, 2013
Background
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Indonesia or ADRA Indonesia is a humanitarian agency. The mission is to work with people in poverty and
distressedto create just and positive changethrough
empowering partnership and responsible action.
ADRA
Indonesia has been operating in Gorontalo Regency, GorontaloProvince,since
2012in 7 sub-districts in Gorontalo through a 3-year project called INSTINCT (Improving Nutritional Status of The
Indigenous Community Toddlers). With ADRA
Australia’s support, ADRA
Indonesia directly
implementsthe project. The overall goal is “To improve the nutritional status of
children under the age of five in Gorontalo Regency.” The outcomes of the project are (1) 61 Posyandu have increased
ability to detect and deal with the early signs of malnutrition in children under the age of five, and (2)
Increased knowledge and skills of mothers/ caretakers in dealing with severely
and moderately malnourished children under the age of five.
The purpose of this evaluation is to measure the
performance of the project and to address and identify challenges and best
practices, lessons learned, and to come up with some recommendations and possible
replication to other needed regions. The
evaluationshould cover the first year of the projectlife cycle.
Objectives & Responsibilities
1. To visit project sites and to make interview project beneficiaries, project
staff and others project stakeholders involved in project to assess the
performance and achievements of the first year project.
· Review and analyze the project phases from its planning stages until the
end of first year implementation, and compare stated project goal and outcomes
with actual accomplishments, and examine the reason for such performance;
· Make observations and (by case studies) obtain information and data on
lessons learned and document best practices arising out of the project;
· Examine how the trained Health Cadres, Workers and Leaders, and Positive
Defiance Inquiry (PDI) are functioning to reduce number of malnourished
children within each community;
2. To evaluate the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the project to increase
nutritional status of children under the age of five.
· Examine the facilitating and constraining factors, as well as the relevant
processes that took place, and recommend how to address constraints and
capitalize on strengths;
· Determine the appropriateness of strategies and approaches used to achieve
objectives.
3. To provide a comprehensive and summary report of field findings with lessons
learned, best practices, outstanding gaps, and recommendation to enhance the
quality of the next two years project implementation and potentials for
replication to other needed regions.
· Examine the government’s readiness and capacity to take on project
monitoring and sustainability once ADRA Indonesia passes out (exit strategy);
· Provide recommendations on how to enhance and improve the activity delivery
for the next two years of implementation as well as to replicate this project
to country’s other needed regions; and
· Provide initial findings and display the report draft in stakeholder
meeting (government, community leaders and health workers) at Gorontalo prior
to arrange the final draft.
Qualifications Required
· A master’s degree in Social or Health Sciences with specialty in Community
Nutrition or having minimum of 5 years working as a consultant for project
evaluation;
· Experienced in Mother,
Newborn and Child Health, Child Nutrition or Health Promotion project
evaluation with participatory learning approach;
· Broad experiences in
assessing qualitative impacts and processes relating to building awareness,
social mobilization or behavioral change; and
· Well-experienced with
program monitoring and evaluation, and preferably having a previous experience
working in Sulawesi regions or parts in Eastern Indonesia.
Procedure
Deadline to submit the
expression of interest is August 31, 2013. Short listed Consultants/NGOs/Firms
will be requested to submit/present a detailed evaluation work plan with
description of evaluation methodology and budget. The proposed work plan and
budget will be approved by ADRA Indonesia and it will act as the agreement
between parties as to how the evaluation will be conducted.
Please
submit your Letter of Inquiry (LoI)by email to:hrd@adraindonesia.organd mark
your e-mail subject: “Consultant –INSTINCTEvaluation(Year 1)”.
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