Hivos
Southeast Asia is an International non-governmental organization guided by
humanist values. It aims at structural poverty alleviation with a strong focus
on civil society building and sustainable economic development. Hivos Southeast
Asia provides financial support for local NGOs, is active in networking,
lobbying and exchanging knowledge and expertise.
Title : Consultant for Project Evaluation Gender
& Entrepreneurship Analysis for Solar Services in Sumba
Duty Station : Jakarta, Indonesia
1.
Background
Hivos started the Sumba Iconic Island initiative in 2010 with aims to
provide access to reliable renewable forms of energy to the population of this
island, and in doing so, ending their dependency on fossil fuels and support
development and economic activities of the local population. With years of
experience working with partner organizations to establish access to
sustainable energy in developing countries, Hivos is convinced that converting
to sustainable energy, and combining this with poverty reduction, is possible
on a large scale. The results of the Iconic Island initiative should become an
example for other parts of the world. Currently SII is being adopted as a
government project under Ministerial Decree NO. 3051 K/30/MEM/2015. It promotes
a multi-stakeholder approach where government, private sector and CSOs are
working collaboratively under that Decree.
On 24 February 2017 Hivos was
awarded EUR 1.4 million by the Dutch’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs which allows
Hivos to rapidly scale up renewable energy access and income benefits by
replicating the successful approaches and business models developed under the
Sumba Iconic Island (SII). The ‘Solar Services
for Sumba Iconic Island’ proposal outlines a 20-month project to develop
commercially oriented solar PV services for off-grid users in Sumba Island in
Indonesia, with the objective of creating a sustained and commercially oriented
renewable energy solutions at affordable prices for Sumbanese inhabitants. The
project, which leverages match funding from the Millennium Challenge
Account–Indonesia, plays a major role in the strategy for off-grid energy
development under the SII program and will also contribute significantly to a
gender-inclusive application and to women’s opportunities in renewable energy
entrepreneurship.
The outputs and targets as described in the results framework include:
1. Rural off-grid users,
including schools, households and individuals, invest in and apply clean energy
technologies with gender-inclusiveness.
2. Entrepreneurial and
business operations are established and strengthened to promote and service
clean energy technologies for rural off-grid customers, including women.
3. Increased capacity and
involvement of government, civil society and the private sector in the delivery
of market-based clean energy solutions for off-grid customers, including women.
The separate interventions consist of the following five main
components:
1. Dissemination of 50 corn
mills to local entrepreneurs
2. Installation of 25 solar
PV school power and lamp charging systems, with 8,000 lanterns
3. Installation of 20
remote lamp charging kiosks, with 2,000 lanterns
4. Establishment of 2
service centres (Renewable Energy Service Company = RESCO) for marketing,
retributions, spare parts and servicing
5. Capacity building for
R.E. workforce, entrepreneurs, users and local government officers
2. Objective
The main objectives of this independent
evaluation are:
1.
To assess the extent to which the
gender-inclusive application has been achieved
2.
To assess the impact of the project
particularly on women’s opportunities in energy entrepreneurship.
3.
To provide concrete recommendations
for future design and implementation of the project, based on evaluation
findings and conclusions
The gender-inclusive project evaluation
must provide evidence-based information that is credible, reliable, and useful
and should align strongly with the project indicators. The evaluation team is
expected to follow a participatory and consultative approach ensuring close
engagement with SII project team (Hivos and partners), direct beneficiaries,
government counterparts and other key stakeholders..
The scope of project evaluation should be
based on the five evaluation criteria from the Development Assistance Committee
of the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD/DAC) – Relevance,
Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, Sustainability.
Relevance,
effectiveness, efficiency, impact and/or sustainability are the evaluation
criteria against which the intervention will be assessed.
The evaluator
may adapt the evaluation criteria and questions but the changes should be
agreed between the evaluation manager and the evaluator and reflected in the
inception report.
A specific
analysis on gender issues should cover, but not limited to:
a.
How far the project interventions have contributed
to addressing social-gender issues through its Project – Social and Gender
Inclusion Plan (P-SGIP) including explanation on the overall progress,
challenges, and lessons learned
b.
How far women’s involvement in the project has
contributed to the achievement of project goals (improvement of rural
livelihoods through utilization of renewable energy in rural communities and
sustainable business models to create market of off-grid renewable energy
technologies adopted)
c.
Is there any specific impact on (1)
task-shifting/shared workload in domestic and productive work between women and
men, (2) increase in women’s self-confidence, business skills, capacity-strengthening
and decision-making at household and community level, as well as (3) increased
household income and women’s control over the income? How do the changes affect
the overall wellbeing within the household?
d.
Is there any unintended impact of exclusion of a
certain vulnerable group in the community? How ownership of input and cultural
values play roles in creating such exclusion including description the strategy
to address the risk of exclusion for future endeavours.
Evaluator may suggest and make necessary changes on the questions upon
approval by the evaluation manager.
For more detailed Term of Reference (ToR)
information please click the following link :
3. Submission date
Interested candidates are requested to submit an electronic copy of
their expression of interest/ proposal to hr..sea@hivos.org not later than 25 June 2018 (COB).
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