CWS INDONESIA - TIMOR ZERO HUNGER : CONSULTANT FOR ENDLINE AND BASELINE SURVEY

CWS Indonesia is an international relief, development, and refugee assistance agency that has been operating in Indonesia for many years under an agreement with the Ministry of Social Affairs. CWS Indonesia is the field office of CWS, Inc., headquartered in New York. CWS assists the most vulnerable, regardless of their religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

 

CWS has been implementing   Timor Zero Hunger (TØH) Project in West Timor. TØH Project is designed to reduce food insecurity and improve the nutritional status of the community. The project uses multi-sectoral approach to address the causes of malnutrition in the communities in Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) District by improving the availability and consumption of nutritious food through integrated program interventions in agriculture, health, water and sanitation, for especially children under 5 years old, pregnant women, and lactating mothers.

 

Throughout its process the (TØH) Project has expanded to more areas in TTS. The project started with targeting 3 villages in January 2015. In February 2017, the project expanded the target to 2 more villages. Then,  in July 2017 another village, Op, was included in the project. Finally, in January 2018, 2 villages were included in the project’s target.

 

After three years of implementing the project in 3 villages, and as the project expands to 5 more villages, there are the needs to evaluate the project that has been implemented through an endline survey, and to capture the initial situation of the new target villages through a baseline survey.

 

Endline Survey of the Implementation of TØHProject in  3 Villages

The endline survey will be done to assess the project progress against the set indicators, to reflect on CWS service approach in implementing the project, and what impact has the project made in the three target villages. The survey shall measure the project’s effectiveness, efficiency, relevancy, impact, and sustainability to later on propose a strategic recommendation that will be useful for exit strategy possibility and perhaps an extension of timeframe of the project. The final evaluation result will be utilized for various purposes of CWS Indonesia in terms of finding dissemination and advocacy purposes.

 

Objectives of the Endline Survey

The general objective of the endline survey is to measure changes by assessing the project progress against the set outcome indicators over the life of TØHproject that impacted by project implementation. Also to identify constraints, gaps and lesson learned..

 

Specific Objectives:

• To measure to what extent the TØH has contributed to reduce the food insecurity and improve the nutritional status of the community in the Timor Tengah Selatan district in Nusa Tenggara Timur province.
• To measure TØH’s degree of implementation, effectiveness, efficiency and quality delivered on outputs and outcomes, against what was originally foreseen in the project document, M&E frameworks, etc.
• To identify and document substantive lessons learnt and good practices on the thematic areas as defined in outputs and other crosscutting issues such as gender, child protection, disability inclusion and sustainability.
   
  Baseline Survey of TØH Project in5 Villages
  The baseline survey will be done to assess the initial knowledge, attitude, practice, and other information (data of demography, agriculture, animal husbandry, health, water, and sanitation) of the communities in the five villages to provide recommendation on the most appropriate strategies
   
  Objective of the Baseline Survey:
  The general objective of the baseline survey is to provide a comprehensive picture of the project areas by looking at their institutions and communities in terms of their knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) and other information in increasing food security and improving nutritional status in their communities that will be used as the foundation to develop the intervention strategies, thus at the end permitting to effectively measure the project impact over the course of the project lifespan.
   
  Specific Objectives:

• To obtain information on determinant factors related to nutritional and health status of under-five children, such as diseases, social-economic (agricultural and animal husbandry), personal hygiene and sanitation (water).
• To obtain information about knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers of food and nutrition, feeding practices, child care, sanitation, health and relevant factors
• To identify the association between nutritional status of under-five children and related factors.
• To obtain information on cadres’ knowledge and skills on maternal and child health and nutrition care.
• To obtain information on key messages and potential communication channel/tools for conducting information and education activities.
   
  To fulfill these purpose, CWS is inviting a consultant(individual/team) or an agency  to conduct both surveys  - the baseline survey and endline survey - of  Timor Zero Hunger (TØH) Project in West Timor.
   
  Interested consultant should submit an Expression of Interest to CWS Indonesia, with subject Timor Zero Hunger Project to: operation@cwsindonesia.or.id
  Then, CWS Indonesia will send the detailed Term of Reference Endline and Baseline Survey Timor Zero Hunger Project to the interested candidates. 
   
  Deadline for submission: Monday,  4 June 2018, 10.00 West Indonesia Standard Time
  Only shortlisted consultant will be contacted for recruitment.