SABIR Project Endline and Final Evaluation

• Country: Syria
• Summary: SABIR Project Endline and Final Evaluation
• SYT Ref No: 52786668
• Deadline: 31 May 2021
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• Tenders are invited for SABIR Project Endline and Final Evaluation. EF - SABIR PROJECT ENDLINE & FINAL EVALUATION Category: Bids and Tenders Published: 02 May 2021 Hits: 30 Tender Title: SABIR Project Endline and Final Evaluation Tender No: 005 Location: Syria, North-east Syria.Deir ez-Zor, Kisrah. Tender Package Available from: 2021-05-02 Deadline for Offer Submission: 2021-05-31 at 23:59 (Iraqi Time) TERMS OF REFERENCE SABIR Project Endline and Final Evaluation Expertise France Project Name: SABIR (Syrian Area Based Integrated Recovery). Sector: Stability and crisis recovery. Implementer: Expertise France. Country: Syria, North-east Syria. Location: Deir ez-Zor, Kisrah. Duration of assignment: 1.5 months max. spread from 13th of June to 28th of July. Type of contract: Service contract. Deadline for applications: 31st of May 2021. 1. Introduction Expertise France Expertise France (EF) is the French public agency for international cooperation. It was founded on 1st January 2015 and merging 6 French public agencies under the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economic and Finance supervision with a solid inter-ministerial vocation. It designs and implements projects that aim to contribute to the balanced development of partner countries, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda and France's external action priorities. Expertise France in Syria: Expertise France seeks to support France's stabilization approach towards the North-East of Syria by supporting the progressive recovery of essential services, stimulating the local economy, and reinforcing the social capital. To support this purpose, Expertise France implemented a 2 million project titled "Syrian Area Based Integrated Recovery SABIR" project, a part of a 9 million Portfolio for North-East Syria. 2. Context Syrian conflict The Syrian conflict is having a devastating and lasting impact on Syria and across the region. With the conflict almost entering its ninth year, the needs of the affected populations for assistance, including 13.1 million people inside the country and more than 5.6 million refugees plus their overstretched host communities in neighboring countries, are of an unprecedented scale. In 2013, the Syria crisis has transformed itself from a humanitarian emergency to a multidimensional and protracted crisis directly affecting several countries in the region - mainly Lebanon and Jordan, but also Iraq, Turkey and Egypt - whose social and economic capacity to deal with the ever-growing influx of refugees is all but exhausted. All actors involved in the response agree that this massive challenge requires a comprehensive regional response not only including humanitarian aid but also longer-term structural support to host countries and communities, especially as no political solution to the crisis is in sight in the short-term. Many communities inside Syria are facing disrupted humanitarian support and quickly deteriorating public services and infrastructure. In that context, and since 2013, Expertise France has developed and manages direct stabilization projects to conflict-affected communities in Syria, in particular through support to civil society organizations. 3. Programme background SABIR (Syrian Area Based Integrated Recovery) Expertise France implemented “Syria Area Based Integrated Recovery” (SABIR) project, with the support of French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to support the third pillar of its stabilization approach in Northeast Syria: improving access to essential services and stimulating economic recovery and livelihoods. SABIR has an overall objective to reinforce stabilization and early recovery in areas of North-eastern Syria recently liberated from Islamic State, through the improvement of living conditions. It takes an area-based approach, which is suitable for complex contexts that have been destabilized by multiple factors, an approach which is also justified by the small size and the specificity of Al Kesrah sub-district, as it is one of the two sub-districts gathering the most IDPs and includes on its territory several major IDP camps. The SABIR project also uses a holistic approach in the design of its activities, considering the links and exchanges between sectors, local areas, and stakeholders. Targeting one location - Al Kesrah sub-district - with a multi-sector approach hopes to maximize impact by affecting multiple activities at once (rehabilitation, vocational training, agricultural support, etc.) while acting as potential leverage for sectors not directly targeted by the project (education and child labor, growth of local private sector, etc.). In this project, EF had partnerships with 11 CBOs and CSOs, the main activities and targeted locations funded in this project is as the follow: Activity Type Activity Location Number of Beneficiaries TVET Deir ez-Zor, Mheimidah 180 TVET and Small Business Grants Deir ez-Zor, Jazaret Elbuhamied 120 Livestock Support Deir ez-Zor, Jazaret Elbuhamied, Jazaret Milaj, Shate 678 Livestock Support Deir ez-Zor, Lower Safira, and Mhemideh 550 Agricultural Support Deir ez-Zor, Mhemideh, Lower Safira, and Sawa 32 Agricultural Support Al-Kobar, Sawa, Hawayej Busamaa, and Mhemideh 50 Electrical grids rehabilitation Jazaret Milaj, Shate, Kobar, Kasrah, Ali, Sawa, Hawayej Thyab Jazira, Al Hisan, Zghir 21,200 Electrical grids rehabilitation Jazaret Elbuhamied, Al-Kesrah fauqani, Al-Harmousheya fauqani, Harmousheya tahtani, Mhemideh Gharbia, Mhemideh Sharqia, Tayiba gathering. 16,540 Water station rehabilitation Deir ez-Zor, Abu Khashab, Jerwan, Sabagh 30,000 Schools- rehabilitation Deir ez-Zor, Jazaret Elbuhmeid and Jazaret Milaj 5,200 Trainings Ar-Raqqa, Ar-raqqa city. 1,880 4. Job Description/ Assignment PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: EF is seeking a reputable firm to conduct an endline and final evaluation aimed at supporting the project MEAL processes and providing an independent evaluation of project activities implemented by partners. The core implementation period of the activities will take place over 2 months. Assignments and tasks: The purpose for this endline and final evaluation is to: a. Assess the performance of the project. b. Capture project achievements, challenges and best practices to inform future similar programming. c. Ensure accountability towards MoFA as a donor and the beneficiaries of the program. d. Offer a learning aspect for all stakeholders. e. Identify key lessons learned, challenges and the flexibility of the programme to adapt and respond to the changes and sustainability of the three key components of the project f. Provide endline values of the SABIR project key indicators, mainly the outcome indicators. 7. Methodology The endline and final evaluation methodology will be developed by the TPM firm/consultant as well as all relevant tools and presented in the inception report. The methodology should adopt a mixed-method approach comprising both qualitative and quantitative data including innovative approaches and methods. In addition, the endline evaluation should develop a sound sampling methodology as needed. The data collection should include the use of a number of approaches to gain a deeper understanding of the outcomes of the project, including: Desk review of background documents (project document, project monitoring data, progress report, mid-term review report, field visit reports etc). Quantitative surveys with beneficiary groups Qualitative approaches such as · Key informant interviews (e.g., with EF project staff members, partners- key staff, local authorities, etc.) to gather substantial anecdotal evidence on the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and impact of the project activities implementation and delivery · Focus group discussions (e.g., with community members of the infrastructure component, project beneficiaries, others, etc.) · Other participatory approaches as recommended by the hired company/consultant. The developed methodology should ensure a participatory approach and should cover the two components of the SABIR project: the livelihood component (agriculture and livestock distributions, TVET and business grants) and the access to basic services component (rehabilitation of water, education and electricity infrastructure). The third component of the SABIR project, the capacity building one, is to be covered in this assignment, at least partially, and it will be discussed with EF SABIR team. Use of the DAC criteria The endline and final evaluation should build on the DAC criteria and answer the following questions under each criterion. A. Relevance · How relevant were the objectives and activities, implemented by the project, in addressing humanitarian needs in Al-Kesrah, Deir ez-Zor. · How do beneficiaries perceive the relevance of the project? · To what extent was project able to adapt and provide appropriate response to change in the political, social and health (particularly Civid-19 response) context and emerging local needs, and the priorities of beneficiaries? · Was the basic information on the situation, the needs and the expectations of the beneficiaries, contained in the project document, in line with the reality observed during the project implementation? B. Effectiveness: · To what extent have the planned objectives in the log frame of the project, been reached? · What are the current endline values of the key indicators, specifically outcomes and impact? · To what extent have the project activities contributed to the overall goal? · What were t
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