Consultant for the final evaluation of building drought resilient dryland communities in the Horn of Africa project
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UNDP Drylands Development Centre (DDC) implemented the Building Drought Resilient Dryland Communities in the Horn of Africa (HoA) Project (hereafter the project) between April 2012 and December 2013 with the financial support from the Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department of the European Commission (ECHO) under the framework of ECHO’s 2012 Drought Risk Reduction Action Plan (DRRAP). The overall objective of the project was to reduce drought disaster risks and improve human livelihoods in the drought-prone communities in the HoA by establishing an integrated enabling DRR planning and programming framework at national and regional levels in the region, effectively promoting local resilience building and vulnerability reduction. In particular it focuses on quantifying the results of development and humanitarian interventions for drought in the HoA region, inter alia Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
The main objectives of the final project evaluation are 1) to assess achievements of the Project, i.e. the extent of attainments of the intended objectives, outcomes, outputs and activities as defined in the results and resources framework, and 2) generate findings on opportunities, constraints/challenges and lessons learnt during the implementation of the Project.
The evaluation shall be carried out through a combination of data generation methods. Given the nature of the Project, i.e., regional focus with training/assessment-based approach, the collection of data will mainly be home-based. They are envisaged to cover the following areas:
• Desk study review of all relevant Project documentations;
• Face-to-face/teleconferencing/email-based consultations with the Project team, ECHO focal persons, DRRAP regional/national partners and partner government agencies focal persons. Brief missions to Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to consult with the donor (Nairobi), DRRAP regional partners (Nairobi) and national government partners (Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Kampala);
• Questionnaires and interviews with the local partners who have participated in CoBRA training and assessments in the pilot locations in the Horn of Africa; and
• Presentation of main findings to the UNDP-DDC and the ECHO.
This consultancy will be undertaken between January and February 2014. Payment will be made based on satisfactory submission of the final report.