Consultancy - ToRs End
Project Evaluation LPRR Conflict
Prevention Strand

Background:

The Linking Preparedness, Resilience and Response (LPRR) is a consortium run project funded by the DFID Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP). The project is managed by the Start Network and draws together the experience and understanding of Christian Aid, Action Aid, Concern, Help Age, Muslim Aid, OXFAM, World Vision and King’s College London.  All partners have experience in successfully and regularly implementing projects concerning strengthening community based resilience to natural disasters. All eight organisations have also identified the need for greater research and experience on how to build resilience in settings characterised by the dual-threats of conflict and natural disaster. In a unique step, the consortium will combine security methodologies from Saferworld (SW), an expert in building community security in insecure settings, with the consortium member resilience approaches, to develop a new, combined approach to building community resilience in situations at risk of both natural hazards and conflict-related insecurity. This new methodology will be called ‘Integrated Conflict Prevention and Resilience’ (ICPR) Methodology. The project contributes to the Grand Bargain/World Humanitarian Summit localisation agenda aimed at engaging national and local NGOs in owning/decision-making/oversight of the design and process, and judging the evaluations usefulness for them.

The conflict strand was piloted in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, and was led by World Vision Pakistan. The region selected for the implementation of the pilot project was identified based on two factors; firstly, longstanding civil unrest and ethnic conflict; and secondly a strong consortium focused history of operating within these areas. This accessibility to project locations was essential to ensuring a strong learning-focused approach to the LPRR implementation. The priority for the implementation of projects activities in Pakistan was the familiarisation and training in the new SaferWorld Integrated Conflict Prevention and Resilience Methodology. This conflict sensitive approach (CSA) was introduced to World Vision Pakistan (WVP) and the implementing partner Research and Awareness for Human Development Benefits and Rights (RAHBAR) in Pakistan in August 2015. Following the training the pilots moved to field implementation at village level and ran until January 2017. WVP conducted the macro and local (village) conflict analysis using the ICPR methodology and conducted a Knowledge Attitude and Behaviour (KAP) survey. Next, the information produced in the conflict analysis informed the Community Owned Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (COVACA) process which led to the identification of community action plans, which have now been completed.

Definition of resilience: The term ‘resilience’ is understood in this context as strengthening the capacity of communities to anticipate, prepare for, address, manage and respond to future risks, vulnerabilities and emergencies, and to successfully respond to unpredictable shocks and changes in their circumstances (LSE, 2015). At community/village level ‘resilience’ will be translated as ‘having the skills and capacity to look after yourself whilst knowing how and where to ask for support when needed’ (Murphy, 2017).

Objective of the final evaluation:

The project ran for a year at community level and completed its planned activities in January 2017. As the project approach looks at behavioural change, the evaluation has been planned 5 months after the completion of the activities, to see if the project process had an impact on the target communities. Being a pilot project the LPRR project has a strong interest in understanding if the newly developed ICPR methodology could fulfil its scope, identifying successes and challenges, and determining if it provided value for money.

The objective of this final evaluation is to explore what contribution the LPRR project made to enabling communities to address the intertwined risk of natural hazards and fragility.

In particular, it will be assessing the following indicators:

1. Change in level of organisational preparedness
2. Change in household disaster risk knowledge
3. Behaviour change in households related to preparedness
4. Change in community level preparedness /vulnerability / resilience

 

The final evaluation will integrate gender, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and inclusion of vulnerable groups as a cross-cutting concern throughout its methodology and all deliverables, including the final report. It will also explore how gender roles have changed, how the community members are working together to address concerns and the relationship between community members and the local government.

The findings and recommendations from the evaluation will be used to review the ICPR methodology, contribute to the learning agenda of LPRR as well as to improve resilience programming of the LPRR consortium members. The main audience of this evaluation is therefore humanitarian and development practitioners of World Vision Pakistan and RAHBAR, the LPRR project and the individual consortium members. The key findings and recommendations will be later used, together with LPRR pilots from Kenya, Myanmar and Honduras, to produce a collated learning paper on resilience in fragile settings.

The study will explore the following questions:

1. To assess how much the Integrated Conflict Prevention and Resilience’ (ICPR) Methodology has contributed to behavioural change in the 5 target communities in Nowshera District (Indicator A)
2. To what extent has the use of ICPR methodology enabled the targeted communities to understand and address the risk of conflict and natural hazards? (indicator B)
3. To what extent has the target communities understanding of the risks of conflict and natural hazards reduced their identified vulnerabilities and the potential escalation of violence? (indicator B and C)

Methodology:

In order to capture both the expected and unexpected changes of this resilience building process, both a survey and outcome harvesting (see Annex 1) will be used. The full methodology is as follows:                                        

1. Desk review of project documents.
2. Conduct a Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) survey (same questionnaire and sample to the one conducted in 2016) in the 5 target villages (see Annex 4 for questionnaire). This has the scope to quantify the behavioural change in comparison to last year.
3. First round of individual interviews with village members. In each village, a sample will be selected with equal distribution between men and women, youth and elder. The interview will use the Outcome Harvesting questionnaire (in annex 1 the format):
   1. Who acted differently?
   2. What did they do that was different?

 i.        What were the barriers that prevented them from acting differently?

1. When did this happen?
2. Where did this happen? (location)
3. Why is this change significant?
4. What contribution did LPRR make towards this changed behaviour/relationships?

 i.        If none, what could the project have done differently?

1. 1. Produce a summary report on the first round of individual interviews, identifying the five most mentioned changes reported by individuals.
   2. Conduct Focus group discussions with each village development committee (men and women) in the target villages to validate or not and discuss the changes identified in point 4.
      1. Plotting exercise of the most mentioned changes identified by individuals during point 3 (see annex 2 for tool).
      2. Conduct steps a-f from point 3 with the group to identify any additional key outcomes. Plot these outcomes on the contribution/significance matrix.
      3. In case there is a difference from the KAP survey from the FGD findings, explore with the group the reasons behind such a difference.
      4. Conduct interviews with WVP and RAHBAR to capture their perspective on the project, its outcomes and process within the framework of Value for Money (see annex 3).
      5. Develop 2-3 case studies (individual stories representatives of the findings) to back up the study findings.
      6. Analysis and collation of all the data collected into a final report.

 

Target areas:

Name of Village	Name of UC	Estimated population of selected village	Level of Hazard Risk	% of affected population	VDC	Sample individual interviews
Mohib Banda	Mohib Banda	10,097	High	+80%	2	60
Pashtun Garhi	Dagai	3,897	High	+80%	2	44
Kurvi	Kurvi	3,836	Medium	+80%	2	44
Pabbi	PAbbi	6,679	Medium	+80%	2	60
Khansher Garhi	Pabbi	8,466	Low	+60%	2	60

 

Evaluation steering committee:

The consultant will report directly to WVP. The evaluation committee will support and steer the consultant in the delivery of the evaluation.

Consultancy outputs:

The main outputs of the evaluation are:

1. Final evaluation and summary report documents layout
2. KAP survey of the 5 communities report (same methodology and structure of survey conducted in 2016- max 20 pages)
3. Summary report of individual interviews (max 10 pages excluded annexes)
4. Final evaluation report inclusive of key findings and recommendations and executive summary (suggested between 20-30 pages excluded annexes)
5. 2-3 case studies (individual stories representatives of the findings) to back up the study findings (3 pages each)
6. Presentation of findings to LPRR consortium members/DEPP projects (2 Hours)

All outputs must be in English.

Evaluation timeline:

The consultancy will run over a period of two months and a half from the signature of contract.

Description of the key stages of the evaluation process:

 

time	Milestone	Output
after one week of start of consultancy	Submission and agreement with steering committee of ‘Final evaluation report’ and ‘summary report’ layouts	Final evaluation and summary report documents layout
3 weeks after start of consultancy	KAP survey report submitted	KAP survey of the 5 communities report
after 4 weeks of start of consultancy	Draft summary report of individual interviews submitted
4 days	Review time for the steering committee of summary document
after 6 weeks from start of consultancy or one week after reception of feedback from steering committee	Final Summary report of individual interviews	Summary report of individual interviews
after 8 weeks from start of consultancy	Draft Final evaluation report submitted
1 week	Review time for the steering committee of summary document
9 weeks from start of consultancy	3-4 Case studies submitted	2-3 case studies
10 weeks from start of consultancy	Final evaluation report submitted	Final evaluation report inclusive of key findings and recommendations and executive summary
same week	Presentation of findings to LPRR consortium/DEPP	Presentation of findings to LPRR consortium members/DEPP projects

 

 

Budget:

The estimated total duration of the consultancy of is 50 days. The Budget includes consultant/s fees, travel, accommodation, insurance and hiring of additional staff (for example enumerators).

Consultant/s specifications:

· Significant field experience in humanitarian or development programming (both would be a plus)

· Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English

· Fluency in Pashto would be preferred

· Significant experience in designing and testing research methodologies

· Knowledge of Outcome harvesting methodology 

· Good knowledge and practice of participatory research methodologies

· Good communications skills

· Ability to manage the available time and resources and to work to tight deadlines

· Ability to write clear and useful reports

Team of researchers are encouraged to apply

How to Apply:

Applications are invited from suitably qualified consultants.  Interested individuals should submit:

• A brief letter of support explaining how your skills and experience matches the personal specification and research methodology; as well as how the final report will be structured
• Quote for the evaluation
• CV(s)
• Sample of similar work conducted by the consultant 

Sealed proposals through Courier services are required to be submitted “TO: Procurement Committee address:3^rd Floor,  Plot 33, Al Rehman Plaza G11 Markaz, Islamabad. Last date for submission of proposals is  July 23, 2017. Consultancy title should be clearly mentioned on envelop.

Note: Tender bids received after the last date will not be accepted and final selection of the potential Consultants/Institutes will be based on technical & financial evaluation. Organization reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal without assigning any reasons