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Background

Under EVA-BHN funding has been made available through the Health and Nutrition Innovation Fund (HANIF) to foster innovative and out-of-box solutions to increase the access and impact of services in maternal and newborn health and nutrition which particularly benefit poor women and girls. The fund focuses on demand, service delivery and social accountability related to RMNCH and nutrition services to reduce maternal and child mortality.

In order to increase access to and impact of services for RMNCH and Nutrition, HANIF aims to foster and promote innovations and out-of-box solutions to benefit poor communities, and increase their influence in policy decisions.

HANIF’s Purpose:

“To fund innovative solutions leading to improvement in health and nutrition services for women and children in Punjab and KPK”.

For HANIF innovations are defined as the testing of a new idea, a new way of implementing an existing idea or  the adaptation/scale up of successful ideas from other geographical areas and sectors’.

Three funding streams are available to potential applicants. These have been designed to allow a wide range of organisations to apply to HANIF depending on the quality of evidence available on intervention efficacy, assessed likelihood of intervention success, and applicant capacity to implement.

Stream 1: Pilot, funding up to 50,000 GBP

Stream 2: Innovation followed by Implementation, funding up to 200,000 GBP

Stream 3: Scale up, funding up to 400,000GBP

Through its first call, HANIF invited projects on four priority topics- Family Planning, Skilled birth attendance, Nutrition and Immunisation from eligible applicants. 5 projects were funded as pilots in Round 1.The pilot projects were implemented in Punjab and KPK. These pilots are near completion and  have to be evaluated independently to establish their success and potential for scalability, sustainability and replicability in a wider geographical area with additional grant funding.

Scope of Evaluation:

Independent Evaluation is required to be undertaken for 4 completed HANIF pilot projects the evaluation must inform HANIF in decision making about how to optimize its resources for maximum impact and whether to offer longer term implementation to successful grantees. As HANIF supports a diverse range of organisations, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of how evaluation will be tailored to best inform decision-making for each of these projects. The 4 projects have to be evaluated from the perspective of success of proposed innovation, its replicability and sustainability. Timeframe for each project evaluation may vary but will remain within two weeks for each grantee. The evaluation will be done over the next 5 months starting from September 2015.

Third party evaluation will review, evaluate, and report whether:

  • Projects have achieved the proposed objectives and outcomes
  • Where they have not- why they were not achieved?
  • What the unintended consequences have been?
  • What needs to be adjusted to improve further implementation if carried out on larger scale?
  • Have these projects gained stakeholder ownership?
  • How will these projects be sustained in the long run?
  • Do these project demonstrate value for money?

 Methodology:

  1.  Detailed TORs will be shared upon selection.
  2. Selected consultant will thoroughly review all relevant project documents and develop project specific evaluation methodology covering above aspects.
  3. Detailed evaluation workplan will have to be developed and agreed with HANIF and grantees including timeframes, stakeholders to engage with, visit schedules and evaluation instruments (examples: matrix with key evaluation questions/indicators and means of verification, questionnaires, interview protocols, meeting relevant programmes, focus group methodologies, etc.)

 Deliverables:

  1.  A comprehensive narrative Report on each grantee with set of recommendations and feedback on each of the project whether the project should be continued or not and if continued whether in its current form or after any revisions.
  2. The report should document issues and related findings, assessment of performance, description of best practices, conclusions, learnings, Project logic improvements, M&E systems and capacity development recommendations.
  3. Additional outputs include a Powerpoint presentation on key findings and a draft report.

 Work experience

  • Consultant  with minimum 7-10 years of experience in evaluation of  development projects/programmes preferably Challenge  and Innovation Funds
  •  Understanding of RMNCH and nutrition issues in the local context
  • Knowledge and experience of project implementation with its diverse manifestations and cultural settings;
  • Excellent analytical and report writing skills;
  • Good communication skills;
  • Proven work experience in use of participatory evaluation methods for identifying measurable target indicators;
  • Demonstrated ability to assess complex situations in order to succinctly and clearly distil critical issues;
  • Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver quality products
  • Previous experience of working with international organisations will be an asset.