Consultancy for End-of-Project Evaluation

Consultancy for End-of-Project Evaluation

Background

• Street Child is implementing the project titled “Advancing Capacity, Community systems, and Enabling Supportive Structures for Persons with Disabilities in the BAY State (ACCESS Project)” under CBPF project code CBPF-NGA-25-S-INGO-38249.
• The project has three outcomes: (1) enhanced capabilities and capacities of relevant stakeholders, including the State, civil society organisations and community-based actors, to promote, adopt and sustain disability-inclusive actions; (2) strengthened inclusive advocacy for the adoption, domestication and implementation of the Disability Bill, Rights Commission Law, Acts and other provisions; and (3) strengthened capacity of community-led actions on prevention and response to protection needs of children, women and men, including persons with disabilities, and linkages to available service providers.
• The project targets 12,000 people directly and an estimated 30,000 indirectly.
• The directly targeted population includes internally displaced people, returnees and host communities.
• The proposal records 2,393 persons with disabilities among the direct targets.
• The project also includes gender equality, GBV programming, disability inclusion, accountability to affected populations (AAP), protection mainstreaming and cash and voucher assistance.

Purpose of the Consultancy

• The purpose of the consultancy is to conduct an independent, evidence-based end-of-project evaluation of Street Child's ACCESS project and its implementing partners (CENSCOPE, HALI, and POWIB) to generate credible findings, conclusions, and practical recommendations on what was achieved, how it was achieved, what worked, what did not work, why, and what should be strengthened in future programming.
• The evaluation will cover the project as a whole and assess the performance and contribution of CENSCOPE, HALI, POWIB, and Street Child.
• The partner assessment aims to strengthen accountability, learning, coordination, quality, and future partnership arrangements.

Objectives of the Evaluation

• Assess the relevance and appropriateness of the project design, targeting and implementation approach to the needs, priorities and barriers faced by persons with disabilities and other affected populations in the BAY States.
• Assess the extent to which the project achieved its intended results and contributed to meaningful changes in disability inclusion, protection, advocacy, community capacity, access to services and accountability.
• Assess the efficiency, value for money, sustainability and key lessons from implementation to inform future disability-inclusive protection programming.
• Assess progress in strengthening the capacity of partner CSOs and their networks, identify remaining capacity gaps and opportunities for further investment, and provide evidence to support a separate donor-facing capacity assessment report, continuity planning and future donor engagement.

Scope of the Evaluation

• The evaluation will cover the full project period, all approved project outcomes, outputs and indicators, and the main implementation locations in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
• It will include both overall project performance and partner-level assessment.
• The consultant should assess relevance, effectiveness, contribution to change, efficiency, value for money, inclusion, safeguarding, accountability, data quality, partnership, localisation, sustainability and learning.
• The partner and CSO capacity assessment should be fair, evidence-based and forward-looking.
• It should assess each partner against its agreed role, resources, operating context, workplan, budget, deliverables, monitoring evidence, network engagement and capacity-strengthening progress.
• The assessment should identify strengths, capacity gaps, areas for further investment and possible areas for follow-on support.
• It will also inform a separate donor-facing report on CSO capacity strengthening, partnership learning and continuity opportunities.

Partner assessment scorecard:

• The consultant shall use an evidence-based partner and network assessment scorecard to assess each partner and one network fairly against its approved role, resources, operating context and deliverables.
• The scorecard should cover role clarity, delivery quality, timeliness, data quality, inclusion, coordination, value for money, learning and sustainability.
• Ratings must be explained with evidence and must not be used as a simplistic ranking of partners.

Geographical coverage:

• The evaluation shall cover the project locations identified in the approved project proposal: Jere and Maiduguri/MMC in Borno State, Fune in Yobe State and Madagali in Adamawa State.
• The consultant shall propose a feasible and representative field sampling approach if full physical coverage of all locations is not possible.

Evaluation Criteria and Key Questions:

• The evaluation shall be adapted to the humanitarian and disability-inclusion context, together with cross-cutting questions on protection, gender, disability inclusion, AAP, localisation and learning.

Evaluation objective: Relevance and appropriateness:

• Primary evaluation question: To what extent were the project design, targeting and implementation approach relevant and appropriate to the needs, priorities and barriers faced by persons with disabilities and other affected populations?
• Evaluation objective: Results and contribution to change
• Primary evaluation question: To what extent did the project achieve its intended results and contribute to meaningful changes in disability inclusion, protection, advocacy, community capacity, access to services and accountability?
• Evaluation objective: Efficiency, sustainability and learning
• Primary evaluation question: How efficient was implementation, how sustainable are the results, what value for money was achieved, and what lessons should inform future disability-inclusive protection programming?
• Evaluation objective: CSO capacity and partnership continuity