Adeso: African Development Solutions Badhan and Galkacyo - Sanaag and Mudug Regions of Somalia/Somaliland.

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1 TERMS OF REFERENCE TO UNDERTAKE A BASELINE ASSESSMENT FOR THE SUPPORTING PASTORAL-AGRO PASTORAL & URBAN POOR THROUGH RECOVERY INITIATIVES (SPUR) IN SOMALIA/SOMALILAND Organization Position Title Position Location Duration Reporting To Working With Starting Date Adeso: African Development Solutions SPUR Project Baseline Assessment Consultancy Badhan and Galkacyo - Sanaag and Mudug Regions of Somalia/Somaliland. 30 Days SPUR Project Manager DME, DCD and SPUR Project Teams (In Part Work with Programme Development and Quality Team in Nairobi) Immediately Application Deadline 29 th May 2016 Vacancy Contact Please Send Applications To consultancy@adesoafrica.org Adeso will only respond to shortlisted applicants. ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND Adeso, is an expanding and vibrant African-based international organization, working with communities to create environments in which Africans can thrive. We work to prevent and overcome situations that adversely affect community well-being by: reinvigorating the economy, developing skills for life and work, providing humanitarian aid, and influencing policy. Our belief that economic, social and environmental security is the bedrock of a healthy community drives the nature and intent of our programming. Adeso has been strengthening rural livelihood and delivering innovative humanitarian aid and development programs for the past 20 years. Currently, we have programs in Somalia, Kenya and South Sudan. Adeso is an exciting, dynamic organization experiencing managed rapid growth. It offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. CONSULTANCY SUMMARY Adeso is seeking a competent consulting firm or qualified individuals with specialties in assessing Agriculture & Food security, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) projects, to assess Adeso s Supporting Pastoral/Agro Pastoral & Urban Poor through Recovery initiatives (SPUR) in Sanaag and Mudug regions, Somalia/ Somaliland. The consultancy is for a period of 30 days, and will include desk review work, field data collection, data analysis, report writing and a presentation of the findings to the field team Adeso Headquarters Kenya P.O. Box Nairobi, Kenya M: +(254) T: +(254) info@adesoafrica.org Adeso USA th Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC M: +1 (202) T: + 1 (202) info.usa@adesoafrica.org Adeso UK CAN Mezzanine East Road London E1 6AH T: M: info.uk@adesoafrica.org

2 in Sanaag and Mudug as well as Nairobi team. Adeso encourages Consultancy firms or groups who can assign consultants specialized in WASH, DRR and in Agriculture & Food security. PROJECT SUMMARY SPUR project is 12 months USAID funded project employing a community-driven development approach to strengthen social, economic and respond to emergency and recovery projects in Mudug and Sanaag regions including Mogadishu to provide support to vulnerable groups affected by emergency crisis. These interventions aims at improving access to food, water and sanitation by protecting livelihood assets and provision of safe water and sanitation facilities, hygiene promotion and to build resilience among most affected households. The project will build on the gains realized in SCORES II projects implemented by Adeso in , which provided humanitarian assistance as part of recovery response. It also adopted multi sector integrated strategies that link emergency interventions to recovery by strengthening on recovery of livelihood and rehabilitation of communal water sources assets, in order to address emergency needs and develop opportunities for community asset building among most vulnerable households. This project is designed in enhancing household capacity to address recurrent problems such as food security and access to water. The proposed programme will include the following major components: provision of agricultural inputs, support to community animal health workers (CAHWs), community based public health initiatives, capacity building and the strengthening of early warning systems to include livelihood-saving early warning messages to communities through Somalia disaster management agency (SODMA). These components complement each other and when combined, actively support households to maintain their livelihood strategies while addressing key WASH problems. Adeso and the Somalia Disaster Management Authority (SODMA) with the support of a Senior Humanitarian Advisor will coordinate, share information and collaborate with the cluster system, U.N. agencies, other NGOs, other donors, local groups, and local and national government agencies in the strengthening of SODMA. Beside senior technical expert intended to support SODMA s ability to lead on the coordination, collaboration and information management, including coordination forums, early warning system, setting up of information dashboard and information collection tools and database, Adeso will also hire technical expert, 100% seconded to SODMA to provide technical assistance on DRR and institutional governance. For SODMA to realize and implement the strategic framework being developed and to enhance governance system and DRR management, SODMA requires technical assistance on capacity building, systems development and supporting initial implementation of the strategic framework plan. SODMA will seek to complement coordination mechanisms that already exist while furthering the government s involvement in disaster management and response. While the coordination approach will be further refined, Adeso and SODMA envisage at least monthly meetings with key stakeholders, identification of key disaster

3 management issues as well as developing strategies, standards and timelines to address these gaps. The strategy adopted by Adeso in implementing this project will be direct implementation. Adeso has an established presence in the project areas which will provide opportunity of strengthening existing relationships with communities and stakeholders to ensure successful and effective implementation of the project. The project will emphasize interventions specific to women as an integral part of the project strategy. Adeso will strategically target female-headed households in order to reach the most vulnerable in supporting the household fully. Adeso has proven that targeting women will better assist the household as men are not always present and are not fully aware of the household or community situation in terms of vulnerability. In addition, to make sure that the most appropriate activities are taken to reach the required objectives and to implement an efficient and sustainable program with demonstrable impact, Adeso plans to set up an effective Participatory M&E system that will generate the required data to help the project staff. OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT The assignment is to carry out a comprehensive baseline survey in the project areas of Mudug and Sanaag regions of Somalia/Somaliland to generate firsthand information to be used for Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation. The baseline will serve as a benchmark to measure progress, as well as provide information to a wider stakeholder group on understanding the livelihood dynamics and groupings in the region. Furthermore, the assignment is requested to address the M&E aspect of the program, ensuring close monitoring and evaluation of activities and the wider impact on the target population. The assessment will help determine the necessary market conditions to sustain different livelihood groups and the water mapping points including their status in the targeted areas. Specifically, the study will focus on food security and Water sanitation and Hygiene indicators with a view to mitigate negative impacts and meet standard requirements under WASH and food security and livelihoods sectors Community mapping and profiling of target communities will also be undertaken which will include an analysis of the current situation, market opportunities, gaps, and vulnerabilities and challenges to be addressed including the market capacity in relation to agricultural practices, purchasing patterns, water tracking, transport and distribution networks, market absorption capacity of different skills and other livelihood products. The assessment will in part also define some market drivers and their role in creating and enabling conditions for the different livelihood groups, covering contextual factors and identifying the gaps to be addressed including identification of value chains that have economic potential in both domestic and international markets. It will also provide specific and usable recommendations for programmatic approaches to address the immediate priorities with regards to strengthening and expanding opportunities and systems. Information

4 gathered during this exercise will form a baseline to inform programming and to share with other agencies and donors. Another purpose of this assessment is to develop a more detailed understanding of markets for essential food and non-food items or products; in particular whether there is sufficient demand that it would be possible to increase supply without driving down prices to producers as well as whether there are opportunities for collective marketing or simple quality assurance/grading of produce in order to access better prices. Beneficiaries for this activity will be self-selected from amongst the community members and traders in the villages. With regards to the WASH component, the assessment will help determine the possibility of new water structures being rehabilitated by the community members through cash for work including rating the number of days the workers are going to undertake the rehabilitation of those structures in relations to the regional labour market. The assessment will also ascertain the possibility of water and sanitation capacity building practices to be undertaken to the community water point s management groups, the community members on how to use or manage the structures. DELIVERABLES 1. Inception Report: includes initial work plan and proposal for the baseline assessment outlining the proposed methodology, survey tools, process of data collection and analysis as well as final set of data-collection tools for all indicators in the log frame. 2. Draft report of the baseline assessment requesting for feedback and comments from Adeso. 3. An updated log frame using baseline assessment information. 4. Final work plans and data collection tools for approval prior to fieldwork in Sanaag and Mudug. 5. Summary version of the final report to be shared with project communities. 6. Presentation on the main findings of the draft evaluation report for final consensus building to the field team in Sanaag (involving project teams, community representatives and local authorities and country level program teams as applicable, in the presence of line ministry officials) and Programme development and quality team in Nairobi for comments; 7. A final report (three hard copies and a soft copy on CD ROM) in English not exceeding a length of 40 pages (excluding annexes) which includes: a. Summary; b. Introduction;

5 c. Methodology; d. Findings of the baseline study. Baseline information per indicator shall be presented; e. Conclusions and recommendations as per the program s outcomes, outputs, activities, and indicators; f. Electronic annexes with the site-by-site raw data used for the analysis. SCOPE OF WORK SPUR project baseline assessment will be done through field visits to project sites in Mudug and Sanaag regions of Northern Somalia/Somaliland. Indirect data collection will be done through extensive literature review, with interviewees from different livelihood groups in the project areas. The following factors can be used to identify a cross-section of focus areas and interviewees: Coordination and proposed implementation villages of the project. Urban / rural setting. Pastoralist / agro-pastoralist / riverine communities. Levels of displacement, access to land. Gender, age, clan, etc. METHODOLOGY The methodology will be further defined by the consultant (in the inception report) and revised at the outset of the consultancy. The expected methodology for such a baseline assessment would include direct and indirect data collection, analysis, cross-referencing and formulating recommendations. Data collection will be done through targeted locations in target areas. The consultant will finalize the methodology that suits the scope of the baseline assessment. The baseline will mainly focus on the initial assessment of the villages selected by the project. The scope of the coverage of sites will be further reviewed during the baseline survey process. Literature review of existing documents e.g. monitoring reports, existing data, previous projects etc. It is envisaged that the methodology used during this assessment will include, but not be limited to, the following: Field visits in the implementation areas for sampling, data collection and observations; Household interviews with sampled project stakeholders; Focus group discussions and interviews with field staff and with sample beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries;

6 Interviews with government agencies and other stakeholders; Reflection and feedback sessions with Adeso Nairobi, field staff and other key informants; Field observations for triangulation of information; Data analysis and validation of findings; Report writing and debriefing with project team and HQ management teams. Because of similarities, review of SCORES I & II, monitoring and training reports and all other existing data. WORKPLAN FOR THE EVALUATION A work plan for this assignment should be developed in relation to the methodology suggested by the consultant, and the number of days set for this assignment. This will include a one-day briefing on the findings to get input from project staff, as well as build consensus around the recommendations. QUALIFICATION PROFILE At least one consultant with Postgraduate degree in FSL, WASH and Agriculture or related field. At least five years of hands on experience in conducting assessments, midterm reviews and evaluations. Experience leading project evaluations/mid-term reviews is essential; Must have profound knowledge in economic analysis of emergency/development projects; Familiar with issues related to water resource management (especially subsurface dams and hydro dynamic shallow wells) and agro pastoralist farming practices within Somali cultures; Familiar with environmental issues and semi-arid and arid lands; He/she must be experienced in developing and implementing gender sensitive evaluation methodologies in WASH, Agriculture and other food security frameworks; Experience in assessing DRR interventions and contingency planning; Ability to assess/review critically the project activities and results; Good knowledge and experience in survey design, implementation of surveys and statistical data analysis is required; Experience in the use of participatory appraisal techniques in data collection; Previous work experience in Somalia and knowledge of Somali culture is essential.

7 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: All documentation related to the assignment shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Adeso. CODE OF CONDUCT All evaluators and evaluation processes must abide by Adeso s HR Code of Conduct and Adeso s Child Protection Policy. APPLICATION PROCESS Applications should be submitted no later than 29 th May, All applicants must meet the minimum requirements described above. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Adeso is an equal opportunity employer. Each application should include the following:- - Cover letter with the applicant s current contact information. The letter should be no longer than two pages; - Proposal for the consultancy assignment with methodology and a detailed budget; addressing the selection criteria including how the candidate s previous experience matches the consultancy objectives as well as their interest for the position. - Company or the bidding firms profile for review. - CVs of consultants (including detailed work experience, education/degrees, and details of similar assignments) - Professional References (minimum of three, with complete contact information) - Samples or examples of recently undertaken - similar assignments; Applications not including all of the above information will not be reviewed. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. All applications should be sent to Adeso at consultancy@adesoafrica.org with the subject line: SPUR Project Baseline Assessment Consultancy.