Job Title: End of Programme Independent Evaluation of DFID GPAF Programme
Location: Kigali, Rwanda, Africa
Organization: Vision For a Nation Foundation
Level: Mid Career (2+ years of experience)
Education: Licence
Job type: Full time
Salary: Negotiable
Deadline : 13th Oct, 2013
Contact Name: Vision For a Nation Foundation
Application Email: info@vfanf.org
Job Description:
TERMS OF REFERENCE
End of Programme Independent Evaluation of DFID GPAF Programme
Nationwide primary eye care training of Health Centre nurses in Rwanda to provide vision assessments to an estimated 425,000 people and 30,000 eyeglasses to those in need.
BACKGROUND
Eyeglasses are a basic tool that enable people to work, learn and perform daily tasks. Yet in low- and middle-income countries around the world eye care services are severely limited. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) an estimated 285 million people worldwide live with visual impairment. Uncorrected refractive error is the primary cause of visual impairment globally. In sub-Saharan Africa, 95% of people who need eyeglasses don’t own a pair.
In low- and middle-income countries there are two main barriers to delivering vision correction: Accessibility and Affordability. Visual impairment adversely affects a person’s employment, education and safety, and costs at least $121.4 billion per year globally in lost productivity. Yet 80% of all visual impairment can be prevented, treated or cured.
Vision for a Nation (VFAN) was founded in 2008 to help address this enormous need for primary eye care services. The charity’s first nationwide programme was launched in Rwanda in 2009.
The Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF) was introduced by DFID in 2010. The Fund (previously called the Poverty Impact Fund) supports poverty reduction projects focused on service delivery working towards the most off-track Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
VFAN received a grant of £250,000 in September 2012 for the National programme in Rwanda, running from 01/09/2012 to 31/10/2012. The funding from GPAF was used to
PROGRAMME PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
VFAN is an innovative collaboration with the national Government of Rwanda to create universal access to eye care services in Rwanda. Two nurses in each of Rwanda's 450 HCs will be trained to perform vision assessments, referring those with eye disease to District Hospitals and dispensing up to an estimated 30,000 pairs of low-cost eyeglasses. Thus assisting those with poor vision with literacy and employment, helping to reduce poverty (MDG 1) and enabling more children to complete primary education (MDG 2).
The GPAF funding has gone directly towards the development of a curriculum (approved by the MOH), the training of the 900 nurses in the 450 HCs and related training material. In addition to this, GPAF funds have also been used in communication activities to raise awareness of the PEC services available at HCs and additional marketing activities to raise awareness of VFAN in Rwanda.
PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION
-Relevance – programme’s significance with respect to specific needs and its relevance to country poverty reduction priorities
-Effectiveness – assessment of how far the intended outputs and results were achieved in relation to targets set in the original logical framework.
-Efficiency – how far funding, personnel, regulatory, administrative, time, other resources and procedures contributed to or hindered the achievement of results. To what extent does funding represent good value for money
-Impact – potential for the continuation of the impact achieved and of the delivery mechanisms, following the withdrawal of external support. Impact of DFID funding on the programme.
-Sustainability –broader economic, social, and political consequences of the programme
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
Relevance:
-To what extent did VFAN support achievement towards the MDGs
-To what extent did the programme target, reach and benefit the target population?
-To what extent did the programme mainstream gender equality in the design and delivery of activities (and or other relevant excluded groups)?
-To what extent and how has the programme affected people in ways that were not originally intended?
Effectiveness:
-To what extent does the programme represent good value for money with regards to economy and efficiency?
-What are the key drivers and barriers affecting the delivery of results for the programme?
-In what ways has VFAN worked with others to enable them to effectively deliver the programme?
-To what extent do the activities, services and results being delivered by the programme align with the intended objectives of GPAF?
Efficiency:
-To what extent did VFAN deliver activities on time and on budget against agreed plans?
-To what extent and in what ways did the programme achieve good value for money?
-To what extent did the programme understand their cost drivers and how these relate to performance requirements?
-Were the risks properly identified and well managed?
Sustainability:
-To what extent has the programme leveraged additional resources (financial and in-kind) from other sources? What extent has this had on the capacity of the programme to deliver their activities?
-To what extent is the programme engaging with other actors to ensure their interventions complement existing activities?
-What are the prospects for the benefits of the programme being sustained after the funding stops? Did this match the intentions?
Impact:
-What was the programme’s overall impact and how did this compare with what was expected?
-What difference has GPAF funding made to the programme’s delivery of results which provide value for money that would not otherwise have been achieved?
-To what extent has the programme put in place M&E systems that are fit for the purpose and are being used to support the delivery of activities?
-To what extent and how has the programme built the capacity of local actors?
-Who were the direct and indirect/wider beneficiaries of the programme? How many of these people were unintended beneficiaries?
METHODOLOGY
This should include:
-A desk review of programme information
-Interviews with programme managers and partners to collect information on achievements and impact and difficulties faced by the programme including the management aspects of work
-Interviews with beneficiaries (including those who might normally be excluded), to discover what impact (if any) the programme has had on their lives
-Interviews with key programme stakeholders to include questions on the degree to which programme has had the intended impact; and what could have been done differently or better, so that the lessons can be learned
-Measuring impact where possible and proportionate through comparison groups and other quantitative methods
-The selected consultant will be expected to work collaboratively with VFAN to refine their methodology and develop a detailed evaluation plan.
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES OF EVALUATOR
The Independent Evaluator should be a suitably-qualified and experienced consultant or consulting firm. The consultant profile should include:
-An evaluation specialist with a minimum of seven years’ experience in programme evaluation in an international development context
-Experience of results-based monitoring and evaluation
-Ability to manage an evaluation and research process from end-to-end, including interpreting baseline data and conducting a final evaluation
-Ability to design and plan the evaluation approaches and research methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative research methods
-Good understanding of NGO finance and audit – particularly of DFID guidelines and requirements (specialist finance qualifications not essential)
-Experience in training and/or health programmes
-Experience developing evaluation frameworks
-Ability to present complex information in a systematic way
-Excellent writing, analytical and communication skills
-Fluency in written and spoken English
-Ability and commitment to deliver the expected results within the agreed period of time
-Experience of relevant evaluations in Rwanda preferred
DELIVERABLES
-An evaluation plan
-Present a preliminary overview of their findings to the Management team and receive comments from stakeholders before preparing the draft evaluation report.
-Submit the draft report to the Management team for written comments before finalising the report, to minimise the chance of inaccuracies and to maximise ownership of the findings
-Final report (publishable quality of less than 50 pages including annexes) to be produced in the format as defined in the GPAF Final Evaluation Guidance
-Debriefing presentation to VFANF after the evaluation report has been finalized
TIMETABLE AND APPLICATION PROCESS
There will be travel involved in the evaluation and the successful bidder will be expected to begin the work mid-November 2013, with a finalised evaluation report due by Friday 10 January 2014.
Please send applications including:
-A cover letter introducing the evaluator/s/organisation and how the skills and competencies described above are met, with concrete examples.
-A brief outline of the proposed evaluation process, including - proposed outline methodology - management arrangements
-A clear indication of availability / dates
-A 1 page budget covering all major costs, and clearly identifying daily rates charged on any consultancies.
-A CV for each member of the evaluation team (if there is more than one consultant in the bid).
-One example of a relevant previous evaluation (one each in the case of joint bids)
All applications to be submitted via email to info@vfanf.org by the 13th October 2013.
For further information please contact 0786653860 on email info@vfanf.org
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