General Information
ADRA Indonesia is seeking for
service of an experienced External Evaluator to carry out the final project evaluation
as summarize below.
Title: External Evaluator for Final Project Evaluation
Duty Station: Gorontalo
District, North Sulawesi (INSTINCT Project)
Duration: August
10, 2015 up to August 28,
2015
Closing date: August 04, 2015
Background
ADRA Indonesia is a humanitarian agency and part of ADRA International global network. The mission of ADRA Indonesia is to work with people in poverty and distress to create just
and positive change through empowering partnership and responsible action.
ADRA Indonesia has been operating in Gorontalo
district, North Sulawesi Province, since 2012 through a 3-year project called
INSTINCT (Improving Nutritional
Status of The Indigenous Community Toddlers) supported by ADRA Australia. The overall goal is the “To improve the nutritional status of children
under the age of 5 in Gorontalo Regency.
The outcomes of the project are (1) 61 Posyandu have increased ability to
detect and deal with the early signs of malnutrition in children under the age
of five. (2) Increased knowledge and
skills of mothers/caretakers in dealing with severely and moderately
malnourished children under the age of five.
The purpose of this evaluation is to measure the
performance and effectiveness of the project cycle and the projected
opportunities for the replication in needed regions of Indonesia. The overall
objective of the evaluation is to identify the extent of achievement of the
project during the 3 year project implementation.
Objectives
- Evaluate the extent of relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the project in improving nutritional status of the under-five children.
- Generate a comprehensive report along with a summary of findings, lessons learned, best practices, constraints and recommendations for the quality improvement of the possible similar project.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze the project phases from its planning stages until completion and compare stated project goal and outcomes with actual accomplishments, and examine the reason for such performance
- Make observations and obtain information and data on lessons learned and document best practices arising out of the project
- Examine how the trained Health Workers and Leaders, Nutrition Posts and Positive Defiance method are functioning and reduce malnutrition cases within each community.
- Examine the facilitating and constraining factors, as well as the relevant processes that took place, and recommend how to address constraints and capitalize on strengths.
- Determine the appropriateness of strategies and approaches used to achieve objectives.
- Examine the government’s readiness and capacity to take on project monitoring and overall sustainability of the project once ADRA Indonesia passes out.
Qualifications Required
- A master’s degree in Social Sciences or Health Sciences with specialty in Community Nutrition or having minimum of 5 years working as a consultant for project evaluation
- Experienced in Mother and Child Health, Child Nutrition, or Health Promotion project evaluation with participatory learning approach
- Experienced in assessing qualitative impacts and processes relating to building awareness, social mobilization, or behavioral change
- Well-experienced with program monitoring and evaluation of Positive Deviance Inquiry Approach and in promoting policy at district level for MNCH is an advantage.
Procedure
Deadline to submit the
expression of interest is August 04, 2015.
Short listed Evuluator/Consultant/NGOs/Firms will be requested to submit/present a
detailed evaluation work plan with description of evaluation methodology and
budget.
The proposed work plan and
budget will be approved by ADRA Indonesia and it will act
as the agreement between parties as to how the evaluation will be conducted.
Please
submit your Letter of Inquiry by email to: hrd@adraindonesia.org and mark
your e-mail subject: “External Evaluator for INSTINCT Project”
