DSW Healthcare Services Project End Term Evaluation Terms of Reference

DSW
 

Terms of Reference for End Term Evaluation for a Project Titled “Increasing Community-Based Maternal and New-Born Child Healthcare Services for 6,000 People in Kenya Using Faith-Based Approaches

Introduction

1. Background information: “Increasing community-based maternal and new-born child healthcare services using faith-based approaches is a two year project that aims at improving the MDGs indicators on maternal health, reduces child mortality and combats HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases in Machakos and Garissa counties. 

The strategy is to empower influential community leaders and gatekeepers – especially faith leaders, Community leaders, family members, local NGOs, CHWs and county officials, and taking a faith based approach – to remove cultural and other barriers to quality care and improve access to Family Planning (FP) and Reproductive Maternal Child Health (RMCH), thus improving RMCH outcomes and progress toward the MDGs, the Kenya Health Policy 2012-2030, its community health strategy and DFID’s Kenya Operational Plan 2011-15.

The project is anchored on four thematic areas: capacity development, service delivery, advocacy and knowledge sharing. 

The capacity of local people, such as CHWs, faith leaders, community leaders and civic administrators will be enhanced through training using government-approved curriculum and faith-friendly approaches to deliver effective RMCH services in the community.  

Family Health Action Groups will be formed to meet monthly and discuss internal RMCH needs. 

Delivery of services will be improved by equipping CHWs and facilitating their transportation to conduct home visits in order to provide RMCH services. 

They will be equipped with basic healthcare kits, FP commodities and communications consumables.

CHWs will be mobilized into Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC), CHWs will borrow from this micro-fund and to establish micro-businesses for their own empowerment and project sustainability.

As champions of RMCH best practices and intra-community dialogue, faith leaders shall be responsible for advocacy and campaigning to influence uptake of services & commitment of local resources to RMCH. 

They will hold dialogue sessions with stakeholders and conduct sensitization sessions in their communities of influence. 

The project uses mobile phone technology to disseminate information and share knowledge. 

It will provide CHWs, FHAGs and faith leaders with telephone talk-time, which they will use to send RMCH information to community members at regular intervals.

Project Outputs

The project has five major project outputs;

2. Purpose of the independent final evaluation

The independent End-term evaluation report needs to be a substantial document that
 

a) Answers all the elements of the Terms of Reference (ToR);
 

b) Provides findings and conclusions that are based on robust and transparent evidence; and
 

c) Where necessary, supplements project’s own data with independent research.

The independent final evaluation has three key objectives:

1. To assess the achievement of the key expected results and overall performance of key indicators measured in the baseline as well as assess on how the project incorporated the Baseline recommendations.

2. To assess the extent to which the project performed well and was good value for money, which includes considering;

3. To independently verify (and supplement where necessary), project record of achievement as reported through Annual Reports and defined in the project’s logframe;

Evaluation questions
 

Some of the key questions to be addressed in order to achieve objectives include but not limited to;

Relevance

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Sustainability

Impact

3. The Proposed Evaluation Process

The following process will be followed;
 

a) A desk-review of relevant project documents, including project proposal, log frame and other relevant documents, a range of which will be agreed upon and made available prior to the implementation of the survey.
 

b) An inception report, detailing the Evaluation framework, survey design, methodology, indicators, tools, work plan schedule and budget to carry out the assignment in each country will be written.
 

c) Data and relevant information will be collected data through field work in the project area. Data will be analysed findings interpreted based on this give recommendations.
 

d) Following completion of the data collection, the Consultant will make a presentation to project staff on the provisional findings and likely recommendations.
 

e) Further to this, the Consultant will present a draft report for inputs by MADE, DSW, Global One and stakeholders as appropriate. The report shall be comprehensive and provide detailed specific findings and providing key recommendations on the way forward.
 

f) The Consultant will then finalize the report and resubmit the Final Report to DSW Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya in six hard copies and six soft copies in a compact disk. The partners shall have sole ownership of all final data and any findings shall only be shared or reproduced with the permission of the partners.

1. Products Expected from the Final Evaluation

2. Methodology
 

It is anticipated that the Consultant will interact with project personnel and beneficiaries and collect data and information for the evaluation through various methods relevant to the exercise. 

The Consultant will need to be cognizant of furthering data collection techniques utilized during the project baseline to ensure consistency of the evaluation approach. Hence, use of mix method data collection methodology is highly recommended. 

The Consultant should provide every possible opportunity for project stakeholders and beneficiaries to participate in and contribute to the end-term evaluation. 

In particular the Consultant will be expected to:

a) Study the key project documents including proposal and logframe.
b) Study the project summary and interim technical reports for year 1 and year 2.
c) Study project baseline, key events, work shop, training and accreditation reports.

In carrying out the evaluation, the Consultant should ensure independence and impartiality to ensure objectivity of the evaluation.

3. Qualifications and Experience

 
The Consultant(s) must have post-graduate qualification in relevant field (social / health sciences, business, economics and gender issues) with good specialization in Sexual Reproductive Health or Microenterprise. 

The Consultant(s) should have demonstrated knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluating health/development projects regionally.

Specifically, the Consultant(s) selected must have the following qualifications to be considered:

4. Work Plan: The consultancy is for twenty one (21) days to be completed before 16th June, 2016. 

On starting the consultant is expected to develop his/her timetable or work plan together with the DSW / Global One team;

Application Procedure
 

Interested Consultants/firms are requested to send their applications via email to info@dswkenya.org by Wednesday 14th May 2015 with the title ‘Consultancy: F4CW End-term evaluation’ clearly indicated in the subject line. 

Applications should include the following documents:

NB: Shortlisted consultants may be required to make a presentation prior to awarding of the consultancy.