MEAL Consultant, ACT Project

COORDINTES WITH

Bangladesh: WAVE Foundation, SKS Foundation, and JAGO NARI

Indonesia: CIS Timor

Nepal: NEEDS Nepal

Philippines: CDP, SIKAT, and PDRRN

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

This evaluation comes after 6 years of implementation in the same communities of the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal. A first evaluation report was delivered at the end of ACT phase 1 in 2023 to assess the effectiveness, impacts and identify the best DRR practices. As this second phase of ACT will end by December 31, 2026, Oxfam America is looking for a team of evaluation consultants to conduct a summative and formative evaluation that will provide valuable information on how ACT programming contributed to strengthening DRR capacities, local DRR systems, and early signs of sustainability in the target communities over the years, and will provide insights and recommendations for a next phase.

Oxfam is committed, over the next decade, to a just and sustainable future. As Oxfam is driving by this mission, it works to enhance humanitarian action for which Oxfam helps people and communities develop core competencies to strengthen their resilience, continues to reorient the humanitarian system towards local leadership, and expands opportunities for those impacted by protracted conflict and recurring crises to lead on sustainable solutions. As populations around the world are heavily impacted by multi-dimensional inequalities, which make people more vulnerable to natural disasters, Oxfam fights those inequalities in a conscious way by promoting just economies, gender and climate justice, and accountable governance.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

With the support of Oxfam and partners, the consulting team will lead and develop a robust methodology adequate to answer the key evaluation questions and to assess the level of sustainability. The evaluation process should include the following steps:

1.Inception phase: Review available documentation on current and past projects and evaluations. Consult communities, local NGOs and local authorities and define sustainability and local leadership in those specific contexts to design the evaluation’s methodology to evaluate the sustainability of Oxfam’s DRR interventions, and validate the sustainability domains proposed in this ToR. There may be need to clearly define key concepts such as food and economic security, and the different domains of sustainability. It is recommended developing a first roadmap of the dissemination strategies to be considered for this evaluation and identifying key program actors.

2.On site data collection: To avoid survey fatigue from partner communities and stakeholders we work with, conduct culturally appropriate data collection in Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, and in the Philippines when necessary. We recommend to maximize the time in the field to do some sensemaking, valuable information sharing and recommendation formulations with those local actors, respectful of respondent’s time, rights, language, and of any cultural norms when interacting with them.

3.Analysis and Interpretation: Review and sense-making of evaluation findings with the right stakeholders to obtain rich insights and analytical points that are context-specific.

4.Evaluation Reports: Write one evaluation report answering the key evaluation questions and provide credible findings and evidence. The main evaluation report should provide a list of annexes from which short country-specific evaluation reports, visual two stories of local DRR transformation from each country, and other relevant documentation should be annexed. (The structure of reports will be collectively decided).

5.Key Findings Dissemination Planning: Share learnings with various audiences (i.e., Oxfam, partners, government agencies, and community DRR groups), and develop an uptake plan per country that will inform Oxfam and partners on what actions to take and plan to share key findings with a variety of audiences.

The consulting team is required to sign and comply with Oxfam’s Code of Conduct to:

-Uphold the integrity and reputation of Oxfam by ensuring that your professional and personal conduct is demonstrably consistent with Oxfam’s values and standards.

-Treat all people with respect and dignity and challenge any form of harassment, discrimination, intimidation, explosion or abuse.

-Perform your duties and conduct your private life in a manner that avoids possible conflicts of interest with the work of Oxfam

-Be responsible for the use of information, equipment, money and resources to which you have access by reason of my association with Oxfam.

-Protect the health, safety, security and welfare of all Oxfam employees, volunteers and contractors.

-Promote human rights, protect the environment and oppose criminal or unethical activities.

Furthermore, we expect that this evaluation intentionally applies decolonial and feminist principles in the data collection, analysis, and reporting process, along with the use of mix…