Evaluation finale d’un projet d’amélioration des conditions de détention au Burundi At Terre des hommes

The Program to combat torture and ill-treatment of women and children in the judicial environment in Burundi began on December 9, 2020 and will end on December 9, 2023 after 36 months of implementation. It has national coverage through a presence in the 18 provinces of the country, in particular to ensure monitoring of all places of detention (cells) and intervenes more strategically in the provinces of Bujumbura, Rumonge, Ruyigi, Gitega and Ngozi where there are the 5 targeted prisons and the 3 centers/districts for minors.

This project is structured around 4 axes:

• Strengthening the criminal chain as a whole for better consideration of people’s rights, respect for procedures in force and in particular judicial guarantees as well as massive awareness-raising among judicial actors and their responsibilities as debtors of obligations;
• Support and support for people who are particularly vulnerable and exposed to discrimination, such as women and children, through a targeted approach contributing to the rehabilitation of their basic rights;
• Improving detention conditions aims to support people who are difficult to access and whose rights violations are recurrent due to incarceration conditions that do not respect dignity. , nor the decency of the human person or by lack of supervision of the prison administration;
• The structuring and coordination of civil society organizations for the defense of human rights in the judicial sector will make it possible to unite their energies at a national level and to initiate a sectoral dialogue on respect for human rights in the judicial environment.

The main target groups are divided into 3 categories, linked to the areas of intervention of the Action:

• Debtors of obligations – Judicial authorities
• Rights holders – Vulnerable people deprived of liberty
• Civil society organizations.
  • Community police officers, Judicial Police Officers (OPJ) provincial and municipal OPJs who are positioned in police stations and judicial police stations

Actors in the penal chain considered “obligation debtors” : The Action ensures the capacity building of justice and security professionals across the country . The following judicial actors were privileged:

• Judges of the seat and of the prosecution.
• Prison officers under the responsibility of the Directorate General of Prison Administration (DGAP)
• Social workers provide social protection to people, particularly vulnerable people.
• Minors in conflict with the law (MCL), according to the following subcategories:
  • Minors held in police custody in one of the country’s 136 dungeons
  • Minors prosecuted or convicted, incarcerated in one of the 3 centers/districts for minors in Rumonge and Ruyigi (CRMCL) and Ngozi (district for minor girls)< /span>
• Women detainees from the prisons of Bujumbura Ville, Ruyigi, Rumonge, Ngozi and Gitega.
• Children under 3 years old incarcerated with their mothers
• Civil society organizations.

The implementation of the project provides for a final evaluation in the last quarter of project execution. In this perspective, the Terre des hommes Burundi Foundation in consortium with Ntabariza is considering the recruitment of an individual consultant or an office for the final evaluation of the said project.

3.1 General objective

Conduct a final evaluation of the project “Program to combat torture and ill-treatment against women and children in the judicial environment in Burundi” and produce the evaluation report.

3.2 Specific objectives

The specific objectives assigned to the external evaluation of this project are as follows:

1. Evaluate the relevance and efficiency of the project;
2. Evaluate the viability of the project (exit strategy, sustainability of actions at the end of the project, assessment of the long-term viability of the project’s benefits);
3. Evaluate the impact of the project (expected effects on the beneficiaries and on the project environment as well as unexpected effects having an influence on the results of the project);
4. Highlight successes (significant progress), failures of the project, lessons learned and good practices recorded as well as recommendations.

The evaluation will be carried out throughout the national territory following the distribution of the provinces by base: the Bujumbura Mairie base for the Western provinces, the Ngozi base for the Northern provinces and the Ruyigi base for the Eastern provinces. and the South-East.

The Consultant will carry out a final evaluation of the project based on the achievements made by Tdh and Ntabariza within the framework of the project.

It will carry out a documentary consultation of the project documents (narrative document of the project, its logical framework and its budget, the monitoring tools, the 2021, 2022 and 2023 annual reports as well as the monitoring reports) from which it will be able to develop a guide interview or questionnaire. He will be able to discuss with the coordination team coordinated by the Tdh Program Coordinator. The Consultant will then organize field trips to the provinces of his choice to verify the data and the testimonies of the beneficiaries and will then begin the interpretation and analysis of the results from the evaluation to produce a report which will be submitted for validation by Tdh, with the participation of Ntabariza and a representative of the European Union if necessary.

The evaluation will make it possible to respond to this series of criteria corresponding to these questions:

1. Relevance: Extent to which project objectives and design match the needs, policies and priorities of beneficiaries, the country, the international community and partners/institutions and remain relevant even if the context evolves.

Question: Do the objectives envisaged by the project correctly respond to the problems identified or to real needs (expectations of beneficiaries and needs of the intervention area)?

1. Coherence: Extent to which the project is compatible with other interventions carried out within a country, sector or institution.

Question: If the project actually meets a need, how many structures are dedicated to responding to it? Are the structures complementary or in competition?

1. Effectiveness: Extent to which the objectives and outcomes of the intervention have been achieved, or are being achieved, including differentiated outcomes between populations. /span>

Questions: What are the gaps between the objectives set at the start and the results achieved and what explanations can be given for them?

1. Efficiency: Extent to which the intervention produces, or is likely to produce, results economically (resources) and on time (compliance with established or reasonably adapted deadlines to the demands of the evolving context).

Central question: Was the project implemented optimally (*see if results could have been obtained by other means, lower cost and within the same time frame) ?

1. Impact: Impact focuses on the relationships between the goal (or specific objective) and the overall objectives of the project and measures whether the benefits received by the targeted recipients have had an overall effect on a larger number of people in the intervention area or in the country as a whole.

Question 1: What are the effects (positive ) that negative, anticipated or unforeseen) observed of the project on its environment, on the economic, social, political or ecological?

Question 2: What are the significant and lasting changes in the lives of our beneficiaries and the environment of individuals and groups with a causal link direct or indirect with the project?

1. Sustainability (sustainability, viability): Analysis of the chances that the positive effects of the action will continue when the project has ended. This involves determining whether the positive results of the project (at the level of its specific objective) are likely to persist, appreciate or depreciate over time. Financial viability but also opportunity to reproduce or generalize the program on a larger scale.

Questions: How can we expect the positive effects of the project to continue as you close the project?

The Consultant will also be able to analyze other cross-cutting criteria such as gender.

Proposals that include innovative evaluation methods are encouraged.

The consultant will propose a detailed methodology to answer the evaluation questions. It is a simple methodology based essentially on:

• Preparatory meeting with the project coordination team;
• Review of Tdh’s PES commitments;
• Review of other available documents (project documents, annual reports, monitoring tools) and institutional documents (protection policy, criminal procedure code, etc.);
• Proposal of the interview guide or evaluation questionnaire according to the Consultant’s preferences;
• Presentation of the interim report – Working session(s) with the project coordination team;
• Presentation of the final report and possible revisions.

The work will be coordinated by the SE and quality manager and the data collection methodology will be developed and discussed within the Tdh project coordination.

The Consultant will submit the following products:

• The questionnaires and/or interview guides by category will be validated by the coordination unit;
• A draft provisional report of the study;
• A final report incorporating the observations of the coordination unit.

The estimated time for project evaluation is 26 working days from the date of signing the contract. The distribution of working days is as follows:

• 2 days of documentary consultation and contact with project managers and implementing partners.
• 12 days in the field.
• 8 days for writing the first draft report;
• 1 restitution du draft au consortium (Tdh and Ntabariza);
• 2 days for writing the final report incorporating the observations of the coordination team composed of the Terre des hommes-Burundi Foundation and Ntabariza.

The position of external consultant is open to any natural or legal person meeting the following conditions:

Academic Qualifications

Hold a university degree in evaluation, social sciences, international relations or any other relevant specialty deemed equivalent

Professional experience

The Consultant must have experience in the environment concerned by the evaluation, particularly in the following areas:

• Strong research, data analysis and report writing skills
• Experience of at least 5 years in conducting project/program evaluations;
• Experience of at least 3 years in project/program planning;
• Having worked in an International Organization or Organization for a period of at least 2 years is an asset;
• Great oral and written communication skills in French;
• Teamwork skills both in rural and urban areas;
• Prove documents attesting to experience;
• Availability December 2023 and January 2024;
• Working languages: French and Kirundi required.