- Long term multi-component assessment and evaluation consultancy
- Commencing November 2022, concluding January 2029
- Pacific-based, Vanuatu
Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit:
We’re ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children’s rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if there’s a disaster – like an earthquake, drought, or conflict – we are there on the ground.
About the project:
Vanuatu is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. To help children to thrive, we need to work with whole communities to meet the challenges of this escalating crisis. The Vanuatu Community-based Climate Resilience project (VCCRP) will empower some of the most climate-vulnerable communities in Vanuatu to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
VCCRP is a 6-year, $32,650,440 USD project principally funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), with contributions from the Australian a id program and Save the Children Australia. The project will be co-executed by Save the Children Vanuatu and the Vanuatu Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC), who will jointly manage activity implementation in all six provinces in Vanuatu.
Where you come in:
Save the Children is seeking a consultant or consultancy firm to carry out a series of assessments and evaluations over the course of the six-year project: a baseline assessment in year 1 (due by end March 2023), a mid-term process and outcome evaluation in year 3 (2024-25), and an endline outcome evaluation in year 6 (2028).
The consultancy main objectives are:
At baseline –
- To establish baseline values for the GCF impact level, GCF outcome level, project specific indicators and co-benefit indicators (differentiated for groups) and project performance indicators.
At mid-term –
- To evaluate the intervention process and fidelity
- To evaluate the extent to which the intervention is expected to achieve its objectives and its results, including a validation of the monitoring data collected by the project and differential results across groups
- To develop operational and strategic recommendations that will inform the implementation of the project and set out any necessary corrective measures for the remaining period of the project.
At endline –
- To validate endline values collected during monitoring for the GCF impact level, GCF outcome level, project-specific indicators, and co-benefit indicators
- To evaluate the extent to which the intervention achieved its objectives and its results, including differential results across groups
- To evaluate the extent to which the intervention contributed to the project’s higher-level goal of achieving a paradigm shift in adaptation to climate change in Vanuatu
- To develop key recommendations and lessons learnt/best practices that will inform the design of future projects
For detailed information, the full Terms of Reference are available here.
This consultancy requires demonstrated skills, expertise and experience in:
- Designing and conducting baselines, process evaluations, and outcome evaluations for large-scale, complex, multi-sector projects
- Analyzing and interpreting quantitative data including complex survey data
- Analyzing and interpreting qualitative data
- Conducting project evaluations or research in the field of community-based/locally-led climate change adaptation, climate information services and climate governance systems
- Leading socio-economic research, evaluations, and/or consultancy work in Vanuatu and/or another Pacific island country
- Theories of change and how they can be used to carry out evaluations
- Communicating technical and/ or complex findings to non-specialist audiences (especially report writing and presentation skills)
- Open, collaborative working with clients
The total maximum budget allocated to this consultancy is USD 340,000.
Sound interesting?
We’d love to hear from you. To apply please review the ToR and submit a technical and financial proposal using the Invitation to Tender available here.
For a list of commonly asked questions, please click here. This document will be updated regularly, and we would encourage anyone interested to check back for updates to the Q&A document.
Any queries relating to this consultancy should be emailed by COB 2 November 2022 to Lisa Norvall – lisa.norvall@savethechildren.org.au
Applicati ons must be received no later than COB 16 November 2022 and can be sent to: climate@savethechildren.org.au
The subject of the applications should be marked as: ITT/ VCCRP Evaluation /Bidder Response – ‘Bidder Name’, ‘Date of submission’