Country: Somalia
Closing date: 21 Aug 2017
Somalia Somaliland Puntland Joint Response II
Terms of Reference for Final Programme Evaluation
I. Background
The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) is a consortium alliance of fourteen Dutch International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), launched in April 2015 and active since December 2014. The DRA was established to ensure effective and efficient spending of a new funding mechanism for emergency response announced to the Dutch public by the Netherlands Minister for Trade and Development in November 2014. This three-year fund provides EUR 120 million to Dutch INGOs holding a Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) with ECHO, and seeks to enhance the quality of Dutch emergency response programmes, with a commitment to respond to new (acute) crises within 72 hours of onset, in addition to ongoing (existing) crises funded by the DRA annual plan.
The DRA is continually seeking to learn and ameliorate the quality of its services to our key stakeholders: the Dutch Government, the Dutch Public, and the people in need whom we serve through our programmes. With over 20 programmes launched in seventeen (17) countries, end-of-programme evaluations support the DRA in learning from our actions in a specific context, while providing learnings and recommendations which can be applied at global level (or in similar contexts) for better overall quality programming, as well as to continually enhance the DRA mechanism as a tool and as an alliance in the humanitarian paradigm. This is especially true as we have shifted in the last few years into responding to increasingly more intractable and protracted conflicts, coupled with climate-related disasters which strain the capacity of donors and the humanitarian community to adequately address some of the very complex (and inter-connected) issues at play. The DRA has a vision to become more than the sum of its parts, perhaps by influencing discourse on emergency programme cycles, donor priorities, the linkages between relief and development, innovative partnerships with the private sector, and beyond. Each programme evaluation contributes to this objective by identifying both the strengths and weaknesses inherent in our construct and programming.
II. Programme Description
The first Somalia, Somaliland, and Puntland Joint Response (SSP JR I) was launched in July 2016, as a six-month acute crisis response to a slow-onset climate-related emergency in Somalia, Somaliland, and Puntland. In February 2017, after successive seasons of below-average rains, exacerbated by El Niño, and a pre-famine alert issued by the UN, a second six month Joint Response (SSP JR II) was launched.
Building on the SSP JR I and on the 2017 HRP for Somalia by applying cluster guidelines to activities and areas of most acute need, integrating sectors for greater impact, focusing on gender/Protection mainstreaming, and a consideration to LRRD and sustainable interventions and exit-strategies despite an emergency focus, the SSP JR II sought to contribute to saving lives and livelihoods, provide basic services, protect vulnerable people in the most hit areas.**For the detailed TOR, kindly view on:**
How to apply:
Application process:
· Initial applications should consist of an expression of interest, CV(s) of the evaluator(s), financial budget and work base
· Short listed candidates will be asked to submit 1) a technical/ methodological proposal including methodology, work plan, and budget); 2) an example of past evaluation report prepared; 3) contact details of 2 references.
· Applications should be sent to Fatma Wakil (wakil@carenederland.org) and Shelly Sayagh (sayagh@carenederland.org) no later than 21st August 2017.