Expression of Interest for End of Project External Evaluation
Consultancy, Research Jobs
- Silveira House Jesuit Social …
- Expires 13 Aug 2025
- Harare
- Full Time
Job Description
Silveira House
Strong Institutions and Inclusive Participation (SIIP) Project
1. Introduction
Silveira House (SH) is a not-for-profit, faith-based organisation founded in 1964 by Jesuit missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church. It is a social justice and development centre that seeks to take marginalised communities out of poverty, strengthen their resilience capacity and promote responsible environmental stewardship. Our work is centred on youth and community economic empowerment, climate justice and food systems, governance and peace building and health advocacy.
1.1 Project Background
Silveira House has over the last thirty-five (35) months (1 September 2022 to August 2025) implemented the Strong Institutions and Inclusive Participation (SIIP) Project funded by Misereor. The project targets the portfolio committees of Parliament, two government ministries, youths from Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Chinhoyi and Masvingo and five rural district councils of Hurungwe, Hwedza, Mberengwa, Muzarabani and Nkayi. The overall goal of this project is to realise a functional and accountable development-oriented state that leaves no one behind. The project has the following objectives:
Objective 1: Strengthened effectiveness and accountability capacity of governance institutions by 2025.
Objective 2: Enhanced youth participation in governance and development processes through the integration of civic education with entrepreneurship.
Objective 3: Improved citizen access to information on governance and development processes in Zimbabwe.
2. Evaluation purpose
This evaluation will provide Silveira House, and key stakeholders with sufficient information to:
i. Assess the extent to which key approaches and tools employed by the programme were successful or unsuccessful and identify the reasons for it, i.e. the enablers and barriers or constraints. In addition, explore how the project has adopted and adapted different approaches according to the operational contexts.
ii. Assess the performance of the project, paying particular attention to the outcomes and or impact of the project interventions against the stated objectives;
iii. Assess the intended and unintended outcomes of the project and determine the level of the project’s contribution to these outcomes. The evaluation will be expected to adequately identify the outcomes achieved during the life of the project from inception to end;
iv. Assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of project strategies and activities;
v. Identify and document key lessons learned and best practices and to propose practical prepositional recommendations for future interventions.
3. Scope of the Evaluation
The evaluation scope includes the work of Silveira House under the SIIP project covering period from 1 September 2022 to August 2025 in the five across the target stakeholders. The evaluation will measure both the intended and unintended impacts of the project and will be guided by the project Theory of Change (ToC) among other reference documents.
4. Evaluation Criteria and Questions
This evaluation will focus on aspects of Relevance, Effectiveness, Impact, and Sustainability. The criteria definitions and expected key evaluation questions are detailed below. The evaluator may adjust or add to the below questions, in consultation with Silveira House, to ensure sufficient data is collected and that the evaluation objectives are met.
Duties and Responsibilities
5. Methodology
The evaluator(s) must adequately plan and implement the evaluation guided by relevant evaluation models. The evaluation will adopt the Outcome Harvesting (OH) methodology and ensure to interact with various categories of target actors to establish what changes in behaviour and relationships have occurred as a result of the project and what the significance of those changes are both in the short- and long-term. It is expected that the evaluator(s) will engage with the project team, and project beneficiaries to identify and document significant outcomes realised during the project implementation. The evaluation methodology may borrow from other participatory approaches to strengthen this evaluation process. A clear description and justification of the methodology and methods for data collection and analysis must be made in the expression of interest or bid. The following methodologies can be utilised:
• Desk review of key documents including the proposal, Theory of Change (ToC), project reports, baseline report, midterm report, among others
• Key informant interviews (KIIs) and stakeholder consultations
• Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with different categories of beneficiaries
• Individual or group case studies through in‐depth discussions with a sample of beneficiaries in the target areas
• Reflection and feedback sessions with staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
The selected evaluator(s) will be responsible for selecting, recruiting and training of enumerators, piloting of the data tools and administering them. The evaluator(s) will also perform data analysis and produce a comprehensive evaluation report with a seperate executive summary. The project M&E Officer will provide all available project documents as requested by the evaluator(s) as well as assist in locating key stakeholders for KIIs.
5.1 Ethical considerations and Safeguarding
During the evaluation, the evaluator(s) will ensure that all participating stakeholders do so voluntarily, and that there will be no negative consequences should they choose not to participate. The evaluator(s) shall obtain informed consent from all the participants for participation in the evaluation, and taking and use of still images, audios and videos. The evaluator(s) will also ensure that participants’ anonymity is upheld, and confidentiality respected throughout the evaluation exercise.
6. Key Tasks
The evaluator(s) will be expected to perform the following:
• Develop a detailed Inception Report (IR) clearly demonstrating their understanding of the Terms of Reference (ToRs) and articulating the evaluation methodology, relevant data collection tools and analysis framework and timelines.
• Conduct field work - the evaluation will involve field visits to a sample of beneficiaries, government stakeholders, local leadership, and where possible selected NGOs operating in the project areas, among others.
• Conduct a detailed analysis of the findings and present a draft report to Silveira House for review.
• Presentation of findings for validation – this will be organised by the M&E Officer.
• Finalise the evaluation report incorporating input from the client reviews.
• Develop the End of Project Evaluation final report – the evaluator(s) will prepare the end of project report using a template provided by Silveira House.
Qualifications and Experience
8. Management of the Evaluation Process
This evaluation is commissioned by Silveira House (the client) and Misereor is the sponsor. The evaluator(s) will report to the project M&E Officer with the Project Coordinator having overall oversight.
9. Consultant profile
The evaluator(s) must possess and demonstrate the following qualifications:
Essential:
• Team leader/Lead Evaluator should possess at least an advanced degree in Development Studies, Public Administration, Peace and Security Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences or a related discipline. Have at least 5 years of relevant experience in development consultancy, some of which should ideally focus on Governance and Democracy, Advocacy, Youth and Women Empowerment, and Rural Development sectors.
• At least 5 years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research; clear understanding and application of Outcome Harvesting, participatory research methodologies and experience using different social research tools and techniques in project evaluations.
• Work experience in rural areas of the country will be an added advantage.
• Ability to work directly with diverse stakeholders especially policy makers, district government structures, religious and traditional leaders, youth in politics, and delivering quality work under tight deadlines.
• Able to communicate effectively in English, Shona and Ndebele
• Demonstrated experience in using mobile data collection technologies such as ODK, KOBO etc
• Demonstrated experience in designing social surveys, developing and administering data collection tools, processing and analysis of data.
• Strong organisational, reporting and presentation skills.
How to Apply
