ToR: Consultancy for Mid-term Evaluation of Forest-landscape Restoration Project in Rwanda

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• Assessing
  the effectiveness and efficiency of project implementation, including
  examining the institutional arrangements, partnerships, risks, and project
  implementation;
• Determining
  the relevance of the project in relation to the existing needs of the
  stakeholders, partners, beneficiaries and the environment/ecology;
• Evaluating
  the impact of the project and the contribution of its outputs to the
  overall purpose;
• Assessing
  the long term sustainability of project interventions;
• Identifying
  lessons learned and best practices (strategic processes and mechanisms
  chosen to achieve the project objectives),
• Providing
  guidance and direction for improvement based on the information from the
  review;

• Analyzing
  the extent to which activities are implemented in accordance with the
  project plans;
• Examining
  the achievements so far registered in terms of outputs and their
  contribution to the objectives;
• Assessing
  the effectiveness ofthe approaches and mechanisms in delivering the
  desired outputs;
• Giving
  suggestions on improving the delivery stream;

• Looking
  adequacy of technical and financial resources to fulfill the project
  objectives and plans;
• Analyzing
  whether funds are being spentin accordance with project plans and
  procedures;
• Examine
  challenges if any, and adequacy of mechanisms in place to deal with such
  challenges;
• Suitability
  of systems towards measuring results;

• Establishing
  whether or not the design and approach are relevant in addressing the
  identified needs, issues and challenges (socio-economic, governance and
  environmental) ;
• Indicating
  the extent to which the project is contributing to the strategic policies
  and programmesat local, national and international level.

• Determining
  whether the approach used is likely to lead to continued benefits after
  the end of the project;
• Level
  of stakeholder involvement in project activities and the extent to which
  their expectations are met;
• Establish
  whether or not additional efforts and measures are needed to ensure
  continued sustainability and positive impact.

• Highlighting
  unintended positive or negative impacts arising from project intervention
  if any;
• Determine
  whether or not the project is contributing to desired changes in the
  behaviour of people and institutions;

• A
  desktop review of all relevant documentation, including (but not limited
  to):

• Project
  documents, contracts and related agreements;
• Annual
  work plans and budgets;
• Technical
  and financial reports;
• Project
  operational guidelines, manuals and systems;

• Face
  to face interviews;
• Group
  discussions;
• Questionnaire
  as appropriate
• Field
  observation;

• An
  inception report outlining the proposed methodology, detailed
  responsibilities of each team member and exact date of deliverable to be
  submitted prior to the onset of the assessment process;
• A
  findings draft report;
• Final
  reportupon validation with key stakeholders

• National
  consultant should have a minimum of Master’s degree in a relevant area
  such as Biodiversity Management, Sustainable Land Management,
  Environmental sciences and Natural resources Management or other closely
  related fields.
• Recent
  experience with result-based management evaluation methodologies;
• Experience
  applying SMART indicators and reconstructing or validating baseline
  scenarios;
• Competence
  in adaptive management, as applied to biodiversity, sustainable forest
  management and climate change mitigation;
• Experience
  working in East Africa;
• Work
  experience in relevant technical areas for at least 5 years.
• Excellent
  communication skills;
• Demonstrable
  analytical skills;
• Proven
  project evaluation/review experience;

• Fluent
  in written and spoken English;
• Kinyarwanda
  a must for the national consultant;

• A
  brief technical proposal describing methodology and suitability to
  accomplish quality work- (max 3 pages);
• Two
  examples of previous evaluation work and recommendations linked to these
  evaluations;
• Financial
  proposal indicating the all-inclusive fixed total contract price and all
  other travel related costs (such as flight ticket, per diem, etc),
  supported by a breakdown of costs;