External Evaluation DGD Program

Consultant for an external evaluation of the project: “From Emergency Food Security to Durable Livelihoods: Building Resilience in OPT” (project code: PAL-UA-191; internal code: 56/15) funded by the Belgian Development cooperation-DGD.
Oxfam was originally founded in Oxford in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Oxfam has been growing ever since, and today is an international confederation counting 17 organizations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries.
Oxfam has been working in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and Israel since the 1950s, and a country office was established in Jerusalem in the 1980s. Oxfam mainly works with humanitarian and development programs in the most vulnerable communities, such as Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Area C, which represents the 61% of the West Bank and where the Israeli government maintains full military and civil control.
In this framework, Oxfam is looking for a consultant to conduct an external evaluation of the project “From Emergency Food Security to Durable Livelihoods: Building Resilience in OPT”, financed by the Belgian Cooperation (DGD). This two-year project aims at strengthening the resilience of most vulnerable Palestinian communities at risk of forced displacement in Area C of West Bank. Specific objective of the project is to improve the food security and livelihood of herders’ communities in Area C (E1/Jerusalem periphery) through support for livestock and an increased protection mechanism, while the expected results are the improvement of animal health and livestock related assets (animal shelter and solar panels), the establishment and use of integrated rangeland management and water harvesting systems, the establishment/strengthening of community-based protection systems and the challenge by international stakeholders of key policies, imposed by the Government of Israel (GoI) in violation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL, including demolitions and forced displacement). The project is implemented by Oxfam and the local partners Land Research Center (LRC) and Palestinina Livestock Development Center (PLDC).
A final external evaluation will be carried out in order to assess if the project has been able to deliver the outcomes it was intended to for the beneficiaries and whether the targets/outputs envisaged in the logical framework have been realized. The proposed evaluation shall last indicatively four (4) weeks and end maximum on 20/02/2018. The evaluation will include field visits.
The general objective of the evaluation is:
Assess whether the project “From Emergency Food Security to Durable Livelihoods: Building Resilience in OPT” has been able make the impact it was intended to for the beneficiaries and whether the targets/outputs envisaged at the beginning of the assignment have been realized.
The specific objectives are to provide Oxfam and project partners with sufficient information:
The evaluation assignment will be guided by the following evaluation criteria, therefore five
The consultant will conduct field assessments through a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies. . The consultant will also collect, review and analyze relevant secondary data (project documentation, relevant policies, etc.). The consultant will thus evaluate the impact of the project on the targeted communities, elaborate a technical evaluation on the activities implemented in the framework of the project, and assess whether the project has reached its initial objectives in a sustainable way and to which extent beneficiaries’ resilience and protection have been increased. The consultant shall draw out evidence based conclusions through data verification and triangulation, and provide recommendation accordingly.
The selected consultant will submit a detailed methodology in his/her inception report prior to the beginning of field data collection.
For analyzing the impact of the project activities in comparison with the indicators contained in the Log Frame, the Consultant shall undertake the following activities:
Oxfam staff will take charge of assisting and supporting the consultant throughout the whole period of the evaluation in order to facilitate the field mission and the evaluation process.
A first restitution workshop will be organized at the end of the mission in the Country in OPT. Then, a final restitution workshop will be organized at the end of the consultancy via Skype.
The report shall be composed by 30-40 pages and written and submitted in English.
The consultancy shall be carried out indicatively in four (4) weeks of which two (2) weeks must be spent in the Country in January/February 2018. The deadline of submission of the final version is the 20/02/18. All taxes, allowances and incidentals, supplies necessary for delivering the evaluation, travel expenses and all logistic costs must be included into the budget proposed.