ACTION AGAINST HUNGER TENDER AUGUST 2025
| TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) |
END OF PROJECT EVALUATION REF; PL-RLC-01159
Closing date: 6 Aug 2025
This Consultancy Services Terms of Reference (ToR) serves as a request for applications from individual consultants or consultancy firms interested in conducting the end evaluation for a humanitarian assistance project.
Background Rationale
Action Against Hunger in collaboration with its Country Offices in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda and its local partners through funding from the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) has been implementing the regional project ‘Multisectoral humanitarian response to the deteriorating nutrition situation, focusing on severely affected crisis contexts in sub-Saharan Africa’. The project with a project period from 01.07.2021 to 31.10.2025 targets crisis contexts, which are confronted with food crises in often persistent conflict situations in the four indicated countries. To improve the nutritional status of populations affected by crises, the project is multisectoral and focuses on programming in nutrition, health, WASH, food security, livelihood and advocacy.
Project title: Multisectoral Humanitarian response to the deteriorating Nutrition situation, focusing on severely affected crisis contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Project Volume: Approximately 19 million Euros
Donor: GFFO (German Federal Foreign Office
Evaluation Purpose, Use and Objectives
The purpose of the evaluation is to establish, document and learn from the impact and effectiveness of project interventions, particularly examining how the project functioned as a multisectoral approach and contributed to improvements in the nutritional situation and to render accountability in line with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) criteria. The evaluation is expected to provide data on the performance and impact of the project interventions. The findings and recommendations will contribute to a learning process that enables ACF and its partners to draw lessons from its experience to improve the quality of its current and future projects.
The results of the evaluation will also be used for the Final Report of the GFFO-funded Project. Action Against Hunger will, among others, share the results of the evaluation with the following groups: Donor (GFFO), Project Partners and stakeholders in the four project Countries, Governmental partners in the four implementing countries, Various co-ordination bodies, etc. The ownership of the draft and final documentation belongs to ACF.
The key objectives of the evaluation are summarized below:
Objective 1 is to assess both the country-specific and overall project performance against the most relevant outcome and output indicators outlined in the project logframe. The excerpt below is part of the logframe; once the expert is selected, ACF will share the complete logframe as a supporting document. The most relevant indicators will then be discussed jointly with the selected consultant.
Objective 2 is to evaluate the project in line with the OECD-DAC Criteria in terms of its effectiveness, relevance, coherence, efficiency, sustainability, impact, including learning and replicability with priority on assessing the project’s expected results, objectives and overall goal, particularly focusing on the multisectoral project approach and improvements in the nutritional situation.
Objective 3 is to identify and document key lessons, challenges, and best practices to be integrated in the final report for the donor and to inform the design and implementation of future multisectoral humanitarian programming improve the nutritional status of populations affected by crises, together with concrete recommendations that can trigger action, changes and/or advocacy.
Scope of Evaluation, Approach and Methods
The end evaluation of the Multisectoral project must focus on the whole project from the beginning to its planned ending (July 2021-October 2025) in the four countries: South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia. Even though the project started with seven countries, this evaluation will focus only on the four countries indicated above and that are in the current top-up period. The evaluation process will cover project impacts in all the project sectors of Nutrition, Health, WASH, Food security and livelihood (FSL) and Advocacy, including the ACF cross-cutting issues of gender, climate change adaptation and localization. The evaluation is expected to follow provisions provided in the project logframe and proposal with regards to outcomes, outputs, activities and indicators (outcome and output indicators) in all the four mentioned countries and in their respective implementation regions.
Target population: The end of project evaluation will cover the project regions of South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda where the project activities were implemented. The project targeted a total of 1,303,083 individuals as direct beneficiaries these are broken down per country as Ethiopia 274,202, South Sudan 588,173, Somalia 134,380 and Uganda 306,328. Among others, the target group consists of people who are particularly affected by undernutrition and food insecurity in humanitarian crises, with a special focus on pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 years of age. At the same time, the project supported the vulnerable people in the provision of WASH, Food Security, health and nutrition services. The target population in the project therefore included:
- Frontline Health Workers and Community Health Volunteers in the targeted communities
- Children under the age of 5 with acute malnutrition (MAM/SAM)
- Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) and Caregivers of MAM/SAM children
- Female-headed vulnerable households and Vulnerable households with elderly members and/members living with a disability
- Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs); Returnees; Refugees (2.7%) and (Host) communities
- Vulnerable households without access to safe water and/or safe sanitation facilities
- Religious leaders and other key persons in communities and households (grandmothers, etc.) for GBV prevention and awareness
- National governments/international key-governments and donors
Detailed methodology and data collection methods should be included in the technical proposal, which will be further defined and fine-tuned during the evaluation´s inception phase.
The following are the evaluation deliverables the evaluator will deliver to ACF:
- Inception Report: The report will outline the evaluation design, methods, tools, samples of questionnaires, and detailed work plan for the entire exercise. Draft questionnaires, interview guides and other data collection tools must be included. As part of the inception report, the consultant must provide a data analysis plan showing the questions and analysis for each of the three objectives. The Inception Report must also outline potential risks and mitigation strategies as well as ethical protocols for working with vulnerable groups. The inception report, incl. methods and tools will have to be approved by ACF and will be reviewed during an inception meeting before data collection starts.
- Draft Evaluation Report: The draft report should mirror the final version of the evaluation report depicting raw information collected during the data collection exercise. Essentially the draft report will outline the evaluation methodology, analysis, disaggregated findings, lessons learned and recommendations and includes an executive summary as well as limitations and constraints encountered during data collection and analysis. The draft report will be reviewed by ACF to ensure its accuracy, clarity, and alignment with established evaluation TOR (incl. scope of work and objectives). The resulting comments will be provided to the consultant in written form within the agreed timeline in a Validation Meeting. The comments will enable improvement of the final report.
- Final Evaluation Report: The final evaluation report should address the topics raised in this ToR and correspond to the three evaluation objectives set out above. The report therefore outlines the evaluation methodology, analysis, disaggregated findings, lessons learned and recommendations and includes an executive summary as well as limitations and constraints encountered during data collection and analysis. For better illustration, infographics should also be included. Annexes should include data collection tools, raw data summary, and stakeholder lists. After submission of final report ACF will do a final review for any loose ends and any upcoming comments will be consolidated and submitted to the consolidation for finalisation within agreed timeline.
Furthermore, a Summary Fact Sheet (2 pages) must be submitted together with the final report. The fact sheet should include an executive summary of key findings, major recommendations, and one or two infographics for visual clarity.
Application and selection process
Interested applicants/consultancy firms are requested to submit the following information as part of the technical and financial proposal. These criteria will also be used for evaluating the offers and selecting the consultant.
Submission Requirements
The consultant shall submit the following documents:
- A cover letter expressing interest and outlining relevant experience.
- Detailed CVs (min. 4) highlighting qualifications and previous work.
- A brief proposal (maximum 15 pages) outlining the proposed approach, methodology, work-plan and budget, including 3 samples of previous work (including a recent evaluation report) as well as 3 references and completion certificates.
- KRA PIN for Kenyan Registered Companies
- A copy of national ID/Passport for owner/director/manager
How to apply
