Consultancy Detail

Job Detail

• Industry:Agriculture
• Role:MIDTERM EVALUATION FOR SCALING UP RADIO AND ICTS FOR ENHANCED EXTENSION DELIVERY (SRIEED) PROJECT
• Job Type:Full Time

Location

• Address:P.O. Box 30081 Lilongwe 3,Malawi
• Place:Lilongwe
• Country:Malawi
• Telephone:N/A
• Email:info@farmradiomw.org

Job description

1.0 INTRODUCTION With financial support from the Government of Flanders, Farm Radio Trust (FRT) has been implementing a five-year project entitled "Scaling up Radio and ICTs for Enhanced Extension Delivery' (SRIEED), from July 2014 to June 2019, and is currently in a no cost extension until December 2019. The SRIEED project directly targeted five hundred thousand (500,000) smallholder-farming families in the seven districts of Lilongwe, Mchinji, Salima, Nkhotakota, Mangochi, Kasungu and Mzimba, as well as reaching over one million (1,000,000) farming families indirectly at the national level. The aim of the project is to improve food, nutrition and income security of smallholder farmers. The SRIEED project had five major objectives as follows: i) Increase availability and accessibility of innovative radio and ICT based farmer advisory services; i) Strengthen the capacity of actors in the radio and ICT based extension service industry; ii) Improve agricultural extension knowledge management practices that evaluates, document, inform radio and 1CT based extension services; iv) Advocate and lobby for increased role of radio and ICTs in agricultural extension delivery; v) Promote networking and parnhership development among radio and ICT service providers. The SRIEED project is due for an end of project evaluation that will endeavour to match project activities, achievements and performance against the project Objectives, and outcomes after five (5) years of successful implementation.

Skill Requirement

2.0 OVERVIEW OF THE ASSIGNMENT

FRT would like to hire a consultant/s or consulting firm to conduct the end of  project evaluation to see if the project has achieved its planned objectives. The
consultant/s or consulting firm is expected to provide an independent evaluation and analysis of the project's progress against set milestones and targets as
measured in the baseline study and the mid-term evaluation. The end of project evaluation will assess overall outcome, effectiveness, relevance, efficiency and
sustainability of the project interventions.

The Consultant/s or consulting firm will report to the Director of Programs and work closely with the FRT program staff to ensure accuracy and completeness of
the evaluation exercise and report

3.0 EXPECTED OUTPUT AND DELIVERABLES

The key output in this exercise is a concise final report (not more than 50 pages) and a power point presentation in English on the findings of the end of project evaluation. The consultant/s or consulting firm is expected to deliver the following major deliverables:

• Inception report with detailed evaluation plan
• First draft End of Project evaluation report
• End of Project Evaluation finalized report, with recommendations for scaling.

The consultant/s or consulting firm shall submit hard and electronic copies of materials, processed data and other evaluation documents.

4.0 TIMEFRAME

This assignment shall be conducted in no more than 30 working days between 15 November and Mid December 2019.

5.0 REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The team leader should have a minimum a Post-graduate Degree in any relevant field. At least 10 years of practical experience in conducting similar studies in the
development field. Specific experience for agriculture development projects will be an added advantage.

6.0 APPLICATION PROCESS

Interested Consultant/s should submit technical and financial proposals in separate sealed envelopes to the Director of Programs at Farm Radio Trust or through email at info@farmradiomw.org no later than 29th November, 2019. Detailed TORs can be accessed through info@farmradiomw.org