Tenders are invited for CAR BMZ Project End Line Evaluation Consultant Closing Date: 14 Sep 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding/Water Sanitation Hygiene CAR BMZ Project End Line Evaluation Terms of Reference (ToR) 1. Background of the project and rationale for the evaluation Tearfund envisions to see people freed from poverty, live transformed lives and actualize their potential to roll back poverty. Among the Corporate Priorities that are strategically devised to help the vision be fulfilled are Economic and Environmental Sustainability (EES) and Reconciled and Peace-filled Societies (RPS). Pursuing the EES and RPS priorities lies at the heart of Tearfunds interventions in the Lobaye Prefecture of the CAR in reaching the economically, socially and emotionally vulnerable populations and hence the design and implementation of this BMZ-funded project. A total of 10,000 individuals are directly targeted by this project to participate in and benefit from the peacebuilding, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and livelihood enhancement endeavours which will ensure integration of some of the key sectors of development. The project Consolidating Peace in Lobaye through WASH, social cohesion and livelihoods resilience interventions Programme was launched in December 2022 and will end in November 2025. Tearfunds implementing partner in CAR, Alliance Evangélique en Centrafrique (AEC) and Tearafund CAR are directly implementing the project in five sub-prefectures of Boganangone, Boganda, Boda, Mbaïki and Mongoumba in the Lobaye Prefecture. As part of the design, monitoring and evaluation of the project, baseline and mid-term evaluations were undertaken for the project in January 2023 and October 2024, respectively. Given that the project is nearing completion, Tearfund is aiming to conduct its end line evaluation externally by an independent evaluation firm. The findings of the end line evaluation will help Tearfund, the target communities, its implementing partner, the donor, government partners and other stakeholders to look at how the implementers have become accountable to all those affected by the interventions. Moreover, all stakeholders will be apprised to see the impact of this project and measure the level of effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and relevance of the project, after the end line evaluation. Below is a summary of the project impact, outcomes and outputs: Project goal: Increased resilience of people and structures in targeted areas in Lobaye to the impact and consequences of crises Outcome 1 Equitable Access to Safe Water and Prevention of Waterborne Diseases Ensured Outcome 2 Reduced incidence of social unrest or conflicts in targeted areas Outcome 3 Target households livelihoods improved and livelihood sources diversified Output 1.1. Hygiene promotion undertaken Output 1.2. Target communities access safe water supply and sustainable water services through rehabilitated water sources and structures Output 1.3 Increased niche business opportunities around WASH services (collection of users fees, preemptive maintenance, etc.) Output 2.1. Increased awareness of conflict resolution and reconciliation techniques Output 2.2. Local and indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms (local authorities, elders, faith leaders, peace committees, gender champions, etc.) technically and financially supported to improve access to justice and prevent identity conflicts Output 2.3. Womens groups and youth clubs established to strengthen social cohesion in communities Output 3.1. Vulnerable households and IDPs supported to meet acceptable Food Consumption Score Output 3.2. Local businesses supported with capacity, material inputs and market infrastructure improvements Output 3.3. Access to financial services ensured, especially for women and other vulnerable groups 2. Goal, objectives and questions a) Evaluation goal The goal of the end line evaluation of the BMZ-funded project is to demonstrate the impact the project has brought about in the lives of conflict-affected, marginalized and economically disempowered target populations along with the comparison of pre-intervention and post-intervention situations of these people in the target locations. b) Evaluation objectives and questions The goal of the evaluation will be attained through the following objectives: To see the change in the measure of project performance indicators as compared with the baseline values and other findings; To explore if the project activities have been delivered with the required results as per the design; To assess if the costs intended to run the entire project work were spent efficiently with the required results; To assess if the desired high-level positive changes in our target communities due to the project are realized; To systematically understand the likelihood of the Consolidating Peace in Lobaye through WASH, social cohesion and livelihoods resilience interventions Programme project to continue despite Tearfunds and AECs closure of the project in the operation areas. Corresponding to the objectives, the evaluation questions will be the following: What are the changes in the measure of project performance indicators as compared with the baseline values and other findings? Have the project activities been delivered with the required results as per the design? Were the costs intended to run the entire project work spent efficiently with the required results? Have the desired high-level positive changes in our target communities been realized? What is the likelihood of the Consolidating Peace in Lobaye through WASH, social cohesion and livelihoods resilience interventions Programme project to continue despite Tearfunds and AECs closure of the project in the operation areas? 3. Scope The thematic scope of this end line evaluation will be the three thematic areas of the project - WASH, livelihoods, and peacebuilding. The three outcomes yielding to the project impact are around these three technical themes and the evaluation will focus on the performance indicators of these outcomes. The timeframe of the project implementation which the end line evaluation will cover will be the whole project period for the three years. However, due emphasis should be placed on the period not assessed by the mid-term review, that is, from November 2024 to October 2025. When it comes to geographical scope, the end line evaluation will be undertaken in the project operational locations in the sub-prefectures of Boganangone, Boganda, Boda, Mbaïki and Mongoumba in the prefecture of Lobaye, Central African Republic. The project will target mainly direct project participants whereby information will be brought from them. In addition, other stakeholders such as government sector representatives, representatives from the Bangui university and other research institutes, community facilitators, staff of Tearfund and AEC will in one way or another be part of the end line evaluation. This evaluation will take into account the five OECD-DAC criteria of evaluation: Relevance, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Impact and Sustainability. 4. Methodology The end line evaluation will be assessed against the evidence principles and therefore the consultant should be aware of these before designing the methodology. The methodology of the end line evaluation will be determined by the type and scope of the evaluation and any other requirement (eg donor specific requirements). Both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods will be used in the evaluation. The consultant should ensure how the evaluation can be made into a capacity building and learning process. They should also make sure that the selected evaluation approach is participatory - it should take into account the views of beneficiaries and others affected indirectly by the project. Activities kindred to the evaluation methodology are expected to include: Desk review of key documents prior to departure to the field including UK final report. In country key informant interviews e.g. with government officials, households, other humanitarian actors. Community Focus Group Discussions. Tearfund and partner staff interviews. Direct observation/project visits in-country. Secondary data where available (eg Fewsnet). Discussion of initial findings with in-country Tearfund and partner staff teams while still in the country. Documentation of process with professional photos 5. Ethics The following will be key pieces of information about the ethical considerations in the end line evaluation: Will the evaluation involve human participants (e.g. surveys, interviews, FGDs, case studies, participatory methods, storytelling, observations etc)? Yes Will the evaluation involve the collection and/or the analysis of secondary data that is not publicly available? No Will the evaluation involve the analysis of secondary data that has the potential to harm vulnerable groups, communities and/or organisations? No Will the evaluation involve analysing records where an individuals information has not been anonymised? Yes If you have answered YES to any of these questions, it is good practice to complete an ethics risk assessment. Is the ethics risk assessment complete? No (to be conducted by the evaluation consultant as per the template and guidance) The evaluation team will manage ethical issues in two ways. On the one hand, for survey subjects, a preamble describing survey purpose and requesting their willingness to respond to the questions will be prefixed into the questions list. Options will be given for a household head or member to agree or disagree to participate in the survey. On the other hand, focus group discussions will be informed in the same way about the purpose of the qualitative information they have to give, and made to sign con Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4171945/car-bmz-project-end-line-evaluation-consultant
