Tenders are invited for Final Evaluation: Improving Inclusive Education in Machakos and Kajiado Counties in Kenya. Closing Date: 5 Dec 2025 Type: Consultancy Project ID and Program/Project Name: P6664- Improving Inclusive Education in Machakos and Kajiado counties in Kenya Name of Partner Organisation/s: GIRL CHILD NETWORK (GCN) and Agency for Disability and Development in Africa (ADDA) Project start and end dates; phase of project if applicable: 15.11.2022 15.01.2026 Evaluation Purpose: The purpose of this Evaluation is to assess the extent to which project overall goal has been achieved and to assess the overall project impact for accountability to the donor, for steering future projects and for learning. Evaluation Type: Final /End term project evaluation Contracting organisation/contact person: CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V, Contracting Contact Person: David Munyendo Evaluation Team members (if known): Team of competent consultants as per ToR requirements. Primary Methodology: Mixed Methods Proposed Evaluation Start and End Dates: 15.12.2025-31st January 2026 Anticipated Final Evaluation Report Submission Date: 31st January 2026 Recipient of Final Evaluation Report: CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V., BMZ and partner 2. Project Description About the project This project aims to create an adequate environment for Inclusive Education in schools and Educational Assessment and Resource Centres (EARCs), where necessary infrastructure and qualified personnel are available. In addition, the project creates structures for close cooperation among all stakeholders of Inclusive Education in early identification, early Intervention, referrals and enrollment of children with disabilities. The project also aims to ensure joint steering structures to enable use of synergies and joint accountability. The Project main Goal is to improve the quality of early childhood and primary education for children with and without disabilities while its Specific objective is to ensure that 27,159 Children with and without disabilities learn together in an inclusive learning environment. The Project targeted 61 public schools and 6 EARCs in Kajiado. The Project is founded on 3 key building blocks as follows: Result 1. 61 Schools and 6 EARCs are accessible and have qualified staff. Result 2. Local Stakeholders cooperate in identification and referring children with disabilities. Result 3. Stakeholders in Inclusive Education create synergies and are held accountable to their actions. Lastly, the Project key Interventions are pegged on Early identification, support intervention, referral and placement and enrolment of Children with Disabilities, Establishment of joint steering structures to enable synergy and joint accountability among primary stakeholders, infrastructure modification, awareness raising on disability inclusion, capacity building of stakeholders and partnership and collaboration. Target population: The direct target group consists of a total of 27,348 people from Machakos and Kajiado Counties. The focus is on the 61 selected primary schools each of which has an Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD). Direct target group is composed as follows: Target Schools: Kajiado 25, Machakos 36, Total 61 Children aged 4 to 14: Kajiado 11,131, Machakos 16,028, Total 27,159 Teachers (3 per School): Kajiado 75, Machakos 108, Total 183 Curriculum Support Officers of the EARCs: Kajiado 2, Machakos 4, Total 6 Indirect target group: The indirect target group includes the members of the 61 school management councils with 13 members each (a total of 793 persons) as well as the 61 volunteer health workers of the respective Community Health Units. In addition, members of an estimated 3,096 households where children with disabilities live benefit. Through quality inclusive education, the children of the affected household are enabled to participate in social and economic life, thereby relieving the familys burden in the long term. With an estimated household size of 5 persons per household with a child with disabilities, this amounts to 15,480 persons. Indirectly, the project activities will reach out to the population in the target counties through awareness raising activities on inclusive education. This will lead to improved coordination and cooperation in the field of inclusive education, government actors in the education and health sectors, as well as self-help groups of people with disabilities and parent/carer groups. 3. Evaluation Objective and Intended Use The purpose of this final evaluation of the project is to provide an assessment of the achievements under this project, especially in terms of the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability; to capture successes & challenges involved in this project and their impact on project implementation; and to create learnings for the future. The evaluation will also assess the impact on the target groups, identify areas that may need ongoing attention and provide recommendations for securing the project results in the foreseeable future. The primary target audience of this evaluation are the implementing organizations, GCN and ADDA, as well as the donors, CBM and BMZ, who will all receive the full evaluation report. The end-term evaluation shall be designed as to have a ready, accessible and easily understandable reference that provides a review of project interventions and achievements and offers recommendations for improvement in future endeavors of the partners and beyond. For the implementing organizations it can be used as an instrument and go-to learning document when it comes to confirm, revise, reassess or adjust in order to facilitate a successful project implementation and target as well as impact achievement in projects with a similar objective/agenda, and to secure sustainability of project results/outcomes. For the donors the evaluation provides a stock-taking of the projects achievements and impact, and documents adherence to funding guidelines and project plan - not the least for the sake of accountability. In addition, for CBM as the private executing agency of the co-funded BMZ project, the evaluation helps in discussing necessary adjustments to future project design and implementation with partners / implementing organizations and informs future project monitoring. 4. Scope of the evaluation The final evaluation will cover perspectives from the project key interventions, which is not limited to Early identification, intervention, referral and enrolment of Children With Disabilities, operationalization of joint steering structures to enable synergy and joint accountability, Infrastructure accessibility and modification in 61 project schools and 6 EARCs, Awareness raising on disability inclusion in school communities, Capacity building of stakeholders on key areas of disability inclusion and advocacy by disability champions in promoting Inclusion at group level. The evaluation will cover areas relevant to inclusive education as per the project intervention areas including but not limited to, infrastructure improvement, inclusive education, trainings, provision of materials, linkage with other services, equipment, community related activities and advocacy related activities. It will also review planned and achieved project objective, results, activities, and indicators specified in the approved impact matrix (Logframe) and project plan (original proposal) as well as identify and elaborate relevant and useful lessons learned to be applied in future endeavours of the partners and beyond, especially regarding the approach/effectiveness of the intervention. 5. Limitations The evaluation might be affected by the unavailability of some target beneficiaries. To address this challenge, the local implementing partners will make prior arrangements with key informants whom the evaluator/evaluation team will sample from to ensure they spare some time to attend to this important exercise. 6. Target audience and use The primary target audience of this evaluation are the implementing organizations, ADDA and GCN, as well as the donors, CBM and BMZ, who will all receive the full evaluation report. The end-term evaluation shall be designed as to have a ready, accessible and easily understandable reference that provides a review of project interventions and achievements and offers recommendations for improvement in future endeavors of the partners and beyond. For the implementing organizations it can be used as an instrument and go-to learning document when it comes to confirm, revise, reassess or make adjustments in order to facilitate a successful project implementation and target as well as impact achievement in projects with a similar objective/agenda, and to secure sustainability of project results/outcomes. For the donors the evaluation provides a stock-taking of the projects achievements and impact, and documents adherence to funding guidelines and project plan - not the least for the sake of accountability. In addition, for CBM as the private executing agency of the co-funded BMZ project, the evaluation helps in discussing necessary adjustments to future project design and implementation with partners / implementing organizations and informs future project monitoring. The final report is expected to be shared with the implementing partner, project related Government representatives, key development partners, CBM and BMZ (donor) as well as with members of the target group such as learners with disabilities in an appropriate format per audience. The results of this evaluation must allow the audiences to understand the achievements of the project, including its good practices for replication. It will also provide a critical view of chal Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4188405/final-evaluation-improving-inclusive-education-machakos-and-kajiado-counties-kenya
