Country Strategic Plan Mid-term Review Consultant (Remote)

JOB TITLE:

Mid-term Review Consultant

TYPE OF CONTRACT:

Consultant When Actually Employed

UNIT/DIVISION:

PROGRAMME/MONITORING

DUTY STATION (City, Country):

Madagascar Country Office (Remote)

DURATION:

34 Working days from January 2021 to April 2022

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The Mid-term Review is a WFP Country Office-driven participatory exercise to assess the performance of a Country Strategic Plan (CSP). It has an objective of mainly internal learning for the areas of implementation and results and is intended to inform operational decision-making and adjustments to on-going programmes. The main outputs are a report and recommendations oriented to facilitate the achievement of expected results.

Since 2018, WFP Assistance in Madagascar was provided through the T-ICSP (2018 – 2019) and the CSP (2019 -2024).

The CSP was intended to be implemented under a five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2019-2024) which has five strategic outcomes but the current BR is intending to reduce the length to align its duration with UNSDCF period (End 2023).

Strategic Outcome 1: Crisis-affected women, men, boys and girls in targeted areas are able to meet and recover their basic food and nutrition needs before, during and after crises.

This SO1 will be achieved through the following 6 outputs:

a.Crisis-affected women, men, boys and girls in targeted communities (Tier 1) receive adequate, timely, food and cash assistance to meet their basic food and nutrition needs (output category A.1)

b.Crisis-affected women and men (Tier 1) in targeted communities receive conditional food and cash assistance to protect and recover their livelihoods.

c.Crisis-affected communities (Tier 2) benefit from the creation and early recovery of assets to restore their livelihoods.

d.Vulnerable and crisis-affected children, pregnant and lactating women and girls, and HIV and tuberculosis patients (Tier 1) receive adequate, timely, specialized nutritious foods and SBCC to prevent and treat acute malnutrition.

e.Children enrolled in primary schools in crisis-affected areas (Tier 1) receive a take-home ration that supports their food and nutrition needs and promotes attendance in schools.

f.Vulnerable and crisis-affected women, men, boys and girls in the south (Tier 3) benefit from enhanced Government capacity to support an integrated, shock-responsive social protection system that identifies and meets their basic food and nutrition needs.

Strategic Outcome 2: Primary schoolchildren in targeted areas have access to adequate, healthy and nutritious food as part of a government-led social protection strategy.

This strategic outcome will be achieved through the following outputs:

a.Children enrolled in targeted primary schools in food-insecure areas receive a nutritious daily school meal and benefit from complementary nutrition-sensitive services to improve their access to nutritious foods and education.

b.Children in targeted primary schools consume nutritious food produced and supplied by local communities (home-grown school feeding).

c.Primary schoolchildren in targeted areas benefit from the enhanced capacities of government institutions to implement home-grown school feeding as part of a comprehensive shock- and gender-responsive social protection strategy that supports access to nutritious foods and education.

Strategic Outcome 3: Nutritionally vulnerable populations in areas with consistently high rates of undernutrition have improved nutritional status. Implementation through the following outputs:

a.Children aged 6–23 months and targeted pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls (Tier 1) receive an integrated package of nutrition services, including adequate, timely, specialized nutrition products, that help to prevent undernutrition.

b.Targeted populations (Tier 1) benefit from integrated SBCC that help to improve nutrition, health and reproductive health practices.

c.Targeted populations (Tier 3) benefit from enhanced Government capacity to provide and coordinate gender-responsive nutrition services and platforms at the national and local levels.

d.Women, men, girls and boys (Tier 3) benefit from the enhanced capacity of community groups, the Government and private sector actors to process and provide high-quality fortified foods.

Strategic Outcome 4: Women and men small-scale producers in targeted communities facing climate shocks increase their livelihood resilience and capacity to engage in sustainable food systems all year round.

a.Vulnerable women and men in targeted households (Tier 1) receive adequate, timely and nutrition-sensitive FFA and FFT support that enables them to meet short-term food and nutrition needs while improving livelihood opportunities (category D).

b.Women and men small-scale food producers in targeted communities (Tier 2) benefit from community assets, skills, climate information and financial services that enable them to plan, diversify and enhance the production, storage and consumption of nutritious foods and adapt to climate change (category C).

c.Women and men in targeted households and communities (Tier 2) benefit from strengthened technical capacities to organize and participate in value chains, including the processing and sale of nutritious foods through linkages with P4P and HGSM (category F).

Strategic Outcome 5: Government and humanitarian partners in Madagascar are supported by effective emergency preparedness and response services before, during and in times of crises.

a. Populations affected by crisis (Tier 3) benefit from supply chain and other on-demand services and capacities provided by WFP to government and humanitarian partners in order to receive timely assistance before and during emergencies (category C)

b.Crisis-affected populations (Tier 3), benefit from mandated and on-demand logistics services to humanitarian partners, that support rapid response before and during crises periods (category H)

c.Crisis-affected populations (Tier 3), benefit from mandated and on-demand emergency telecommunications to humanitarian partners, that support rapid response before and during crises periods (category H)

d.Vulnerable populations (Tier 3) benefit from strengthened capacities of Government institutions to mobilize and coordinate internal and external resources for the provision of integrated emergency preparedness and response services (EPR) (output category G)

e.Crisis-affected people targeted by humanitarian and development partners benefit from the timely and cost-saving services of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service by receiving timely, equitable and effective assistance (category H)

Under the supervision of the Head of PRogramme and technical guidance from the monitoring team, facilitate the process of the Mid-term Review in line with the established Terms of References (ToR).

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Work in close collaboration with internal WFP staff and external partners to strengthen data/information quality, accuracy and consistency to build credible evidence
2. Provide periodic and constructive technical feedback to the monitoring team
3. Gather information and conduct qualitative/quantitative data analysis (desk review, Key Informant Interviews, Focus Group Discussions)
4. Coordinate with programme and monitoring teams to prepare field site visit schedules, as required
5. Facilitate workshop with key stakeholders (organizing workshop activities, developing questions, mapping findings and discussions), as required
6. Hold debriefing meeting with management and key stakeholders at the end of the mission with initial findings
7. Produce and finalize a Mid-term Review Report with key findings and recommendations

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT

Short, analytical, and action-oriented Mid-term Review report with key findings and recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

Advanced University degree in Sociology, Social Development, Development Economics or Performance Management or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience:

6-10 years experience in humanitarian/development field

Preferred: previous experience working with WFP/other UN agencies/implementing partners, conducting reviews, evaluations or monitoring exercises.

Knowledge & Skills:

- Demonstrated skills in project management in general and managing processes

- Demonstrated advanced skills in analysis, listening, influencing and management of stakeholder relationships

- Ability to engage diverse internal and external stakeholders proactively

- Understanding of the country/regional context

- Technical knowledge in [targeted focal areas]

- Knowledge of monitoring and performance management concepts and principles

- Familiarity with humanitarian/development planning and implementation systems and institutional roles

- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability

Interested candidate must submit their application online via

1- http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment for internal candidates

2- http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings for external candidates

Deadline : 20th January 2022

Female Applicants Are Particularly Encouraged To Apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, color, physical status HIV/AIDS status.