Request for Bids for Consultancy Services for the PAMANA END TERM EVALUATION

Caritas Switzerland (CACH) is implementing the PAMANA project, “Building Peace Through Sustainable Access to and Management of Natural Resources in West Nile (WN) and Central Equatoria State (CES),” co-funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).

​The project is executed by a consortium comprising Caritas Switzerland (CACH), the Agency for Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD), the Organic Farming and Advisory Organization (OFAO), and the Community Development Centre (CDC).

​The overall objective of PAMANA is to reduce conflict over and pressure on natural resources in West Nile (Uganda) and Central Equatoria State (South Sudan). This is achieved by building local capacities to support the most vulnerable groups among host, refugee, and internally displaced persons (IDP) communities, with a focus on women. The project aims to meet immediate needs and secure sustainable livelihoods, promoting peace, stability, and gender equality. Using the Humanitarian, Development, Peace (HDP) Nexus, the project integrates humanitarian assistance, development support, and peacebuilding components.

CACH therefore, invites applications from competent firms, organizations, and individual consultants to conduct the final evaluation of the PAMANA project

Purpose

The purpose of the End-Term Evaluation for the PAMANA project is to assess the project’s progress towards its objectives, ensuring accountability to the donors and stakeholders. This evaluation aims to provide credible and reliable findings to support evidence-based decision-making for strategic and future interventions

Key Objectives

• To evaluate the project’s relevance, effectiveness and prospects for sustainability, on reducing conflict over natural resources and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
• To assess how gender equality, conflict sensitivity as well as the Triple Nexus (Humanitarian- Development-Peacebuilding/HDP Nexus) have been incorporated in project design, implementation and monitoring and how this has affected relevance, effectiveness and prospects for sustainability.
• To document good practice, success stories, lessons learned, and challenges encountered,
• To provide evidence-based actionable recommendations for future interventions.

Scope of the Evaluation

Time Scope: The End-Term Evaluation will cover the project period from 1st December 2021 to 30th October 2024.

Evaluation Focus: This final evaluation will assess the OECD/DAC evaluation criteria relevance, effectiveness and prospects for sustainability by answering the evaluation questions selected (see chapter 4.0 of the TOR). Part of this assessment will also be the evaluation of how gender equality, conflict sensitivity and the HDP nexus have been applied (see evaluation objectives).

Geographical Scope: The evaluation will encompass the project’s operational areas in West Nile (WN), Uganda, and Central Equatoria State (CES), South Sudan. The evaluation team will conduct field data collection in implementation areas in both Uganda and South Sudan as specified below:

Uganda (West Nile):

• Yumbe District:
• Bidibidi refugee settlement (Zone 3)
• Host community sub-counties: Kululu, Bijo, and Londonga
• Koboko District:
• Lobule refugee settlement (Zones A and B)
• Lobule sub-county

South Sudan (Central Equatoria State):

• Yei River County:
• Yei Town Payam
• Lainya County:
• Kupera Payam
• Mukaya Payam