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Assignment Title: Impact Evaluation (baseline and endline survey) of Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund program

Assignment Country: Zimbabwe

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION

UNDP Zimbabwe intends to procure the services of a firm from Jan. 2017 to April. 2017 to conduct a baseline survey impact evaluations of the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund program. Moreover, the selected firm will administrate the endline survey at the end of the life of the projects. It will conduct a longitudinal assessment involving baseline, and endline surveys. Analysis will include comparison scenario of control and treatment group, before and after interventions effect, and a forecasting trend of the outcome.

The Impact Evaluation (baseline and endline) will be conducted of ZRBF to evaluate the impact of its activities in line with the TOC and log frame of the Fund, by comparing households and communities that participate in the projects with those that do not. To this end, UNDP is seeking to hire a firm to prepare and conduct the household survey baseline data collection for the impact evaluation among 3,500 households. A qualitative survey will also be administered through interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholders including community members, beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. The survey will be built on key evaluation questions/hypotheses formulated from the theory of change. The evaluation will involve a baseline and an end line measurement of indicators with a clear strategy to compare the resilience of participants and non-participants. A counterfactual analysis will also be considered to compare what actually happened and what would have happened in the absence of the intervention. Oversampling based on attrition rates would be to ensure sufficient overlap in the panel of data collected for the baseline and end line. The Contractor should specify the details of the sampling design in the Inception Plan document in advance of field implementation. The practical reality of implementation will determine which design options are most feasible.

ZRBF Project Information:

The ZRBF Multi-Year projects intervention districts, wards and targeted households.  

ZRBF program overview:

UNDP Zimbabwe, in close collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development and support from EU and DFID embarked on laying the ground-work for a resilience-building initiative. This culminated into the setting up of the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF). The ZRBF multiyear projects are implemented through three consortia activities in nine districts in Zimbabwe. A core component to achieving the ZRBF objective is to design multi-year projects which improve three resilience capacities in a blended and balanced manner in normal times and times of growing stress (i.e., Output II.) on the one hand; and to adapt and adjust interventions flexibly by scaling up and/or down certain project components in response to early symptoms of stresses and shocks witnessed at the project implementation level that have a likelihood of making the intervention areas experience a hazard or a combination of hazards (i.e., Output III.). This initiative has a strong focus on evidence based programming and the work focuses on 3 overall sets of components

1. Application of evidence in policy making for resilience increased

2. Absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities of at-risk communities increased and improved; and

3. Predictable, coordinated, timely and cost effective response to shocks and stresses rolled out via existing social protection and other relevant programmes by setting up a Crisis Modifier mechanism.

Budget

Total budgets for applications under this RFP for the impact evaluations (baseline and endline survey) must be a maximum of USD $500,000. The amount requested in the RFP should be commensurate with the firm’s technical, administrative and financial management capabilities in line with this RFP.

RFP Date of Issuance: November 3, 2016

Due Date for Question: November 21, 2016

Submission of questions or requests for clarification in writing via email to procurement.zw@undp.org by 17:00 Hours local time in Zimbabwe.

Deadline for Proposals: 2nd December, 2016

Submission of proposals (including technical proposal and budget) due by 17:00 Hours local time in Zimbabwe via email to”

bidstechnical.zw@undp.org

For Technical Proposals

bidsfinancial.zw@undp.org

 For Financial Proposals

Emailed submissions must contain the subject line: Re: Impact Evaluation (baseline and endline survey) of ZRBF