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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an International non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist person on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs, therefore, strengthening ...
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Background
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Nigeria is leading an exciting and innovative project designed to develop sustainable approaches to lift some of the most vulnerable households in Nigeria out of poverty. This USAID-supported project called Feed the Future Nigeria Livelihoods Project is implemented by a consortium of non-governmental organizations. The project is based in rural communities in Northern Nigeria of Sokoto and Kebbi states and the Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory and has expanded to Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa States in FY17. The project consortium works closely with multiple stakeholders within government at state and local levels, and amongst private sector. The project partners with eight local civil society organizations and incorporates a focus on local capacity building for sustained service delivery in project locations.
In the NW and FCT, the project engages communities in agricultural-led growth interventions, using a multi-sectoral approach to help 42,000 very poor households grow their agriculture production, incomes and improve nutrition. The project seeks to improve agricultural practices with a focus on post-harvest storage for nutrient rich crops already being produced, and promotes a market-oriented approach to diversification of production through ensuring that all agricultural activities are adapted to specific agro-ecological and cultural contexts. The project also assists vulnerable families through income diversification and provision of participatory comprehensive nutrition activities at the community level. To help vulnerable families move along the Pathway to Prosperity, the project utilizes cash transfers to help meet nutritional needs, recover assets and overcome barriers to income-generating activities. To support sustainability, the project strengthens the institutional capacity of government systems to implement poverty reduction programs and reinforce accountability between the government and citizens. Therefore, in the NW and FCT, the project has four key results areas of increased agricultural production and productivity, increased income, improved nutrition status and stronger social safety net for households. The project adopts a cohort approach to household interventions. The project randomized the households benefiting in the project into three classes: A, B, and C. Although the intervention with each class
overlapped with another, the intervention began with Class A, then Class B and later Class C. At this stage in the project, the interventions are targeting Class C.
CRS Nigeria requires the services of a qualified consultant to evaluate and implement a process for graduating benefiting Class C households in the project and provide answer by research to key learning agenda question. The aim of the learning agenda is to investigate the different aspects of the project interventions and their corresponding effects. The graduation activity will apply a quantitative approach with focus on Class C households with a total sample of 6,000 households from the total of 19,135 households from Class C in NW while the learning agenda shall combine both qualitative and quantitative methods.
The graduation and learning agenda tools will be administered to project households located in communities in the following locations:
1. FCT: Bwari Area Council
2. Sokoto: Dange Shuni, Rabbah, Kebbe and Tangaza LGAs
3. Kebbi: Birnin Kebbi and Danko Wasagu LGAs
Objective of the Consultancy
The overall objective of this consultancy is to design and administer the graduation tools to project households to evaluate their readiness for graduation; rank households based on performance on the project indicators, determine the appropriate project services necessary for household still receiving interventions to be eligible for graduation and seek solution to a key learning agenda question.
More specifically, the learning agenda will investigate the different aspects of the project interventions and their corresponding effects.
Learning Agenda Question: What will be the relative contribution of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) and nutrition–sensitive interventions on child nutrition in selected communities of the Feed the Future Nigeria Livelihoods Project?
The question specifically aims at exploring the extent to which SILC activities and consequential economic strengthening can contribute to improving child nutrition and wellbeing at the household level. This is important because nutrition-sensitive activities like SILC have been identified to play a vital role towards improving nutritional status (Lancet Series 2013).
The study will use three intervention arms which are; SILC-only interventions; nutrition-only interventions and integrated SILC plus nutrition intervention. The aim is to prove a synergistic relationship between nutrition counseling and education and SILC as compared to the interventions delivered alone.
For the purpose of answering the learning agenda question, the study area will include non-intervention communities.
Main Tasks
1) Finalize tools and develop protocol for graduation
2) Administer the graduation tools
3) Conduct and implement the Learning Agenda
4) Report writing and data dissemination
This must at a minimum contain:
5) Develop a database of beneficiaries from the graduation study
Requirements
To be determined responsive, an offer must meet the below requirements:
General Requirements
Required Documents
1. Cover Letter (1page maximum), which shall include the following information at minimum:
Name of the consulting company, organization, or individual (s)
Physical Address
Telephone Number
E-mail Address
Relevant experience
Technical Proposal: Applicant must develop a technical proposal that includes 1). a detailed methodology for implementation, 2). data management procedure, 3). proposed timeline and 4). CVs of proposed personnel. Page limit for the technical proposal is 7 pages’ total, not including CVs. Applicants should use reasonable font sizes and margins for the technical proposal, and limit use of non-essential graphics and tables.
Cost Proposals Financial Proposal (maximum one-page): breakdown of cost estimates for services rendered. This should include: daily consultancy fees, accommodation, travel and other logistics. Note that, CRS will pay directly for enumerators, and printing of any materials to be used.
Please note that payments will be made in local currency.
Deliverables and Timeline
The survey is expected to take place within a period of not more than 38 days, commencing
April 1st to May 17st, 2018.
Deliverable
Description of Deliverable
Timeframe
Number of days
(1). Inception phase report which must include final research instrument and research methodology.
Inception phase (including review of research instruments and finalisation of methodology)
1st – 4th April 2018
4 days
(2). Final training manual, field activity report including sampling frame.
Primary research - Field work, including pilot and Training
5th-22nd April 2018
18 days
(3). Data list and preliminary results
Data entry, Cleaning and analysis
23rd – 30th April 2018
8 days
(4). Household Study first draft Report.
Development of Draft Report for review by CRS
2nd - 6th May 2018
5 days
(5). Household Study second draft report
Presentation of draft report
12th – 13th May 2018
2 days
(6). Household Study Final Report
Final report (preparation and submission)
17th May 2018
1 days
Total days
38 days
Offer Submission
Interested applicants must submit the proposal electronically compatible with MS Word, MS Excel, readable format, or Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format in a Microsoft XP environment; using the job title and application code ‘CP270218’ as the subject of their email E.g Proposal to Conduct Household Graduation Survey in FCT, Sokoto and Kebbi States CP270218.
Proposals shall be submitted by email only to tenders.ngr@crs.org. The deadline for receiving proposals is Tuesday February 27, 2018.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that their offers are received in accordance with the instructions stated herein. CRS cannot guarantee that late offers will be considered.
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