Monday, July 2, 2012

lowongan kerja lsm/ngo, Consultant for project evaluation Community Managed Nutrition Project (CMNP)

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 Project name              : Community Managed Nutrition Project-CMNP
Project Location         : TTS and TTU Districts, NTT Province
Project Period             : 1st July 2009 – 30th September 2012

 Background
Plan International is an international, child rights and child-focused development organization without religious, political or governmental affiliation. Plan has been working in Indonesia since 1969, with using Child Centred Community Development (CCCD) approach, a rights-based approach in which children, families and communities are active and leading participants in their own development.
Since 2009, Plan Indonesia started a 3 year-Community Managed Nutrition Project (CMNP) in Timor Tengah Utara and Timor Tengah Selatan Program Units (PUs) supported by AusAID through Plan Australia. It is aimed to contribute the improvement of nutrition situation in target areas. The project has been implemented in TTU and TTS districts, with a total of 21 villages reached (10 in TTS and 11 in TTU). This project is scheduled to be ended on June 2012, but is extended to September 2012 to allow sufficient time for phasing out activities and quality project evaluation.

Project Purpose
To contribute to the reduction of 4-6% proportion of  boys and girls under 5 years old who are undernourished in CMNP target areas in TTS and TTU districtsby June 2012

Project Objective
1.       To improve performance of 30 posyandu in TTS and 30 posyandu in TTU  to the level of ‘PURNAMA[1]’ in CMNP target areas by June 2012
2.       To improve capacity of 50 professional health workers to provide nutrition services to pregnant women, lactating mothers, and Children Under Five (CU5) in order to strengthen service at table 5 posyandu, Nutrition Education and Rehabilitation Sessions (NERS), Therapeutic Feeding Center (TFC) and Puskesmas in CMNP target areas by June 2012
3.       To increase by 20% the number of parents/caregivers who have appropriate knowledge & caring practices for boys & girls U5, in CMNP target areas by June 2012
4.     To enhance TTU and TTS’s local government’s commitment & investment to nutrition program at all level by June 2012
 Some secondary figures already indicate promising result such as reduction of under-nutrition prevalence, and the fact that the breastfeeding rate is increased from 27 % to 56 % in TTS and 39 to 42 % in TTU district (TTU and TTS District Health Profile, 2009-2012). Changes at the level of children under-five need to be confirmed and determined through a rigorous evaluation. Therefore Plan Indonesia invites external consultant to conduct project evaluation for CMNP.

Key Question
1.      Relevance:
* Is the project design adequate to address problem in hand ?
* Is the project objective appropriate with problem or needs that are being addressed?
* Is the project strategy is appropriate with the project design towarding its goal and objectives?
2.      Effectiveness:
* Is the project strategy contributed effectively to the achievement of project ?
* Does the project implementation deliver satisfied quality and services to the beneficiaries?
* If it is not, in what way that the project implementation didn’t met beneficiaries expectation? And why?
* What is the major factor influenced the achievement or non achievement of the project?
* What are the supportive factors and key success identified could be proposed for replication?
3.      Efficiency:
* Is the project cost spent reasonable to finance the project implementation?
* Is the project cost spent appropriately towarding the project achievement?
4.      Impact/changes:
* What changes/impact in the community identified from the achievement of project?
* To what extent that the project achievement contributed to the beneficiaries needs?
* Did the project achieve number of improve performance Posyandu in each TTU and TTS to the level purnama, number or professional health worker that provide good quality health services, number of parents  / caregivers who have appropriate knowledge and caring practices for boys and girls Under 5, etc?
5.      Sustainability :
* Is there any follow up by partner/communities conducted regarding the project achievement? What follow up has been conducted?
* Is there any stream of results that is likely to continue? (what is the the potential risks and assumption)?Purpose of project evaluation and scope of consultancy
The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the achievement of project goal with:
1.       Assessing the project achievement as mentioned by indicators on project logical framework
2.       Assessing effectiveness and efficiency of this program in achieving projectgoal and objectives
3.       Assessing the relevance of the projectmodels and implementation towards undernutrition situation among children and families in TTU and TTS.
4.       Identifying the equal access among children and families to project interventions/activities, specifically those that are provided by community based health services-Posyandu
5.       Assessing monitoring, reporting, and learning process within this projectin supporting projectaccountability to community and partners.
6.       Identifying possibility of impact and effort to sustainability of this projecttowards the reducing child under-nutrition and its replication to other areas.
7.       Identified  effectiveness of strategy in supporting achievement of project
8.      Identified benefit/change gained of community from achievement of Project

Scope of Work of consultant
1.    To provide simple and clear of evaluation protocol that will accommodate 5 dimension of evaluation
2.    To provide input/ programmatic recommendation as local nutrition expert to the evaluation study design, as part of Plan Indonesia team.
3.    To execute the  evaluation survey and qualitative data collection, and conduct analysis on these evaluation data
4. Finalize and present result of CMNP evaluation to Plan Indonesia and stakeholders
 Methodology and statement of work (deliverables)
This evaluation will be conducted with using qualitative approach, completing with qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques, such as secondary data collection and review, Focused Group Discussion/FGD, In Depth Interview/IDI. In general, the methodology will be in line with CMNP baseline design to allow for comparable result.

During the assignment, at minimum the consultant should perform the following deliverables:
1. Review of relevant background documents, including but not limited to CMNP proposal/project design document, QR and annual report, CMNP annual plan
2. Evaluation design/protocol that include methodology and sample size calculations, Instrument and tracking sheet for data entry and analysis plan
3. Field manual/ guidelines that includes field implementation plan with protocols for enumerators and supervisors
4. Recruit and train data collection team based on agreed evaluation study design
5. Execute evaluation study, and conduct analysis on project evaluation
6. Reporting of evaluation study with the following requirements:
a.    Provide electronic files with all evaluation raw data in 2 DVDs
b.    Provide 2 electronics copies on DVDs of the final report in English and Indonesia and 2 hard copies, to
c.     Guided by the following outlines:
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Objectives
4. Methodology:
a. Project/Survey locations
b. Sampling design and sample size (sampling frame)
c. Questionnaire design and development
d. Training
e. Field Work
f. Data management (including quality control methodology) and data analysis
g. Limitation of study
5. Results presented in narrative and tables, using descriptive and statistics
6. Programmatic Recommendations and conclusion
7. Annexes (e.g. references, questionnaire, sampling elaborations, power point presentation on result of baseline study, etc.)Qualification of consultant
-          Strong knowledge about research design, especially quantitative approach
-          Previous Experience in conducting health and nutrition project evaluation , that include KPC and anthropometric survey
-          Good knowledge and familiarity on community development and gender, as well as health and nutrition survey principles
-          Knowledge and familiarity in local context of NTT area.
-          Capable operate statistical software/programme 
Timeframe and specify activityPeriod (tentative) Activity
25 June-8 Juli 2012 Selection of consultant- Agreement signed
9-15 July 2012 Draft design and tools for CMNP evaluation
15 July-26 Aug 2012 Conduct project evaluation (training enumerator, data collection and analysis)
27 Aug-16 Sept  2012 Reporting
Sept 2012 Workshop evaluation result


Fees and Cost Estimates

The total charge to be paid for the consulting assignment will depend on the technical proposal to conduct the CMNP evaluation. We will require a technical proposal that includes methodology, CVs of key personnel and costs estimates presented as follows:
a. Proposed methodology (specific to nutrition-related indicators)
b. Budget
• Salaries. Includes personnel of technical assistance, data collection, data entry and analysis
• Per diem and travel. Includes daily costs for lodging and meals and incidental expenses during field work; mode of transportation; vehicle rental; gas.
• Printing. Includes survey questionnaires, interview guides, final reports
• Equipment. Includes any equipment the consultant may need to purchase (though this should be minimal at best if they already have the capacity to do the work).
• Communications. Includes telephone, fax, computer, postage
• Training costs
c. CVs of the key personnel
The fees and costs estimates referred to shall be payable to the consultant in a schedule that is agreed upon by Plan Indonesia and the consultant. The payments will be contingent upon the successful completion of deliverables. The payment will be in Indonesian Rupiah.

Interested applicants can submit letter of interest and  technical proposal of project evaluation on 2 July 2012 the latest to the following email addresses:
hery.nahampun@plan-international.org
wahdini.hakim@plan-international.org

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