Consultancy: Evaluation and Learning of AFFORD Programme at Help Age International

Purpose of the Learning and Evaluation activity

• The purpose of the exercise is to evaluate the effectiveness, sustainability and learnings of the Exit Fund AFFORD Programme in contributing to the development of inclusive, effective and rights-based social protection systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

Evaluation Objectives

• To assess if the programme was effective in achieving its intended objectives and identify factors that may have contributed to its successes and challenges.
• To assess whether, and to what extent, benefits generated by the programme, and activities initiated, are likely to continue after the end of this programme.
• To document lessons learnt from the programme implementation, successful approaches, key challenges and recommendations for future work on social protection (including shock-responsive social protection) and accountability to older people.

Evaluation Questions
Effectiveness

• To what extent have the expected outputs and outcomes been achieved or are likely to be achieved in relation to programme objectives and its results framework?
• How effective have Older People Associations (OPAs) and Older Citizen Monitoring
• Groups (OPMGs) been in improving accountability/access to social protection/promoting older peoples’ voices? Were they particularly effective in a specific contexts/for particular groups/or vis-à-vis specific social protection systems?
• Were there similarities/variations of performance across countries?
• In which areas (geographic, components, gender, disability and other issues) does the programme have the greatest achievements? Why and what have been the supporting factors?
• How well have resources and inputs (funds, expertise, time, etc.) been allocated or used strategically to achieve the expected results?

Sustainability

• To what extent are the programme interventions likely to be maintained or even scaled-up and replicated by partners and/or other organisations (including government) after major assistance has been completed?
• To what extent did the programme build the capacity of local partners?
• How are OPAs/OPMGs likely to continue working after the completion of the programme?
• To what extent has the programme developed scalable and replicable models that can be used for future programming?
• To what extent are the results of the intervention likely to have a long term, sustainable positive impact on older men and women and their communities?

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Post-graduate degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Statistics, Public Engagement, Communication or related fields.
• Strong background and experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
• Proven experience in undertaking multi-country programme evaluation/research or leading evaluation/research teams, with outstanding skills in qualitative and quantitative research and data analysis using relevant software such as STATA, CSPro or SPSS.
• Technical expertise in evaluating social protection, social accountability, advocacy and rights programmes, and ability to draw strong and valid conclusions.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills.
• Ability to travel to the target countries.

Closing Date: Sunday, 25 February 2024.