Mid Term Review (MTR) of Fairtrade Africa 2021-2025 Strategy at Fairtrade International

Specific Outputs 

• The MTRs findings and recommendations will be thoroughly discussed at FTA. The Consultants will complete and submit a draft final report in soft copy at the end of the assignment. Key stakeholders 
• (Program Team representatives, MEL Team and the FTA Leadership Team) will provide comments on the Draft Final Report, based on which The Consultants will finalize the report. 
• The consultant is expected to deliver:
• An Inception report that articulates the overall requirements of the TOR including proposed  methodology, work plan with clear timelines, and division of labour where necessary;
• Draft report on the implementation of the tasks defined in the TOR recommendations;
• A validation workshop (virtual);
• Mid-Term Evaluation Report;
• A Power-Point presentation with the preliminary findings and recommendations.

Duration and time frame

• The mid-term evaluation shall be expected to be completed within 3 months from the start date from mid-April to end July 2023.

Consultancy Competencies, Experience and Skill Requirements:

• It is expected that this task will be conducted by a firm or a consortium of consultants combining 
• international and local experts (see MTR Scope) with different skill sets and experiences including 
• complex programme management, monitoring and evaluation, economics, agriculture, social science, or related fields. Demonstrate capacity to deliver MTRs in complex programmes implemented across countries in Africa including the 4 regions where FTA works. The Team with the following will have an added advantageexperience in ethical trade and sustainability, smallholder farmers and their organisations, workers’ rights in hired labour set ups, various export oriented agricultural value chainsand members with fluency in French.

The Application Process 

• Interested parties should submit a Technical and Financial Proposal. The Technical Proposal will focus on the consultant’s interpretation of the TOR, sharing of their relevant experience and the qualifications and experience of the proposed team members. It will also cover the proposed methodology, sampling frame and a draft workplan to deliver the task.
• The proposal should be accompanied by a cover letter and include Two (2) references from organizations with whom similar scope and value proposed in this assignment has been undertaken. 
• The Financial Proposal will focus on the cost to deliver the entire task including logistics and presented in Euros. 
• The completed proposal should be sent to recruitment@fairtradeafrica.net with the email subject reading “Midterm Review of FTA Strategy” Any clarifications on this TOR should be directed to monitoring@fairtradeafrica.net by the 14th March 2023 and expect response within 2 days.