CIP Consultancy – Jobs in Ethiopia
CIP Consultancy – Jobs in Ethiopia
GeneralCIP is a non-profit international agricultural research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato and Andean roots and tubers. Its vision is: Roots and tubers improving the lives of the poor. CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improved well-being, and gender equity for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world.
CIP works with partners to contribute high quality science, technology, and capacity strengthening for sustainable science-based solutions.
CIP is headquartered in Lima, Peru, with staff and activities in over 30 locations across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
CIP is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
Its science is carried out by the 15 research centers that are members of the CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations.
The International Potato Center (CIP) in collaboration with partners have been implementing the project “Global Programme Food and Nutrition Security, Enhanced Resilience, Tigray, Ethiopia” with funding from GIZ.
The 22 months project started in March 15 2019 and was scheduled to end in 15 January 2021.
A pilot project ‘‘Scaling out Sweetpotato-led Interventions to Improve Food and Nutrition Security in Tigray Region of Ethiopia’’ was implemented in three food-insecure woredas with funding GIZ.
Job Purpose
The purpose of the participatory process review (formative qualitative evaluation) is to contribute to the overall impact evaluation by informing mid-term understanding of how well the program is performing, what kinds of changes are occurring that can be attributed to the GIZ funded CIP’s NSA project, whether any programmatic changes need to be made, and (if so) what those changes should be.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Measures the impact that the project intervention has had on improving diet diversity, food security and the well-being of the target population, utilizing the qualitative methods:
Measure changes occurred in nutrition knowledge, behaviors, and consumption practices (emphasizing OFSP as part of diversified diets) among children aged 6-24 months and mothers among participating households.
Determine changes in OFSP nutrition-focused value chains, including market access, sales, product development, and private sector investments among participating households and at the community/regional levels.
Determine changes in institutional and policy support for nutrition-focused agriculture
To what extent did the project contribute to better coordination of efforts among stakeholders in agriculture and health sectors in nutrition?
How did the project contribute to strengthening the capacity of partners (NGOs, government, local institutions including Development Workers (DAs) and Health Extension Workers (HEWs) for promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture?
To what extent did the project contribute to increased interest among stakeholders for nutrition-sensitive agriculture, specifically in OFSP-focused projects?
To what extent did the project contribute to mainstreaming/integration of OFSP in government food security, nutrition, and extension programs and in target schools in the five?
did the project put in place mechanisms/strategies to ensure sustainability?
Evaluate how
well the program was implemented
Study whether the project reached the intended beneficiaries
Determine what beneficiaries receive (both intended/unintended benefits)
Determine which program activities were of use and value to the beneficiaries
Understand beneficiaries’ perceptions of how well the project/program worked/is working
Explore the complementary roles played by CIP and implementing partners in achieving positive
outcomes for the food and nutrition insecure.
It also includes capturing the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from the perspective of project staff, government counterparts, health and agriculture extension workers, and community members participating in the activities, paying particular-attention to intervention differences among the project intervention woredas.
And determine what changes can be attribute to project intervention and what broader community, climatic/environmental, cultural, & policy factors may have influenced change.
What were the major drivers/barriers of change in the project?
The findings of the evaluation will be used in three ways
• First, they will inform the management of current activities and program improvements.
• Second, they will support the design (or re-design) of future CIP -GIZ interventions that use an integrated approach in order to maximize their potential to achieve nutritional and health impacts at a larger scale.
• Third, results will be described and shared with others in order to contribute to the growing body of knowledge and practice around Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture programs.
Methodology and approach
The evaluation method would be qualitative methods (formative a participatory process review) with project staff, government counterparts, health and agriculture extension workers, and community members to document the challenges, successes, and lessons learned thus far.
• The qualitative impact evaluation should flow a theory of change framework to show how program activities should contribute to improved food security and health outcomes;
• Information should be collected by conducting key informant interviews, focus group discussions and collecting case studies from project direct beneficiaries;
• Desk Review: Project proposal, project technical report, training materials and other relevant materials;
• In addition to the methodologies specified above, the consultant must also propose other suitable methodologies to answer the specified evaluation questions and measure the indicators.
Minimum Requirements
Education
• PhD degree in Agricultural Economics, or Natural Resource Economics or Economics, or related social science fields. Preferably have experience in training and experience in qualitative impact assessment, agriculture-nutrition-health linkages, and value chain
Skills
• Speak fluent English and Tigrigna languages
Experience
• Demonstrable skills in qualitative methodologies and analyses is critical.
• Experience in technical report writing in English is essential.
Expected outputs/ deliverables
• Inception report
• Draft Evaluation Report
• PowerPoint presentation to GIZ and CIP team for further comments and inputs to be incorporated in the final report
• Comprehensive final evaluation report (at least 30 pages) documenting findings from the field data analysis and incorporating feedback on the PowerPoint presentation
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; CIP Consultancy – Jobs in Ethiopia
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