World Neighbors Baseline Survey for Bunyala Program Jobs in Busia County, Kenya

World Neighbors Baseline Survey for Bunyala Program Jobs in Busia County, Kenya

World Neighbors (WN) is an international non-governmental organization incorporated in 1952 in the US. WN works in Asia, Africa and Latin America & the Caribbean, and its mission is to inspire people and strengthen communities to find lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and disease and to promote a healthy environment.

The essence of WN work is to foster the emergence and strengthen the capacity of local organizations to engage in wider collective action for sustainable positive social change.

WN supports local partner organizations and communities to analyze their own situations, strengthen their capacities to undertake a range of complementary and overlapping activities, and effectively utilize their assets to drive their own development agenda.

WN employs a participatory, people-centered and holistic approach to development. Its programs are founded on the understanding that local people are principally responsible for their own development and that participatory approaches are the most effective tools in broad-based and lasting development practices.

WN development approach is based on an appreciation of community assets, a commitment to local ownership and sustainability and promotion of action and inter-institutional learning for increased program impact.

Based on its experience, WN employs a distinct five-stage development model aimed at enabling communities to fully assume responsibility for their own development.

The aim is to support program communities to take ownership of initiated interventions and drive them further without continued external financial support.

This results in the emergence of strong, community-based structures to continue and expand development initiatives long after WN has transitioned out of an area.

WN Bunyala Program

WN has been working in Matayos sub-County of Busia County since 2006 implementing Muyafwa/Mundalira Development Program (MUDEP) in partnership with Rural Integrated Poverty Alleviation Program (RIPPA).

The main objective of the program was to develop self-reliance strategies that will support sustenance of activities and to consolidate the gains in food security, income generation and natural resource management.

Prior to this, between 1989 and 2003 WN worked in Teso north and south within Busia County implementing various rural development initiatives that led to the formation of Akukuranut Development Trust (ADT).

WN phased out of MUDEP program in June 2018. Between 2016 and 2018, WN conducted a program exploration exercise within Bundalagi sub-County to initiate a new program.

Through this exploration process Bunyala South Ward was identified as an area that provides both the need and opportunity for WN to work in and effectively work with communities and support rural development.

Currently, WN is in the process of undertaking various program preparatory activities, one of which is a baseline survey.

Purpose and Scope

WN is seeking to hire a consultant to carry out a baseline survey in Bunyala south, Budalangi sub-County where the program is to be implemented. The objective is to gather relevant baseline information for key program indicators based on WN’s five-stage development model (see attached outline).

Data will need to be gathered on the program’s long-term goals based on WN’s thematic areas of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods (SARL); Community and Reproductive Health (CRH); Community-based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM); and incorporating the transversal themes of gender equity, HIV/AIDS and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

This data will provide benchmarks for measuring the program’s progress over time and impact at the end. Hence, the baseline information collected at the outset will support monitoring and assessing the progress and impact of the program over its life-span.

The components of the baseline study are outlined below.

The physical