Terms of Reference- (ToR)
Endline Evaluation of SWASH Project in Udaipur district of Rajasthan
1. About the ChildFund India:
ChildFund India has been working with underprivileged children, youth, and families from the most remote, extremely backward, and hard-to-reach areas in India since 1984, with a vision to build “an India where children lead a dignified life and achieve their full potential”. It annually reaches nearly 4 million children, youth, and their families, from 3,200 communities in 85 districts across 14 states in India, through its long and short-term programs. ChildFund in India works in the rural belts of the country, now slowly expanding its focus to urban poverty where child protection issues and violence against children are prevalent. Its programs provide comprehensive support to children from their conception until they reach 24 years of age by integrating health, nutrition, sanitation, gender equality, disability, education, skill training, livelihoods, child protection and humanitarian relief work. ChildFund’ s unparalleled longstanding community presence, long-term partnership and direct implementation projects in India ensure that its holistic interventions foster an enabling environment where children can grow to their fullest potential.
2. Project Background:
Unimproved sanitation, water scarcity, inferior water quality, and inappropriate hygiene behavior are disastrous for infants and young children and are major causes of morbidity and mortality. These conditions are also detrimental to the health of school-aged children, who spend long hours in school. The physical environment and cleanliness of a school facility can significantly affect the health and well-being of children. The disease spreads quickly in cramped spaces with limited ventilation, where hand-washing facilities or soaps are not available, and where toilets are in disrepair or nonexistent leading to open defecation and urination. Too often, schools are places where children become ill.
The project has been be implemented in govt primary and secondary schools of Gogunda, Jhadol, Kotra, Falasiya and Sayra Blocks in Udaipur district serving 15000 school children (approx.). The project aims to reach at least 100 schools through an integrated SWASH program design (School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education).
The project delivered improved WASH infrastructure – construct new infrastructure along with to refurbishment of existing toilets and WASH facilities and defunct rainwater structure, WASH behavior-change training and support, and strengthen menstrual hygiene management services across 100 government schools in 5 blocks of Udaipur District. As a result of this investment, this project expects school children to adopt positive and life-saving WASH behaviors like handwashing with soap; adults to support behavior changes through positive reinforcement and maintenance of WASH infrastructure, and governments co-invest in the program to sustain the program over long-term, and the government and the community to maintain the infrastructure and carry-on the best practices.
Impact:
The impact aims to ensure that by 2024 all children and youth in Udaipur district will have improved access to integrated basic WASH services and thrive in a healthy, child-friendly and enabling school/learning environment.
Outcomes
In order to contribute to the impact, the project will achieve the following outcomes:
Outcome 1:
Children have access to child friendly Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities as enshrined in Right to Education Act.
Outcome 2:
Children and their parents in the catchment areas adopt and promote basic WASH practices both at school and community level
The project proposal will provide details of outcomes and activities planned and implemented under the project.
3. Project Geography:
The project was implemented in Gogunda, Jhadol, Falasiya, Sayra and Kotra blocks of Udaipur District in Rajasthan.
4. Target Groups:
Direct target group: School-going children between the age of 6-18 in 100 primary & senior secondary schools. School children will be directly targeted in the project to strengthen their capacity to claim their rights, which requires knowledge about rights and structures, as well as self-esteem to participate and demand them. The cumulative reach of the project will be 15,000 beneficiaries (12,000 school children + 2,500 parents + 500 school teachers and other key stakeholders at block/district level). Below is the summary of key activity wise reach. We will develop detailed beneficiary reach once targeted schools have been identified.
Indirect target groups): Families, community members, school staff and authorities including school management committees, local authorities called Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRIs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs).
5. Scope of work:
The Endline Evaluation should serve as a critical reference point for assessing the changes and impacts resulting from the intervention including the gender responsive WASH practices (e/g/ inclusion of separate toilets for boys and girls). It will provide a basis for comparing the situation before and after the intervention, allowing for a clear evaluation of its effectiveness. The end line data will establish whether the anticipated outcomes and outputs were achieved and how much change has occurred. In addition, the inputs and suggestions from relevant government officials and other community stakeholders should be integrated into the report through utilisation of tools such as focussed group discussion (FGDs) or participatory workshop to ensure a comprehensive analysis. The technical expert / agency may also propose more relevant indicators and measure them to assess the final outcomes and establish benchmarks for the project. Assess the overall progress against the baseline result and the actual situation as described in the project proposal of the project implementation area with regards to the project objectives and for the future comparison with the endline result. Identify key contributors, challenges and any factors that might have affected/influenced the project and its implementation.
6. Methodology
The end line evaluation should use both primary and secondary data sources for probing the progress and generating evidence in support of the findings. This study should also adopt a mixed methodology quantitative and qualitative for data collection, validated, triangulation and analysis. The evaluation process will include desk reviews, interviews/FGD, and observation. Overall, approach for this endline study should focus on relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the project (OECD-DAC framework). The proposed methodology is suggestive and can be adjusted by the technical expert/agency if considered necessary, in accordance with the purpose of the evaluation and in consultation with ChildFund India. ChildFund India will review the methodology and suggest required modifications so that all outcome/outputs are measured as per the requirements of project management and reporting.
The evaluation should also ensure the inclusion of child-friendly and participatory methodologies, enabling children to share their perspectives. A risk assessment section, identifying potential challenges in implementation (e.g., resistance to behaviour change, infrastructure maintenance issues) and mitigation strategies would also provide valuable insight.
7. The technical expert/agency shall provide:
- An inception report that describes the methodology, time plan, and evaluation tools to answer all the key questions described in the Methodology and Survey tools. The inception report shall include data triangulation and quality control.
- Data collection, data processing, and analysis.
- Draft presentation and report of the project evaluation report in English.
- Final project evaluation report in English after incorporating the feedback to the draft.
8. Technical expert profiles and other details:
The technical expert/agency should have experience in the field of assessment and evaluations The technical expert/agency is required to share a proposal with clear timelines to complete the assignment along with a detailed budget and CVs of the experts who will undertake this study. In addition, the agency is required to share 1-2 samples previous such assignments along with the proposal.
9. Confidentiality
All discussions and documents relating to this ToR will be treated as confidential by the parties. Any document, tools, templates, etc. developed through this assignment is the property of ChildFund India who will have sole ownership on it.
10. Child Protection
The consultant will adhere to and sign the Child Safeguarding Policy while signing the contract for this consultancy.
How to Apply:
Please submit your applications by e-mail to centralpurchase2@childfundindia.org with the following documents:
- A summary of the agency/Individual
- Proposal with both technical (PART A) and financial (PART B) including timeframe, methodology, deliverables, and budget
- Updated CV / Resume of the Team Members, who will be engaged in survey work
- Sample of previous work/certificates/ any evidence or appreciations related to the reporting, Monitoring work, Survey and Design work, Field reports, endline
PLEASE DO MENTION REFERECE NUMBER IN YOUR PROPOSALÂ I.E. PRA/CFI/RAJ/2024-25/082
Job Email ID: centralpurchase2(at)childfundindia.org
