Somalia: Consultant: WASH Health & Food Security Intervention in Response to Drought in South-Central Somalia

Oct 23, 2018 | World Vision
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Assessment Summary

Project Name: WASH, Health, Nutrition and Food Security Intervention in Response to Drought in South-Central Somalia

Assessment Type: Baseline Survey

Evaluation Purpose

The purpose of the baseline survey is to assess the initial and background information on Health & Nutrition, WASH, Agriculture and Economic recovery in Hudur and Burhaqaba districts to set benchmarks for project objectives, outcomes and outputs intended to serve the lives of communities involved in the implementation of the interventions.

Proposed Methodologies

Social research including qualitative (PRA, FGD, KII…) and quantitative methods (HH interviews) and observations of Health and WASH facilities and agricultural activities. Other appropriate and recent research methods are highly welcomed and given the priority.

Proposed dates of Assessment: 10 Nov 2018 2018 –to- 20 Nov 2018

Anticipated Date of Draft Report Submission: 30 Nov 2018

Anticipated Date of Final Report Submission: 10 Dec 2018

2. Project Background

Project Goal: To alleviate immediate human suffering and strengthen the resilience and self-recovery capacity of drought affected communities, including IDPs, hosting communities, migrants and the most hard to reach, ensuring life with dignity in South Central Somalia.

Project Objectives

  • Increased access to primary health care services, particularly for women and girls, with emphasis on disease prevention, treatment, maternal and child health and healthcare system strengthening
  • Reduced suffering of children affected by malnutrition
  • Improved immediate access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for people in emergency as well as to provide sustained access to sufficient safe water to meet the future challenge
  • Increase access to food through own production and protection of productive assets
  • Enhance the economic capacity of communities to recover rapidly from the effects of drought and other hazard/shocks.

Expected Project Outputs

  • Sector: Health
    • Sub-sector: Health Systems and Clinical Support
    • Sub-sector: Communicable Diseases
    • Sub-sector: Reproductive Health
    • Sub-sector: Non-Communicable Diseases, Injury & Mental Health
    • Sub-sector: Community Health
    • Sub-sector: Pharmaceuticals & other Medical Commodities (PMC)
    • Sector: Nutrition
      • Sub-sector: Infant and young child feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E)
      • Sub-sector: Management of Acute Malnutrition
      • Sector: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
        • Sub-sector: Environmental Health
        • Sub-sector: Sanitation
        • Sub-sector: Hygiene
        • Sub-sector: Water Supply
        • Sub-sector: WASH Non-Food Items (NFI)
        • Sector: Agriculture and Food Security
          • Sub-sector: Livestock
          • Sub-sector: Pests and Pesticides
          • Sub-sector: Veterinary Pharmaceuticals and other Medical Commodities
          • Sub-sector: Improving Agricultural Production/Food Security
          • Sub-sector. Irrigation
          • Sub-sector: Veterinary Medicine or Vaccines
          • Sector: Economic Recovery and Market Systems
            • Sub-sector: Market System Strengthening
            • Sub-sector: Financial Services
            • Sub-sector: Temporary Employment

Cross-cutting: Protection

Project location (Districts/ sub-locations)

  • Bay Region (Burhaqaba) and Bakool Region (Hudur)

Number of target beneficiaries

  • 111,156 host community residents and 74,198 IDPs

Sectors

  • Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Health & Nutrition, Agriculture & Food Security, and Economic Development

Donor

  • USAID (OFDA)

Length of Program

  • 12 months (August 01, 2018 to July 01, 2019)

Available Project documentation

  • Project proposal, M&E plan, any previous baseline and mid-term evaluation reports, project quarterly reports.

3. Purpose and objectives of the baseline survey

The purpose of the baseline survey is mainly to set benchmarks for the list of indicators ahead of the implementation of the project activities. This is especially important for establishing a pre-intervention status against key indicators to be used by WVS for comparison with subsequent reviews/assessments/ studies including the end-of-project evaluation. The project covers sectors in health and nutrition, water supply, hygiene and sanitation, agriculture and food security, and economic recovery and development, and protection as a cross-cutting.

Specific objectives include;

  • Assess health and nutritional status (referring to FSNAU reports) in the targeted areas, and availability and access to health services including health seeking behaviours;
  • Provide information on WASH coverage, gaps and programming needs;
  • Determine the household food security/livelihood situation in the targeted areas;
  • Assess and determine levels of key cross-cutting themes for programming i.e. protection, peace building and conflict resolution, gender, children in emergencies, DRR, etc.

Baseline Key Questions

  • What is the current availability, access and utilization of health and nutrition services in the targeted areas?
  • What is the status of maternal and child health in the targeted districts?
  • What is the status of health and nutrition facilities which will likely provide the basic health and nutrition services in the target districts?

Characterize the current coverage, availability, access and utilization of WASH facilities in the targeted districts

  • What are the existing gaps and unmet community needs in the targeted districts?
  • What is the food security situation in the targeted districts?
  • Which of the agricultural inputs, resources and extension services are functioning well, and what are the existing gaps?
  • Which government line ministries are providing intended services in the targeted districts? Which other organizations are functioning in the same places?
  • What are the specific local needs and priorities of the communities in the targeted districts?
  • How is the implementation of the Somalia Government National Resilience Plans/strategies in the districts?
  • To what extent did communities and the key stakeholder groups are participate in the identification of community needs, planning and implementation of resources meant for the communities.
  • Sustainability: Is there adequate technical capacity and expertise developed in the community to maintain the infrastructures and other gains developed by the project?

4. Consultant Responsibilities prior to, during, and post- assessment

  • Submit inception report in five days of contract period
  • Develop Technical and Budget proposal that include assessment plan, methodology and appropriate/relevant data collection tools (quantitative and qualitative) and analysis framework.
  • Work closely with WV Somalia Project team during the design of the survey protocol, including methodology and tools; agree on the tools that will be used.
  • Present the methodologies and tools for WV M&E and Technical teams and agree on final tools and methodologies
  • Design or program mobile devices on ODK and data spreadsheets
  • Train enumerators, and guide during data collection in the field
  • Monitor and verify data collection
  • Make visits to data collection site and do FGDs and KIIs, and do observations
  • Incorporate feedback into tools and reports which are given from WV team
  • Submit data (questionnaires, data dictionary, codebook, dataset, consent forms) together with draft report.
  • Do de-briefing on preliminary findings to the field team soon after completion of data collection. Approximately one hour presentation of findings and discussions to be delivered at Field Office/ Nairobi National office.
  • The results are expected to be credible with clear means of verifications and the give due attention for the quality of the report.
  • Includes photos and quotes from key stakeholders, and beneficiaries during household data collection

5. WV Responsibilities during assessment

  • Provision of reference documents like project proposal, M&E Plan, previous baseline survey and mid-term evaluation reports and progress reports
  • Assist in communication to district and community for the assessment
  • Review the assessment plan and tools before use
  • Hires enumerators
  • The DME and Project managers will closely observe during training of enumerators,
  • WV facilitates communications with local authorities during household data collection
  • The M&E team conduct internal supervision and data verification during data collection
  • Review the draft report and provide feedback and comments to the consultant