National Consultant – Kenya Country Strategic Plan 2025 Outcome Monitoring (Access to and Consumption of Nutritious Foods Thematic Team Lead), SSA9, Nairobi

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

WFP Kenya Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2027 was approved in June 2023 and went live in July 2023.  In the CSP, WFP Kenya commits to measuring the performance of the programme. This includes laying a solid baseline, monitoring, and measuring progress in achieving the set outcomes and assessing achievements and results at mid-term and end. The CSP baseline has been done. The baseline provided a situational analysis, laying the foundation for Annual Outcome Monitoring (AOM).

The AOM will measure progress and performance of activities, providing concrete recommendations and lessons learned for programme improvement. The 2025 outcome monitoring is scheduled to begin in January through to July 2025 with data collection scheduled in March through April; same period the baseline data collection took place. Both the baseline and the 2025 outcome monitoring will feed into CSP mid-term review scheduled for late 2025/early 2026. The review will provide an evidence-based, independent assessment of the performance of the CSP so that WFP and its partners can adjust course as necessary for the remainder of the CSP period.

The 2025 outcome monitoring will cover the entire CSP hence all the CSP outcomes. With the planned implementation of Differentiated Assistance (DA) for refugees programming, the 2025 outcome monitoring will also form a strong foundation for measuring performance of the DA approach and for each of the beneficiary categories.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support the team leader in managing the OM work. Lead OM work on access to and consumption of nutritious foods thematic area. Contribute, by bringing expertise in Food and nutrition security  technical expertise in drafting and revising (as required) and finalizing the technical note that contains among others:

•  Detailed OM design, sampling methodology, and sample size calculations.

• Quality Assurance Plan

• Detailed work plan, including, timeline and activities.

• Bibliography of documents/secondary data sources utilized.

• Final data collection tools

• Data analysis plan

Contribute, by bringing expertise in Food and nutrition security  in developing a Power-point presentation on methodology, overall survey plan, timeline and activities and support presentation of this to WFP for discussion and inputs before field work begins. Lead in   planning for OM field work for CSP Outcome 1, ensuring data collection tools are tested and digitalized and enumerators are adequately trained. Conduct field work as per the OM work plan Support in ensuring adequate supervision of quantitative data collection at field level. Do and Support data cleaning and data analysis as per the data analysis plan.

Contribute to the final OM report by leading the drafting of ’access to and consumption of nutritious foods ‘’ thematic area, including a first draft, revise as required and a final report ensuring all required annexes to the final report are included in the report. The baseline report should be accompanied by the following;

• Summary of key informant interviews, focus group discussions including quotes from beneficiaries and partners, etc.

• Table of all standard and custom indicator baseline and OM values

• List of sampled sites

Contribute to the Preparation of a Power-point presentation of main findings and conclusions for de-briefing and dissemination purposes ensuring  access to and consumption of nutritious foods thematic area is fully included. Attend a debriefing session with stakeholders and support in presentation of the OM findings.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• With a clear methodology and timelines to execute the TOR while ensuring the thematic area is fully covered.

• Final baseline report with ‘access to and consumption of nutritious foods ‘ thematic area fully included

• Summary of  key informant interviews, focus group discussions including quotes from KII’s/FGD’s, etc.

• Table of all standard and custom indicators with final values

• List of sampled sites

• All data including final analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

At least a master’s degree in social sciences or Education, Statistics, measurements, nutrition.

Experience:

• Senior researcher with at least 15 years’ experience in evaluations.

• Demonstrated expertise in managing multidisciplinary and mixed quantitative and qualitative method studies, complemented with good understanding of food security, humanitarian and development programming, capacity strengthening, nutrition, transition etc

Knowledge & Skills:

• Expertise in designing baseline methodology and data collection tools and demonstrated experience in similar work. 

• Leadership and communication skills, including a track record of excellent writing and presentation skills.

Languages:

English

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