Background

The Cambodia Community Based Adaptation Programme (CCBAP), funded by Sweden has an overall objective of improving community based adaptation and climate resilience in vulnerable communities in flood/drought prone provinces of Cambodia. The CCBAP started on 10 December 2010 and will end on 31 March 2015 with a total budget of US$ 4,774,228.8. The CCBAP has three main outputs: (1) improved necessary capacity within local NGOs, CBOs and local communities to implement community adaptation measures; (2) mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change at commune level; and (3) lessons learned and good practices documented and shared to influence changes of policy and programme development. The CCBAP is being implemented under the existing established UNDP/GEF/SGP implementation infrastructure.

Since the launch of the programme in January 2011, 71 LNGOs / CBOs have been funded by CCBAP to implement adaptation measures in 428 villages, 113 communes, 59 districts and 21 provinces of Cambodia. The projects of LNGOs / CBOs aimed to increase adaptive capacity of rural poor communities in locations by providing them access to water to improve agricultural yields, to productive assets such as finance, quality seeds, and animals, by improving agricultural techniques of rural communities, by raising awareness of rural communities and local authorities on climate change, its impacts, and adaptation measures, and by working with all concerned stakeholders to integrate adaptation measures into commune development plans to ensure sustainability.

CCBAP-funded projects which are LNGOs/CBOs have been working closely with key stakeholders such as the water user group, saving group, seed banks, Community Fisheries, Community Forestry, commune councils, Provincial department of water resources (PDOWRAM), Provincial Department of Agriculture (PDA) and the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD).

The baseline data of Impact Assessment (IA) was already collected by CCBAP’s project partners and completely data entry. In following the process of (IA), end-line IA exercise is being processes to use the same methodology and approach in order to compare the results before and after the CCBAP provided grants to project partners. 

The objectives of this assessment are to assess the impact of programme achievement, and to draw lessons learnt on i) water resource management, (ii) resilience agriculture techniques; (iii) livelihood improvements; and (iv) capacity building on climate change to community through qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities

The main objectives of the assignment are as follows:

  • Design and administer a household survey targeting approximately 315 households during the course of the project implementation and conduct Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with 21 groups in order define impact of program by comparing before and after intervention;
  • Conduct analytical and illustrate the differentiate between baseline and ending data;
  • Carry out data entry in an agreed data entry format (preferred SPSS) after the survey;
  • Analytical narrative of the achieved outputs level in terms of behavior change or resilience improvement within the communities
  • To identify lessons and good practices for 4 themes with potential for replication of adaptive measures;
  • To define impact of program intervention to gender regarding climate change based adaptation;
  • Present key finding to SGP-CCBAP-UNDP Management team and donor;
  • Lead and facilitate at least two times of workshop with key stakeholders to ensure quality of report;
  • Review key finding report of the first impact assessment which developed by SGP/CCBAP;
  • Produce quality impact assessment report in English;
  • Train project partner staff on survey methodology for two days.

The consultant will collect data both quantitative and qualitative methods

Quantitative data:

  • Household Survey: The consultant team will lead the process of household survey data collection from target communities of 21 project partners which will be around 315 HHs where the project had implemented.  The consultant will develop the questionnaires to covers all indicators as stated below.

Qualitative Data:

  • Focus Group Discussions (FGD): The consultant team will develop checklist/scorecard for the FGDs will be held with project beneficiaries of project partners to obtain qualitative responses and data of relevance with respect to the scope and requirements of the assessment. At least 21  FGDs with maximum 10-15 persons per FGD will be conducted with project stakeholders, including local authorities, water user groups (WUG), Saving Group, and rice bank group,  The FGD participants will be organized mix male and female to help ensure participation and minimize the scope for domination during FGD;
  • The detailed and final methodology and workplan shall be worked out in close consultation with CCBAP team.  SGP/CCBAP team will work closely with the consultant to facilitate the process, including providing relevant documents related to the CCBAP for desk review, identified stakeholders and sources of information, assisting in organizing meetings with stakeholders, assisting in arranging field visit and identifying key issues that it is a necessary during the assignment period and assisting to resolve these whenever possible. However, the consultant will be fully independent and will retain enough flexibility to determine the best approach to collecting and analyzing data for the assessment. SGP/CCBAP will coordinate with project partner to assist consultant in collecting data both qualitative and quantitative;
  • The senior specialist consultant and specialist consultant of Impact Assessment will work together (Detail tasks are provided in the ToR).

Competencies

Functional/Technical Competencies:

  • Strong technical background and proven competency in environmental management, water resources management, climate change adaptation, rural development, rural economic analysis or related areas;
  • Excellent evaluation and assessment skills, including capacity to produce high quality and constructive reports;
  • Excellence in writing assessment reports with constructive and practical recommendations;
  • Demonstrated analytical skills, ability to assess complex situations, to succinctly and clearly distill critical issues, and to draw practical conclusions;
  • Demonstrated ability to work with developing country government agencies and NGOs;
  • Ability to meet short deadlines;
  • Excellent interpersonal, coordination and planning skills. Sense of diplomacy and tact;
  • Ability and willingness to travel to province and remote areas;
  • Computer literate (MS Office package and SPSS/Stata).

Corporate Competencies:

  • Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
  • Exerts strict adherence to corporate rules, regulations and procedures;
  • Familiarity with the internal control framework and results-based management tools is a must;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Advanced university degree (at least Master or equivalent) major in water resources management, development studies, economic, environmental science, agriculture science, or other related areas.

Experience:

  • At least 10 years working experience in the areas of research study, impact assessment, and evaluation with working experience on climate change, water resources management, agriculture in Cambodia is an advantage;
  • Experience leading multi-disciplinary, multi-national teams.

Language:

  • Fluent in English both written and spoken.

Important note:

Interested offeror is strongly advised to read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=18028  for more detail about term of references, instructions to offeror, and documents to be included when submitting offer.

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