Background of Oxfam in Uganda
Oxfam is a global movement for change that empowers people to create a secure future, just and free from poverty. We believe everyone has a right to safety, security, a livelihood, and a say in decisions that affect them. We seek a world in which everyone can speak up to power, demand and claim their human rights, and build a better future for themselves. We recognize that we cannot achieve this on our own but as a collective power. Therefore, we work in partnership with local and grass-roots organizations, civil society, individuals, volunteers, the private sector, and the Government.
Our Vision is Uganda free of inequality and Injustice: A society where people, particularly women and young people, claim and exercise their rights and responsibilities and influence decisions that affect their lives. Our work is guided by the Country Strategic Framework (CSF) (2021-2030), which is organized around four themes: Governance and Accountability, Resilient Livelihoods, Humanitarian preparedness and response, and Gender Justice and Women’s Rights. All the themes work towards influencing policy and practice, youth and women empowerment, inclusive participation in decision-making at various levels, and capacity strengthening of national and local actors.
About the Resilience, inclusiveness, sustainability, and Empowerment of communities in Karamoja (RISE-K) Project
RISE-K is part of the multi country 5-year (2023-2027) project under Ireland’s Civil Society Partnership (ICSP) programme implemented in 7 countries. (Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Sudan Somalia-Somali-land, DRC and Uganda). In Uganda the interventions is implemented in the Karamoja sub-region, in the districts of Moroto, Amudat and Nakapiripirit, primarily targeting women, youth and other vulnerable people. Women living in extreme poverty, women smallholders Agro-pastoralists, women with disabilities (WWD), women artisan miners and widows are targeted across the different interventions. In addition, youth out of school, especially boys and girls working in the mining and pastoralism in both rural and peri-urban are a key target of the project's interventions. Women and youth are the primary target group because of their confounding needs and vulnerabilities. Women in Karamoja are the furthest behind, suffering from extreme poverty, with limited access, control and use of productive resources and facing food insecurity, water scarcity, landlessness, scarcity of energy resources, limited knowledge and access to information.
Project Goal
An Empowered, inclusive, just and resilient community in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda
Project Outcome Areas
Impact 1: Food and Income Security. People experiencing poverty and most vulnerable to shocks, conflicts and crises have sustainable and equitable access to food and livelihoods
Impact 2: Rights, Accountability, and Protection. People experiencing poverty and most vulnerable to shocks, conflicts and crises are able to claim and access their rights to well-being, peace and security without fear.
Impact 3: Enhanced Humanitarian Action and Local Leadership. Systems and structures that prevent and respond to shocks, conflict and crises are inclusive, locally-driven and informed by the needs, rights, and vulnerabilities of those furthest behind.
In addition, as part of the implementation approach, the project has an inter-related impact area connected to the other 3 impact areas, integrating a nexus approach across all programming and systems to address short- and long-term needs looking at Humanitarian Development and Peace (HDP).
Impact 4: Integrating a Nexus Approach in programmes and systems. People experiencing poverty, conflict and most vulnerable to shocks are better served by a nexus approach to humanitarian response, development and peacebuilding.
Project Implementation
The ‘Resilience, Inclusiveness, Stability and Empowerment of Communities in Karamoja (RISE-K)’ is implemented by Oxfam together with Resource Rights Africa (RRA), Center for Budget and Tax Policy (CBTP), National Association of Women of Uganda (NAWOU), CARITAS Moroto, and The Uganda Apiculture Development Organization (TUNADO) to deliver interventions focusing on governance and accountability for effective service delivery, promotion of women’s rights, enhanced local capacity for effective people-centered, climate and conflict -sensitive, gender-responsive and inclusive disaster preparedness and response and improved income and food security.
The project is an integrated project in which the different components complement each other as a way of implementing a one programme approach which is here referred to as nexus programming
Justification for Data Analysis
In order to strengthen the monitoring and tracking of the projects progress towards the achievement of the intended results, the project committed to annual data collection and analysis to continuously inform the reporting and provide accurate status of the project. This approach allows the project to check on the different approaches and processes undertaken to deliver the interventions and cause any mercenary review where things are not working out, other than waiting for the midterm or end of the project evaluation. Considering that the first year of the project implementation was only done in three month, This exercise could not be done. Therefore, the project intends this to be done in this second year of the project implementation and it has been planned to happen in the month of November 2024.
Purpose and Objectives of the assignment
3.1. Purpose:
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical analysis and interpretation of the data collected from the project and update the Results Based Framework to provide a clear understanding of the status of the project in terms of achieving its intended results.
Specific Objectives of the Assignment:
- To clean and sort the data collected from the project.
- To analysis and interpret the data to provide evidence of achievement or non-achievement of the intended results.
- To provide an update to the project’s Result Based Frame (RBF) based on the findings of the analysis against the set targets for 2024
Scope of Work:
Technical scope: The consultant will do desk review of the project documents (Proposal and the RBF) to understand the project in order to aid in the analysis and interpretation of the raw data collected. Will provide technical analysis and interpretation of all the data sets collected from the field by the Oxfam team and shared with him.
Time scope: The assignment will be done within 25 working days starting from 25th November to 28th December 2024 and the report shared with Oxfam
Methodology
The consultant is expected to clearly explain how the assignment will be conducted. The methods should be sensitive to the target population (unit of analysis). The method should be able to analysis both qualitative and quantitative data.
Outputs/Deliverables of the Assignment
- Inception Report
- Clean Data sets
- Draft Analysis report shared with Oxfam for comments
- Updated Result Base framework
- Final Report
Timeframe and estimated working days
The assignment will be undertaken from 25th November to 28th December, lasting a total of 25th working days from the date of signing the contract.
Qualification and experience of the consultant/team
- 5-10 years-experience as a data analyst preferably with a degree in a relevant field
- A post graduate diploma in M&E.
- Experience in analysing Multi sectoral interventions
- Experience in data collection, entry, management and analysis for both qualitative and quantitative surveys.
- Ability to write a concise and well-written analytical research report on the results of the survey in English.
- Ability to work on the Results Based Framework
Supervision/management of the assignment
The study shall be technically supervised and coordinated by Programme Quality and Learning Coordinator with support from the RISE-K Project Coordinator. The consultant shall report to the PQL Coordinator who directs the exercise in terms of information requirements, backstopping and corrective actions during the Assignment.
Payment
The consultant will be paid in accordance with Oxfam consulting policy which stipulates 20% upon submission and approval of the inception report and 80% upon successful completion and acceptance of the final products. The professional fee shall be subject to a 6 % withholding Tax deduction.
Submission of Technical and Financial Proposal:
Interested and qualified consultants and submit their technical and financial proposals, in printed hard copies. CV of consultant should be included in the technical proposal. All applications should be sent to, Ugandalogistics@oxfam.org and the deadline for submission is 7th November 2024.