Final Evaluation Consultant - Tdh Lebanon

1-Objective of the evaluation

The objective of this final evaluation is to provide an independent external analysis of the project funded by the Swiss cooperation (SDC) and implemented by Tdh in Lebanon.

The objectives are:

• Accountability towards project’ actors: the evaluation purpose is to evaluate the perceived effect of Tdh’s intervention in two southern governorates of Lebanon - Tyre and Saida as well as in Beirut and Mount Lebanon from the perspective of different stakeholders: children and members of the community, administrative staff of the CBOs, Tdh’s psychosocial staff, Tdh’s management,and non-public service providers involved with the community.
• Learning for potential next phase of the project: the evaluation aims at identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in achieving the child protection projects objectives. In order to identify lessons learned and give recommendations and feedback for the future operation of the CBOs as well as for the future involvement of Tdh. Through this evaluation, Tdh aims at fostering learning and ensuring that good practices and lessons learned are analyzed and incorporated in future programming.

2. Scope of the evaluation

The evaluation will cover the entire period of the project – 1^st July 2018 to 30 July 2019 – and all the geographical areas of intervention – Saida,Tyre, Beirut and Mount Lebanon in Lebanon.

All the projects’ components should be included in the evaluation scope. However a particular focus on the Capacity Building of local partners will be required and a comparison with the previous approach of selecting partners and building their capacity.

3. Intended users of the evaluation

The intended audience of the evaluation is, among others, Tdh staff in the field and as organization , its partners, its donor (SDC) as well as all the key actors involved in the project such as CPN representative, CBOs management staff and/or any other relevant stakeholders.

4. Evaluation criteria and questions

The evaluator/team of evaluators is/are requested to answer a list of questions based on the DAC/OCDE criteria for evaluating humanitarian/development assistance^[8] (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact, Project Design Improvement) and on Terre des hommes Project Cycle Management Guidelines. Those answers shall enable the evaluator/team of evaluators to generate critical analyses, evidence-based, on the impact of the activities implemented by Tdh.

Addressing the evaluation objectives will require that the evaluator provide answers to the following specific questions:

EFFECTIVENESS

1. To what extent have the project’s objectives been reached?
2. Are the projects activities adequate to realize the objectives?
3. Do the provided services meet the needs of the population and more specifically address the Capacity Building needs of the local actors ?
4. Do certain priorities, especially in terms of Capacity Building, still persist despite the implementation of the projects?

RELEVANCE

1. Has the project aligned properly with the recommendations from the previous evaluation?
2. Should the next phase of the projects be changed to better reflect those needs and priorities?

SUSTAINABILITY

1. To what extent did the projects established processes and systems that are likely to support the continued implementation of the project?
2. Are the involved parties willing and able to continue the child protection projects’ activities on their own?

PROJECT DESIGN IMPROVEMENT

1. In what ways can the child protection system, children’s resilience, social cohesion be improved to better meet projects objectives?
2. In what ways can the delivery of the capacity building be improved to ensure that CBOs knowledge, skills and practice to run the project independently?