Consultant: Project Effectiveness Review Somalia
Ref: INT0828
Somalia experienced a major drought in 2011, prior to that population in South Central had experienced decades of conflict compounded with unpredictable poorly distributed rains leading to displacements and influx of IDPs in search of resources.
Somalia experienced a major drought in 2011, prior to that population in South Central had experienced decades of conflict compounded with unpredictable poorly distributed rains leading to displacements and influx of IDPs in search of resources.
The nutrition levels were also very
critical with GAM rates were above the emergency threshold of 15%. Generally
two thirds of the population do not have access to safe water and among
agro-pastoralists more than 80 % do not have access to safe water.
Access to health facilities is very
limited, with the rural areas of Juba almost lacking health facilities
altogether.
In general the transport
infrastructure is poorly developed with poor road networks. The project
primarily was aimed at providing support within the livelihood (food
insecurity, low economic activity, and farm inputs), health and water,
sanitation and hygiene sectors.
Due to conflict and intensified
insecurity, access to the anticipated project site was limited and therefore we
Oxfam adopted an innovative approach dubbed “Alternative ways of working
in hard to reach areas” .
This is entirely a community driven
approach that empowers community to identify their priority needs and projects
through participatory community focussed action planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation. This project targeted beneficiaries in 30 rural
villages (46,667 households) in Lower and Middle Juba
Overview: As part of Oxfam GB’s Global Performance Framework, the Project Effectiveness Review will rigorously assess the impact of this project on the people it supported. Impact will be evaluated particularly against Oxfam GB’s global indicator for livelihoods.
Overview: As part of Oxfam GB’s Global Performance Framework, the Project Effectiveness Review will rigorously assess the impact of this project on the people it supported. Impact will be evaluated particularly against Oxfam GB’s global indicator for livelihoods.
Data will be captured through the
administration of questionnaires, both to project beneficiaries and to
comparable non-beneficiaries (about 600-1000 in total).
The consultant will manage the field
work and data entry for the Project Effectiveness Review by training and
supervising teams of enumerators and data-entry personnel to ensure that data
collected and entered is of high quality.
Essential skills and qualifications
Essential skills and qualifications
- Relevant university degree (postgraduate
degree preferred).
- Knowledge and experience of working in rural
areas of Somalia, particularly in Lower and Middle Juba regions, with
strong understanding of agricultural activities in the area.
- Experience in administering household surveys,
preferably as a field supervisor or coordinator responsible for checking
the quality of work of enumerators.
- Exceptionally high level of attention to
detail in carrying out surveys and data entry.
- Strong management skills – able to organize
the work of teams of enumerators so as to complete the work on schedule
and to the required standard.
- Basic information technology skills.
- Command of relevant local languages
- (Desirable) Good working level in spoken
English.
Key Tasks
- Design a feasible sampling strategy in
collaboration with Oxfam and project partners (determine sampling frame)
- Identify valid comparison population
- Prepare a list of sampled intervention and
comparison households + list of replacement households in collaboration
with Oxfam and project partners
- Design the household questionnaire in English,
in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners
- Have the household questionnaire translated
into the local language by a professional translator
- Recruit field supervisors and enumerators
(number to be determined after consultation with the Oxfam team)
- Lead and organise a thorough in-house training
workshop for enumerator candidates and supervisors (including arranging
all logistics, such as finding venue, printing, stationary, etc.)
- Lead and organise at least one-day piloting
exercise with enumerators and supervisors (including arranging all
logistics, such as car rentals)
- Finalize the field work planning together with
the field supervisors
- Prepare a detailed budget + time schedule for
the actual data collection and data entry process, to be approved by Oxfam
- In collaboration with the supervisors,
carefully prepare the field work by visiting all beneficiary and
comparison cells prior to the field work, to 1) introduce the survey to
region/district/village officials as appropriate, 2) to make all required
appointments for interviews.
- Prepare all required field work logistics as
appropriate (printing out sufficient number of questionnaires, rent cars,
arrange accommodation if necessary, etc.). Each respective survey team
must stay together in the same accommodation for security reasons + to
enable evening discussions + review of the questionnaires.
- Manage the survey work in the field, ensuring
that the enumerators interview the correct respondents, surveys are
carried out to a high standard, and that targets for numbers of
respondents to be interviewed are met. The consultant is expected to be
present in the field throughout the data collection process, to supervise
the field work and to assure data quality.
- Supervisors should review the completed
questionnaires in detail at the end of each day of work, provide details
feedback to the enumerators, and send them back to the respondents to make
corrections if necessary.
- Consult the Oxfam head office advisor about
any problems which affect the selection of respondents for the survey or
the number of respondents to be interviewed.
- Manage the data-entry process. In order to
minimize data-entry errors, each questionnaire is to be entered twice by
different personnel, and both copies submitted to Oxfam. Oxfam staff will
compare the two entries for each questionnaire and will produce a list of
discrepancies, which must be checked against the original surveys. (A
data-entry interface can be provided by Oxfam if required.)
- Ensure that the data files are submitted
online (e.g. through DropBox) and burnt onto a CD and submitted to the
Nairobi Oxfam office on completion of the data-entry work.
- Write a brief report on the conduct of the
field work, including details any problems which were encountered and how
they were resolved, and any feedback which may be useful for future
surveys.
Please note that the consultant is
not expected to conduct data analysis.
Detailed Terms of Reference
Detailed Terms of Reference
How to Apply
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Closing Date: 19 September 2014
Consultancy:Topographical Survey of Lodwar Water and Sewerage Company Water Supply
Scheme
Ref: INT0825
Oxfam together with other 5 partners have been contracted by DFID to fast track the attainment of MDG goal on sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation under the WASH Results Program.
Oxfam together with other 5 partners have been contracted by DFID to fast track the attainment of MDG goal on sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation under the WASH Results Program.
This project focuses across the three
largest arid and semi arid Counties of Northern Kenya (Turkana, Marsabit and
Wajir) and at least three informal settlements (slums) of Nairobi (Dandora,
Kawangare and Mukuru).
Under this project,
Oxfam together with the SWIFT consortium partners, we intend to work closely
with County Governments and also water service providers in the design and
implementation of infrastructural works.
It is with these regards that Oxfam
is partnering with Turkana County Government towards supporting Lodwar Water
and Sewerage Company (LOWASCO) to improve access to water to the residents of
Lodwar town. Our target is to contribute to improving access and reliability of
water supply in Lodwar town.
In order to make informed infrastructure development/improvement decisions, water utility companies do require diverse information on an ongoing basis. A lot of this information need to be geographically referenced not only to stay up to date but also make use of modern design and management software for instance ArcGIS, AutoCAD, WaterCAD, Surfer, EPANET etc.
With geo-referenced water distribution network, the system can be simulated and analysed using these software.
In order to make informed infrastructure development/improvement decisions, water utility companies do require diverse information on an ongoing basis. A lot of this information need to be geographically referenced not only to stay up to date but also make use of modern design and management software for instance ArcGIS, AutoCAD, WaterCAD, Surfer, EPANET etc.
With geo-referenced water distribution network, the system can be simulated and analysed using these software.
In turn it can help trouble shoot
areas with low or pressure problems, areas that are least covered, service
levels in different supply zones, proximity to storage facilities and
subsequent effect, help in informing where to place zonal meters and thus
reducing the unaccounted for water etc.
This information also will help form the baseline database from which improvement decisions will be pegged upon. This will be helpful especially in phased improvement/development.
With the mapping of Individual connections (ICs) and other consumers (commercial and institutions), this can be integrated with the billing software at a later stage and hence improve the current billing system.
Overall this undertaking will enable all stakeholders better understand what infrastructure exists and its condition, demand needs, supply constraints and opportunities for improvement.
This information also will help form the baseline database from which improvement decisions will be pegged upon. This will be helpful especially in phased improvement/development.
With the mapping of Individual connections (ICs) and other consumers (commercial and institutions), this can be integrated with the billing software at a later stage and hence improve the current billing system.
Overall this undertaking will enable all stakeholders better understand what infrastructure exists and its condition, demand needs, supply constraints and opportunities for improvement.
LOWASCO Summary: Lodwar Water and Sanitation Company Ltd (LOWASCO)
is a corporate entity that was established in 2007 under the Companies Act, Cap
286 Laws of Kenya.
The core business of LOWASCO is the
provision of efficient and affordable water and sanitation services to the
residents of its area of jurisdiction as defined in the Service Provision
Agreement (SPA).
Currently:
- LOWASCO serves approximately 28,000 persons
though the population within the area of supply is 116,580 persons.
- The Company has 8 operational boreholes that
are located along River Turkwel, 7 No. Boreholes are electrically driven
while 1 No. Borehole is Solar powered.
- Production is on average 100,000m3/month.
- LOWASCO has 1,600m3 of storage capacity.
- The reticulation system has approximately
170km of pipeline ranging from 32mm to 200mm both GI and uPVC.
- The reticulation system is divided into two
zones and 8 sub-zones.
- It has 32 water kiosks and 4,700 Individual
Connections (ICs). Only 28 kiosks are functioning at the moment.
- LOWASCO serves both the commercial customers
and institutions besides the ICs.
Assignment
- To survey and produce a topographical map of
the LOWASCO water distribution network including the location of all
infrastructure i.e. BH, pipeline routes (size, class and lengths, road
crossings etc), storage facilities, water kiosks, air valves, gate valves,
washouts, boundary of supply zones, proposed pipe extensions and any other
assignment that will be agreed upon.
- Deliver the survey data in formats that Oxfam/LOWASCO
can be able to utilise (data should be opened preferably with Microsoft
office suite and other reliable open source applications).The map should
be multi layered.
- Oxfam/LOWASCO intend to map all individual
connections, this information should be also be mapped alongside the
information listed in No. 1 above.
- Deliver all data in both hardcopy and softcopy
(survey data, pipeline profiles and maps). This information has to be
validated in a workshop and approved by government.
Location: The
project area is Lodwar town in Turkana County.
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Reference
How to Apply
How to Apply
Use the following link to apply: http://bit.ly/1o12Fmw
Closing Date: 12 September 2014