Closing date: 05 Feb 2020
Final Evaluation Terms of Reference
Program title :Developing Equitable Agricultural Production and Market Systems for Resilient Economic Development in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
Donor :Sweden
Partner organizations
Implementing Partners:
· Agricultural Development Association (PARC),
· Economic and Social Development Center (ESDC),
· Palestinian Livestock Development Center (PLDC),
· the Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS),
· MA’AN Development Center (MA’AN).
Level of efforts Partners:
· Bethlehem University’s Institute for Community Partnership (ICP)
· Palestinian Trade Center (PalTrade),
· Palestinian Farmers’ Union (PFU)
· Palestine for Development (PSFD)
Geographical coverage: West Bank and Gaza.
Inception phase: 1/11/2015 to 30/06/2016
Implementation phase: 1/07/2016 to 30/11/2019
Program budget :SEK 91 million
1.Program Background
The overall objective of this program is to contribute to resilient and equitable agricultural growth from which small-scale women and men producers will benefit in the oPt. The specific objective is to increase the wellbeing and income of women and men engaged in small-scale agriculture in vulnerable communities through improved agricultural and market systems in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
Through the Theory of Change, the program aims to catalyze and establish better functioning market services led by the private sector in collaboration with the public sector. The approach establishes extension and training services and new business models, based on a strong small-scale producers (SSP) supply base. The program contributes to developing more equitable agricultural production and more resilient market systems for SSPs in the oPt, which leads to an increase in production, quality, profitability, and competitiveness of fresh- and processed fruits and vegetables. In addition, the program advocates for more enabling and inclusive policy and planning frameworks. Oxfam, furthermore, will continue to raise awareness of the Government of Israel (GoI) violations of IHL and IHRL affecting the agricultural sector in the oPt.
1.Purpose of the Evaluation and Specific objectives
OXFAM and partners have for many years applied a Market System Development (MSD) approach in its support to strengthen markets in West Bank & Gaza Strip. Given the de-development context in OPT on top of the protracted crises, specially, in the Gaza Strip; OXFAM initiated a hybrid approach mixing MSD facilitative approach with smart subsidies/ delivery to further incentivize market actors and share the risks of investing in a fragile context in addition to ensure targeted business resilience and buy-in for the newly introduced models. OXFAM expects to apply the hybrid MSD approach to broader program areas and to use it more widely in the future.
The purpose of this evaluation is to conduct an external final review of the program funded by Sweden: ‘Developing Equitable Agricultural Production and Market Systems for Resilient Economic Development in the occupied Palestinian Territory’, and to support Sweden, OXFAM and partners to review program implementation and achieved results, as well as provide concrete recommendations for future programming.
This evaluation has two purposes: (1) back looking to review the implementation process and assess the programme’s impact and sustainability; (2) forward looking to document and generate lessons learnt and recommendations on how OXFAM may create favourable conditions for systems approaches and adaptive programming contributing to the improvement of its future MSD/ hybrid MSD programming
This evaluation is expected to assess and document the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of this program, on the basis of a market systems development approach. It is expected that the evaluation will enable Oxfam and implementing partners to review program progress and performance against planned outputs and outcomes, identify program achievements, challenges, opportunities, and document lessons learnt and recommendations to guide the overall management and implementation of the future interventions within this program during the remaining period.
The evaluation shall specifically seek to achieve the following:
To assess the extent to which the program objectives have been achieved.
To assess the level of achievement of the program against its expected results (indicators),
To assess the extent of integration of key cross-cutting issues including gender equality, conflict sensitivity and advocacy (influencing) in program design and implementation.
To assess the implementation approach (market system development approach) and how effectively the MSD/hybrid approach is adapted and utilized in program design and implementation.
To assess the program’s value for money and on the realization or potential realization of systemic change at market system level.
To assess the achievements of the different intervention strategies, the associated exit strategies, and the of sustainability of these interventions and of effecting market system changes.
To assess the effectiveness of the developed market development strategies per targeted outcome and output as outlined in the Program Document.
To assess key internal and external factors (positive and negative) that contributed to, affected or impeded program progress.
To assess the design, planning, implementation, and management of the program for Oxfam and its partners.
To assess the degree to which the observed changes can be attributed to the program.
To assess how the programme adjusted and responded based on the MTR recommendations for the remaining period of the programme.
To identify and document key lessons learnt and good practice, providing short-term and long-term recommendations for the future programming.
How to apply:
A detailed description of the assignment, services required by Oxfam and conditions of participating in this bidding is contained in the RFQ dossier and can be downloaded from the following link:
The deadline for submission of bids is February 5, 2020 upon conditions in the RFQ dossier.
Responses (Offers) shall be sent only to (procurement.ramallah@oxfam.org)
Offer shall be sent in 2 separate files - PDF format - (one for Technical Offer and one for Price Offer)
Oxfam does not bind itself to award the tender to the lowest offer and reserves the right to accept the whole or part of the tender.
We look forward to receiving a proposal from you and thank you for your interest in our account.