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Date Posted: Tuesday, November 02, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

1. Background and Context
Transparency International Rwanda (TI-Rw) is a Rwandan Civil Society Organization created in 2004 and registered as a non-governmental organization in accordance to the law no 04/2012 of 17/02/2012 governing the organization and functioning of the national non-governmental organizations. TI-RW’s mission is to contribute to the fight against corruption and promote good governance through enhancing integrity in the Rwandan society.

TI-Rw implements different projects aiming at promotion of citizens’ awareness to their rights and conduct evidence-based advocacy initiatives at local and national level. It’s in this framework that TI-Rw, since 2017 is implementing a project aimed at engaging citizens to have a voice in the process of planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the performance contracts “IMIHIGO”. In Rwanda, Imihigo is a mean of planning to accelerate the progress towards economic development and poverty reduction.

Agricultural development is key to food security and poverty reduction. The increase in agriculture production accounted for about 45 percent of the reduction in poverty, which has decreased by 14 percentage points over the last decade.

Underlying sustainable economic development in the agriculture sector in Rwanda are performance-based contracts called IMIHIGO. The Imihigo have a strong focus on results, which makes it an invaluable tool in the planning, accountability, monitoring, and evaluation processes. To turn farmers’ priorities into planned Imihigo into the reality, the entire Imihigo process should be accompanied by quick and operative service delivery process that assures accountability of local Government, feedback to citizens, and participation of citizens.

In that context, after TI-Rwanda secured funds to implement a project aimed at “Strengthening Farmers’ Participation in IMIHIGO Planning and Budgeting through Social Accountability Tools in Rwandan Agriculture sector, in order to contribute to overcome the observed gaps in Imihigo cycle, TI-Rw will contribute to address the low participation of farmers in policy planning, monitoring, and evaluation of local and national agricultural development plans using social accountability mechanisms in order to increase the quantity and quality of farmers’ involvement in the planning and evaluation process of the district performance contracts known as “IMIHIGO”.

It is a project, TI-Rwanda implements in partnership with other two local CSOs namely IMBARAGA which leads the implementation of activities in Burera District whereas CCOAIB implements project activities Rubavu and Kamonyi districts.

The Project’s direct beneficiaries include 12, 434 farmers, members of partnering organizations CCOAIB and IMBARAGA, represented in three districts as follow: Rubavu (6043), Burera (5182), and Kamonyi (1209). The Project’s indirect beneficiaries are 1,080,618 citizens individuals living in Burera, Rubavu, and Kamonyi districts (336,455& 403, 662 and 340,501) respectively, which is a scale-up of the similar project that was successfully implemented in districts KAYONZA and NYANZA .

In order to achieve the project’s objectives, 4 main strategies have been defined and termed as components:

Component 1: Enhancing farmer’s meaningful participation in planning and evaluation of agricultural development plans in Rubavu, Burera, and Kamonyi districts

Component 2: Strengthening the cooperation between CSOs, Government, and farmers for ensuring effective agricultural projects

Component 3: Fostering social accountability mechanisms that can smoothen farmers’ participation in decision making from the low level in the small farmers groups up to the district and national level.

Component 4: Increasing cooperation and partnership among CSO to enhance citizen participation.

1. Objectives of the assignment
This study intends to evaluate the extent to which Imihigo process cycle can be attributed to District performance contracts’ effectiveness and significance and what could be an improved application to achieve outcome-based performance.

It will provide qualitative assessment of IMIHIGO process’ effectiveness and its performance particularly on priorities considered in agriculture sector.

Specifically, this study will seek to achieve the following objectives:
• Evaluate the quality of District Performance contracts at all levels of formulation, implementation, and evaluation in three Districts
• Evaluate the level of Imihigo performance in terms of outcome-based achievements in fiscal year 2019 -2020
• To assess socio-economic development of Direct and indirect beneficiaries from District Performance contracts’ agriculture priorities in three Districts
• Evaluate the significant relationship between performance contract and socioeconomic development outcome to beneficiaries in three Districts.
• Highlighting the challenges and factors hindering the achievement of IMIHIGO effectiveness
• Evaluate the significant relationship between IMIHIGO Process and its outcome.
• Propose an adequate framework to modernize IMIHIGO process cycle to achieve outcome-based performance.

2. Methodology and process
The study will involve the use of mixed methods of research, including desk reviews, key informant interviews, observation, and focus group discussions (FGDs). The study will be qualitative, combining descriptive and relationship designs. It is descriptive as the researcher gives description of Imihigo structure in RUBAVU, BURERA, and KAMONYI Districts. It also describes the socio-economic indicators which are observed as outcome of Imihigo Performance. This study also is correlative as it intends to analyse the relationship between performance contract and socio-economic development in three Districts. It should provide also the details on how data will be collected from targeted respondents, how data analysis will be conducted, including data entry techniques and tools to be used in the process.

The survey will be conducted in the project area of intervention in RUBAVU, BURERA and KAMONYI Districts and will target Key respondents from both males and females.

The consultant is encouraged to demonstrate how s/he would use research tools and techniques in data collection, which may include but not limited to observation, in -depth interview, key informant interviews, focus group discussion and desk review etc. The consultant is required to produce a detailed research methodology and data collection tools for both primary and secondary data.

3. Scope of the study
The consultancy consists of conducting a case study in each of the three districts of intervention, on the effectiveness of IMIHIGO process formulation, planning, monitoring and evaluation by studying a number of projects prioritized in agriculture sector in fiscal year 2019-2020.

The consultant is requested to select a representative sample of projects to study in each district as well as respondents and propose research approach for the task.

This study will take place in three phases: (I) an inception phase with the aim of designing the study methodology and specific research questions, and (II) a data collection phase, which incorporates field research, analysis, and initial report writing and (III) the reporting phase, which includes the final writing of the study and the presentation.

This study will involve the service of the lead consultant who oversees the whole study process and reporting on all deliverables, there also will be an associate researcher who will mostly work on field research and coordinate three other desk review assistants in charge of data collection on Imihigo in agriculture sector in three districts. The associate researcher will support the lead consultant in conducting the assessment of IMIHIGO and organizing qualitative assessment.

This is a consortium consultancy offer, where the applicant is requested to include a CV of Associate Researcher in his or her technical and financial proposals, with relevant research and education background.

4. Deliverable and Outcomes
The specific tasks under the consultancy will include:
• Inception report with final and agreed upon methodology, work plan, and timeline
• Train and supervise three desk review research-assistants for effective collection of data on Imihigo in the agriculture sector in 3 districts.
• Summary of the synthesized report on the desk review and bibliography •
• Draft case study report (Identification of the problems found in the case)
• Final case study report incorporating comments from key stakeholders
• Preparation of PowerPoint presentation and participation in final case study findings dissemination

Approved content of final report must include but not limited to:
• Foreword and acknowledgement (0n behalf of TI-Rw)
• Executive summary
• A detailed methodology approach used for data collection and analysis;
• Study findings and interpretation of data
• Conclusion and recommendations;
• Annex: Research Tools (Both English and Kinyarwanda versions) and raw data.

All reports will be submitted in English, in both hard and soft formats, in addition to summary of the report in Kinyarwanda.

5. Duration
The successful consultant will start this assignment as soon as possible following the completion of the recruitment process and signing the contract thereof. The duration of the assignment is expected to be no more than 60 working days from the signature of the contract while the associate research will be hired for 30 working days.

6. Responsibility
The individual consultant will be under the supervision of the TI-Rwanda Program Manager and will report to the Executive Director of TI-Rwanda.

7. Qualifications and competences of the consultant
The Individual consultant must have the following qualifications:
• PhD or Master’s degree in Rural Development Studies, agriculture, economic development, Sociology of development, demography, statistician and other social sciences related to the task
• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in conducting research in agriculture, rural development, citizens participation; Experience in Imihigo work (research, monitoring) will be a plus.
• Strong research skills and experience in both qualitative and quantitative surveys
• Strong research skills and experience in designing questionnaire and survey related tools;
• Excellent command of English and outstanding written;
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, and reporting skills;
• Three proof of former conducted research assignment is required
• Having a strong understanding of the process of IMIHIGO Planning, Monitoring, and evaluation in Rwanda. (This will be an added value)

8. Remuneration and other considerations
The assignment requires in-country presence and dedicated work with milestone-based terms and the payment is subject to the completion of each milestone:
• Inception Report and its validation report: 30% of Payment
• Finding Draft Report:40% of Payment
• Finding Final report:30% of Payment

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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Job application procedure

Interested candidates are requested to strictly follow the detailed terms of reference and submit the technical (includes methodology approach and operational plan) and financial (includes consultancy fees, questionnaire development cost, data collection cost, data processing and reporting cost etc.) proposals and letter of application and CV not later than 15th November 2021 at 4h30 pm.

The dossiers should be deposited at physical address of Transparency International Rwanda, in two envelopes (technical and Financial), sealed in one outer envelope bearing the candidate address and clearly marked “Expression of Interest: Consultancy_FCDO’s Project_Baseline”at Transparency International Rwanda’s Head Office located at Kisimenti Village, KN 3RDSt, Remera Sector, GASABO District, KIGALI City, Rwanda.

For any further information or clarification, please contact us on info@tirwanda.org or tel. +250788309563 and ask to talk to: Mr. Kalimunda Jean Pierre, FCDO’s Project Coordinator.

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