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Terms of References of Evaluation of Humanitarian Action in North Darfur-Sudan 1 December 30, 2015
Republic of Sudan Ministry of Welfare and Social
Security Humanitarian Aid Commission-
HAC
Sudanese Red Crescent Society (IRCS)
Terms of Reference
Evaluation of Humanitarian Action: Child Survival in North Darfur in Sudan 2010-2015
Khartoum, December 2015
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Table of contents
Page
1. Context and Justification ............................................................................................................... 3
1.1. Context ......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2. Justification of the evaluation in North Darfur ........................................................................ 4
2. Purpose and Objectives of the evaluation ................................................................................ 5
2.1. Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ 5
2.2. Specifics objectives .................................................................................................................... 5
2.3. Expected Use of the evaluation ............................................................................................... 6
3. Scope of the Evaluation ................................................................................................................. 6
3.1. Thematic and geographic areas of the evaluation ................................................................ 6
4. Main Evaluation Questions............................................................................................................ 7
3. Methodology ...................................................................................................................................... 8
4. Roles and Responsibilities ............................................................................................................ 9
5. Timetable (grant chart) ................................................................................................................. 10
6. Team of evaluation and management arrangements ........................................................... 10
7. Deliverables/Outputs ..................................................................................................................... 10
8. Risk Management ........................................................................................................................... 13
9. Sources of information ................................................................................................................. 13
Contacts: .................................................................................................................................................. 14
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1. Context and Justification
1.1. Context
Sudan is one of the largest African country situated in northern Africa at the crossroads of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, having a total estimated 36.6 million inhabitants. Sudan have been one of the worst children’s emergencies in the world today: at least 3.2 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and hundred thousands are displaced. About 2.225 million people have been displaced in Darfur region alone, as a result of conflicts as of 2015. There is loss of full potential of one generation of the majority of the IDPs living in the camp for more than 10 years. In South Kordofan and Blue Nile States, the ongoing violence has resulted in 86,000 new displacements in Government controlled areas during 2015. Sudan is also facing 1,021,640 displacements of refugees (old refugee caseload and the new caseload from South Sudan) affected by conflicts in South Sudan, Central African Republic and Chad. According to the Multiple Indicators Clusters Survey (MICS) 2014 findings, despite progress made in the reduction of Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) from 104 in 2000-2006 to 68 deaths per one thousand life births in 2010-2014 and the increase in net attendance ratio to primary education from 68% in 2006 to 76.4% in 2014, the situation of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition remains high: 16.3% of children under-five years are suffering from global acute malnutrition, 38% are stunted. 29% of children under five years are affected by diarrhea; at least 1.5 million children (6-13 years) are out of school and only 33% of the population is using improved sanitations facilities. The incidence of household poverty was estimated at 45.6% in 2009, a new study is underway by the World Bank. Recent MICS 2014 findings have also revealed an unacceptable increased of under-five mortality in North Darfur from 69 deaths per thousand live births to 93 deaths per thousand live births during the last five years (refer to the graphs). The prevalence of wasting is very high in North Darfur in comparison to other states. The fragility of Sudan’s economy, due to the loss of 3/4 of fiscal oil revenue1 because of the shock of South Sudan’s secession in 2011, the persistent conflicts in Darfur and Kordofan since 2003, the international economic sanctions and the heavy debt burden (at least USD 45 billion) have reduced significantly effective capital investment of Government in social sectors. International aid represents the bulk of financial support to the increasing humanitarian needs in life saving, learning and protection of children in Sudan. UNICEF in partnerships and synergy with all UN agencies (WFP, UNHCR, IOM, UNFPA, UNOPS, etc.) and UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO), is in the front line of providing timely operational responses to the most vulnerable children through it decentralized 8 field offices and outpost staff present in 13 States, largest partnerships with CSOs and the prepositioning of supplies. About 1 billion of US Dollars is annually requested by Government & UN partners through the humanitarian strategic responses plan in Sudan mostly funded by bilateral donors, CERF and multi-lateral donors. During the recent year, there is a decrease of funding for humanitarian action in Sudan due to donor fatigue in funding the long term protracted crisis, the global financial challenge and the growing regional and global regional emergencies (Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, Lebanon, etc.,).
1 IMF, Sudan’s Country Report No. 14/364, Washington DC, December 2014
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1.2. Justification of the evaluation in North Darfur
North Darfur hosts the largest number of internally displaced person (IDPs). Darfur state is among the most severed states in terms of child mortality and morbidity especially malnutrition rates. The state has been a geographic target for many successful multisectoral collaborations supported by state authorities, donors, civil society and partners which is potential for generating solid evidence upon completion of this evaluation for learning and actions. This evaluation will be completed at the adequate opportunity of the operationalization of Sustained Developmental Goals (SDG 2030), the development of the new Government Reform Plan (the PRSP 2017-2021 in process) and five years sectoral strategic plans of Education, Health, Nutrition and WASH at federal and state levels for 2017-2021, the elaboration of the new United Nations Development Framework (UNDAF 2018-2022), the elaboration by four UN agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA and WFP) of their new strategic country of cooperation 2018-2022 and many donors five years strategic plan of assistance to Sudan (DFID, EU, etc.). The evaluation also would be used to inform Sudan Humanitarian Response strategy and Plan (HRP) for 2017/2018. The strategic (humanitarian) work plan for 2015 has already identified the strategic areas for WASH, Health and Nutrition sectors.
UNICEF’s specific interventions in North Darfur: In the North Darfur, UNICEF is providing a large technical and financial assistance for efficient and effective responses to the huge needs of displaced populations, vulnerable children and host communities working in close partnerships with State and Local Authorities, Community Leaders, WFP, IOM, UNOPS, UNHCR, WHO, OCHA, UNDP, UNAMID, NGOs, bilateral and multi-lateral donors, etc. UNICEF has a very important operational presence (a multi sectoral team of 26 staffs) based in El Fasher head by a P5 Chief of FO. UNICEF has pre-positioned many emergency supplies stocks in UNAMID compounds and Government warehouses for immediate rapid responses. UNICEF’s annual investment in North Darfur is about 5 million of USD funded by bilateral, multi-lateral donors and UNICEF’s Natcom. UNICEF’s is implementing multi sectors integrated programmatic interventions in North Darfur: In nutrition, ensuring the availability and access to functional 150 CMAM centres for the treatment of acute malnourished children (in 2015, 37,690 SAM children from 17 localities have been admitted and treated in North Darfur). In Health, support to the strengthening of EPI cold chain and the delivery of routine and campaign immunization in addressing outbreaks of measles and other diseases, strengthening health facilities (34% of 97) in provision of drugs commodities, ensuring the training of health workers and village health workers to implement community based integrated community case management of child illness and also the delivery of additional health services, to hard to reach IDPs through mobile clinics in Zamzam IDP camp, Elfasher Locality and Anhar in Abassi camp in Mellit locality. In WASH, UNICEF through its implementing partners continued supporting 422,650 IDPs (82%
of the target 517,000 people (180,950 men, 232,650 women, 103,400 children) in 2015 with
safe drinking water through the construction of new water sources, the rehabilitation of
dysfunctional sources, support to operation and maintenance of motorized schemes and water
trucking in the emergency affected hotspot areas. In addition, basic schools are provided with
safe water supply sources that benefited. In 2015, WASH sector partners have provided access
to safe drinking water supply to a total of 111,400 IDPs (50,130 female, 38,990 male, 22,280
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Children) through drilling of new boreholes, rehabilitation of dysfunctional schemes and
operation and maintenance supports. In preventing the high risk of diarrhea outbreak, in 2015,
UNICEF’s assistance has enabled the construction of 3,036 new latrines and the replacement of
damaged latrines (803 latrines were rehabilitated) in favor of displaced populations of North
Darfur. Moreover, with UNICEF support 591,475 people (50% women) over 100% of the target
(270,000) in the vulnerable areas were reached with hygiene promotion messages.
In Education, UNICEF supports the enrolment campaigns in communities and IDPs camps and
provide assistance in establishment of learning spaces, provision of learning materials and
uniforms to pupils, the training of teachers and strengthening school communities committees.
In Child Protection, UNICEF provides assistance to community in the establishment of Child
Friendly spaces (104 CFS in 2015) and provision of psychosocial services (PSS) which
benefited to 21,802 (including 11,833 girls) children affected by various armed conflict and who
displaced throughout the state including in Tawilla, Umbaru, Zamzam, Korma, Malleit, Saraf
Omra, Elseriaf and Kabkabiya. The PSS allowed children and their communities to cope with
the impact of displacement, mitigate the risks of violence, abuse and exploitation.
UNICEF assistance is useful in strengthening the humanitarian coordination at State and federal
level (UNICEF is lead coordinator of partnerships for Nutrition, Education, WASH, Child
Protection) and also in generating sound evidence for adequate planning and accountability.
The completion of an in-depth examination and analysis of the situation on the ground will
improve the knowledge of Government, Donors and partners about the limiting supply or
demand factors (limited availability or poor quality of services or challenging financial barriers or
weak enabling environment) that will be very useful in improving the humanitarian responses
and developing new adequate acceleration strategy that will inverse the curb of child mortality in
North Darfur in the view of improving child right of life saving.
2. Purpose and Objectives of the evaluation
2.1. Purpose
This independent evaluation will generate evidence-based judgment and explanations of the
merit or unmet needs and lessons learnt related to life savings of children from the multi sector
interventions implemented in North Darfur during 2010 to 2015.
The main purpose of the evaluation is learning of strengths/good practices and determinants
factors of shortfalls of expected results for adjustment and doing business differently.
2.2. Specifics objectives
The evaluation of humanitarian action in North Darfur will: 1. Measure the achievement of expected chain of results (outputs, outcomes and impacts)
of the implementation of the Annual Humanitarian Strategic Plans funded through emergency funds and implemented in North Darfur from 2010 to 2015;
2. Generate some explanations to the possible reasons for sustained increased under 5 mortality despite all efforts exhausted in the state.
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3. Assess how well humanitarian programmes address host community need in the same way they address humanitarian needs to the affected population?
4. Assess the institutional, financial, operational capacities for better coordination, planning, implementation, management and M&E of Humanitarian Action at national level, state, locality and community levels both from Government and UN Agencies (UNICEF);
5. Develop a theory of changes of the interventions implemented in North Darfur and identify the gaps;
6. Document good practices, challenges, bottlenecks and solutions applied to overcome these challenges and document lessons learned (what works for whom, what don’t works for whom and why);
7. Stimulate strategic debate and generate operational recommendations for the development of innovative and adequate strategies useful for the improvement of the humanitarian responses in Sudan.
2.3. Expected Use of the evaluation
The evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations will be used by Government, Donors, UN agencies/UNICEF, CSOs, State Authorities and Communities as key elements for enhancing the humanitarian strategies and investments for greater impact in Sudan. A national workshop will be organized by Humanitarian Aid Commission HAC involving key stakeholders of humanitarian action in Sudan in order to discuss findings, conclusions and recommendations and to agree on the adequate strategy and action plan for doing business differently for greater impact on life savings.
Evidence generated from this evaluation and lessons learned will be very informative for the prioritization of adequate durable strategies in addressing response gaps.
3. Scope of the Evaluation
3.1. Thematic and geographic areas of the evaluation
This evaluation will be considered as an ex-post outcomes and impact evaluation of the humanitarian action delivered by UNICEF and partners in addressing the needs of population affected by emergencies in North Darfur. What to evaluate The evaluation will focus on three thematic areas of Health, Nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in addressing the main question related to the effectiveness of humanitarian service delivery.. Evaluating the multi-sectoral responses in North Darfur will also include the analysis of conflicts effects, promotion of social cohesion and building resilience (empowerment of communities and families).
Evaluation criteria The evaluation will assess the universal criteria of OECD/DAC adapted for the particularity of evaluation of humanitarian action: i) relevance (appropriateness), ii) Effectiveness, iii) Efficiency/cost-effectiveness/value for money, iv) Coverage, v) impact and vi) connectedness and sustainability ( as it’s about protracted emergency ) of humanitarian responses in North Darfur.
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Geographic focus The evaluation of humanitarian action will focus on one state of Darfur at state level (North Darfur); at community level, the EHA will target six Localities including eight IDPs Camps and Host Communities: Localities of Elfashir, Kabkabia, Kutum, Mellit, Saraf Omra and Tawila. These localities are where majority of recurrent emergencies take place and common areas for protracted displacements , they are the most vulnerable localities across the state and they are the localities where the bulk of humanitarian assistance is taking place currently .Overall quantitative trend analysis of availability, access and use of health, food security, nutrition and WASH services will be performed for the whole state of Darfur and a focus of trend analysis will be made for those six localities and camps/host communities. Below table displays the numbers of population in need for humanitarian assistance in the above mentioned localities:
Locality
Population in need for humanitarian assistance
El Fashir 220,625
Kabkabia 155
Kutum 25,633
Mellit 11,066
Saraf Omra 34,362
Tawila 61,637
Total 353,478
4. Main Evaluation Questions
The evaluation questions will follow the OECD DAC Criteria:
Relevance/Appropriateness and Coverage :
1. Has the project answered to the priority needs of the most affected people??
Coordination
2. To what extend adequate programme coordination has been implemented among
various actors/sectors in order to avoid gaps or duplications?
Effectiveness
3. How expected results have been achieved through multisectoral interventions?
3.1 How effective have been multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance delivered to
affected communities.
3.2 What factors contributed to the success or failures of effective multi-sectoral
programme delivery - to what extend geographic convergence has been achieved?
Efficiency
4. To what extend UNICEF and other partners have adequate financial and operational
capacities of rapid delivery of services to affected population in compliance to UNICEF’s Core
Commitment to Children (CCC); what strategies and actions have been taken to ensure
resource mobilization for Darfur and Eastern Sudan?
o 4.1 To what extend actions taken are cost effective (best approach economically).
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o 4.2 What are the good practices/comparative advantages between the programming in
Darfur and Eastern Sudan?
Impact
5. What significant changes happened to children and communities - are the outcomes and
impacts of the interventions in Darfur achieved?
6. What are the determinants factors of deterioration of child indicator in North Darfur?
Sustainability
7. To what extent, the interventions and their impact on worst-off groups likely to continue
when support is withdrawn? Are inequities between best-off and worst-off groups likely to
increase, remain stable, or decrease when support is withdrawn?
3. Methodology
An inception report will be developed by the Consultant and will provide a detailed methodology
for the evaluation that will ensure the evidence of making solid judgment of merit of the project
using the seven criteria’s mentioned above. The evaluation will include a combination of
quantitative and qualitative methods. Targeted Population of the evaluation will be determined
by the consultant in consultation with UNCEF & HAC.
Key points of the methodology that will generate solid evidence of findings and
recommendations are as follow:
1- Desk review of key documents related to humanitarian interventions (analysis of SRP
document from 2010 to 2015), assessment of Annual Workplans of each partners, project
proposal, studies/reviews, project agreement documents (PCA), partner reports, donor
reports, annual reports, field monitoring reports).
2- Review and cost analysis of Financial data related to budget allocation, utilization by
outcomes and sector result area; an assessment of value for money – cost effectiveness
(unit cost of some key services delivery) will be performed including transactions cost of
administrative support and programme delivery, monitoring and evaluation.
3- Quantitative methods will be used to gather available statistics related to Outcomes and
Impact indicators from Household Surveys, Routine Statistics of Sector MIS (for example
routine data related to health services), Community village Data (CFCI data). Data of the
programme implementation related to Services Delivery (Supply and Cash), achieved
Outputs will be also populated (for example data series of food distributions during the last
five years). Trends Analysis will be completed in order to assess progress made vis-à-vis
base line indicators. Series of data for trend analysis exist.
Individual questionnaires for assessing the satisfaction of beneficiaries will be developed
and completed randomly on the ground in those six localities.
4- Qualitative methods of client satisfactory assessment will be completed through the primary
data collection – individual interview (as mentioned above) and focus group discussions with
key beneficiaries (adolescents, parents, service providers), communities and stakeholders in
order to generate evidence of opinion and perceptions regarding project effectiveness,
impact and sustainability;
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5- The quasi experiment method will be applied to this evaluation by using a comparison group
of one locality located out of the North Darfur area in order to assess differences of gap of
supply and demand of basic services and community empowerment for Health, Nutrition
and WASH in responding to question: what work for whom and what don’t work and why.
The selection of this locality (probably located in the East) will be done in logic and
consensual manner using adequate criteria’s that will reduce potential bias. This method will
enable to generate evidence of strategies/mechanisms and operational services delivery
that make difference on the situation of vulnerable children and communities between the
five localities covered by the humanitarian responses in North Darfur and the one locality
located in East of Sudan (non-conflict affected area).
Triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative data will be well performed with consideration
of participatory, gender and human rights responsive. Table in annex provides a summary of
key data sources of the evaluation questions.
4. Roles and Responsibilities
The Humanitarian Aid Commission will ensure the leadership and coordination of the completion, review, validation and dissemination workshop of the findings and recommendations of the assessment.
Regular meeting will be organized by HAC in order to obtain consensus and engage national stakeholders about the purpose and the intended use of the evaluation, discuss the inception report, facilitate field work and interviews with stakeholders and to discuss findings and recommendations and the elaboration of consequent actions.
The consultant will be managed directly by the Chief of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at UNICEF and working closely with the Chief of Emergency at UNICEF and the Humanitarian Planning Specialist at HAC.
UNICEF Roles and responsibilities:
Ensure technical guidance and supervision of the design and completion of the
evaluation in compliance to the high quality UN standard of evaluation benefiting of
oversight quality assurance from UNICEF RO/HQs
Support financially and operationally the evaluation process
Coordinate various evaluation steps with the government and other wider stakeholders
in collaboration with Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC)
HAC and relevant ministries:
Facilitate meeting with relevant governmental bodies and providing relevant
governmental programme data;
Facilitate access of the evaluators to the evaluation areas.
Monitor the progress of the evaluation process and coordinate
dissemination/implementation of findings and recommendations.
This evaluation will involve many stakeholders active in integrated multi sectors humanitarian
responses.
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5. Timetable
The effective duration of this evaluation will be around six months (February to July 2016) when
the evaluation team will be on board in Mid-February 2016. The preliminary draft report will be
presented in May 2016. The workshop of stakeholders for discussions of findings and
recommendations and the development of actions plan will take place in June 2016.
Activity (starting on 1st
December 2015)
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July
Review and validation of
Terms of Reference
X
Evaluators recruitment X
The inception phase of
evaluation
X X X
Inception report X
Field work X X
First draft of evaluation
report
X
Stakeholders
consultation on
preliminary finding and
feedback from
stakeholders
X
Final Draft of evaluation
report
X
Final Report shared and
Workshop of
stakeholders
X X
Final Quality Editing,
Printing and
Dissemination
X
The field work will be completed from March to April 2016 and the final approved report is
expected to be delivered in June 2016 in order to inform the Humanitarian Government-
Partners-Donors Plans/budgeting SRP 2017, Government-UNICEF Annual Work Plan 2017 and
the strategic formulation of the new cycle of country programme of cooperation Government-
UNICEF CPD 2018-2022.
6. Team composition and how to apply
Team composition/Individual requirements
It is estimated that the work will require a team of four individuals (one evaluation team leader
and three team members) to complete the overall assignment within the allotted time. The team
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leader must commit to 6 months - 126 working days (21 working day per month); the
team members must commit to 110 days of work. The work will be done remotely,
although travel to Sudan is required. Four individual contracts will be awarded. Applicants
must identify how they wish to be viewed with respect to team membership according to these
options:
a. Team only: As part of a four person team in which all persons are named in the response to
this invitation.
b. Individual: As an individual and not as part of a team. Persons opting to apply as individuals
are signalling they are willing to be matched with other team members by UNICEF.
Based on the inception report, an additional local team of enumerators, data entry and data
processing and a team of transcription of focus group discussions will be established in
partnership with the Central Bureau of Statistics in order to ensure high quality data collection
and analysis of individual questionnaires and focus group discussions.
Skills and Competencies Required
Following criteria will be applied for selecting evaluation team leader and team members. Local
team for field data collection will include mostly female enumerators in order to facilitate access
to women at community level.
Criteria for evaluation team leader (1)
Experience managing an evaluation of humanitarian action
Familiarity with Sudan context
High quality English writing skills
Good project management skills
Strong communication and negotiation skills
Flexibility- working under stress
Experience in multi-sector programming ( WASH, Health and Nutrition)
Criteria for selecting team members (3)
Experience in evaluation of humanitarian action and multi-sectoral approach and social
coherence
Familiarity with the context of Darfur and Eastern Sudan
Good quality English writing skills
Sociologist, Medical and/or Nutritionist, with relevant background on WASH, Health and
Nutrition programmes
Strong communication and negotiation skills
Flexibility- working under stress
Good data management skills
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How to apply
Individuals should send the following to Mr Arthur Adje Human Resources Manager at UNICEF
Sudan (email: [email protected]) and copy to Mr Robert Ndamobissi, Chief of Planning,
Monitoring & Evaluation at UNICEF Sudan (email: [email protected]); by 22nd of
January 2016 not later.
a. An email cover letter describing your interest and suitability for position. Please indicate the
position for which you are applying (either team leader or team member). Also indicate if you
are applying as an individual or with three others, in which case please include their names.
This email should include your proposed financial daily rate of fees and your
availability.
b. A completed United Nations Personal History Profile (P11). This form is available at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc. You may in addition also opt to include a
cv/resume in your own format.
c. For the position of team leader only please include a sample of your professional work. It
should demonstrate your analytic and writing skills, and should be based on an evaluation or
piece of research. It may be an evaluation report, a journal article etc. Make sure to indicate
your level of contribution to the sample.
Ethics and Confidentiality of data and information
The consultant should respect the confidentiality of all counterparts’ data as well as any country specific documents that will be produced throughout the consultancy process. The consultant can use the documents and the datasets only for the tasks related to these terms of reference. As Government is strictly requesting, Consultant and field data collection team will respect the local culture during the individual and focus group discussions. General conditions of management of consultation within UNICEF contract will be applied to the four consultants to be recruited by UNICEF.
7. Deliverables/Outputs
Evaluators will ensure delivering the following:
1. Inception evaluation report
2. Draft evaluation report of not more than 50 pages
3. Final evaluation report of no longer than 50 pages including a 4-5 pages executive
summary, main findings organized around the evaluation criteria’s, recommendations
and appropriate annexes.
4. Evaluation findings and recommendations presentation of no longer than 15 slides.
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Timeframe of Deliverables and payment Schedule
Key Deliverables Deadline Payment
1-Inception report and evaluation tools 28 Feb 2016 25%
2-Completion of Field Data collection/Client
satisfaction survey including collection of
series of routine data from State Line
Ministries on Health, Nutrition and WASH
30 April 2016
25%
3-Data processing completed,
First draft of comprehensive evaluation
report available for review/consultations and
comments
15 June 2016
25%
4- Workshop of Stakeholders organized;
Final revised and quality edited report
approved by UNICEF and HAC
15 July 2016 25%
8. Risk Management
The major operational risk applied to context of Sudan is the access constraint due to
unpredictable security situation; however, HAC has committed to ensure access to evaluation
areas as long as security situation is allowing which includes facilitating entry visas. From
evaluation prospective risks of selection and recall bias will be minimized using approporiate
tools, which should be selected by the consultant. Quality of data analysis will be cross-checked
by UNICEF and HAC.
9. Sources of information
Following are the existing and potential sources of information:
a) Existing Policies and Strategies
During the period 2010-2015, following policies and strategies have been elaborated:
Decree establishing the High Committee of Humanitarian Action;
Sector specific strategies: Sudan’s National Strategic Plan 2012-2016, Health Sector
strategy 2012-2016, Education Sector Strategy 2012-2016, WASH sector strategy
2012-2016;
Annual Strategic Response Plan for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Durable Solution Strategy for Darfur
b) Surveys
Sudan’s Household Survey (SHHS 2010) – outcome and impact indicators are
generated at State Level
Simple Spatial Sampling Methodology – multi sector survey (S3M 2013) generated at
Locality Level; a second S3M survey will be completed in 2016 for measuring progress
of outcomes and impact indicators at locality level
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MICS 2014 – outcomes and impact indicators are generated at State level
National Expenditure Survey 2009, National Expenditure Survey 2014-2015;
c) Existing evaluation
Global study on integrated humanitarian responses 2014
Evaluation of cluster coordination performance
Government-UNICEF Mid-Term Review of the Country Programme of cooperation
2013-2016
Government-UNFPA MTR
d) Humanitarian Need Overview – HNO 2013, 2014, 2015
e) Programme data/reviews
Quarterly Sector Progress Bulletin (Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, etc.
Annual Management Information Report of Education, Health
Donors Field Visit reports
Joint Field Visits Report in Blue Nile (HAC/UN agencies and Donors)
f) Annual reports/donor Report
g) Sector Bulletins
Contacts in Sudan (the team of Managers of the evaluation):
-Mr Robert Ndamobissi, Chief Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, UNICEF Sudan, email:[email protected]; skype: robndam2; mobile phone: +249912199117
-Mrs Munier Mohammed, Planning Specialist at the Government Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC); email: [email protected];
-Mr Imadeldin Abdelrahim, Program Director of Sudanese Red Crescent Society (IRCS), email address: [email protected]; mobile phone number: +249912158530;
-Mr Tarig Mekkawi, Nutrition Officer at UNICEF Sudan; email: [email protected].