Job Description

Background
Oxfam is a global movement of people who believe in fighting the injustices and all forms of poverty. Driven by the motto ‘together, we fight inequality to end poverty and injustice, the organisation believes in helping people build better lives for themselves through speaking out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change, and “we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty”. In Zimbabwe, Oxfam work to reduce poverty, inequality and suffering amongst the poor and marginalised by tackling the root causes of poverty in the country, reducing marginalization, and helping Zimbabweans enjoy their rights so that they can lead a dignified life. This is achieved through working with other international organizations and other actors throughout society to help contribute to a stronger civil society in Zimbabwe. Our work recognizes the importance of collective responsibility and is part of a broad process which supports and sustains citizen empowerment and national development.
Oxfam’s work in Southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular is structured into 3 broad pillars that are interlocked and related.
1. Humanitarian Response
To work with partners to respond to humanitarian crises, helping to reduce the risks faced by vulnerable households and to improve their ability to recover after a crisis has struck
2. Just Economies
To help small-holder farmers, especially women and youths in program regions, to have the capacity to manage risks and to achieve food security
3. Gender justice
To enable women to claim their rights to leadership and economic empowerment as well as their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Oxfam in Southern Africa (SAF) continues to respond to humanitarian crises. Over the last few years, Oxfam in SAF has successfully responded to humanitarian crises such as Cyclones Idai, Anna and Freddy in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique as well as Cholera, drought and water and sanitation crises. Through the Zimbabwe Cyclone Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP), Oxfam was able to address the immediate WASH challenges as well as build community resilience to absorb future shocks in the cyclone and flood prone district of Chipinge in eastern Zimbabwe. The March 2019 cyclone left a glaring and visible impact on the Water and sanitation (WASH) infrastructure in Chipinge district at households and institutional level. The economic impact of Cyclone Idai meant that affected communities had to struggle to rebuild their lost infrastructure and as well scavenge to boost their income sources. Due to prioritization of sources of livelihood, WASH activities were generally neglected. Covid 19 and the subsequent droughts further affected the recovery effort leaving communities in dire need of assistance to improve WASH services and combat any spread of WASH related diseases and risks. In 2020, Oxfam received a grant for the Zimbabwe Idai Recovery project (ZIRP) from World bank through UNICEF to rebuild WASH infrastructure in Chipinge Rural District. The project aimed to lay a recovery groundwork while also building community resilience through the ‘building back better concept’. The project has greatly contributed to improved access to water and sanitation through the development of solar powered piped water schemes, rehabilitation of boreholes, protection of springs, construction of institutional and household latrines, improved hygiene practices and community disaster risk management.
Comparable to many districts in Zimbabwe, Chipinge district’s water supply is fragile and unreliable. Constant breakdown often leads to communities resorting to unsafe water sources such as dams, rivers and unprotected shallow wells. Boreholes, the main sources of clean water in most rural areas are far and wide apart resulting in communities travelling long distances to fetch water, more than 5km, translating to more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Rural health centres and local schools are also faced with the same challenges, hiring of casual labour to fetch water for the institutions was a common practise. At household level, girls and women face the double burden of travelling long distances, several times a day to meet the domestic household water needs and doing domestic chores. Lack of access to adequate and clean water supply compromises hygiene practises such as hand washing and general hygiene such as bathing, laundry and washing dishes, chores that require a lot of constant water supply.
Impact Evaluation
The Impact Evaluation will assist to unpack how the response has been employing the Rights, Resilience Response (RRR), Valuing Women’s Work (VWW) and Climate Justice strategies in its programming and how this integration can be improved in future programming.
The impact evaluation is intended to address the following learning questions – Learning questions of the evaluation are prone to changes or refinement depending on the design workshop results (see deliverables below):
1. To what extent have Oxfam’s actions in Chipinge influence the Cyclone Idai mitigation, recovery and longer-term resilience in Chipinge district, with regards to;
▪ Reduced water insecurity?
▪ Reduced time spent and burden of gathering water, especially for women and children?
▪ Led to adoption of hygiene enabling facilities?
▪ Strengthened local disaster management systems and improving community resilience against hazards such as cyclones and flooding?
2. To what extent did Oxfam in Zimbabwe contribute to these changes, particularly as part of its ZIRP program?
3. To what extent has the impact achieved likely to continue and be sustained, what are the noticeable gaps?
4. How impact achieved as per the ToC contributed to addressing existing inequalities in relation to gender justice, disabilities, and vulnerable group’s ability to access WASH services such sanitation and clean and safe water?

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work
Oxfam is recruiting a national consultant to co-lead in the impact evaluation of the ZIRP project in Chipinge. The consultant will work alongside the Impact Evaluation Working Group (with members from Oxfam in Zimbabwe and Oxfam GB) in carrying out the assignment. The role of the consultant is to work collaboratively with Oxfam personnel throughout the impact evaluation process, and the scope includes evaluation design, theory of change, formulation of data collection tools and sampling strategies as well as lead all aspects of data collection, analysis and report writing. The impact evaluation will provide an independent assessment by generating primary data to evaluate Oxfam’s work in Chipinge district, its achievements, strengths, and weaknesses within the defined timeframe aligned with the evaluation questions.
Scope of work summary;
1. Evaluation design-Together with Oxfam officers, participate in the design workshop with Chipinge stakeholders.
2. Rework and finalize on the Theory of Change (TOC)
3. Design a data collection and analysis plan
4. Data collection and analysis including recruiting and training of data collectors.
5. Produce a detailed evaluation report
6. Consultant will validate the results through sense making process.
Methodology
Oxfam IE team and the chosen consultant will agree on the appropriate evaluation methodology for this impact evaluation study.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications
The Consultant should have at least the following qualification:
▪ The applicant (lead consultant) must be an individual or an institution holding the necessary legal status to work in Zimbabwe.
▪ Academic qualification for the lead consultant: in a relevant field such as a WASH related discipline and/or social sciences
▪ Demonstrated experience, particularly in research, baseline study, Outcome survey, evaluation and impact assessment.
▪ Experience in utilizing feminist MEAL principles and practices.
▪ Demonstrated experience in conducting similar studies in Zimbabwe.
▪ In addition, one co-researcher must have gender expertise and one person must have research experienced
▪ Demonstrated experience conducting multi-stakeholder evaluations or reviews in the development or not-for-profit sector
▪ Good communication and relationship building skills
▪ Demonstrated experience in using the relevant tools and digital platforms such as SurveyCTO and conducting data analysis using software such as STATA /SPSS / Excel / NVivo or others.
▪ Ability to facilitate and relate to stakeholders at multiple levels and in diverse contexts.
▪ Ability to co-facilitate workshops on data analysis and sense-making.
The consultant/firm must submit the following documents along with the Technical & Financial Proposal separately:
For consultancy Firm:
▪ Maximum 2-page Firm profile highlighting related assignment completed with client name, contract person and contact number
▪ 2-page CVs for key people highlighting related assignment completed and their proposed roles in this study.
▪ Tax clearance certificate
For individual consultant:
▪ Maximum 2-page profile highlighting related assignment completed with client name, contract person and contact number along with detailed CV
▪ Tax clearance certificate
Payment and budget
• The interested consultant is expected to provide a budget for the exercise, Oxfam will consider proposals that are within the approved rates as per its policy on professional fees.
• A contract will be signed by the consultant upon commencement of the evaluation which will detail additional terms and conditions of service, aspects on inputs and deliverables.
• The consultant will be paid in two instalments: 60% of consultant fees at contract signing and 40% after submission of all deliverables.

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