“Piloting an Inclusive Health Approach to Improve Quality and Equity in Access to Eye Care Services for Women and Men with Disabilities in Kogi State, Nigeria”
Anticipated Timeframes: 97 days between December 2020 and April 2022
Location: Kogi State, Nigeria
Sightsavers is seeking an experienced in-country Evaluation Consultant with a working knowledge of the theory and application of developmental evaluation and adaptive management together with a good understanding of eye health or the health system in Nigeria and matters related to disability inclusion at global and local levels.
Sightsavers is supporting the Kogi State Government to implement a comprehensive eye care programme that aims to strengthen the local eye health system and improve access to eye care in the project areas. The project will reduce avoidable visual impairment and improve population eye health through developing sustainable locally owned systems for prevention and treatment of common eye conditions. This is an ‘innovation’ project as defined under the Disability Inclusive Development (DID) programme and Sightsavers intend to undertake a ‘scale’ project upon completion, based on the evidence generated.
This consultant will
· assess the contribution of the interventions in providing equitable access to, and quality of eye health services for women and men with disabilities; and
· determine which and to what extent these interventions could be scaled up.
The methodology must be participatory, inclusive of OPDs and project stakeholders in the capturing of learnings and analysis of results. The learning and evaluation process will ensure adequate reflection on progress against outcomes to enable adaptive management.
Background
The Disability Inclusive Development Programme is a £29,247,582 programme funded by UK Aid. The programme commenced on 19 July 2018 and will run for six years until 16 July 2024. The programme’s goal is to improve the long-term well-being and inclusion of persons with disabilities in low and middle-income countries (including conflict and humanitarian settings), through equitable access to quality health services and health outcomes, equitable access to quality education and educational attainment, and equitable access to jobs/self-employment and improved livelihoods. Interventions also aim to address stigma and discrimination and generate evidence on what works to deliver results for persons with disabilities.
Required skills and expertise of the bidder
An in-country evaluation consultant will be procured to undertake the evaluation through an expression of interest process. For consistency purposes, one principal evaluator with support staff, if required, is preferred as the evaluator will be embedded within the project team and will work on the project throughout its duration. Assurances will be required from the selected consultant that the principal evaluator will be available to work on the project for its entire duration.
Full details of the project, Scope of Work, Outputs/ Deliverables and budgets can be found within the attached Terms of Reference (ToR)**
We anticipate that interviews will be held on 27 November, 2 December 2020 and 4 December 2020 agreement signed during December 2020.
Expressions of interest should only be made using the forms provided. **
How to apply
To express your interest to undertake this assignment, please read the complete ToR, complete our Expression of Interest (EoI) and Budget Template which can be found via the application link https://jobs.sightsavers.org/job/evaluation-consultancy/ by 15 November 2020.
Interested bidders are also requested to attach an example of previous similar work.
