Consultancy for JOA Mid-Term Evaluation

Request for Offer (RFO) for Consultancy for JOA Mid-Term Evaluation Ref. FRT-LHC-48864

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GOAL is an international NGO that has been working in Sierra Leone since 1999. In collaboration with the government and local community as a partner, GOAL implements Health, Urban WASH, Food Security, Livelihoods and Climate change adaptation programmes. The four programming areas that GOAL Global concentrates on are People Survive Crisis, People Have Resilient Health, People Have Food and Nutrition Security, and People Have Sustainable Livelihoods. Both contexts of protracted crises and long-term development involve these actions. People Survive Crisis, People Have Resilient Health, People Have Food and Nutrition Security and People Have Sustainable Livelihoods are the Global Four thematic focus, and GOAL SL is contributing to three of these.

GOAL SL is implementing a blue economy program (contributing to GOAL Global Objective: People have food and nutrition security) with a focus on vulnerable small-scale fishing communities or groups in urban areas. The intervention uses a systems approach to strengthen the sustainable utilization of ocean resources for economic development. In 2024, GOAL Sierra Leone acquired funding from the Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA) for a four-year project in Communities of Western Area Rural and Kambia district respectively. The project based in Western Area Rural & Kambia Districts addresses the overall aim of limiting the impact of climate change on food security and biodiversity damage, while building community resilience to climate change and improving nutrition, food security and economic livelihoods.

The project is designed to be community led and take a gender-sensitive and youth-centred approach, ensuring that gaps, needs, barriers, and opportunities are identified for women, youth, and vulnerable communities through their direct participation in the project’s activities. This approach builds on the existing capacities, knowledge, and resources, drawing on local and indigenous knowledge wherever possible. The project is being implemented in partnership with The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL), the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, District Councils, and Sierra Leone Artisanal Fishers Union in coastal communities within the Western Area Rural and Kambia Districts.

The project delivery target is to increase food and nutrition security and income for coastal communities dependent on small-scale fisheries, access to finance, livelihood diversification and to increase the resilience of these communities and improve mangrove restoration and conservation practices among the many activities.

The goal of the JOA program

is to build the resilience of communities to climate-related shocks & stresses by: Conservation of the environment on which livelihoods are dependent through the protection and restoration of mangroves; and Enhancing access to finance and financial inclusion.

Objectives

Objective 1: Increased Food & Nutrition Security for Actors across the value chain

• Outcome 1: Improved functioning, productivity, and conservation practices of the small-scale fisheries sub-sector in selected communities.
• Outcome 2: Increased food and nutrition security for communities dependent on the fisheries subsector.

Objective 2: Improved management, conservation and restoration of Mangrove ecosystem

• Outcome 3: Number of hectares of mangroves actively protected/ conserved by community-level stakeholders through this project.
• Outcome 4: Conservation Practices

Objective 3: Ensuring access to finance for actors within the fisheries value chain and other marginalised groups

• Outcome 4.1: Percentage of target actors in the fisheries value chain who reported having increased income as a result of the provided assistance by this project.
• Outcome 4.2: Number of target women/marginalized groups in the value chain who reported having increased access to finance schemes.
• Outcome 5: Number of people from vulnerable groups (with special difficulties or economically vulnerable persons) who had increased access to micro-finance schemes or saving and credit cooperatives as a result of project interventions.

Objective 4: Improve the economic resilience of coastal communities through sustainable economic diversification by providing alternative sustainable income and employment opportunities.

• Outcome 6: Number of people (disaggregated by age and sex) from the target communities engaged through sustainable livelihood alternative businesses and/or entrepreneurial activities as a result of project interventions. Households Income

How to Apply

Offers must be delivered in the following way:

• By email to RFO@sl.goal.ie and in the subject field state: FRT-LHC-48864-JOA Mid-Term Evaluation Name of your company with the title of the attachment Number of emails that are sent e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3. (Proof of sending does not equal proof of receipt. GOAL is not responsible for any technical faults that may prevent reception of your email.)
• All documents submitted must be in scan or PDF format. Any excel or word documents must be accompanied by a PDF or scan version of the document. Links to share drives will not be accepted unless it is necessary due to file size. All documents submitted via links to shared drive must not be modified after the closing date and time for the receipt of offers (timestamp must clearly indicate that they haven’t been modified). Documents submitted via links to a shared drive that have been modified after the closing date and time will not be accepted.
• OR Physical submissions delivered to: Procurement team 6 The Maize, Off King Street Freetown between the hours 9:00am to 16:00pm from Monday to Thursday and 9:00am – 14:00pm on Friday as per the timelines given above. The offer envelope must be labelled with your company name and the reference Request for Offer ref. FRT-LHC-48864-JOA Mid-Term Evaluation

Important: Offers transmitted in any other manner or offers received after the deadline date and time will not be considered.