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Name of Tender: Resilience Assessment Study for ‘Recovery in Sudan for Improved Nutrition and Growth (RISING) III’
Tender Number CRS-RFP-KRT-176.2023
Deadline Submission date: 16/March.. /2023 – 12 :00 PM Please submit your bid to this email only. tenders.sudan@crs.org
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اسم العطاء: خدمات استشارية في مجال (دراسة تقييم المرونة لـ "التعافي في السودان من أجل تحسين التغذية والنمو)
رقم العطاء: CRS-RFP-KRT-176.2023
تاريخ انتهاء التقديم: 16/ مارس / 2023 – 12:00 بعد الظهر
الرجاء ارسال عرضكم فقط على العنوان tenders.sudan@crs.org
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Dear Sir / Madam, CRS Sudan is looking for Consultants to provide the items/services shown in Attachment 1 at a competitive price and with high quality.
General Requirements 1. Must Be Registered to conduct the business and in compliance with federal governments tax regulations in Susan. 2. Experience supplying International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, or large private companies will be an advantage. 4. CRS retains the right to reject, cancel, negotiate, amend, split and accept any offer, without consideration of the lowest offer. 5. This is an invitation to vendors and is not a promise or obligation that CRS will contract with suppliers through the submitted offers. 6. Relevant bid committee may request for physical samples of some items during evaluation process of bids. |
سيدي / سيدتي العزيز(ة) هيئة الإغاثة الكاثوليكية برامج السودان تبحث عن شركات من المهتمين بتوفير المواد/ الخدمات المشار إليها أدناه في الملحق رقم 1 بأسعار منافسة وبجودة عالية. متطلبات عامة: 1 . يجب أن يكون مسجلا لإجراء الأعمال التجارية مع ما يتوافق ولوائح الضرائب الحكومية في السودان . 3 . الخبرة في تزويد المنظمات الدولية، المنظمات الغير حكومية، أو الشركات الكبيرة الخاصة ستكون ميزة. 4 . تحتفظ هيئة الاغاثة الكاثوليكية بالحق في رفض، إلغاء، التفاوض، تعديل، تجزئة وقبول أي عرض، دون النظر الى أدنى عرض. . 5. هذه دعوة للموردين وليس وعد أو التزام من هيئة الإغاثة الكاثوليكية للتعاقد مع الموردين من خلال العروض المقدمة 6. قد تقوم لجنة الإحالة المعنية بطلب نماذج عينية لبعض المواد اثناء عملية تقييم العروض. |
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يجب تقديم ما يلي: يجب ان يتضمن التقديم ما يلي :
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معلومات ملء العطاء سوف يتم رفض أي عطاء لا يلتزم بالشروط أدناه بغض النظر عن السعر:
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Delivery Instructions: Complete and stamped and signed offer can be submitted by email to tenders.sudan@crs.org
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تعليمات التسليم: يجب تقديم العطاء الكامل والمختوم و الموقع عن طريق عنوان البريد الالكتروني tenders.sudan@crs.org
CRS-RFP-KRT-176.2023 وإلا سيتم استبعاد العطاء. يجب ان لا يتجاوز حجم المرفق 15 ميجابايت على ان لا تتجاوز السيرة الذاتية للشركة اكثر من 10 صفحات.
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Do you have partnerships with any other companies (such as shared management / staff / office / bank account)? Do you cooperate with any other companies in preparing offers or providing of goods or services? هل لديك شراكات مع أي من الشركات الأخرى ( مثل إدارة / الموظفين / المكتب حساب مشترك / البنك) ؟ هل تتعاون مع أي من الشركات الأخرى في إعداد العروض أو توفير السلع أو الخدمات؟ |
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If the answer for previous question is yes, please provide details here including the names of partner companies. إذا كان الجواب عن السؤال السابق نعم ، يرجى تقديم التفاصيل هنا بما في ذلك أسماء الشركات الشريكة |
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Statement of Work (SoW)
Resilience Assessment Study for
‘Recovery in Sudan for Improved Nutrition and Growth (RISING) III’
Catholic Relief Services
Sudan Country Program
- Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe and has since then expanded in size to reach more than 100 million poor and vulnerable people in 101 countries on five continents. CRS responds to major emergencies, fighting disease and poverty, and nurturing peaceful and just societies, through its deepened expertise in three signature program areas (SPAs) of emergency response & recovery, agriculture and health.
CRS’ Sudan program has been working in Sudan since 2004. Currently, it has projects focusing on relief assistance and emergency response, household and community resilience building, microfinance, health including nutrition and water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), agricultural value chains and natural resources management.
- Identifying a Resilience Assessment team.
CRS Sudan is seeking a consultancy team to carry out a Resilience Assessment for Sudan country program to support Recovery in Sudan for Improved Nutrition and Growth (RISING III). This assessment will be implemented in all five Darfur States (Central, East, North, South and West). The consultancy team/company will be sought through an open, competitive solicitation to identify a professional analytical team. The Lead team may be external to Sudan, or maybe from an international consultancy based in Sudan. If external, survey teams will work closely with a local survey team, including a lead analyst and enumerators.
- Background:
Building on the successful implementation of the USAID-funded RISING and RISING II projects, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), World Vision International (WVI), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and their local implementing partners are implementing a 12-month RISING III project to
- support the most vulnerable households in the Darfur states of Sudan, particularly those with malnourished women and children, through the 2022 hunger period,
- transition participants to resilience programming; and
- build governance capacity and hand over RISING social and economic assets to community administrators.
RISING III will continue to operate in communities targeted in RISING I and RISING II and will reach 59 communities in all the five Darfur states with interventions that will build resilience and sustainability of inputs, services, and assets. These communities were selected based on a range of factors including gender and people with disabilities, livelihoods affiliations (i.e., farmers, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralists), tribes/ethnicities, language groups (Arabic and non-Arabic), and stratifying factors such as marginalization, vulnerability, and disability.
The selection criteria includes: (1) localities where the consortium has existing presence and high local acceptance; (2) hydrological catchment studies by Acacia Water under Taadoud project; (3) stable, accessible and safe (4) communities that have willingness to participate and support the project’s graduation and transition approaches as undertaken and communicated by community leaders; and (5) high vulnerability levels. The project will focus on capacity development to improve the socio-economic governance of the assets that are already developed and completed under RISING II.
The critical assumption to successfully achieve the project’s goal and objectives are i) Sudan’s political context does not deteriorate further leading to increased insecurity and inaccessibility of project locations; ii) The context of COVID-19 will remain in its current state, allowing COVID-sensitive implementation; iii) Private sector partners remain engaged; iv) Relevant government ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) will continue to grant timely approvals to project locations/target communities; v) Negative economic impacts such as hyperinflation and currency devaluation are managed; vi) Global developments including increase in food, fuel and fertilizer prices related to the war in Ukraine will not cause a significant and overwhelming increase in humanitarian needs beyond the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) 2023 projected levels.
RISING III will continue interventions to consolidate activities and reach a tipping point toward resilience, sustainability and participant transition. The project will support a systematic handover of agents and interventions to communities that will continue to contribute to community resilience after the project closes. This will include facilitating linkages of community action groups with relevant government departments so that they can continue to implement and manage NRM, DRR and peace building initiatives and projects at community level. A cross fertilization workshop with stakeholders has been planned to support this process. Successful SILC field agents will be graduated to Private Service Providers to continue providing technical support to the SILC groups within their location. Conflict management activities will be handed over to Community Based Conflict Management Committees and community activities related to management of natural resources, disaster risk reduction and early warning systems will be handed over to community action groups. The project prioritized support for a sustainable transition of agents and interventions that mitigate the impact of shocks, prevent erosion of household assets, and accelerate recovery for vulnerable returnee and resident households in 59 communities. Activities will continue to leverage the livelihoods, nutrition, and conflict mitigation components of the project, building on the complementary approaches of RISING.
The three strategic objectives (Purposes) of RISING III are; i) Communities have inclusive institutions and governance of natural resources, II) Livelihoods of food insecure people are improved, and iii) Households have improved consumption of nutritious foods.
RISING III employs tailored interventions designed to help households move from crisis to recovery and sustainably situate those processes in community structures. Based on CRS and partner global experience in transformational programming, all activities, including the most critical life-saving interventions, will engage community members to promote local ownership and continuation of practices after the project ends (see Annex 15 for Graduation Pathways from Programming). RISING III will continue to engage communities to establish a foundation of local ownership for sustainability. This holistic, community-based approach will promote transition from humanitarian response to recovery and sustainable practices.
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Resilience – Resilience is the ability of people, households, communities, countries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth. Resilience programming can serve as a connection between humanitarian response and long-term development assistance, addressing the vulnerabilities that make people susceptible to recurrent shocks and stresses. While all of BHA’s work contributes to resilience, the resilience programs described in the ER4 framework refer to those programs and activities that focus on transformative change. |
- Resilience Assessment objective:
The Resilience Assessment will complement and build on the RISING II final evaluation conducted by TANGO International in 2021. This assessment will combine new thinking from the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Early Recovery, Risk Reduction and Resilience (ER4) framework and CRS’s Measuring indicators for Resilience Analysis, (MIRA); to assess the types of shocks and stressors that individuals and communities have been exposed to at target locations and how individuals and communities have built skills, structures and enterprises to cope with shocks to their systems at the community level.
The consultancy team will devise survey instruments based on a combination of indicators to generate questions for HH surveys and checklists together with open-ended questionnaire for focus groups discussions that build on the previous TANGO studies. The consultants will also generate new questions to fill any gaps, using survey approaches from other sources such as MIRA and other BHA Resilience Assessments.
The survey will provide new information and insights to the CRS implementing team and BHA, that will update existing information on the development of resilience and recovery skills for HH’s in Darfur. Emphasis should be placed on how HH’s and communities have developed early warning and disaster risk reduction plans to prepare for and adjust to recurrent shocks. The survey should also explore how new skills and livelihoods strategies, such as social cohesion building through community action groups, financial skills through savings and loans, and innovation skills used in agricultural farming methods for enhanced yields, and new natural resources management skills and value added Agro-entrepreneurship value chains in Darfur have contributed to their resilience skills and coping strategies. The resilience assessment should also probe to understand more about skills that are missing that HH’s and communities need to improve their ability to adapt to and cope with the type of levels of shocks.
The overall purpose of the resilience survey is to determine the impact of CRS’s approaches on HH and community level resilience with a resilience assessment of the RISING project.
- Specific structure of the analysis
The Resilience Assessment will establish the current status of HH’s and communities, with specific interest also to the vulnerable population such as the disabled, elderly, women heading HH in terms of their exposure to specific shocks and stressors and conduct an assessment of how they have engaged new methods and skills to cope and build resilience. The assessment will place specific emphasis on areas such as community planning, livelihoods, diets, climate, natural resources and conflict. The survey approach will determine the vulnerability of target communities, leading threats to vulnerability, key coping strategies employed by HH’s, how the context affected dietary diversity, and provide a reference point for assessing changes and impact during the interventions of RISING, RISING II and RISING III.
The survey will also gather information on root causes of shocks and provide trend information on the inherent complexity of vulnerability of target populations to livelihood options so that project interventions are guided by critical analysis of social, economic, environmental, governance and factors surrounding capacity to respond to shocks in Darfur. The assessment will provide data on the existence and capacity of local level enterprises, assess how these SME’s provide mutual partnerships between business partners and value chain development of locally available products and assess any gaps in capacity gaps that facilitates resilience.
The Resilience assessment should include the following aspects:-
Context (registration)
- Location of HH’s
- Registration into data system
- Access to services: Markets, schools, health facilities, agricultural extension
- Housing structures and types of energy sources,
- Access to asset transfers from Government, INGO, other (crop and livestock based)
- Access to training to build livelihood and resilience skills
Livelihoods
- Sources of income
- Financial services
- Crop production
- Livestock
- Group participation
- Assets
Shock Exposure
- Types of shock: What are the key types of shock affecting target HH’s / communities in the selected States. The shocks including
- covariate shocks such as conflict, drought, floods, price volatility, inflation and widespread outbreaks of specific pests and disease, versus
- idiosyncratic shocks such as illness or death in the family, localized pest and disease outbreaks, loss or death of livestock, theft, loss of access to assistance.
- Shock impacts: including loss of assistance, loss of income, access to food, access to shelter and migration, loss of access to services
- Shock response: How did the HH respond to the shock.
Coping Strategies
- Main coping strategies: adjustments in food types, intake and allocations within HH’s
- Asset changes: income, access to food, water,
- Sufficiency: did HH’s get enough food, water, access to land to plant etc,
- Migration: in response to conflict, HH’s moved, short, or long term
Dietary Diversity
- Meals: types and number of meals within the HH
- Types of food products: food types by categories
- Sources of food: farm, market, transfers
Climate and NRM
- Water: Seasonal sources, distance, quality, price
- Climate change: changes in weather by season, climate preparedness, forests, farmland and livestock pastures,
- Climate information: access to weather information, alerts in case of shock.
- Risk of Drought: monitoring in place, impact, response plans
- Risk of Flooding: monitoring in place, impact, response plans
- Risk assessments and plans: HH and community risk assessments in place, DRR plans developed.
Conflict
- Events: last conflict
- Risk of conflict: Is there monitoring in place, to assess risks of impending conflict
- Impact of conflict: severity, means of mitigation, skills building in conflict resolution
- Response: means of responding to conflict, short term, migration, mitigation.
Specific lines of inquiry for the Resilience assessment
Project level questions that Resilience Assessment needs to answer are as follows:
- Review the strategic, managerial and operational aspects of RISING II’s prime (CRS) and consortium partners. This will include i) Structure, focus, efficiency, and effectiveness of administration, needs assessment and criteria for allocation of funds. For Instance, there are three (3) strategic objectives associated with the project – should the scope shift?
- How are the current conflict dynamics in Darfur impacting the ability to effectively implement the program
- To date, CRS has been funded on a yearly basis. Is this the right approach for resilience programming or should interventions be longer-term?
- Not all targeted beneficiaries will have reached a target level of maturity under RISING II. Was the definition of “community maturation” too broad contributing to the low reach?
Have some of the targets been too ambitious for a short-term project?
Specific data that highlights trends in shocks and resilience
- What were the main types of shocks by location?
- How have shocks changed over the years?
- What types of training were provided and # of participants? And how were these aligned with the types of shocks experienced by the community?
- Was the programming appropriate to address the experienced shocks? Did the training change in reflection to the shock situation?
- Which coping strategies were used by households to deal with the shocks?
- How did they evolve over the RISING II programming period, and how do they differ across the program areas?
- How has food security changed in the targeted communities since the start of the RISING II program?
- How did households’ shock exposure affect their food security? Which types of shocks had a negative impact?
- How did Agricultural activities affect food security in the targeted communities? How could it be improved to be more responsive to targeted communities’ needs and preferences?
- Was the M&E strategy and approach adequate for evaluating the targets and progress of the program?
Food Security and dietary diversity
- How has food security changed in the targeted communities since the start of the RISING II program?
- How did households’ shock exposure affect their food security? Which types of shocks had a negative impact?
- How did Agricultural activities affect food security in the targeted communities? How could it be improved to be more responsive to targeted communities’ needs and preferences?
- Was the M&E strategy and approach adequate for evaluating the targets and progress of the program?
Resilience/Recovery capacities
- Did households’ resilience capacity help them recover from shocks?
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- Which dimensions of resilience capacity: absorptive, adaptive and/or transformative capacity?
- Which specific capacities developed from RISING II (e.g., bonding social capital, access to financial resources) strengthened their resilience?
- Did exposure to RISING II interventions help households recover from the shocks they faced over the programming period and help place them in a position to transition from emergency assistance to longer-term recovery programs?
- How do sustainability and maturity look like for the various states?
- Inception report with detailed methodology.
- Survey tools and timelines
- Define survey calendars e.g., dates for surveys across the different locations.
- Overview of resilience capacities in Darfur to inform CRS and USAID based on existing literature and data including previous qualitative data on resilience capacities.
- Comparison data points for trend analysis.
- Train enumerators and implement survey
- Share results to CRS RISING III and communities.
- Final report shared with USAID Sudan Mission. Final report to provide key findings, in-depth analysis to inform future program design and current program implementation in Darfur and provide a model for examining resilience in relation to programming elsewhere in the country.
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1st payment: After inception report submission with provision of survey tools and calendar. |
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30% upon receiving inception report and sharing of survey instruments and survey plans |
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2nd payment: After completing data collection and initial analysis report |
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20% upon completion of data collection and submission of draft report. |
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3rd payment: After completing initial survey data analysis, draft report submission and sharing of findings through reports and dashboard |
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30% upon submission of interim report and integration of data into a dashboard. |
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4th payment: After completing initial survey data analysis, draft report submission and sharing of draft report’s findings |
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20% upon submission of endline survey and trends analysis for resilience over the survey period. |
- Reference Materials
- TANGO methods and questionnaires
- MIRA implementation strategies and questionnaires
- Training guides for community enumerators.
- Relevant degree(s) in social sciences or development studies, statistics.
- Strong knowledge and skills of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and sampling strategies and practical experience of managing wide scale surveys with multiple and different indicators.
- Practical experience (preferably at a leading role) in developing quantitative and qualitative study/survey design, conducting surveys and statistical analysis and development of high caliber reports based on program indicators in food security and livelihood programs.
- Working experience (preferable at a leading position) of designing, implementing and guiding evaluation surveys of food security, health, nutrition and income saving. Preferably, working experience in designing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation system for resilience and development programs.
- Knowledge and expertise in international food security programming, Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) and Natural resource management
- Excellent communication and written skills in English and Arabic (an advantage)
- Capacity-building and training experience