Consultancy - Project Baseline Survey

This role is a Consultancy focused on conducting a comprehensive Project Baseline Survey for Johanniter International. The survey will be implemented in two target communities (Host and refugee) across the Kalobeyei and Lopur Wards in Turkana West Sub-County, Kenya. The primary objective is to establish baseline data for the project, focusing on agricultural value chains, capacity development, and analyzing cross-cutting issues.

Scope of Work

The baseline survey will specifically be expected to undertake the following tasks:

1. Identify Opportunities and Challenges: Identify and describe opportunities and challenges affecting the targeted farmers and other value chain actors from actively participating across the value chains, with a special focus on women, youth, and people with disabilities.
2. Detailed Stakeholder Analysis: Carry out a detailed stakeholder analysis to understand the roles of different actors in the targeted value chain and how their participation can be enhanced.
3. Assess Groups and Water Sources: Establish the current status of existing kitchen garden groups and water sources in the target locations. This assessment should determine their level of operations, strengths, and capacity gaps that the project needs to address, as well as inform the re-formation of interventions that will strengthen and promote their sustainable growth for increased production and better returns.
4. Analyze Cross-Cutting Topics: Analyze how cross-cutting topics—including gender & social inclusion, nutrition, current knowledge and practice of climate smart agriculture, access to water, and the environment—will affect the project intervention and the target groups, especially the marginalized groups (Youths, Women, & PWDs).

Methodological Standards

The Consultant must strictly adhere to the following methodological standards during the survey implementation:

• Data Disaggregation: All data collected should be disaggregated by age, gender, the target community, and any other relevant aspect whenever possible. Gender analysis must be process-oriented, assessing the extent to which the project contributes to positive change in gender dynamics (representation, resource distribution, norms, and values), rather than just recording numbers of men and women.
• Inclusivity: Ensure that the study is inclusive by ensuring meaningful participation of women, youth, children, and persons with disabilities by deliberately seeking their views and incorporating them in the study report.
• Data Triangulation: Data types and methods should be reasonably triangulated. This involves analyzing perspectives of different stakeholders, including comparisons of data collected from the different target communities, age groups, and gender. Triangulation should also take place with data collected from key informant interviews (KIIs) and other key stakeholders.
• Tool Development and Approval: All developed data collection tools must be shared with Johanniter for approval before primary data collection commences. All tools must be pre-tested and adapted if necessary before data collection begins.
• Deviation Management: Any deviations from the planned data collection tools or methods must be shared in writing with Johanniter and approved before making the changes.

Qualifications

Consultants are expected to possess a BA/BSc/HND qualification and demonstrated capacity to fulfill the detailed scope of work and methodological standards.