Consultant to Provide End of Project Qualitative Evaluation Service for the Economic Development for Poor Families

World Vision International Vietnam (WVV) is looking for Consultant to provide end of project qualitative evaluation service for the Economic Development for Poor Families in Lac Son and Tua Chua Area Development Programs (ADPs). 

The Economic Development project has been implemented since 1st October 2011 and will end by 30th September 2014. The project is located in Tua Chua district of Dien Bien province and Lac Son district of Hoa Binh province. The economic development project was formulated to address key focal problems in Tua Chua and Lac Son districts: Severe poverty still exists in the two districts (Nutrition and economic), the economic activities in the districts are often production/consumption driven, less market oriented, market exclusion of poor micro producers/farmers in the two districts, low savings capacity of the poor in the target areas. The project goal is to “Improve economic condition of the poor households with children in the target ADPs through increasing market access opportunity and household financial resilience”.

Evaluation purpose: The End-project Evaluation aims to assess achievement, effectiveness and sustainability of the project interventions, and make practical and specific recommendation at both strategy and operational levels for future programming on how to “improve economic condition of the poor households with children in the target ADPs through increasing market access opportunity and household financial resilience.

Desired skills, qualifications, and experience:

The consultant is required to meet the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Bachelor degree in economic development, agro-business, development management, or the like. Having master degree will be an advantage.
• At least 5 years experience in livelihood development for the poor in mountainous areas. Proven technical knowledge and expertise in economic development, particularly pro-poor value chain of agriculture produces, micro savings and micro lending.
• Knowledgeable of Vietnam development context, agriculture sector development in particular.
• Proven experience and skills in project completion evaluations, especially in the position of team leader.
• Excellent reporting skills in English.
• Excellent experience and skills in using participatory facilitating techniques and tools; for meetings, training, discussions (especially Focus Group Discussions), interviews (especially in-depth interviews).
• Have experience working with farmers and/or farmer interest groups; having such experience working with ethnic minority people will be an advantage.
• Able to travel on motorbike in remote and mountainous communes/villages.

Please find the TOR in attached file for more details.

Interested consultants are invited to send proposal, CV and application letter to the email address: [email protected] or:

People and Culture Department
World Vision International - Vietnam
Address: 4th floor, the HEAC building, 14-16 Ham Long street, Hanoi
Tel: 04. 39439920 (ext.114)

Deadline for Submission: 06 August 2014

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization which works to improve the quality of life of people, especially children, who are marginalized and living in poverty regardless of religion, race and gender.

We give equal opportunity to every candidate, regardless of religion, race and gender.