Request for Proposal - External Evaluation Protection and Community Engagement Support to Syrian Refugees and Stateless in Northern Lebanon Project

Request for Proposal

External Evaluation Protection and Community Engagement Support to Syrian Refugees and Stateless in Northern Lebanon Project

RFP/BEY/22/013

FOR

DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL (LEBANON)

Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading international NGO and one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. Active in 40 countries with 9,000 employees and supported by 7,500 volunteers, DRC protects, advocates, and builds sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement affected people and communities. DRC works during displacement at all stages: In the acute crisis, in displacement, when settling and integrating in a new place, or upon return. DRC provides protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance; supports displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included into hosting societies; and works with civil society and responsible authorities to promote protection of rights and peaceful coexistence.

DRC has been delivering humanitarian programming in response to various humanitarian crises in Lebanon since 2004, working with Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian refugees, in addition to internally displaced Lebanese affected by the 2006 war, migrant domestic workers, vulnerable host Lebanese populations, in addition to those affected by the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020. DRC Lebanon’s focus is to improve the living conditions of displacement-affected populations and contribute to the achievement of durable solutions.

To that end, DRC implements a multi-sectorial humanitarian response in Lebanon and is present across the country, particularly in vulnerable areas that are home to the highest concentrations of Syrian refugees. These areas include North Lebanon and Akkar Governorate, Central, West and North Beqaa, in conjunction with local partners. DRC’s response includes protection services such as case management, psychosocial support and legal counselling, and economic recovery programming including skills training and career counselling and advocating for the rights of refugees with the Lebanese government and civil society.

For further information about DRC, please refer to our website: https://drc.ngo/

Objectives:

The Danish Refugee Council Lebanon seeks proposals from consultants to:

 1) Assess the performance of four components of the UNHCR-funded grant that are strategic for future DRC programmatic learning and strategic relevance and have not been previously examined in depth:

a) Gender-based Violence (GBV) case management and focused psychosocial support, counselling and prevention/empowerment, b) persons with specific needs (PwSN) case management, focused psychosocial support and counselling, c) Emergency Cash Assistance (ECA) within and outside case management, and d) community-based protection activities,

2) Evaluate the effectiveness and quality of current SOP’s in terms of how program implementation aligns with existing SOPs, the quality-of-service provision, ability to reach the most vulnerable, effectiveness of targeting, selection criteria, and reaching the qualitative project objectives), and 3) provide evidence-based information and recommendations to make informed decisions on how to improve DRC’s ongoing work and provide direction to DRC’s strategy and long-term programming.

The Consultancy team will be required to prepare a detailed methodology and work plan indicating how the objectives of the evaluation will be achieved, and the support required from DRC.

The evaluation should focus on understanding the obtained results of the four components (GBV, PwSN, ECA, and community-based activities) of the project. In addition, the project should evaluate the effectiveness and quality of current SOPs in terms of how program implementation aligns with existing SOPs, the quality-of-service provision, ability to reach the most vulnerable, effectiveness of targeting, selection criteria, and how DRC is reaching the qualitative project objectives. Therefore, it is recommended that the evaluation methodology encompasses mixed method approach, including individual interviews (IIs), focus groups discussions (FGDs) with beneficiaries, key informant interviews (KIIs) with programme stakeholders, observations, and phone and/or face to face surveys. The detailed evaluation methodology should be finalized by the consultancy team as part of the inception report after discussion with the DRC Lebanon team. The inception report will be reviewed and validated by DRC Lebanon team.

RFP Issuing date: 23rd of  September 2022

Online technical meeting: 28th of September 2022 at 14:00 pm (Beirut Time) via TEAMS

RFP Closure Date: 10th of October 2022 at 14:00 pm (Beirut Time)