Consultant - Nigeria Policing Programme Endline Assessment at Coffey International Development

Coffey International Development has a 40-year history in successfully delivering international development projects on behalf of donors right around the world, including Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, USAID and the UK’s Department for International Development. Our people work side by side with local partners to support stability, economic growth and good governance, positively changing people’s lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant - Nigeria Policing Programme Endline Assessment

Location: Nigeria

The Programme

• The Nigeria Policing Programme seeks to improve key Nigerian security and justice institutions. NPP works to support the areas of accountability, community policing, resource allocation and cohesion among policing actors on safety and security issues.
• NPP provides support by building capacity within the NPF and targeted policing accountability mechanisms; providing technical assistance to key counterparts and institutions to improve their ability to function effectively. It also facilitates communication within and between security actors and helps to improve the effectiveness of public outreach and public advocacy.

The Position

• The programme started implementation in late 2017 and it is set to close by March 2020. As a result, an end-line evaluation is being implemented to estimate the programme’s impact over it lifespan, contribute information that may be used to influence future designs and provide accountability to all stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries before programme closure.
• The primary objective of this assignment is to investigate the overall impact, worth and significance of the sum of programme interventions. It is expected that the evaluation will assess key results using the five domains of evaluation within the OECD DAC evaluation criteria[1]. The main framing questions of this evaluation will include:
  • To assess the extent to which the NPF, other policing providers in supported areas and targeted oversight and accountability mechanisms are perceived to be more capable, accountable and responsive by key stakeholders
  • To highlight the current experience of professional conduct and impunity amongst police officers in supported locations
  • To evaluate the current experience of public safety and security issues in supported locations
  • To evaluate the current level of awareness of resource allocation and budgetary processes amongst NPF senior leadership and citizens
  • To assess the current experience of coordination and coherence between the NPF and other policing providers
  • To assess the extent to which consolidated evidence and learning are used to support policing reform in Nigeria

The Contractor
We are looking for an organisation or independent evaluation expert(s) who are experienced and able to complete the following:

• The consulting organisation/independent evaluation expert is expected to deliver the following per location of work:
  • Final questionnaires in English, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Kanuri and other languages as required, including supporting documentation, continuing definitions, additional guidance for enumerators
  • Make explicit the intermediate results within the NPP programme ToC
  • End-line evaluation approach and methodology that includes an explanation and interpretation of the ToR
  • Pre-field visit training report which will include issues arising around strategy and questions
  • Field work update report no longer than a page
  • For the quantitative evaluation, populated data tables showing responses to each questions and survey administered, frequency tables broken down by all relevant variables identified including tables combining all states and individual states.
  • A preliminary report presenting all key findings from the evaluation
  • A detailed technical report on the overall end-line evaluation
  • Work plan to indicate specific dates for the submission of each deliverable identified in the ToR
  • Annexes including the end-line evaluation work plan, questionnaire, raw data, list of communities visited, list of persons interviewed, field photographs, glossary of key terms and other necessary information

Application Closing Date
17.00, Wednesday, 13th November, 2019. GMT

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a proposal with budget and workplan of how they will complete the work described in the attached "TORs" and evidence completing similar assignments. These should be emailed to "NPP's Project Manager" via: sia.iscandari@coffey.com who will oversee the assignment by the deadline below.

Click Here To View NPP Evaluation ToR (PDF)

Note: Please note applicants can put proposals forward for either the: (i) Qualitative survey or the (ii) Quantitative survey or both aspects. Where an applicant applies for both aspects of the evaluation, it is important that the application is documented separately.