TERMS OF REFERENCE

Yearly Third-Party Evaluation of OXFAM Country Programme

These TORs have been prepared to hire services of an individual consultant/organisation to conduct an
evaluation including quantitative and qualitative assessment and impact of Oxfam’s work to the Federal,
Provincial and local Governments as required.

1. Background
OXFAM is working in Pakistan since 1973 to ensure all people, especially women and girls are able to
exercise their rights and have access to basic services and economic resources. The main purpose of
OXFAM’s work is to help create lasting solutions to the injustice of poverty. OXFAM uses a combination
of rights-based sustainable development programs, public education and humanitarian assistance in
disasters to achieve the goals in Pakistan.
Oxfam’s Country Strategy (2015 – 2023) envisioned a just society without poverty, in which all women
and men live a life of dignity, enjoy their rights and assume their responsibilities as active citizens of
Pakistan. To achieve this vision, Oxfam works on three main programme pillars in a way that these are
interconnected and reinforce each other to produce maximum impact for Oxfam’s target groups. Oxfam
wants to create transformational and sustainable change through its programmes addressing poverty,
inequality and vulnerability. In order to bring about such change Oxfam works in partnership with a wide
range of actors (civil society organisations, women rights organisations, research institutions, private
sector and government authorities) from national to local level to address poverty, vulnerability and
injustice.
More specifically, Oxfam has been instrumental at any fronts working on climate change policies to
protection of women to addressing issues of poverty, inequality and access to resources in recent years.
2. Programme areas focused by Oxfam in Pakistan (all details section 2 and beyond cater
to FY 2021-2022)
Oxfam’s programmatic work is distributed in three main programmes namely:
a. Gender Justice
b. Economic Justice and Governance
c. Humanitarian, Resilience and Climate Change
During previous years, under these three programmes 10 projects were implemented through 36
partners in different districts of Pakistan.
S.No Projects
a. Gender Justice Under Gender Justice programme, 3 projects (Empower Youth for Work, Creating
Spaces to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls, Women Voice
Leadership) were implemented through different partners in districts.

Partners:
Institute of Business Administration Karachi (IBA), Bedari, Idara Taleem-o-Agahi,
Women Protection Authority, SPO.
Districts
 Layyah, Jamshoro, Gujrat, Jhelum, Kasur, Sialkot, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad,
Shahdadkot, Shaheed Benazirabad, Umerkot, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur,
Karachi, Mirpurkhas, Usta Mohammad, Jaffarabad, Quetta, Peshwar, Mardan,
Lower dir and Islamabad.
b. Effective Under this programme, 3 projects (Effective Citizenship and Responsive
Governance Governance, Women Leadership in Public Life in Sindh, Pakistan) and Addressing
Root Causes through effective citizenship were implemented through different
partners.

Partners:
Management & Development Foundation, SPO, LHDP, TKF, LASOONA AND
SAFWCO.

Districts
Lahore, Khanewal, Muzaffargarh, Hyderabad, Karachi, Sanghar, Khairpur Mirs,
Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Sukkur and Sanghar.
Under this programme, 5 projects (Pakistan Humanitarian Flood Response,
c. Saving lives Promoting Urban climate change Resilience in Sialkot and Abbottabad cities of
Now and In Pakistan, “Transforming the food system to eradicate hunger and fight inequality.
Future Pakistan, Women Empowerment & Sustainable Basmati Rice Value Chain in
Pakistan were implemented through different Partners in districts.

Partners
OAKFD, AGAHE, WWF (partnership agreement in progress), Health and nutrition
development society (HANDS), SPO and PDMA Baluchistan

Districts
Mirpur Khas, Sanghar, Dadu, Khairpur, Qamber Shahdad kot, Sohbatpur,
Naseerabad, Jafferabad, Abbottabad, Sialkot, Karachi, Thatta, Badin, Muridke,
Sheikhpura, Kamoki and Gujranwala, Badin, Bolan Quetta

These projects were implemented with focus on Emergency Response, Disaster

Risk Reduction, Resilience building, Urban development and Humanitarian
response

2. Recent Developments
Oxfam has decided to phase out from Pakistan by 2024. Therefore, Oxfam has developed an exit strategy
based on Oxfam’s Country Strategy (2015 – 2023). Therefore, this evaluation become more important. It
will inform country Office about the progress towards the Exit Strategy.

Purpose of the assignment: The purpose of the country programme evaluation is to assess the results
generated through each of the programmes implemented after June 2021 contributing to objectives and
outputs of the country programmes strategy. The evaluation will be instrumental in informing the impact
of Oxfam’s work to the Government Provincial and local government. The findings of the evaluation will
help the country team to reflect on the continued relevance of the programmes against the backdrop of
a changing external environment and assess whether the approaches applied in each programme were
appropriate and effective.
 The CP evaluation will generate recommendations and lessons learned that will be used to inform the
country office exit strategy and ongoing programmes for their improvement and maintaining focus on
achieving goal as delineated in the Country Programme Strategy.

This Evaluation will be based on Desk Review and Qualitative data collection. Consultant will visit and
interview relevant provincial government authorities in Punjab and Sindh as well as on-site visit of
selected projects. The desk review will be based on reports, project evaluations, other important
documents and material related to Oxfam’s strategic direction, programmes, projects, planning, reporting
and monitoring.

3. Objectives of the evaluation

The anticipated objectives of the evaluation are encapsulated below;
- To evaluate the relevance, appropriateness, efficiency, sustainability and impact of the programme
delivery.
- To inform the impact of Oxfam’s service delivery and advocacy work to the local and provincial
Governments.
- To assess effectiveness of the support functions i.e. Finance, HR, and Admin/ Security in
supplementing the work with partners, government, and stakeholders.
- To measure the progress of projects around the planned exit strategy.

4. Proposed Methodology
It is envisaged that this assignment will be performed through extensive desk review, secondary research
and Qualitative data collection through Key Informant Interviews with identified Government officials, at
national and provincial level (Sindh, Punjab) and FGDs with community members in selected projects.
Sample of projects will be developed by the consultant based on clear criteria for an in-depth review. The
consultant will be expected to pay one visit to Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan to meet with government
institutions as well as visit to 2-3 project sites in each province.

The consultant will interview following team members of Oxfam to triangulate and explore regarding
various dimensions of the country programme implementation.

1. Country Director
2. Security Focal Point
3. Programme Managers
4. MEAL Manager
5. HR Manager

Based on the information in the relevant documents and an understanding received through interviews
from above team members, the consultant will form his/her findings and recommendations in the form
of a report.

5. Deliverables
Following are the expected deliverables of this assignment:
- Draft Inception report
- Final Inception report after Oxfam review
- Country programme evaluation report (with annexes) Draft for review
- Final Evaluation Report

6. Reporting lines
In all matters in relation to the study, the consultant will report to the MEAL team and or the assignment
focal point of Oxfam to support the day-to-day coordination and communication.

7. Format of the report

Following is the proposed broader outline of the evaluation report, that should not exceed 20 pages in
total.
• Executive summary
• Introduction (context, country programme brief)
• Literature review
• Study methodology
• Findings and analysis
• Recommendations
• References
• Annexes

8. Intellectual Property Rights

All documentation related to the assignment like raw data (in the form of filled questionnaires) and
processed data shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Oxfam.

9. Timeframe
Provisional schedule is shown below

No. of Action Deliverable

days
03 - Oxfam and Consultant agree upon a methodology Inception Report, outlining
and timeline for producing the outputs detailed work plan,
methodology for information
collection and framework.

05 - Consultant reads documents. Oxfam Country Outlines of Synthesis report

strategy, Annual report, six-month donor reports,
country update, monitoring reports. etc.
- Consultant continues to collect information from
country office
06 - Travel to provinces to gather information Interviews and filed visit are
- Consultant organises key informant interviews completed and information
analysed

06 - Consultant drafts the Synthesis Report and submit 1st Draft of the report
draft for review
- 2nd draft report with feedback incorporated Final version of Summary
- Final versions of all deliverables submitted Report
 10. Payment timelines
a. First instalment 25% at the signing of contract
b. Second instalment 25% at the completion of inception report
c. Second instalment 50% after submission of final agreed quality report

11. Qualifications or Specialized Knowledge/Experience Required: Indicate qualifications

requirement.
The potential consultant to be leading and conducting the country programme evaluation is required to
have following qualifications:
• Demonstrable knowledge of development programming particularly programmes related to
Gender Justice, Governance and Economic Justice, Resilience and Climate change
• Significant demonstrable experience of producing high quality assessment/evaluation reports for
international development organisations, and Government of Pakistan.
• Ability to write concise, readable and analytical reports (examples required) in plain,
understandable English
• Minimum 8 years of experience in leading and managing third party evaluations and researches

How to Apply:
Please send your detailed technical and financial proposals (The financial proposal must be in
Pak Rupees inclusive of taxes) to the following Oxfam official email address within the closing
date.
Email ID: oxfampak@oxfam.org.uk
Please mention the consultancy title mentioned “Yearly Third-Party Evaluation of
OXFAM Country Programme” in the subject of email. If we receive any
anonymous (without mentioning title) emails, we will not consider it for further
evaluation

The deadline for submission is 15th March 2024

Oxfam Pakistan reserve the right to accept or reject the submitted proposal or any part thereof.