Evaluación intermedia del proyecto EQUAL

WORLD VISION MEXICO
TERMS OF REFERENCE
INTERIM ASSESSMENT

BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION

In December 2019, World Vision was awarded a four-year grant from the Department of Labor (USDOL) to implement the Equal Access to Quality Jobs for Women and Girls in Agriculture (“EQUAL”) Project in Mexico. The EQUAL project in Mexico involves multiple stakeholders including government, private sector, and civil society organizations working together to reduce child labor, forced labor and other labor violation affecting women and adolescent girls in migrant agricultural communities, particularly in the coffee and sugarcane sectors in Veracruz and Oaxaca. The project works with government entities to utilize updated and improved tools to monitor and enforce laws related to child labor and agricultural work. It also collaborates with participating business partners to increase their capacity to reduce child labor and remediate unacceptable conditions of work in their workplaces and supply chains.

The project’s approach also involves raising awareness to change families’ frequently held beliefs that child labor is either necessary or beneficial, and to make them aware of their rights under the law. The project works to refer families to viable education alternatives for their children. It strives to reduce demand for child labor among its chief users, small private landowners, and communal landowners who supply larger companies.

World Vision Mexico will hire an independent third party to conduct the mid-term assessment of the EQUAL project. This assessment approach will be in accordance with DOL’s Interim Assessments Guidance Document, using the most rigorous methods applicable for qualitative performance assessment. The assessment will be conducted in an ethical manner and safeguard the dignity, rights, safety and privacy of participants. The consultant will be responsible for developing qualitative instruments, conducting interviews and focus groups with the project staff. Processing and supporting the analysis of collected qualitative data and writing the final report.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSESSMENT

The purpose of the interim assessment is to have facilitated discussions about the project’s performance toward meeting intended outcomes and the project objective. The workshops and interviews will help identify successes and challenges experienced while starting and implementing project activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Interim Assessments will have the following objectives:

1. Determine project progress, successes, and implementing challenges for each component area (outcome) and the overall project objective, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;
2. Identify good practices or lessons learned related to starting and implementing activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, both for the project and for ILAB;
3. Identify ways for the project to enhance chances of accomplishing and sustaining results in light of the landscape brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic; and,
4. Identify action items/adjustments that need to be made to achieve the intended outcomes and project objective in light of the landscape brought about by the COVID- 19

APPLICATION

Interested consultants should send   a technical   and   financial   proposal,   via   email to estefania_bueno@wvi.org by March 11th, 2022. Subject: EQUAL Interim Assessment. The project will hold an information session to clarify questions about the context, project and ToR on February 25th, 2022. Interested parties should send their request to participate in the information session by February 18th, 2022. The proposal should include the candidate resume reflecting relevance experience on project performance evaluation. The financial proposal should include salary.

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