Mid-Term Evaluation Opportunity for the Stand Up for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Project

Oxfam Canada (OCA) is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation, networked in over 90 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice, focusing on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners, and women’s rights organizations to challenge the perpetual inequality and keep people poor. Together, we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families, and entire communities.

The Stand Up for SRHR (Stand Up) Project is 6.5 years (2021-2028), CAD$20.6 million initiative whose ultimate outcome is to increase the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for the most marginalized and vulnerable right holders, particularly adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 15-29, and including those who with intersecting vulnerabilities due to sexual or gender orientation, or status as refugees or internally displaces persons in Uganda and Mozambique.

The project seeks to improve SRHR by working in four areas of intervention:

• Raising awareness among adolescent girls, young women, boys, and men, educators and health providers, and community leaders on SRHR topics, including sexual and reproductive health, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and child and early forced marriage;
• Building local health system capacity to reach marginalized and vulnerable groups with high-quality and inclusive SRHR services, including family planning, abortion and post- abortion care, sexual health testing, prenatal care, and SGBV support;
• Working with local and grassroots activist organizations to support local, regional and national SRHR advocacy; and
• Engaging Canadians on SRHR by providing technical support on youth-led SRHR community mobilization and through educational efforts.

Purpose and Scope of the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE)

The Stand Up MTE will be conducted in the fifth year of project implementation. Its main objective is to assess progress toward expected outcomes, identify challenges and opportunities, and provide recommendations for improvement during the second half of the project. Oxfam Canada envisions that the Mid-Term Evaluation Consultant will collect and analyze quantitative data as required for indicator reporting. This consultant will also compile an overarching review integrating both countries’ quantitative data and analysis. There will be two components to the MTE: 1) the Midline Survey (MTS) and 2) the Mid Term Review (MTR). The scope of this consultancy is to carry out only the MTS.

Mid-Term Survey (MTS):

The Midline Survey has been developed to fulfill the project’s monitoring and evaluation needs and assess progress toward the Outcome Indicators per the project’s logic model. The information gathered from this survey will help establish a midline value for tracking progress against these outcome indicators, as detailed in the project’s Performance Measurement Framework (PMF).  The sampling framework will be taken from the project’s beneficiary direct reach database. The study participants will be adolescent girls (10-19 years), young women (20-29 years), women of reproductive age (30 years +), and community members from the respective districts and communities who directly benefited from the Stand Up project intervention.

The sample size for the survey will be determined based on the sampling framework. The selected consultant team will conduct in-person interviews and all data will be collected digitally using the OCA Survey CTO platform. If any respondents are under 18 years of age, consent must be obtained from at least one parent or guardian. Both the respondent and/or the parent or guardian have the right to withdraw consent at any time during the survey. Given the sensitive nature of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), interviews with respondents will be conducted in a way to ensure privacy, preventing others from overhearing the conversation.

The  consultant will design and implement two-stage cluster sampling procedure to select a statistically representative sample of individuals within the project’s implementation area. The clusters should be chosen using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling. Next, random sampling will be used to select individuals using the respective sampling frame within each selected cluster. This two-stage process ensures that all those we work with in sampling frames have an equal chance of being selected for the survey.

Deliverables & Timeline

Key Activities / Deliverables   Timeline and Comments
Start date of contract  June 20, 2025
Inception phase

• Undertake a thorough desk review of project documents
• Review MTS quantitative data collection tools and indicators Data Analysis Plan (DAP) and suggest changes as required
• Review Sampling framework and sample size
• Prepare ethics approval applications and acquire the necessary ethics approval(s) to conduct the midline survey consulting with Oxfam and partners in both countries.
• Design survey in Survey CTO platform based on final tools
• Develop operations plan and fieldwork timelines, adapting as necessary throughout the study timeline.
• Submit an inception report on the provided guidelines from Oxfam (Inception report by July 16, 2025)

Oxfam Canada will provide access to SurveyCTO, project documents, including the Indicators Data Analysis Plan and related standard survey tool. OCA will also provide feedback on the inception report by July 25.

In-country data collection, monitoring, and data analysis (August 1, 2025)

• Enumerators Training and pilot test
• Consultants will collect the MTS quantitative data and work with the Oxfam Canada MEL Officer to monitor and review the quantitative data collected to identify and fix any data errors.
• Conduct a data analysis of quantitative indicators according to each country’s indicator data analysis plan and other necessary disaggregated data, following guidance from Oxfam Canada.
• Provide comparisons (where possible) on results against baseline data and other sources.
• Submit the final cleaned dataset and final analysis table results by indicators in MS Excel     
• In-country data collection will be completed by 31st August 2025.
  • The consultant will start data collection once Institutional Review Board approval is received.
  • The consultant will work with the Oxfam Canada MEL Officer and Oxfam country teams to establish a communication protocol in which two countries are engaged in active data collection.
  • The consultant team will analyze the quantitative data between August 15 and September 15, 2025.

Draft report

• Present initial findings to Oxfam Canada and Oxfam country teams (remotely)
• Engage in discussions with Oxfam Canada and Oxfam country teams about revisions to the report
• Submit a draft report by country and a summary report to Oxfam Canada (prepare a summary report of the mid-term survey summarizing the results from two countries.)     
• Presentation of initial findings by September 30, 2025.

The consultant will produce a draft report by country and a consolidated summary report with findings disaggregated by country that includes all MTR findings from the cross-method analysis of desk review and quantitative data by 31 October 2025.

Final report

• Submit final reports (by country and a summary report) to Oxfam Canada
• Oxfam Canada and the Oxfam country teams will provide feedback on the draft reports by November 15, 2025.
• Final Reports products by  November 30,  2025.

Key competencies of the consultant(s) are:

• 5-7 years of experience in designing and leading multi-county project evaluations, explicitly focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
• Previous experience conducting mixed-method studies related to SRHR.
• Strong preference for a consultant whose team members can collect, manage, and analyze quantitative data in Mozambique (in Portuguese and other local languages spoken in Nampula province) and Uganda (in English and other local languages spoken in the West Nile and Eastern Regions.
• Experience in implementing or incorporating Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) into evaluation work.
• Extensive experience in working with complex datasets and analysis, including with refugee populations, ideally with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven ability to design quantitative data collection tools and perform data analysis in accordance with the data analysis plan.
• Strong experience in presenting quantitative data results to non-research audiences.
• Awareness of the cultural and historical contexts is essential during the data collection and analysis.
• Significant experience in overseeing and monitoring field data collection.
• Consultants should be adaptable to accommodate delays in evaluation activities due to ethical approval issues or other unexpected events.

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Comment postuler:

Consultants meeting the above criteria are invited to submit a proposal by email to [email protected] with the subject line: “Proposal for Stand Up Mid Term Evaluation Consultant” no later than Monday, 24th May 2025, 12:00 pm EST. The body of the proposal should be no longer than four pages and should include the following:

• A cover letter outlining relevant years of experience conducting mid-term evaluation, data analysis on relevant topics, relevant geographies, and teaching/coaching field implementation teams to make sense of qualitative and quantitative data.
• Hourly consultancy rate in Canadian Dollars.
• Breakdown of consultancy cost by deliverable.

The proposal should also include Annexes, which are not included in the 4-page limit, such as:

• An estimated budget, including personnel, travel, accommodations, training, and meeting costs, not exceeding a maximum of CAD 48,000, including tax.
• List of three (3) references who can attest to the team’s experience and expertise related to this program (including daytime phone numbers and email contacts).
• CVs of the review team, outlining previous evaluation experience and accomplishments related to demonstrating the skills and knowledge needed to fulfill the Terms of Reference in both countries.
• Preferred: Two (2) examples of large-scale evaluations recently completed by the lead consultant (s). If possible, at least one should be relevant to the subject of this evaluation. Oxfam Canada will review all proposals closely against this outline. The consultancy is expected to start on 20th June 2025.