Expression of Interest (EOI) for Consultant for a feasibility study for the ‘Citizen-Driven Climate Change (CDCC) Project

SEND Sierra Leone is seeking the services of a consultant to conduct a feasibility study for the proposed project to guide the development of the project proposal and submission to the donor as part of the processes that will guide the project development implementation. The final report will form findings and recommendations for possible strategies and activities with a clear qualitative and quantitative description of each indicator and develop tools for monitoring, data collection, an operational M&E plan and a logical framework.

The consultant will have the overall responsibilities for this assignment and is expected to:

• • Conduct the feasibility study according to BMZ feasibility study guidelines which SEND can provide
• • Review relevant project documents and national and international policies to inform the processes and recommendations.
• • Write an inception report indicating clear scope, detailed methodology and timeline for each assignment activity.
• • Develop the feasibility study tools, including both quantitative and qualitative tools.
• • Lead the pre-testing of the study tools and refine the data collection questions.
• • Develop a sampling procedure.
• • Responsible for administrative and logistics support for the study
• • Recruit and train enumerators and supervisors for quantitative and qualitative data collection.
• • Supervise the quantitative and qualitative data collection.
• • Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data using SPSS or similar statistical analysis software.
• • Write a report with recommendations and tools for monitoring, data collection, logical framework and an operational M&E plan.
• • Incorporate comments and finalise the report.
• • Present findings to the staff of SEND.
• • Orientation with SEND staff on the study and recommendations.
• • Complete and submit the final version of the report within 30 days