Consultancy - Project Baseline Survey

The following methodological standards should be adhered to: - All data to be collected should be disaggregated by age, gender, the target community and any other aspect relevant to the study whenever possible. Gender should not be seen as a category in terms of the number of women and men in projects, but as a process in terms of the extent to which the project contributes to positive change in the area of gender (representation, resource distribution, norms and values). - Ensure that the study is inclusive by ensuring meaningful participation of women, youth, children, and persons with disabilities by deliberately seeking their views and incorporating them in the study report. - Data types and methods should be reasonably triangulated; this includes analyzing perspectives of different stakeholders including comparisons of data collected from the different target communities, age groups and gender Triangulation should also take place with data collected from key informant interviews and other key stakeholders. - All developed tools must be shared with Johanniter for approval before primary data collection commences. All tools must be pre-tested and (if necessary) adapted before data collection begins. - Any deviations from the planned data collection tools or methods must be shared in writing to Johanniter and approved before making the changes. Scope of Work The baseline survey will be conducted in 2 target communities (Host and refugee) across the two (Kalobeyei and Lopur) Wards in Turkana West Sub-County. The baseline survey will also be expected to: - - Identify and describe opportunities and challenges affecting the targeted farmers and other value chain actors from actively participating across the value chains; with a special focus on women, youth and people with disabilities. - Carry out a detailed stakeholder analysis in order to understand roles of different actors in the targeted value chain and how that can be enhanced. - Establish the current status of existing -kitchen garden groups and water sources in the target locations in order to determine their level of operations, strengths and capacity gaps that the project needs to address as well as to inform re- formulation of interventions that will strengthen and promote their sustainable growth for increased production and better returns. - Analyze how cross cutting topics including gender & social inclusion, nutrition, current knowledge and practice of climate smart agriculture, access to water and the environment will affect the project intervention and the target groups especially the marginalized groups (Youths, Women, & PWDs).