Consultancy: Kenya Community Land Rights Project ( Evaluation) (INT2916) at Oxfam

Background, rationale and purpose of the evaluation

The Community Land Rights Programme is a two year programme implemented in Kenya and Nepal targeting 7500 men and 7500 women. The programme aimed at applying innovative legal empowerment techniques to support 75 communities in Kenya and Nepal to gain legal protection over their land and natural resources.

The Project’s primary objective is to provide technical legal support to strengthen community land and resource rights and then rigorously test the extent to which this mitigates and resolves local conflict. Oxfam and Namati together with Kenya Land Alliance (KLA), support communities to gain legal protection for their community lands and through an action research approach carefully track how this process affects local conflict and gender dynamics. 

Objectives of the evaluation

• To obtain end line measurements of key indicators about the perception of tenure and physical security of community members, threats to their security on issues related to land and natural resource ownership and access and compare this against baseline measurements.
• To assess changes in county and community level dynamics after intervention, as well as evaluate understanding of community on their rights related to ownership and access to land and natural resources.
• To evaluate the level of women’s engagement/participation on land and natural resource ownership.
• To evaluate project impact and its contribution towards conflict resolution and mitigation.
• Deduce lessons learnt from the project and document best practices that can be replicated within the same context or elsewhere either by Oxfam and partners or other stakeholders
• Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the project and how this contributed to the realization of the project objectives.     

 Evaluation team: qualifications and skills needed, plan for organizing the evaluation team

Interested consultant is expected to posses the following qualifications and experience

• Masters degree in social sciences ,
• In monitoring and evaluation, conflict resolution, project management  or any other relevant study
• Previous experience in evaluating similar projects such as human rights and land rights projects, conflict mitigation and resolution projects among others
• Previous experience in running evaluations in the ASALs and Coastal part of Kenya
• Previous experience managing a team of enumerators within a field research context