Terms of reference Final project evaluation Capitalization on animal food production knowledge September-October 2019 External consultancy for final project evaluation Region Haeju city, South Hwangwae province Country The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sector Food security and nutrition, goat breeding, support for secondary education Project title Capitalization on animal food production knowledge Organization in charge of the Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) project Beneficiaries University of Agriculture of South Hwanghae Province, Livestock department of the Province, Two National Competence Centres Donor European Commission (DEVCO) Reference KOR15006 Main objective of the service Provide a final evaluation report to PUI concerning the KOR15006 project before October 20th, 2019. 1 Summary I. Project presentation ...................................................................................... 3 1. PUI’s action in DPKR ........................................................................................................... 3 2. Description of the action and rationale .............................................................................. 3 3. Area of intervention ........................................................................................................... 4 South Hwanghae, strategic but vulnerable province .................................. 4 4. Project’s stakeholders ........................................................................................................ 5 Haeju Agricultural University ..................................................................... 5 Goat rearing network members ................................................................. 6 5. Project’s objectives and expected results .......................................................................... 6 Overall objective ........................................................................................ 6 Specific objective ....................................................................................... 6 Main activities ............................................................................................ 6 II. Evaluation’s modalities and objectives ......................................................... 6 1. Objectives of the evaluation............................................................................................ 6 Establish an overall assessment of the evaluated project ......................... 6 Conduct an evaluative analysis ................................................................. 7 Evaluate if the target has been reached .................................................... 7 2. Modalities and methodology ...................................................................................... 7 General methodology ................................................................................ 7 Organisation of the mission and timetable for the evaluation .................... 8 3. Expected deliverables ...................................................................................................... 8 Evaluation report ....................................................................................... 8 Debriefing .................................................................................................. 9 III. Application .................................................................................................. 9 1. Consultant profile ............................................................................................................... 9 2. Budget................................................................................................................................. 9 3. Application details ............................................................................................................ 10 4. Evaluation grid for the applications.................................................................................. 10 5. Ethical Conditions ............................................................................................................. 10 Fraud, Corruption, collusive and coercive practices ................................ 11 Protection of children and social rights .................................................... 11 Ineligibility and exclusion criteria ............................................................. 11 Annex A: Tender submission file .................................................................... 12 Annex B: Financial offer template .................................................................. 15 2 I. Project presentation 1. PUI’S ACTION IN DPKR Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious and international NGO providing aid and development support in 20 countries in the world, through an average of 200 projects per year. The organization has been implanted in DPRK since 2002 and remains today among the 5 NGOs habilitated to work in the country as residents. Over the past seven years, PUI has been focusing its activities on the Province of South Hwanghae, which is considered as one of the most vulnerable and the most affected by climatic shocks in the country. Past and current projects led in this area have permitted to increase access to data and to built trust with local authorities at every level, strengthening the quality of the undertaken activities. In South Hwanghae Province, PUI already intervened in three different sectors: Health: from 2002 to 2009, PUI has led an ambitious health program consisting in installing and running laboratories of production of intraveine fluids. Supported by SIDA and EuropAid, PUI was present in 8 different provinces. The program was handed over to WHO and the Ministry of health between 2006 and 2009. From 2014 to 2016, a partnership with the Swedish cooperation agency (SIDA) allowed the construction of 4 fully equipped primary health centers in the province, alongside with medical training and medicine supplies. Food security & nutrition: since 2012 and supported by the European Commission’s funds and French Cooperation, PUI launched several programs in collective farms and rural towns. Actions aim to sustainably improve children’s essential nutritional intakes throughout the year (mainly proteins, but also fat, fibers, vitamins & energy). Education: in parallel, PUI is implementing since 2016 an educational and institutional project in collaboration with the Agricultural University of South Hwanghae. The objective is to enhance the education of future decision makers at province’s level to ensure a significant and sustainable impact on food security in the area. 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION AND RATIONALE The project entitled “capitalization on animal food production knowledge” is a capacity-building project targeting 350 students and 31 staff of the Livestock Department of the University of Haeju. It focuses on the goat value-chain, and proposes to develop technical knowledge and pedagogical skills of the teachers. As a long-term effect, the project aims at improving the food security of vulnerable groups in rural areas by supporting the development of goat breeding and milk production, in South- Hwanghae Province. This project started in February 2015 and is coming to an end at the beginning of November 2019. One of the main issues identified in DPRK is the general lack of technical capacity and knowledge in nutrition, animal based food production and processing, and the deficiency of the local educational system to provide and spread such knowledge and best practices. Two main factors can explain the present situation. Livestock production has deeply suffered with the decline of the North Korean economy. During the 90’s, most of the goats stock have been decimated to compensate for food shortage, resulting in a loss of traditional know-hows in goat breeding. More importantly, the isolation of the country, and of each Province inside the country, has then restrained 3 the diffusion of updated knowledge and practices to provincial areas as well as exchanges between nationals and internationals stakeholders. By introducing and diffusing new knowledge and skills in fodder production, goat breeding and milk processing, the project aimed at having a positive and sustainable long-term impact on food security. The implementation of such techniques throughout the province should allow farms and at term, households, to significantly increase their goat stocks and production of goat milk. In order to achieve this objective, the project focused on promoting the diffusion of new knowledge and techniques throughout the Province. In the Korean society, technical information and recommendations issued by official institution, such as a University or a Peoples’ Committee, are usually taken as granted and implemented by the farms. PUI has consequently considered that supporting the diffusion of practices would lead to an implementation of those practices. Those practices will have a positive impact on production and consumption of animal sourced food product by vulnerable groups, in South Hwanghae Province. As the impact on food security of such project cannot be immediately measured since such practices should have an impact on the long term. The project as then focused on measuring how many students, trained to new techniques, have been appointed as executives in cooperative farms and local People’s Committees. Those students graduated from the Agricultural University will be the vectors for