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Endline Evaluation – Power of Voices Partnership (PvP): Fair4All Project in Ghana

1. Background

Oxfam is a global organisation working to end the injustice of poverty and inequality. In Ghana, Oxfam has been active since 1986, focusing on economic justice, gender justice, social inclusion, and accountable governance. Through evidence-based advocacy and long-term partnerships, Oxfam supports rights-based, systemic change aimed at achieving social transformation.

The Oxfam in Ghana Country Strategy (2021–2026) envisions a just, equitable, and sustainable society in which those with power are accountable and all citizens realise their rights. Oxfam works through locally led approaches, civil society partnerships, and multi-stakeholder engagements. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems are embedded in program delivery.

1.1 Context

Commodity chains primarily drive Ghana’s impressive economic development, as the country is a leading producer and exporter of cocoa and gold and has recently started producing and exporting oil. These three products—gold, cocoa, and petroleum—account for more than 80 per cent of total exports. In 2018, the extractive sector accounted for 67% of Ghana’s exports, 18% of total tax revenues and 14% of the country’s GDP.

A significant reduction in poverty levels matched economic growth from 1990 to 2012. Still, Ghana’s story is one of only partial success: inequality is on the rise and conflicts over land and natural resources are rife, pitching communities against armed security agents hired by companies and the state.

Ghana faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges rooted in agricultural value chains and extractive industries. These sectors have led to human rights violations, environmental degradation, and deepened inequalities. Communities are often displaced for mining operations, resulting in loss of farmland and reduced food production. Weak legal frameworks and inadequate enforcement of international standards exacerbate these issues, particularly as Ghana seeks to attract more foreign direct investment. Women artisanal miners face health risks, environmental hazards, and sexual abuse, often silenced by fear of retaliation. Policy decision-making in key sectors, such as gold, petroleum, and cocoa, remains inaccessible to farmers and civil society actors. At the same time, Ghana struggles with low tax revenue and an overreliance on foreign aid, partly due to excessive tax concessions granted to multinational corporations. Activists and journalists advocating for transparency and human rights are frequently harassed or branded as criminals, highlighting the urgent need for stronger governance and inclusive development policies.

It is in light of this that Oxfam in Ghana, working together and in collaboration with six national civil society partners, proposed this five-year F4All project to address the aforementioned systemic barriers in Ghana and beyond

The Project, led by a consortium comprising the Third World Network-Africa, Oxfam Novib, the Huairou Commission, and SOMO, was implemented from January 2021 to December 2025. It is part of the global Power of Voices Partnership (PvP), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In Ghana, the project is jointly delivered by the Third World Network-Africa and Oxfam in Ghana in collaboration with six national partners. The national partners to Oxfam in Ghana include the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL), Wacam, Friends of the Nation (FoN), Social Enterprise Development Foundation Ghana (SEND Ghana), and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF Ghana).

The Fair4All project adopts a rights-based and feminist approach to empower marginalised groups—especially women, youth, and artisanal producers—through advocacy, capacity building, and multi-stakeholder engagement. It addresses Ghana’s development challenges, including over-reliance on primary commodity exports, weak accountability in value chains, and shrinking civic space. The project strengthens civil society's influence on policies, corporate behaviour, and governance of trade and value chains in the cocoa, gold, salt, and petroleum sectors.

Geographically, the project has been implemented in the following regions: Western, Ahafo, Eastern, Western North, Ashanti, Central, and Greater Accra.

1.2 Project Objectives

Strategic Objective:

To strengthen civil society’s voice and agency in advocating for inclusive and sustainable trade and value chains. The project envisions an extractives sector that respects human rights, protects the environment, and promotes women’s economic empowerment, while contributing to an equitable economic transformation process in Ghana.

Theory of Change Pathways:

1. Sustainable and Inclusive Women-Centred Business Practices
• Co-creation of equitable business models that share value fairly and empower women.
2. More Responsible Private and Financial Sector
• Advocacy for businesses and investors to uphold land rights, decent work, environmental sustainability, and civic engagement.
3. Strengthened Regulatory Framework for Public Sector Accountability
• Support government efforts to regulate corporate actors and promote fair, rights-based governance.
4. Fiscal and Trade Reforms
• Mobilise citizen engagement to influence policy reforms that support domestic resource mobilisation, local industry, and job creation.

2. Purpose of the Evaluation

The purpose is to objectively assess the initiative’s effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. It further seeks to identify any challenges encountered during its implementation, provide evidence-based actionable recommendations, and capture key lessons learned to inform the design, execution, and management of future interventions.

The endline evaluation will assess the extent to which the Fair4All project achieved its intended results and strategic objectives between 2021 and 2025. The evaluation will also contribute to learning by identifying lessons, challenges, and innovations to guide future programming and advocacy.

Specific Objectives:

• Assess the relevance, effectiveness, coherence, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of project interventions.

• Identify factors contributing to (or inhibiting) successful delivery of the results.

• Assess changes in project outcomes since the baseline.
• Document lessons and best practices for future scaling or replication.
• Provide actionable recommendations to contribute to the initiative’s improvement and broader organisation learning.

2.1 Key Evaluation Questions (Based on OECD DAC Criteria)

• Relevance: To what extent do the intervention’s objectives and design align with the needs, policies, and priorities of beneficiaries, the country, and partner institutions?
• Coherence: How well does the intervention align with and complement other interventions within the country, sector, or institution?

To what extent has collaboration between Oxfam partners and TWN enhanced advocacy influence, knowledge sharing, and joint action on the project value chains?

• Effectiveness: To what extent has the intervention achieved its objectives, and have there been any differential outcomes across different groups?

How effectively did the project contribute to addressing gender equality issues in the extractive and cocoa sector? 

• Efficiency: To what extent has the intervention delivered its intended results in a cost-effective and timely manner?
• Impact: What significant positive or negative, intended or unintended, higher-level effects has the intervention generated?

In what ways has the Fair4All project contributed to protecting and advancing the rights of women and girls, particularly among indigenous communities, and what changes are evident in their access to justice, resources, or decision-making spaces?

How has participation in the Fair4All project contributed to strengthening the influencing skills, knowledge, and confidence of staff within partner organisations?

• Sustainability: How likely are the benefits of the intervention to continue beyond its implementation period?

Cross-Cutting Themes

• Gender & Inclusion: Did the project radically mainstream gender/youth/social inclusion?
• Conflict sensitivity: How did the project ensure there were no unintended harmful impacts while capitalising on potential positive change in the contexts for influencing work.
• Civic space: How did the project create and expand on safely to navigate civic space for influencing its targets.
• Safeguarding (SEAH):  How did the project ensure there was no misconduct in the form of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) in the partner organisations and project communities?
• Climate: How was climate change and its implications on the value chains factored in the implementation?

3. Scope of the Evaluation

The evaluation will encompass the entire project period (2021–2025), from inception and considering ongoing activities. It will focus on the thematic areas: value chains (cocoa, gold, petroleum), gender justice, governance, trade/fiscal reforms, and civic space. It will assess implementation across the Western, Ashanti, Central, Ahafo, Greater Accra, Western North, and Eastern regions. The scope of the evaluation will include the inception phase of the project and consider that phase as contextual background in framing the evaluation’s findings and conclusions.

Primary Target Groups:

• Women and smallholder cocoa farmers
• Artisanal and small-scale miners
• Women’s rights groups in agriculture and extractives
• Civil society organisations (national and local)
• CBOs, trade unions, and producer cooperatives
• Youth and marginalised groups
• Religious and Traditional leaders
• State Institutions
• Academia

4. Methodology

The proposed methods should meaningfully engage all key stakeholders, including primary change agents (beneficiaries), partners and Oxfam staff, who should be provided with an opportunity to shape the process and outcomes.

The consultant(s) must also demonstrate how the rights of participants will always be protected in line with Oxfam’s safeguarding and data protection policies, copies of which will be part of the contract of the successful consultant.

The technical team in Oxfam will review the tools prepared by the consultants. However, it is recommended that the prospective consultant(s) should be precise in terms of tools whenever possible.

In case enumerators are hired, the consultant(s) will ensure they are appropriately trained on the tools’ administration (detailed review of the tool and practice through mock exercise), ethical considerations, safeguarding, data confidentiality, and field logistics, etc.

Special attention should be taken to guarantee the quality of the data. The prospective consultants should demonstrate how they will ensure data quality in the entire endline evaluation process.

• A mixed-methods approach grounded in feminist and participatory principles will be used. Methods include Desk review of project documentation.
• Key informant interviews (KII) with partners, policy actors, and the private sector
• Focus group discussions (FGDs) with cocoa farmers, miners, youth, and women’s groups
• Quantitative surveys, where feasible
• Case studies and outcome harvesting to capture transformative change

Triangulation of data sources and ethical research protocols (including safeguarding and consent) will be strictly adhered to. Evaluation tools will be inclusive and adapted for local contexts.

5. Deliverables

• Inception Report (max 10 pages)with methodology, tools, and work plan.
• Draft Reportaddressing all evaluation questions, including actionable recommendations.
• Final Report (30–35 pages)with annexes, an executive summary, and supporting data.
• PowerPoint Summary (max 10 slides)presenting key findings and recommendations.
• Policy Brief or Learning Summary (optional)for broader dissemination.

6. Timeline & Duration

7. Evaluation Reference Group (ERG)

An ERG will guide the process, validate tools, and review key outputs. Members include:

• Programmes (PQE Manager, Project Coordinator)
• A gender/feminist evaluation advisor
• Support Team (Logistics, Finance)

ERG meetings will be held at inception, post-data collection, and final report stages.

8. Consultant Profile

• Master’s degree in relevant fields (e.g., Development Studies, Policy, Gender)
• 5–10 years of evaluation experience in governance, extractives, trade or agriculture
• Expertise in participatory, feminist, and mixed methods approaches
• Proven experience in gender-sensitive evaluations and advocacy programming
• Excellent facilitation skills; fluent in English; knowledge of Ghanaian languages preferred
• Commitment to Oxfam’s Code of Conduct, safeguarding, and anti-racism principles

 9. Submission Guidelines

As part of your online application, please upload your proposal (technical and financial), CVs of consultants, and samples of previous work.  Closing date:  29^th September 2025, by 11:59 pm GMT.

Joint submissions from local and international evaluators are encouraged. Page limits and formatting instructions may be provided upon request.

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