PROJECT DETAILS

ABOUT OXFAM KENYA

Oxfam is an international confederation of 21 organizations working in over 60 countries worldwide seeking to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice around the world. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty. Around the world, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them. In all we do, Oxfam collaborates with partners, public and private sector institutions alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty. Read more about Oxfam from  https://kenya.oxfam.org/

PROJECT BACKGROUND

With Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funding, Oxfam, the Center for Domestic Training and Development (CDTD) and Youth Alive Kenya (YAK) are implementing a 6-year project titled Time to Care (TTC) in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kiambu and Nakuru counties in Kenya. The project’s Ultimate Outcome is to ‘Improve gender equality and care infrastructure for women and girls in Kenya.’ 

TTC will directly benefit 5,916 people and 2,021,800 people indirectly. These include both rural and urban populations, in particular small-scale farmers, women-headed households, unemployed and vulnerable men indirectly as shown in the table below:

The project has a two-pillar strategy representing two Intermediate Outcomes:

1. Increased adoption of gender-equitable social norms in support of women and girls in Kenya’s care infrastructure
2. Increased implementation of gender-transformative legislation, policies, and practices by duty bearers in support of care infrastructure in Kenya for women and girls.

The projects Theory of Change builds on Oxfam’s understanding that local CSOs, especially WROs, are key agents in determining the direction of change in their societies. TTC’s design includes the voices of relevant stakeholders and is based on our gender analysis, as well as environmental and human rights considerations and developed in consultation with KIPs with close relationships with the people we work with. This consultation process confirmed that to achieve TTC’s Ultimate Outcome it is necessary to focus on changing social norms currently based on unequal gender and power relations, thereby advancing the implementation of care infrastructure supports and services in Kenya.

To ensure the project management processes within Time to Care reflect a feminist approach, the project is informed by Oxfam Canada’s feminist principles outlined in our broader Theory of Change for the project.

RATIONALE FOR MTR

The MTR will be conducted during the fourth year of project implementation from May – June 2026. The baseline was conducted in 2023. A final evaluation will be conducted at the end of the project.

This MTR will focus on collective learning for possible adaptable measures for the remainder of the project. Specifically, the consultant will be expected to capture early project impacts, assess progress made on the project Intermediate and Immediate Outcomes listed above, identify project successes and challenges (including unanticipated outcomes/results), and adaptations.

The intended primary users of the MTR are the target project participants including women domestic workers, domestic worker groups, domestic worker rights network, employers, and influencers, implementing partners, Oxfam Kenya (OKE), and Oxfam Canada (OCA). MTR findings will be disseminated with all project stakeholders, including donor.

OBJECTIVES OF THE MTR

Women and girls in Kenya disproportionately shoulder unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), while paid care work—especially domestic work—often remains undervalued and precarious, with gaps in protection and enforcement.

TTC responds to these issues through a combined approach of social norms change, capacity strengthening, coalition-building, and influencing advanced decent work and care-supportive systems.

A Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) is scheduled for early Year 4 (2026/27) May – June 2026 to assess progress, identify learning, and guide adaptive management for the remainder of the project.

The MTE aims to:

 (i) assess progress toward and on Intermediate and Immediate Outcomes by establishing the relevant indicator values as per the project Performance Measurement Framework (PMF).

(ii) evaluate effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence, and sustainability potential; and

(iii) identify lessons and inform adjustments for Years 4–6.

APPROACH TO THE MTR

The MTR will be designed and implemented based on Oxfam’s feminist foundations for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (FMEAL)[1].  FMEAL is based on the logic that transforming inequitable power and gender dynamics is complex and does not happen in a linear fashion.  In that sense, it challenges us to think differently and innovatively about what constitutes evidence, expands the boundaries of collecting data, questions who gives meaning and power to knowledge, gender leadership and promotes social transformation. As such, we prioritize the following seven key foundations to FMEAL:

• Understand FMEAL as an approach under the gender just transformation journey,
• Transfer power to the partners as a participant in the review and reflection process,
• Highlight the role of the feminist evaluator as a facilitator who understands power relations,
• Value the collective generation of knowledge based on its diverse context and social values,
• Provide learning orientation for evaluation exercises,
• Root FMEAL in safe programming, with a "Nothing about me without me & Do No Harm" approach.
• Position FMEAL as an integral part of social transformation

REVIEW CRITERIA AND LEARNING QUESTIONS

The MTR will focus on 4 out of 6 OECD/DAC Review criteria[2]: Effectiveness, Relevance, Coherence, and Efficiency as explained in the table below.

 DISSEMINATION STRATEGIES

SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY

Data collection and tools

The consultant will work collaboratively with Oxfam, project partners, and domestic worker representatives to collectively determine what knowledge to collect, how it should be collected, and how knowledge and learnings will be analyzed and used. The consultant will adopt the GACs Results Based Framework/ Management [3]approach in the reporting and sharing the findings.

The consultant will collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, primary and secondary information, including facilitate reflection and validation workshops with all core partners and relevant stakeholders.  Findings from this review will be used to contribute to collective learning with lessons learned and best practices in strengthening the agency of women domestic workers and improving social norms on the rights and entitlements of domestic workers in the wider society. This work must take into consideration the social, political, cultural, ethnic, economic context. 

These will be in-depth interviews with key informants, including but not limited to influencers such as policy makers, political, religious, and community leaders, journalists, government and law enforcement officials, and NGO representatives to collect information about their perspectives domestic workers’ rights, especially their rights to decent work and life free from violence. Key guiding questions will be used to collect the information from the informants.

• Focus group discussion.

The goal of the FGDs will be to collect data on domestic workers’ and employers’ perspectives, level of knowledge and awareness on domestic workers’ rights (including their right to decent work and life free from violence). A minimum of 3-5 participants need to participate in each FGD (at max, eight participants per FGD).

• Personal Stories (Impact stories)

Personal stories are first person personal narratives collected from women domestic workers about their experience working in this sector. The objective of the personal stories is to collect personal, first-person account of the enjoyment and/or violation of domestic worker rights with ILOs decent work categories: employment opportunity, right at work, social protection, and social dialogue. Particular attention will be given to capture data regarding women domestic workers experience with any form of violence, taking note of their actions, motivations and perceptions post these experiences. For this data collection, matured female and high trained data collector will have to be assigned who are aware of ethical and safe data collection practices.

• Short videos

 The data collection tools will be co-designed by the consultant with support from project partners and Oxfam. Once a consultant has been selected, relevant project documents, reports and other resources will be provided as part of the inception meeting for better planning, draft tools development and inception period preparation. All data, collected through the study will be disaggregated by age, sex, disabilities and others where applicable. Prior to primary data collection, all tools will be translated into Swahili and pre-tested together with relevant project participants. Tools will be finalized post pre-testing.

List of key data points for each stakeholder group

Data analysis

All data collected (desk review as well as qualitative data collected through primary data collection) will be analysed by the consultant. In the inception phase, consultants will be expected to produce an inception report with partial desk review completed, translated tools, data collection plan with timeline

and RACI chart[6], data analysis plan[7] as well as proposed table of contents for the final report (including list of annexes). Consultant will be responsible for triangulating the qualitative data from Year 3. Once the Inception Report is reviewed by Oxfam and all comments addressed, the consultant will be able to begin preparation for the next steps of the review.

Validation

Consultant will be responsible for validating the data collected with project stakeholders in a sense-making data validation workshop. The feedback provided by the participants will be incorporated and addressed in the final version of the MTR report.

Reporting

Based on the feedback post validation, the consultant will be required to submit the draft narrative report (with all annexures) within 7 days from the end of the validation workshop. Oxfam will have 10 days to review the report and provide consolidated feedback to the consultant. The final report with final versions of the annexures will be due on a pre-determined agreed upon deadline. The consultant will adopt the GACs policy on Result Based Monitoring [8]Approach on report generation.

It should be noted that the selected consultant will be responsible for submitting quality report that is in line with the agreed Table of Contents, inclusive of analysed data and all agreed upon annexures. Failure to meet submit quality report may result in termination and/or non-payment.

Dissemination

Once the final MTR report has been submitted, the consultant will be expected to provide a presentation on the MTR findings to an external audience, that will be include various project stakeholders, including donors.

MTR EXPECTED DELIVERABLES AND TIMEFRAME 

The required deliveries of this consultancy will be as follows:

1. An Inception Report: The inception report must include the following: detailed work plan[9] with timeline along with a RACI chart, partial literature review[10], data analysis plan, table of contents for the final report as well as list of annexures. This Inception Report shall be submitted for review and approval by Oxfam five (5) days after signing of the contract and before commencement of the review. Oxfam will provide the inception report template.
2. Translation of all data collection tools into Kiswahili
3. Pre-testing all tools and feedback report based on pre-testing for modifications. The feedback report must also contain a revised data analysis plan.
4. Presentation of draft findings
5. The first draft of the report which shall be submitted within seven (7) days after the validation workshop.
6. The final report (in English) with all agreed upon annexures.
7. All photos, videos, KII and FGD transcripts, raw and cleaned databases and analysis tables including clearly labeled graphs and charts in excel
8. Updated Performance Measure Framework with all the Output and Outcome Indicators.
9. A two-pager consisting of the summary of the findings, recommendations, and way forward for next course of action for each key target audience identified. This document will be in English and Kiswahili
10. Presentation of findings with key stakeholders post final report submission

Timeline and Deliverables (on 1 May 2026 – 31^st June 2026)

[11]Revised number of days for this assignment will be 63 days (approx) including weekend and holidays.

Confidentiality of information: All documents and data collected will be treated as confidential and used solely to facilitate analysis. Interviewees will not be quoted in the reports without their permission.

CONSULTANCY DURATION

The provision of the Services is to commence in May 2026 and end by June 2026 unless this Agreement is terminated early in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

QUALIFICATIONS OF CONSULTANT

Oxfam Kenya is looking for a consultant/agency with a strong record in conducting innovative and participatory evaluation/review processes. In the case of individual consultant, the consultant must also demonstrate their ability to recruit experienced enumerators. The successful consultant/agency must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in conducting high-quality, credible, and learning-focused evaluations.
• Demonstrable experience of working with/ evaluating civil society and grassroots organizations in a collaborative and learning-focused manner.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and using participatory, gender-sensitive, qualitative methodologies in cross-cultural settings.
• Capacity to produce a searchable database of excellent quality narratives, photos and/or videos and integrate these effectively in the review.
• Familiarity with decent work, domestic workers rights, violence against women and girls with demonstrated experience in undertaking research in these fields within the last 5 years.
• Experience of managing teams, and the capability to manage necessary logistics and, if required and agreed, sub-contracting
• Collected real-time data using smart phones or tablets (with Android version 5.0 or higher operating system).
• Can assemble a team to help with the research. Team members should share similar qualifications as the consultant and preferably have worked with the consultant and/or other team members in undertaking research.
• Demonstrable ability to undertake rigorous qualitative analysis
• Ability to produce high quality analytical report with triangulated findings
• Excellent English written and verbal communications skills

TRANSPARENCY AND ETHICS

Oxfam Kenya would follow the Oxfam International Evaluation Policy guideline. The guideline compasses an ethical standard, sharing of the evaluation publicly along with the management action taken report. The detailed ethics standard would be part of the contract which the evaluator has to commit to adhere as part of the assignment.

Ethical considerations for research on gender-based violence: There are additional ethical and methodological challenges when conducting research on sensitive issues such as gender-based violence or violence against women and girls. The nature of the subject means that issues of safety, confidentiality, interviewer skill, and training are even more important than for other areas of research. The physical safety and the psychological well-being of both respondents and the research team can be put in jeopardy if adequate precautions are not taken. Therefore, in addition to using Oxfam International Evaluation Policy guideline, this review will ensure it is undertaken in adherence with the World Health Organization (WHO) Putting Women First: Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Research on Domestic Violence Against Women” guidelines.

When the start of any type of primary data collection, it is paramount that confidentiality is maintained. Confidentiality is defined by WHO has “an explicit or implicit guarantee by the researcher to the participant that the information disclosed by the participant will only be disseminated in ways consistent with their original understanding.”

Other documents to be submitted: 

           For Individual Consultant 

1. Maximum 2-page CV of Team Leader highlighting related assignments completed with client name, contract person and mobile number (this person must have fulltime engagement during assignment time). Two references must also be provided based on similar work provided by the Team Leader over the last two (2) years.
2. Other Team members’ one-page short CV highlighting related assignment completed
3. PIN Certificate (PDF soft version)
4. Documents in favor of the relevant previous studies.
5. A complete technical and financial proposal, including detailed cost per major activity.
   
   For Organizations
6. Maximum 2-page organization profile highlighting related assignments completed with client name, contract person and mobile number
7. Lead Consultant’s (who will lead the assignment) Maximum 2-page CV highlighting related assignment completed, role in of the completed assignment. This person will have full-time engagement for the duration of the assignment and will be liable for ensuring high quality written report submissions.
8. Other Team members’ (who will involve in the assignment) one paragraph short CV highlighting related assignment description of the roles and functions of the consultant and his/her associates, and a description of the level of effort of the associates (e.g., full-time, part-time, as needed)
9. Organization’s/Firm’s Certificate, PIN and VAT registration
10. Contracts of 3 organizations that have recently contracted the consultant to carry out a related study.
11. Documents in favor of the previous relevant studies.
12. A complete technical and financial proposal, including detailed cost per major activity.

SELECTION CRITERIA (CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS)

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

1. a) Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
2. b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

* Technical Criteria weight: [80%]

* Financial Criteria weight: [20%]

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• All soft and hard copy of the assignment will be treated as the property of Oxfam.
• In any circumstances consultant shall have no opportunity to alter the timeline and planning of data collection and submission of first draft and final report.
• The consultant/consulting organization must maintain the standard quality in data collection, processing, and reporting.
• The consultant shall have the responsibility to rewrite the report, modification of sections until the satisfaction of quality required by Oxfam.
• In case of any deviation, Oxfam shall have the right to terminate the agreement at any point of the project.
• The consultant will be responsible for all the field travel budgets, accommodation and all reimbursables. This should be factored in the financial proposal.
• Consultant/consulting organization shall be bound to pay back the full money to Oxfam given as advance of payment in case of any deviation, dissatisfaction of quality and other point mentioned in the agreement.
• Oxfam Kenya will deduct withholding tax from the consultancy fees which will be in conformity with the prevailing government rates.

ETHICAL DECLARATIONS

You undertake that you, your parent, subsidiaries, and any other organisations with an interest of more than 10%, are not involved in any of the following activities:

• Arms manufacture.
• The sale or export of arms or strategic services to governments which systematically violate the human rights of their citizens, or where there are internal armed conflict or major tensions, or where the sale of arms may jeopardise regional peace and security.
• Tobacco production and sale.
• Pesticide sales outside the FAO guidelines for pesticide retailing.
• Extractive industries.
• Are seen to be party political.
• Any other activities which violate the basic rights of Oxfam GB’s intended beneficiaries.

[1] Annex 3: Oxfam Guidance Note on Feminist MEAL Principles

[2] https://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluation/revised-evaluation-criteria-dec-2019.pdf

[3] https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/assistance_results_guide_partners-guide_resultats_aide_partenaires.aspx?lang=eng

[4] Employers: Any person/persons who primarily manages DWs within the household.

[5] Influencers: These groups will refer to policy makers, political, religious and community leaders, prominent members of the society yielding influence, including journalists, government and law enforcement officials, NGO representatives and so on.

[6] RACI is a responsibility assignment matrix stands for responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. The selected consultant will have to include a RACI chart as part of the inception report and should also include Oxfam staff where needed.

[7] It should be noted that sex and age disaggregated data will be required for all data points. Furthermore, for a select number of key data points, zone-wise disaggregation may also be needed (that includes sex and age disaggregated data).

[8] https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/results_based_management-gestion_axee_resultats.aspx?lang=eng

[9] Workplan must include tools preparation, translation, pre-testing, and finalization. 

[10] All literature reviewed and all documents cited should be included in the Bibliography. The bibliography should be in the following format:

Author’s last name, author’s first name (year) Report Title in Italics. Oxfam affiliate, month of report.

In addition, all references for the literature review should also be included as footnotes within the body of the document.

[11] Required timeline and deliverables

How to apply:

Oxfam Kenya invites individuals who meet the criteria to submit Expression of Interest that clearly articulates the consultant(s) understanding of the terms of reference, methodology for executing the work including key deliverables and tentative budget should and clearly indicated “Consultancy Services to conduct Oxfam Kenya TTC Project Mid Term Review”.

Expression of Interests shall be sent to Kenya.logs@oxfam.org.uk , no later than close of business on 27th of March 2026.  Only applicants who qualify will be contacted.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.