TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE CONSULTANCY TO CONDUCT AN ENDLINE AND FINAL EVALUATION FOR THE FUTURE IS GREEN! PROMOTING YOUTH AGRI-PRENEURSHIP IN RWAN…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PLAN/FY25/03/001

Terms of reference

Consultancy to conduct an endline and final evaluation for the Future is Green! Promoting Youth Agri-Preneurship in Rwanda Project

1. About Plan International

Plan International

We strive to advance children’s rights and equality for girls worldwide. As an independent development and humanitarian organization, we work alongside children, young people, our supporters, and partners to tackle the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national, and global levels using our reach, experience, and knowledge. For over 80 years we have been building powerful partnerships for children, and we are active in over 75 countries.

About Plan International Rwanda

Plan International Rwanda opened in January 2007 and is currently working in the Eastern and Southern Provinces of Rwanda in the districts of Gatsibo, Bugesera, and Nyaruguru with sponsorship programs, in 10 districts with grant-funded projects, and in all 6 districts hosting refugee camps.

Plan International Rwanda has a Country Strategy (2020-2024) of which the overall goal is,” To contribute to the access to comprehensive ECD services and the reduction of SGBV so that vulnerable children and young people, particularly girls grow up, develop and realize their rights to make decisions about their lives in protective, healthy, resilient and inclusive environments in both development and humanitarian settings”. This country strategy focuses on four Country Programmes (CPs):

(i) Early Childhood Development, (ii) Child Protection (iii) Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights and (iv) Disaster Risk Management and Resilience. We have adopted Youth Economic Empowerment and Gender Transformative Programming as cross-cutting thematic areas and enablers to support the four country programs.

2. Project Background

“The Future is Green! Promoting Youth Agri-preneurship in Rwanda” is a 3-year (01 Jul 2022 – 30 Jun 2025) project aiming at creating opportunities for rural youth, especially young women, to build their economic livelihoods through entrepreneurship or decent employment thereby increasing their contribution to sustainable and inclusive rural transformation. This is expected to assist in incentivizing a new generation of farmers, young women agri-preneurs, and rural supply chain players that will drive sustainable agriculture practices and ensure to contribution to this important sector of Rwanda’s economy.

Given the range of diverse challenges simultaneously affecting youth especially young women's engagement in the agri-based sector, as well as the heterogeneity of Rwanda's rural youth and their aspirations, the project’s theory of change adopts a multi-dimensional approach oriented by four strategic priorities: (i) Increasing young people’s entrepreneurship skills to capitalize on employment and business opportunities within the agriculture-based sector; (ii) Facilitating young people’s access to markets and services to develop profitable farms and enterprises in food value chains; (iii) Facilitating young people’s access to financial services and (iv) Responding to the gender gap in agriculture by increasing awareness among girls, young women and the wider community members in all their diversity including disability on the huge importance to engage in market-oriented agriculture as response to poverty, climate change effects and exposition to GBV and teenage pregnancy.

The project is being implemented in the semi-urban and rural areas of the Nyaruguru district of the Southern province as well as the Bugesera and Gatsibo districts of the Eastern province.

2.1. Project’s direct beneficiaries:

900 young people in total from the 3 mentioned districts, with a participation rate of 60% to 40% young women and men respectively, aged between 16 to 30 years old.

The project is targeting young people below the National Poverty Line and vulnerable youth - young people who remain vulnerable to poverty and are living on less than 2.15 USD a day.

2.2. Project Main objective:

To ensure the empowerment and economic integration of rural youth, especially young women in the agri-based sector through employment and sustainable entrepreneurship.

2.3. Project specific objectives:

To improve service providers’ capacities to provide market-driven agriculture, relevant, gender-responsive, and youth-friendly SOYEE trainingTo create jobs through enhanced enterprise development, inclusive financial services and access to marketsTo support the community environment for youth engagement in the promotion of gender-inclusive employment and climate-smart solutions in Agriculture

2.4. Project Partners:

African Evangelistic Enterprise (AEE Rwanda) and Inkomoko Entrepreneur Development (INKOMOKO) hav…