Support for Data Quality Improvement, Results verification, Data Mining, Outcome and Impact Evidence Generation for the Twende Project

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The TWENDE Project is a climate resilience initiative designed to reduce the economic and livelihood impacts of climate change-induced droughts on Kenya’s Arid and Semi Aid Lands national economy through restoration, sustainable management and governance of, and strategic investments in rangeland ecosystems. The project is implemented across eleven counties and thirty-nine wards within Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) through a partnership involving the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accredited Entity, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), the State Department for Livestock Development (SDLD), Conservation International (CI) as Executing Entities (EE) and various service providers.

The project has an ambition to restore over 500,000 hectares of degraded rangelands ecosystem and to improve resilience and livelihoods of over 600,000 households in the selected 39 wards from 11 ASALS counties.

The project recently undertook a comprehensive Data Quality Audit (DQA) and Results Quality Review to assess the quality, reliability, completeness, consistency, validity, precision and integrity of project data and reported results. While the DQA established that significant project investments and interventions have been implemented across the target landscapes, it also identified substantial weaknesses in data quality, reporting systems, evidence management, results verification and outcome documentation.

Firm Qualifications

The Timetable below summarises the chronological order of deliverables and indicates milestones at which IUCN will pay the Consultant.

Deliverable Milestone payment

Deliverable 1 15%

Deliverable 2 20%

Deliverable 3 and 4 25%

Deliverable 5 and 6 25%

Deliverable 7 and 8 15%

TOTAL 100%