Consultancy - Inequality Campaign Evaluation

Oxfam seeks a consultant for the Inequality Campaign Evaluation, aimed at addressing extreme inequality through strategic reform policies.

• Primary Audience: External stakeholders with interest in in addressing inequality. The Campaign Team seeks to share findings with the donor community to include donor governments, key philanthropic foundations, individual donors and supporters. The evaluation will be used to show what change is possible, considering the context, through campaigning targeting narrative change in relation to conditions of inequality.
• Secondary Audiences: Internal stakeholders with decision-making responsibilities on investment in campaigning on inequality both in countries and at the secretariat. The evaluation will provide findings on the achievements made from the investment in campaigning on inequality over 10 years. Findings can assist in investment decisions for the future.
• Can coordinated efforts in the form of a campaign use narrative change as an entry point to bringing about systemic change in addressing inequality?
• How has the understanding of inequality evolved in public debate and discourse over the course of the Inequality Campaign?
• (How) Has the Inequality Campaign contributed to changing the narrative on inequality globally and in specific county contexts in ways that have led to increasing political will to address inequalities?
• What has been the most effective efforts at bringing about narrative change? Which actions and when make a difference?
• What has the investment in an annual flagship report delivered? Is it worth the investment?
• What are the conditions within which campaigning targeting narrative change is more likely to be effective?
• Have changes in global narratives on inequality contributed to changes in structural and relational conditions affecting inequality in countries? Is Oxfam (global) machinery making it possible for Oxfam country efforts?
• How has the Campaign adapted, objectives, strategically and tactically over this period, How and Why?
• How does collective action feature in narrative change?
• How has alliance- and coalition-building and increasing (or mobilizing?) civic engagement on inequality featured in narrative change on inequality for the Inequality Campaign?
• How has collaboration and partnership with organizations and intellectual leaders contributed to the evolution on public understanding of inequality?
• How has Oxfam’s inequality campaign contributed to the “inequality mass movement?”
• There are risks in conducting interviews. Participants may have difficulties taking the time to be interviewed amidst care and other responsibilities or face technical difficulties. The evaluators and Oxfam are required to work closely with our partners to continuously identify, assess, and monitor potential risks and unintended negative consequences, and decide if and how we should move forward with the data collection.
• Further limitations may include partners’ hesitation to provide open and critical feedback to Oxfam while still being in grant partnership with us. In addition, care will be taken to maintain safe programming and safeguarding. Evaluation participants will be provided with the necessary information about the objectives and use so that they can provide their informed consent (with the option of being able to retract it if the need arises) and will be provided with the mechanisms available to them in case a problem arises (Ethics Point, etc.).
• Lastly, this evaluation will follow responsible and ethical data policies, including informed and voluntary consent. Interviewees will have the option to be anonymous if they so wish and may opt out of the project at any time. Data will be stored safely – with identifying information removed if requested – and will be deleted when no longer deleted.
• Compliance to Oxfam research, evaluation ethical standards and safeguarding standards is required.
• Evaluators will review and used Oxfam International Evaluation Policy [https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/oxfams-policy-program-evaluation](https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/oxfams-policy-program-evaluation)
• Inception Phase
• Review necessary materials
• Design and facilitate inception workshop
• Draft Inception Report—includes refined approach, evaluation questions, working hypotheses, methodology and final format of product
• Implementation Phase:
• Data Collection Activities
• Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Validation Workshop Design and facilitation of workshop
• Report Writing
• Inception Phase
• Inception Workshop—will review design of workshop and provide feedback. Will handle logistics of organizing the workshop
• Finalization of working hypotheses and research questions—through review of consultants proposals and discussion as needed
• Implementation Phase:
• Data Collection Activities—will provide names for key informant interviews and handle scheduling of interviews
• Peer Review and Validation Workshop—will manage peer review process. Will review design of validation workshop and provide feedback. Will handle logistics of organizing workshop
• Approval of Final Report—will review revised final report and sign-off
• Inception Report: Outline of Refined Methodology and Format of final Product—this includes definitions of key concepts, working hypotheses, research questions, approach to analysis, data collection methods, and methods of data interpretation, and format of final report. Refinements to what is outlined in the ToR are understood as part of the evaluation inception process with the consultant. Refinements will be reviewed, discussed if needed, and finalized by Oxfam with the consultant.
• Project Management Plan—should provide an outline of the activities involved, who is responsible, and timeline. This product will be created in consultation with Oxfam.
• Draft Evaluation Report—length will be agreed between consultant and Oxfam
• Validation Workshop—Consultant will design and facilitate to receive input and feedback in the form of peer review through discussion by key Oxfam stakeholders. Oxfam team will collaboration on finalization of approach to workshop.
• Final Report—length and format will be agreed to based on discussion between consultant and Oxfam and based on feedback from validation workshop. Final report will include stand alone Cases of Effort stories.

• Skilled in qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Experience or familiarity with contribution analysis, discourse analysis, and process tracing.
• Experience integrating gender analysis and data collection methods into other methods of analysis and data collection.
• Quantitative data literacy and experience working with quantitative data.
• The evaluation team may include MEL staff from Oxfam to work in collaboration with the consultants. The consultants will maintain independence in their responsibility for the overall data analysis, data interpretation, and write-up in the form of the final report.
• Fluency in English required.
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