Consultancy – Global Theory of Change Development
iDE
Organization BackgroundiDE is an international NGO that was founded 40 years ago with the belief that markets lift people out of poverty. We catalyze change in markets by incentivizing low-income people to establish locally-led scalable solutions that are passed down through generations and founded on mutually beneficial partnerships. We help build local economies and value chains that deliver goods and services to “last mile” customers in remote areas. We do this by building networks of small-scale entrepreneurs that power “resilient market ecosystems’’, and boosting the incomes of marginalized people, medium-sized commercial farmers and the private sector. iDE resilience-building efforts are currently assisting farmers and entrepreneurs living in nine countries to adapt to multiple environmental, public health and socio-political shocks.Background InformationAlthough iDE has not had an explicit theory of change at the global level, historically it has operated on an implicit theory that the combination of strengthening supply chains, consumer demand, and an enabling environment will lead to increased household incomes for the populations we serve, known as iDE clients, and ultimately reduce poverty. Our interventions across sectors focus on working through small and/or last mile entrepreneurs to bring technologies, inputs, and services including know-how to impact iDE clients at scale to either directly catalyze income increase or to enable household savings, for example in projects focused on improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs such as WASH and nutrition interventions. These theories of change have broken down into what we call “initiatives” at the country-level, which can most easily be described as a comprehensive theory of change, or a collection of interventions/tactics combined to achieve theoretical impact or outcomes, within a specific country. The initiative is the level which we organize our impact evidence by to allow multiple pieces of evidence to come together to inform us of our effectiveness.Moving forward, iDE’s new organizational goal is built on the theory that delivering real change in terms of both inclusive entrepreneurship and building resilient market ecosystems would allow us to catalyze a number of outcomes that foster prosperity in communities and ultimately reduce poverty. This process has allowed space for iDE to define its ultimate mission of poverty reduction beyond income change alone. Via a broad cross-country research study using participatory methods, new themes were identified by iDE current and potential clients’ when discussing their future visions of success, in combination with iDE’s strengths in market-based approaches. We now need to update our theory of change at the strategy level as we gear up to implement our new goals. Our focus is on powering women entrepreneurs to have viable businesses, encouraging adoption and maintenance of positive behaviors, and fostering a positive enabling environment for women’s decision-making power and participation in entrepreneurial activities in order to foster these types of prosperity within their communities.About the AssignmentiDE is seeking a high-level theory of change expert to help us generate a theory of change associated with the new organizational goal and strategy iDE is developing. This expert will talk with our teams in 13 different business units, including HQ and 12 country offices, to distill possible country-level theories of change that build up to a global theory of change. Our technical teams have developed a draft global ToC and a wide variety of supporting work has already been completed such as conceptual definitions, country-level targets, and potential indicators. After developing a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives, a key priority will be to work with iDE’s existing strategy components built over the past year to facilitate the synthesis of our work into theories of change at the country and global strategy levels – and conversely, identifying where current work does not fit with those theory of change.
RequirementsDeliverablesTo this end, we are looking for a consultant who will work in four phases in 2024, and the key deliverables for this assignment are as follows:BenefitsBudget: 20,000 USD plus approved travel expenses to Siem Riep, Cambodia, for the workshop the week of July 22, 2024.Reporting: Consultant will report to iDE’s Global Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL), who will facilitate their work with each of the country offices; our technical experts on the Programs team, MERL team, and Gender Equity & Social Inclusion (GESI) team; and our Executive Team as needed.Timeline: May 27 – August 31, 2024QualificationsThe successful consultant should possess the following qualifications:
Contact Interested candidates should apply through Workable by 11:59pm (MST) on Monday, May 20th.
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Tue, 07 May 2024 22:50:51 GMT
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