Terms of Reference: Impact Evaluation / Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis of the UP-Women and ABCD Projects

Background and Context

The Hibret Alliance

The Hibret Alliance is a strategic partnership of six organizations-Bushulo Mother, Newborn and Child Health Specialty Center (BMNCHSC), the Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commission Branch Offices of Meki and Hawassa (ECC-SDCBOM & ECC-SDCOHA), HELVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation, SOS Children’s Villages, and Spiritan Community Outreach Ethiopia (SCORE) working across the Sidama, Oromia, Central Ethiopia, and South Ethiopia Regions.

Conducting an Impact Evaluation and Social return on investment (SROI) at the Alliance level transforms individual project data into a powerful tool for collective influence, learning, and funding, proving the unique value of the partnership itself. Impact evaluation, which includes SROI, is a robust, stakeholder-informed methodology that quantifies social, economic, and environmental outcomes in both financial and non-financial terms. As such, it serves as both an internal tool for measuring social impact and a powerful means of demonstrating the effectiveness of donated funds to supporters.

This Impact Evaluation and SROI analysis will be guided by the Hibret Alliance Think Tank group, composed of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) experts from each member organization. This structure ensures technical rigor, collective ownership, and capacity building. For the purposes of these Terms of Reference, the Evaluation will focus on two projects: the Unleashing the Potential of Young Women (UP-Women) project, implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Inter cooperation, and the Action for Bushullo Child Development and Family Empowerment (ABCD) project, implemented by SOS Children’s Villages.

About the Lead Implementing Partners

About HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

HELVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation is a Swiss non-governmental organization dedicated to international development cooperation. Founded in 1955, HELVETAS has grown to become one of Switzerland’s largest and most respected development organizations, with a mission to build a fairer world where natural resources are conserved and managed sustainably, and where all people can determine the course of their lives in dignity and security. Operating in over thirty-three countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, HELVETAS focuses on key thematic areas including Water, Food Security, and climate change; Skill, job, and income; voice, inclusion and cohesion and mitigation and Humanitarian responses.

In Ethiopia, HELVETAS has maintained a continuous and impactful presence since the 2003s, implementing a diverse portfolio of projects that address the country’s most pressing development challenges. HELVETAS Ethiopia works in close collaboration with government ministries, regional bureaus, local civil society organizations, and communities themselves to design and deliver interventions that are contextually relevant and sustainable.

About SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia

SOS Children’s Villages International began operating in Ethiopia in 1974, initially in response to the catastrophic drought in the northern part of the country. The first SOS Children’s Village was established in Mekelle that same year. Since then, the organization has grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges confronting Ethiopian children who have lost, or are at risk of losing, parental care. The organization’s work is structured around three major programs: Alternative Childcare, Family Strengthening Programs (FSP), and Humanitarian Action. Today, SOS CVE is implementing more than forty-nine development and humanitarian projects across nine regions and two administrative cities. The organization works in close collaboration with international donors, local government, and community-based organizations across its program locations, with the core to build families for children in need, it helps them shape their own futures and actively participates in the development of their communities.

SOS CVE, Hawassa Program is the fourth oldest village under SOS-CV Ethiopia which was established in 1985 due to the drought that occurred amid 1980 in the southern part of the country. Currently, twelve projects are being implemented by the program location (PL), categorized under two major programs, Standard project and family strengthening programs.

Project Summaries

The UP-Women Project (Implemented by HELVETAS)

The Unleashing the Potential of Young Women (UP-Women) Phase I project was a four-year initiative implemented by Helvetas Ethiopia from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2025 (including a six-month no-cost extension). The UP-Women Phase II project is currently under implementation. Geographically, the project was implemented in the Sidama National Regional State, specifically targeting four city administrations: Hawassa, Yirgalem, Daye, and Aleta Wondo. These locations were selected based on the concentration of disadvantaged young women and the presence of training institutions that could be strengthened through the project’s interventions. The primary target groups for the UP-Women project included disadvantaged, out-of-school, and unemployed or under-employed young women aged 18 to 24 years. Additionally, the project engaged young men and boys as important agents of change in promoting gender equality, as well as training institutions and TVET providers whose capacity was strengthened to deliver more effective and gender-responsive training programs.

As the project concluded in June 2025, this will be an impact evaluation and social return on investment (SROI) analysis. It will assess the actual value created, based on observed data collected from participants after the project’s completion. Additionally, it will serve as a baseline for future impact evaluation /SROI analysis at the Alliance level.

Project Goal and Outcomes

Goal: To unleash the potential of disadvantaged young women and girls in Sidama region through improved knowledge and skills and building the capacity of training institutions leading to gainful and decent employment.

• Outcome 1: Young women and girls access training and acquire skills that lead to gainful (self) employment.
• Outcome 2: Young women, young men, and boys have improved knowledge, adequate access, and make increased use of Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services.
• Outcome 3: Capacity of graduates, training providers, and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system is strengthened.

The ABCD Project (Implemented by SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia, Hawassa Programme)

The “Action for Bushullo Child Development and Family Empowerment (ABCD) Project” is an initiative by SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia, operating in the Hawella Tulla Sub-city of Hawassa, in the Sidama Region. The project was born out of a critical need to address the multifaceted vulnerability affecting children in the area. A high number of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) face challenges including poverty, lack of education, and poor health, driven by factors such as parental death, divorce, chronic illness, and migration.

Phase I of the ABCD Project (January 2020 – December 2022) achieved substantial progress in strengthening child protection, economic empowerment, health, and education for vulnerable families in Hawassa. The 2023 project endline evaluation revealed significant progress across key indicators, including a rise in positive parenting (74% from 0%), increased household engagement in income-generating activities (26.9% to 59.5%), and a substantial improvement in child health insurance coverage (8% to 68.7%), which contributed to a drop in infectious diseases, alongside advancements in school quality ratings, low dropout rates, and greater community-based organization capacity. However, despite these gains, only 19% of households achieved self-reliance due to persistent challenges such as COVID-19, conflict, inflation, limited business skills, and inadequate startup capital, highlighting the critical need for continued support in Phase II

The ABCD Phase II project (2023–2025) exceeded key targets, graduating 63.9% of 2,690 direct participants to self-reliance with average daily incomes of $2.84. It achieved significant gains in child protection (86.4% positive parenting), education (two schools certified Level Four, <0.8% dropout), and health (90.2% community-based health insurance (CBHI) coverage, disease rates down to 18.4%). Regarding economic strengthening, SACCOs grew to 1,847 members with a 96.3% loan repayment rate, while 68% of youth gained employment. Four partner CBOs mobilized ETB 1.2 million, with two achieving full self-management, and the project leveraged ETB 23.3 million in partner contributions, ensuring lasting community impact.

ABCD Project Goal and Outcomes

Project Goal: Children and youth around the Bushullo community grow up in a caring family and protective community environment by 2025.

Project Outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Children are cared for and protected by the end of 2025.
• Outcome 2: Families and youth have sustainable economic capacities to assure children’s wellbeing by 2025.
• Outcome 3: Children and youth are educated and skilled.
• Outcome 4: Children and youth are growing up healthy.

Rationale of the impact evaluation and Social Return on Investment analysis (SROI)

The impact evaluation helps ensure resources generate meaningful, long-term impact for children and young people, their families, and communities. Whereas, the Social Return on Investment (SROI) will be conducted to measure and demonstrate the social value created by programmes, going beyond financial metrics. It strengthens accountability and transparency, supports better decision-making, and provides evidence to advocate for effective approaches.

Objectives of the Impact Evaluation/SROI

General Objective:

The primary purpose of this Impact Evaluation and SROI Analysis is to analyze the lasting or significant changes, positive or negative, intended or unintended in people’s lives brought about by the project and to quantify and monetize the actual social, economic, and environmental value generated by the UP-Women and ABCD projects relative to the total investment made in each, including cash and in-kind contributions.

Specific Objectives:

To achieve the primary objective, the consultant will address the following specific objectives:

A) To analyze the actual long-term effects (Non-Financial Impact) of the program on the lives of former participants.

B) To evaluate the wider effects (Non-Financial Impact) of the program on the communities in which they operated.

C) To quantify and to monetize the key outcomes of the projects and calculate the social value created for every unit of currency invested (Social Return on Investment (SROI)

Scope of Evaluation

The consultancy firm will perform the following integrated phases for both the UP-Women and ABCD projects. While the core process is the same, data collection tools, stakeholder maps, and analytical frameworks will be tailored to each project’s specific context and outcomes. The impact evaluation component (specific objectives one & two) will form the foundational evidence base for the SROI analysis (specific objective three).

Phase 1: Inception & Scoping (Month 1)

• Review all project documents for both projects: proposals, logical frameworks, Theories of Change, MEAL data (UP-Women: 2021-2025; ABCD: 2020-2025), baseline/midline/evaluation reports, annual reports, financial records, partner agreements, etc.
• Review and familiarize with Ethiopian data sources including CSA publications, Ministry of Labor and Skills reports, Ministry of Health data, World Bank Ethiopia reports, and relevant academic studies for financial proxy identification.
• Develop and present a detailed inception report and work plan covering both projects. This must include:
  • Final methodology for both impact evaluation and SROI, explicitly addressing all three objectives.
  • Comprehensive sampling strategies for each project with justified sample sizes (minimum 10-15% of participant universe, calculated to achieve 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error where feasible)
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Quantitative surveys and qualitative study (Key informant interview and focus group discussion (/FGDs), including tools to measure non-financial well-being.
  • Data collection tools for each indicator for both Up woman and ABCD projects., timeline, and a comprehensive risk management plan
  • Specification of the digital data collection platform and a protocol for data security and management
  • Preliminary financial proxy matrix with proposed Ethiopian data sources.

Phase 2: Stakeholder Engagement & Theory of Change Validation (Month 2)

• Conduct participatory stakeholder mapping exercises for each project, identifying direct and indirect participants, implementing partners, and relevant government bodies.
• Organize and facilitate joint scoping workshops with representatives from HELVETAS (for UP-Women) and SOS Children’s Villages (for ABCD) to ensure mutual understanding of outcomes and harmonization of the SROI approach with their respective organizational frameworks.
• Facilitate separate stakeholder workshops for each project with their respective beneficiaries and key stakeholders to validate impact pathways.
• Facilitate co-creation workshops with the think tank group to draft the initial Theories of Change and impact maps for both projects, building on their existing project logic. These maps will explicitly link project activities to both non-financial well-being outcomes and monetizable outcomes.

Phase 3: Data Collection & Analysis (Months 3-4)

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection for impact evaluation and SORI in both projects using the approved tools, including Focus Group Discussions, surveys, and Key Informant Interviews with relevant stakeholders.
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to:
  • Quantify the non-financial impact (Obj. 1 & 2): Measure the degree of change in well-being indicators for participants and communities.
  • Quantify outcomes for SROI (Obj. 3): Measure the amount of outcome: The following indicators will be measured for each project:
• Up Women Project, including skills acquisition, the transition rate from institute for future agricultural leaders (IFAL) to TVET, satisfaction with training, skills utilization, employment rate, income increase, access to finance, business creation (new Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), improved SRH knowledge and access.
• ABCD project – Reduction in child abuse and violence, Improved parenting practices, increase in child safeguarding knowledge, Functional child protection structures, increase in household income, engagement in IGAs, access to finance, business diversification, improved school performance, enabling learning environment, educational support, access to healthcare, improved health status, improved nutrition and Improved WASH practices.
• Apply the principles of deadweight, attribution, drop-off, and displacement.
• The Consultant should specify the qualitative and quantitative analysis software to be used.

Phase 4: Valuation, Modeling & Reporting (Months 4-5)

• For the ABCD project, synthesize and report on the non-financial well-being data using SOS’s 8-dimensional rating scales.
• For both projects, identify credible financial proxies for all material outcomes that can be monetized. Justify each choice by referencing established benefit categories and Ethiopian data sources.
• Construct separate SROI financial models (Excel-based) for the UP-Women and ABCD projects. Each model must:
  • Be provided in editable excel format with full documentation of all formulas and assumptions.
  • Present conservative, moderate, and ambitious scenarios
  • Calculate the SROI ratio and Net Present Value for each outcome.
  • Include a transparent breakdown of the total investment for each project (donor cash, partner-in-kind, leveraged funds)
• Perform a thorough sensitivity analysis on key variables for each project’s model.

Phase 5: Validation & Finalization (Month 6)

• Present draft findings (both the non-financial impact results and the SROI ratios) for both projects to:
  • First: Think-Tank Group for technical review
  • Second: Alliance Management Steering (AMS) for strategic validation
• Incorporate feedback and submit final deliverables for both projects.
• Submit all raw data, completed data collection templates, and the finalized SROI excel models to the Hibret Alliance for future use and learning.
• Submit data archiving protocol and anonymized raw data in accordance with data protection standards.

Methodology

Methodological Alignment with Proven Frameworks

• The Consultant shall ensure the methodology aligns with established impact evalaution and SORI analysis frameworks. This includes:
• UP-Women: Primary alignment with HELVETAS’s gender transformative and livelihoods frameworks. This means using indicators that capture changes in agency, decision-making power, and economic participation, not just income.
• For ABCD: Primary alignment with the SOS Children’s Villages Program Framework and Theory of Change. Reflecting SOS’s three-level ecological model: individual (children, caregivers) and community (CBOs, SACCOs, schools).
• Disaggregating all findings by gender, age, and disability with specific attention to the documented SOS gender gap in livelihood outcomes.
• Well-being Measurement: Applying standardized frameworks as the core of the impact evaluation, including SOS’s 8-dimension framework for ABCD and relevant well-being/livelihoods indices for UP-Women.
• SROI Valuation: Utilizing accepted Impact Evaluation and SROI calculation approaches and predefined benefit categories that are linked to the well-being outcomes measured in the impact evaluation.
• Participatory Assessment: Employing participatory and ethical tools for both projects.

Assessment Methods

The impact evaluation and SROI assessment methods (both quantitative and qualitative methods) should involve mainly the following stakeholders: programme participants including caregivers and children and young people, Key Implementing Partners (KIPs) and Community Structures (cooperatives, child protection committees/coalitions), staff, Local Government stakeholders and likeminded partner non-governmental organizations. The Consultant should also ensure that the survey and qualitative methods (such as focus group discussion (FGD), survey (questionnaire), key informant interview (KII) and group discussion) and data will be collected from participants/ projects’ target groups and key stakeholders (village leaders, care givers, elders, employed youth representatives, CBOs, women leaders, employers, company owners, training centres, TVETs, or key staff within local government authorities).

Sampling Strategy

The Consultant shall develop robust sampling plans for both projects. The plans must be justified and detailed in the Inception Report. Key Considerations for the Sampling Plans:

• Sample Size and Justification: The Consultant shall propose sample sizes that are statistically robust and practically feasible for each project, providing clear justification. Minimum sample size must be 10-15% of the total participant universe for each project, calculated to achieve 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error where feasible. The sample must be sufficient to detect changes in both financial and non-financial indicators.
• Representativeness: The samples shall reflect the diversity of each project’s target population, including variations in age, type of intervention, gender, and time since exit from the project (graduating). Special attention must be paid to ensuring the inclusion of marginalized groups.
• Inclusion Criteria: Participants must have been engaged with the project for a minimum of 6 months and have exited the direct support period within the past 1–5 years. Sampling strategies should ensure representation of all cohorts to analyze outcome durability over time.
• Stakeholder Representation: For each project, Project targets, project target area, and relevant stakeholders should be appropriately represented.

Main SROI Assessment Questions

An SROI analysis typically seeks to answer the following few core questions. These are:

• What has been changed?
• What outcomes have been experienced by children, young people, families, and communities?
• What were the changes in the lives of the target people?
• Who experiences these changes?
• Which stakeholders were/are affected, and in what ways?
• How valuable are these changes?
• What is the social value of the outcomes (including long-term effects)?
• What contribution did the intervention make?
• To what extent are the changes attributable to the programme versus other factors?
• What would have happened anyway?
• (Deadweight) – how much change would occur without the intervention?
• Are there any negative or unintended effects?
• Including displacement or unintended consequences.
• Is the investment justified?
• How does the social value created is compared to the resources invested (the SROI ratio)?

The commissioned consultant should further list relevant, tailored and possible impact evaluation and SORI questions for both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He/she is expected to refer to the project document in detail, log frame and in addition to developing evaluation questions, and data collection tools. SOS CVE Ethiopia will share the project document, log frame/result framework with winner consultancy firm.

Work Plan, Deliverable and Payment Schedule

Work Plan

The baseline study task is expected to be finalized within 6 months after the contractual agreement is signed.

The consultant is expected to develop her/his detailed work plan based on the following table. The consultant is expected to submit clear timetable for this task using the following table.

Activities	Dates	Time frame	Location

Deliverables

The detailed list of deliverables, timeline, and approval stages are summarized using the following table.

Deliverable	Description	Timeline	Approval Required By
1. Inception Report	Detailed methodology addressing all three core objectives, finalized work plan (Gantt chart), stakeholder matrix, data collection tools (including well-being measurement scales, child-friendly protocols), preliminary financial proxy matrix with Ethiopian data sources, sampling strategy with power calculations, risk management plan, and digital data collection platform protocol	End of Month 1	Hibret Alliance Coordinator and Think Tank
2. Fieldwork Commencement	Confirmation that field team has been mobilized, enumerator training completed, and data collection activities initiated in accordance with approved methodology	Start of Month 3	Hibret Alliance Coordinator and Think Tank
3. Validated Theory of Change & Data Collection Report	Finalized Theory of Change for both projects, report confirming completion of primary data collection, and summary of initial field observations on both impact and outcome data	End of Month 4	Hibret Alliance Coordinator, and Think Tank
4. Draft Impact Evaluation/SROI & Impact Evaluation Report	Complete draft report for review, including full analysis of non-financial impact findings (specific Obj. 1 & 2), SROI calculations with deadweight/attribution/drop-off/displacement adjustments (specific Obj. 3), benchmarking against SOS global findings, sensitivity analysis, and preliminary conclusions	End of Month 5	First Think Tank, then Alliance Management Steering.
5. Final Deliverables	a) Final Integrated Impact Evaluation and SROI Report (addressing all three core objectives); b) Standalone Impact Brief (non-financial); c) Communication Brief (2-page summary); d) Presentation (PowerPoint); e) Editable Excel Financial Models with full documentation and sensitivity analysis; f) Workshop Report with training materials; g) Data archiving protocol and anonymized raw data; h) Compiled Annex of all project documents reviewed	End of Month 6	Hibret Alliance Coordinator

Report criteria

The reporting criteria for the impact assessment and SORI analysis shall be in line with the SOS-CV Social Impact (SORI) Assessment Methodology and result based management (RBM) toolkit and should be shared with the winner consultant along with the data review process and/or for the preparation of the inception report.

• Roles and Responsibilities

A) Consultant

• Execute the work with professional diligence and in accordance with this TOR and the signed contract.
• Provide all necessary equipment and software required to perform the assignment, including digital data collection licenses/tools.
• Address the agreed timeline and proactively communicate any anticipated delays.
• Be responsible for the safety and security of their personnel during field work.
• Cover all operational and execution costs related to their team and the primary research activities.
• Submit a fully functional and editable Excel-based financial model with clear documentation of all formulas, assumptions, and data sources. The model must include a transparent breakdown of the total investment and sensitivity analysis.
• Develop and implement a risk management plan as part of the inception phase.
• Ensure all team members sign and comply with safeguarding policies: HELVETAS Safeguarding Policy for UP-Women work, and SOS Children’s Villages Child Protection Policy for ABCD work.
• Obtain written informed consent from all participants in local languages, with parental/guardian consent and child assent for minors.

B) Hibret Alliance

• Appoint the Hibret Alliance Coordinator as the Contract Focal Point to manage the contract, facilitate communication, and approve deliverables.
• Provide all requested existing program documents, reports, monitoring data, and relevant administrative information in digital or hard copy form. This shall include a detailed breakdown of the total project investment, including donor cash contributions, partner-in-kind contributions, and any leveraged funds, to enable a transparent Impact Evaluation/SROI calculation.
• Prepare formal letters of introduction and, where necessary, accompaniment by designated Alliance member staff to facilitate meetings with key government stakeholders, community leaders, and partner organizations.
• Cover all costs related to convening the Impact Evaluation/SROI Think Tank, Alliance Management Steering (AMS), and other internal review and validation meetings, including venue and refreshments for Alliance members.
• Process payments are as per the agreed schedule and deliverables.

C) Think Tank Group

• Provide technical guidance and validation by reviewing the consultant’s proposed impact evaluation and SROI methodology, including the selection of well-being indicators, financial proxies, impact maps, and key assumptions to ensure alignment with international principles and SOS/HELVETAS frameworks.
• Support stakeholder engagement by advising and helping to facilitate the identification and engagement of key stakeholders for interviews and focus group discussions.
• Participate in the multi-stage quality assurance process as outlined below.
• Methodology Review: Assessment and approval of research design, tools, and sampling strategy for both impact and SROI components, ensuring all three core objectives can be met. Special attention to child-friendly protocols and gender-disaggregation plans.
• Analysis Review: Feedback on data interpretation, triangulation of findings, and preliminary conclusions against the core objectives. Review of gender-disaggregated findings and benchmarking against SOS global data.
• Final Validation: Verification of compliance with SROI principles and methodological standards, and confirmation that all three core objectives have been adequately addressed.
• Stakeholder Validation: Key findings shall be validated through participatory workshops with representative stakeholder groups to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Serve as a quality assurance and review body by providing formal, consolidated feedback on the consultant’s draft reports and findings.

Child Safeguarding and Ethical Issues

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to ensuring that all research, training, evaluation and data collection processes (i.e. evidence-generating activities) undertaken by SOS Children’s Villages and its partners are ethical and respect child safeguarding policy and procedure.

The consultant must respect the rights, dignity and protection of children and other vulnerable population groups, staffs and partners; and should ensure special protection for children and other vulnerable groups during any data-generating activities to minimize any potential risks. Any research, training, evaluation and data collection SOS Children’s Villages is directly carried out or is involved in as a partner.

Ethical practices need to be ensured in the following circumstances:

• Any research, baseline, midterm, final evaluations, training and data collection SOS Children’s Villages has commissioned for ethical oversight of these processes.
• Any research, evaluation, training and data collection carried out by researchers/trainers/consultants on SOS Children’s Villages programmes and participants.

Hence, relevant Alliance coordinator and MEAL coordinator (and team leader of Think Tank team) in Hawassa will ensure that any researchers, evaluators, trainers and data collectors should receive awareness training on, sign and adhere to SOS Children’s Villages core policies.

Obtaining consent from research/ training participant is central to the research relationship and signals respect for the research participant’s dignity, their capability to express their views and their right to have these heard in matters that affect them. Informed consent is an explicit agreement which requires participants to be informed about and understand the research/assessment/training. This must be given voluntarily and be renegotiable, so that participants may withdraw at any stage of the research process.

Logistical Arrangements

The Hibret Alliance coordinating alliance members, SOS CVE and Helvetas, is responsible for:

• Providing technical comments and feedback on the outputs/deliverables of the assignment in a timely manner.
• Providing general oversight and a single point of contact to facilitate the smooth roll-out of the consultancy works.
• Handling all logistical requirements for the consultant(s) if applicable, such as transportation and accommodation arrangements, as agreed upon in the contract.
• Making payment in installments as agreed upon in the contract, based on successful completion and acceptance of deliverables.

Duration of the contract and terms of payment

Payment will be made only upon SOS Children’s Villages’/Hibret Alliance’ acceptance of the work performed in accordance with the above-described deliverables. Financial proposals should include proposed stage payments. Payment will be effected by bank transfer in the currency of birr.

Funding and Payment: The consultant will be paid by SOS Children’s Villages as follows:

Up on submission & approval of Inception Report	End of Month 1	20%
Up on Commencement of Fieldwork	Start of Month 3	20%
Up on Validated Theory of Change & Data Collection Report	End of Month 4	25%
Up on submission of Draft SROI & Impact Evaluation Report	End of Month 5	20%
Final Deliverables	End of Month 6	15%

Payment Modalities include:

• Payments will be processed within 15 days of receipt and approval of the delivery and a corresponding invoice.
• Withholding Tax will be deducted at source as per Ethiopian government regulations.
• The assignment is expected to be completed within 6 months from contract signing to ensure depth and quality.
• The consultant will propose a detailed timeline in the technical proposal. The consultant must justify the feasibility of this timeline and include contingency time for potential delays.

The final timeline will be formalized in the contract.

Duration of contract: the contract will be effective from the moment it is signed until the acceptance of work by the SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia and HELVETAS management team.

Notice of delay

Shall the successful bidder encounter a delay in the performance of the contract which may be excusable under unavoidable circumstances; the contractor shall notify SOS Children’s Villages in writing about the causes of any such delays within one (1) week from the beginning of the delay.

After receipt of the Contractor’s notice of delay, SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia/Hibret Alliance shall analyze the facts and extent of the delay and extend the time for performance when in its judgment the facts justify such an extension.

Copyright and other proprietary rights

SOS Children’s Villages/Hibret Alliance shall be entitled to all intellectual property and other proprietary rights including, but not limited to, copyrights, and trademarks, with regard to products, processes, inventions, ideas, know-how, or documents and other materials which the contractor has developed for Hibret Alliance under the Contract and which bear a direct relation to or are produced or prepared or collected in consequence of or during the course of, the performance of the Contract. The Contractor acknowledges and agrees that such products, documents, and other materials constitute works made for hire for SOS Children’s Villages/Hibret Alliance.

All final deliverables, data, and models are property of Hibret Alliance. The Hibret Alliance shall have the unrestricted right to use, modify, and disseminate the final deliverables for its purposes, with appropriate acknowledgment of the consultant’s work.

The Consultant shall not disclose, publish, or use any confidential information obtained during the assignment for any purpose other than fulfilling the contract without prior written consent from the Hibret Alliance.

Termination

The termination of the service agreement for the assignment will be in accordance with the contractual agreement to be included at the formal agreement’s actual signing.

Signing of the contract

The signing of the contract will follow the awarding of the assignment. It is tentatively scheduled for End of May 2026.

Rights of SOS Children’s Villages

SOS-CVE/Hibret Alliance has the right to cancel the service contract if the consultant cannot comply with any standards articulated in the service agreement. SOS-CVE/Hibret Alliance has the right to hold the SROI/Impact evaluation result as its own sole property.

Qualifications and Experiences of the Consultant

The lead consultant/firm must have:

• A postgraduate degree (master’s or PhD) in Economics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Agriculture, or a related field.
• Proven experience conducting minimum of three full SROI analyses in international development contexts.
• Minimum of three impact evaluations, including at least two using standardized well-being frameworks
• Demonstrated, specific expertise in identifying, sourcing, and justifying credible local financial proxies, with examples from previous assignments.
• Experience with child-focused organizations and proven capacity to implement child-friendly data collection methodologies.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, including experience in designing surveys and conducting FGDs/KIIs.
• Excellent report writing and communication skills in English.