NTFP's Situational Assessment Consultancy
- Career Category: Consultancies
- Location: Ratanak Kiri Province
Summary
ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this consultancy services will focus on collecting information on the following:
- Food system actors and roles
- Livelihoods & Coping Strategies
- Socioeconomic and environmental context
- Local Context
- Gender equity and equality, disability and social inclusion
- Food security
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PURPOSE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CONSULTANCY
Purposes:
- Lead and strengthen the design, implementation, and analysis of the Situational Assessment
- Ensure methodological rigor and data quality
- Support the identification of key needs, gaps, and opportunities
- Contribute to the development of actionable findings for future project design
Responsibility and Key deliverable:
- Inception report (methodology and workplan): Collaborating in the development of the evaluation plan, including reviewing relevant literature, current project documents and defining the methodology.
- Data collection tools package: FGD guides (WNG, VSLA, Farmers, Cashew groups), KII and guides, Village profile templates.
- Instrumentation: Assisting in the development of participatory data collection instruments or tools.
- Training materials and facilitation: Providing on-site training to the assessment team during the data collection phase.
- Analytical framework and summary findings: Reviewing the data analysis plan, supporting the processing of information, and assisting in the interpretation of the collected data.
- Facilitated consultation workshop: Provide facilitation in consultation workshops to gather input for drafting the report (validation and prioritization of key issues).
- Technical review of draft SA Final Report: Consultation for reviewing and commenting on the draft report to ensure the findings are clear, concise, and relevant to the project proposal's development and conduct the dissemination workshop.
- SA report submission in English and Khmer as required
DURATION AND LEVEL OF WORK
- Expected duration: June–August 2026
- Estimated level of effort: 17–21 working days
Eligibility
- The consultant should have:
- At least 3-5 years of experience conducting situation analysis, need assessment, baseline, evaluation, or research related to food security, livelihood, agriculture, climate resilience and nutrition.
- Strong track record in conducting remote surveys. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in related area.
- Participatory methods (FGD) and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tools
- Food systems, livelihoods, agriculture, value chain, or market systems
- Gender and social inclusion analysis
- Experience working with indigenous communities is an asset
- Strong analytical and report writing skills
- Proven track record in similar assignments;
- Ability to lead assessment team, coordinate with NGOs, partners, government, local authorities, communities, and deliver quality outputs on time.
- Strong commitment to research ethics, informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding, and do-no-harm principles.
- Availability of a high-quality team.
- Fluency in written and oral English.
